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New Books in African Studies

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Allison Drew, “We Are No Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria” (Manchester UP, 2014)

2016/3/31

Allison Drew‘s We Are No Longer in France: Communists in Colonial Algeria (Manchester University Pre

Krista A. Thompson, “Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice” (Duke UP, 2015)

2016/3/4

Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (Duke University Press, 2

Elizabeth M. Williams, “The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa” (I. B. Tauris, 2015)

2015/12/18

In 1951 a West-Indian seaman was killed in Cape Town by two white policemen. His murder had initiate

Paul Bjerk, “Building a Peaceful Nation: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania, 1960-1964”

2015/12/18

Let’s begin with what Paul Bjerk’s new book isn’t: “a biography or evaluation of Julius Nyerere.” In

Alice J. Kang, “Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)

2015/12/16

Alice J. Kang has written Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy (U

Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria” (U of Chicago, 2014)

2015/12/7

In Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria (University of Chicago, 2014), Sarah Abrevaya Stein,

Marjorie Feld, “Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

2015/11/23

In Nations Divided: American Jews and the Struggle over Apartheid (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Marjor

Kelly M. Duke Bryant, “Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914” (U of Wisconsin Press, 2015)

2015/11/20

Education as Politics: Colonial Schooling and Political Debate in Senegal, 1850s-1914 (University of

Chike Jeffers, “Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy”

2015/10/20

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who famously made the decision in the 1970s to henceforth only produce his creati

Gregory O’Malley, “Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807” (UNC Press for the Omohundro Institute, 2014)

2015/9/26

Gregory E. O’Malley examines a crucial, but almost universally overlooked, aspect of the African sla

Kristin Peterson, “Speculative Markets: Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria” (Duke UP, 2015)

2015/9/10

Kristin Peterson‘s new ethnography looks carefully at the Nigerian pharmaceutical market, paying spe

Zachariah Mampilly and Adam Branch, “Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Political Change” (Zed Press, 2015)

2015/8/24

Zachariah Mampilly is the author along with Adam Branch of Africa Uprising: Popular Protest and Poli

Gary Wilder, “Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World” (Duke UP, 2015)

2015/6/28

Gary Wilder‘s new book, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke U

Scott Straus, “Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa” (Cornell University Press, 2015)

2015/6/9

Who, in the field of genocide studies, hasn’t at least once used the phrase “The century of genocide