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BIOGRAPHY OF A BIG GAME HUNTER IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - Big Game Hunter: A Biography of Frederick Courteney Selous. By Norman Etherington. Marlborough, UK: Robert Hale, 2016. Pp. 224. $39.95, hardback (ISBN: 9780719808289).

MODERN UGANDAN HISTORY - A History of Modern Uganda. By Richard J. Reid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxvi + 403. $99.99, hardback (ISBN: 9781107067202); $27.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107671126).

CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN FRENCH CAMEROON - Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon. By Charlotte Walker-Said. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2018. Pp xxi + 314. $70.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-1-847-01182-4).

MAPPING COMMUNITY IN COLONIAL KENYA - Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya. By Julie MacArthur. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. v + 340. $80,00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2209-0); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2210-6).

NAIROBI'S LITTLE MOGADISHU - Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub. By Neil Carrier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $31.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780190646202).

HISTORICAL SOURCES ON SIMON KIMBANGU - Simon Kimbangu: 1921: de la prédication à la déportation, les sources. Vol. I. Fonds missionnaires catholiques. Edited by Jean-Luc Vellut. Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre Mer, 2015. Pp. v + 306. €30.00 (ISBN: 9789075652581).

THE WORKINGS OF TRANSPORTATION IN NAIROBI - Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi. By Kenda Mutongi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 352. $90.00, hardback (ISBN: 9780226130866); $30.00, paperback (ISBN: 9780226471396).

BORNU: TERRITORIAL AND CULTURAL ENDURANCE IN NIGERIA - A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. By Vincent Hiribarren. London: Hurst & Co., 2017. Pp. 320. £50.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781849044745).

THE EPIC OF SUMANGURU KANTE - The Epic of Sumanguru Kante. Narrated by Abdulaye Sako, edited by Stephen P. D. Bulman and Valentin F. Vydrine. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. 172. $80.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-90-04-34796-0); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 978-90-04-34933-9).

THE ELDER STATE IN COLONIAL KENYA - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya. By Paul Ocobock. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 368. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9170821422649).

FORT NAPIER: LAST OUTPOST ON THE ZULU FRONTIERS - Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison. By Graham Dominy. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. xxv + 279. $45.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-252-04004-7); $30.00, ebook (ISBN: 978-0-252-09824-6).

GLOBALIZED LABOR AND RURAL HOUSEHOLDS ON DURBAN'S DOCKS - On Durban's Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor. By Ralph Callebert. Rochester, NY and Suffolk, UK: University of Rochester Press and Boydell & Brewer, 2017. Pp. 252. $99.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781580469074).

THE END OF COLONIAL RULE IN BORNU - Figures in a Spare Landscape: Serving in the Twilight of Empire, Bornu Province, Nigeria 1959–60. By Peter Haring Judd. New York: Ma'arri, 2018. Pp. xiii + 247. $40.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-947980-58-7); $18.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-947980-86-0).

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