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New Books in African Studies

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Jill Kelly, “To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996” (Michigan State UP, 2018)

2018/10/16

Today we talked with Jill Kelly about her new book To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belo

Jennifer Yusin, “The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetition” (Fordham UP, 2017)

2018/10/15

How does postcolonial theory and the work of Freud help us understand trauma? In The Future Life of

Paul Bjerk, “Julius Nyerere” (Ohio University Press, 2017)

2018/10/5

Paul Bjerk’s compact biography Julius Nyerere, published as part of the Ohio Short Histories of Afri

Laila Amine, “Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)

2018/9/27

At the heart of Laila Amine’s book is a crucial question: where is Paris? This question may be surpr

Nicholas Grant, “Winning Our Freedoms Together: African Americans and Apartheid, 1945–1960” (UNC Press, 2017)

2018/9/25

The links between African Americans and the global struggle for decolonization, particularly in Afri

Jeremy Martens, “Empire and Asian Migration: Sovereignty, Immigration Restriction and Protest in the British Settler Colonies, 1888–1907” (UWA Publishing, 2018)

2018/9/14

In his new book, Empire and Asian Migration: Sovereignty, Immigration Restriction and Protest in the

Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)

2018/8/10

For the most part women in the classical world have suffered from what Duane W. Roller terms “near-i

Naomi André, “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

2018/8/8

Naomi André’s innovative new book, Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement (University of Illinois P

Pablo Gomez, “The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic” (UNC Press, 2017).

2018/7/24

Pablo Gomez‘s The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlanti

Gordon Mathews, “The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace” (U Chicago Press, 2017)

2018/7/3

When we think of globalization and global cities, we might be inclined to think of New York or Londo

Jeff Koelher, “Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup” (Bloomsbury, 2017)

2018/7/2

Is life without coffee possible? Before you answer, first admit that you know almost nothing about t

Darcie Fontaine, “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” (Cambridge UP, 2016)

2018/6/26

What role did Christianity play in Algeria before, during, and after the war of independence? In Dec

Alden Young, “Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

2018/5/29

Telling the story of a former colony post-independence is tricky, no matter if it’s a colony in Lati

Jeffrey Ahlman, “Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana” (Ohio University Press, 2017).

2018/5/23

In 1957 Ghana achieved its independence from Great Britain under the leadership of Kwame Nkrumah. In

Kate Skinner, “The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-2014” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

2018/5/15

In her book, The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland: Literacy, Politics and Nationalism, 1914-20

Marie E. Berry, “War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia Herzegovina” (Cambridge UP, 2018)

2018/4/30

How can war change women’s political mobilization? Using Rwanda and Bosnia as case studies Marie E.

Lisa A. Lindsay, “Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey” (UNC Press, 2017)

2018/4/27

The title of Lisa A. Lindsay’s book Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Afr