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BEHNAZ A. MIRZAI, ISMAEL MUSAH MONTANA and PAUL E. LOVEJOY (eds), Slavery, Islam and Diaspora. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb £24.99 – 978 1 59221 705 2). 2009, 336 pp.
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- 28 April 2011, pp. 336-338
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François Neyt, Songye: the formidable statuary of Central Africa. Munich: Prestel (hb £90 – 978 3 7913 4361 7) 2009, 400 pp., with 400 colour illustrations
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- 22 July 2011, pp. 497-499
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TOYIN FALOLA and MATTHEW M. HEATON, A History of Nigeria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb £17.99 – 978 0 521 68157 5). 2008, 368 pp.
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- 13 October 2011, pp. 666-668
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MARY BOUQUET and NUNO PORTO (eds), Science, Magic and Religion: the ritual processes of museum magic. Oxford and New York NY: Berghahn Books (pb £15 – 978 1 57181 521 7). 2005, 288 pp.
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- 13 October 2011, pp. 668-670
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JANET MCINTOSH, The Edge of Islam: power, personhood, and ethno-religious boundaries on the Kenya coast. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (pb $23.95 – 978 0 82234 509 1). 2009, 328 pp.
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- 22 July 2011, pp. 499-501
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JAY SPAULDING and STEPHANIE BESWICK (eds), African Systems of Slavery. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb US$29.95 – 978 1 59221 725 0). 2009, 304 pp.
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- 28 April 2011, pp. 338-339
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JOEL E. TISHKEN, TOYIN FALOLA and AKINTUNDE AKINYEMI (eds), Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb, $27.95 – 978 0 25322 094 3). 2009, 365 pp.
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- 28 April 2011, pp. 340-341
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JOEY POWER, Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi: building Kwacha. New York NY: Rochester University Press (hb $85 – 978 1 58046 310 2). 2010, 336 pp.
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- 22 July 2011, pp. 501-502
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GRACIA CLARK, African Market Women: seven life stories from Ghana. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb $65 – 978 0 25335 417 4; pb $24.95 – 978 0 25322 154 4). 2010, 256 pp.
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- 13 October 2011, pp. 670-671
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RUDOLPH BOTHA and CHRIS KNIGHT (eds), The Prehistory of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £80 – 978 0 19954 587 2). 2009, 348 pp. - RUDOLPH BOTHA and CHRIS KNIGHT (eds), The Cradle of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £90 – 978 0 19954 585 8). 2009, 406 pp.
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- 13 October 2011, pp. 671-674
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LISA GILMAN, The Dance of Politics: gender, performance and democratization in Malawi. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press (hb $64.50 – 978 1 59213 985 9), 2009, 248 pp.
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- 22 July 2011, pp. 502-503
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KAI KRESSE, Philosophizing in Mombasa: knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute (hb £65 – ISBN 978 0 74862 786 8). 2007, 288 pp.
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- 28 April 2011, pp. 341-342
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MAMADOU DIAWARA, PAULO FERNANDO DE MORAES FARIAS and GERD SPITTLER (eds), Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique. Studien zur Kulturkunde 125. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe (pb €39.90 – 978 3 89645 220 7). 2006, 286 pp.
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- 28 April 2011, pp. 342-344
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GEERT MOMMERSTEEG, Dans la Cité des Marabouts. Translated from the Dutch into French by Mireille Cohendy. Brinon-sur-Sauldre: Éditions Grandvaux (pb €15 – 978 2 90955 063 3). 2009, 208 pp.
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- 22 July 2011, pp. 503-505
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JENNIFER WENZEL, Bulletproof: afterlives of anticolonial prophecy in South Africa and beyond. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb £49.50 – 978 0 22689 347 1; pb £18 – 978 0 22689 348 8). 2009, 328 pp.
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- 13 October 2011, pp. 674-675
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ROBERT J. THORNTON, Unimagined Community: sex, networks and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa. Berkeley CA and London: University of California Press (pb £16.95 – 978 0 52025 553 1) 304 pp.
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- 13 October 2011, pp. 675-676
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ADELINE MASQUELIER, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (hb $75 – 978 0 25335 366 5; pb $27.95 – 978 0 25321 513 0). 2009, 376 pp. (Winner of the Herskovits Award, 2010).
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- 22 July 2011, pp. 505-506
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DAVID KILLINGRAY, with MARTIN PLAUT, Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. Oxford: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 015 5). 2010, 296 pp.
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- 28 April 2011, pp. 344-345
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Rebekah Lee, African Women and Apartheid: migration and settlement in urban South Africa. London and New York NY: Tauris Academic Studies (hb £56.50 – 978 1 84511 819 8). 2009, 304 pp.
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- 13 October 2011, pp. 676-677
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DAVID NEWBURY, The Land beyond the Mists: essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb £29.50 – 978 0 82141 875 8). 2009, 444 pp.
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- 22 July 2011, pp. 506-507
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