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Volume 59 - Issue 2 - July 2018

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HUMOR AND VIOLENCE IN CENTRAL AFRICAN ART - Humor and Violence: Seeing Europeans in Central African Art. By Z. S. Strother. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 344. $50.00, paperback (ISBN 9780253022677).

THE SLAVE TRADE ON THE WESTERN SLAVE COAST - Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550–c. 1885. By Silke Strickrodt. Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2015. Pp. xiv + 266. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9781847011107); $29.95, paperback (ISBN 9781847011787).

MAPPING LIVES IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD - Africans of the Old South: Mapping Exceptional Lives across the Atlantic World. By Randy J. Sparks Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 204. $26.95, hardback (ISBN 97800674495166).

A FEMALE PROPHET IN WEST AFRICA - West Africa's Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition. By Robert M. Baum. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. x + 301. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780253017673); $32.00, paperback (ISBN 9780253017888).

GENDER AND POWER IN MODERN YORUBA - What Gender is Motherhood? Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation and Identity in the Age of Modernity. By Oyèrónké Oyewùmí. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Pp. xi + 262. $100.00, hardback (ISBN 9781137538772).

DECOLONIZING THE METROPOLE - Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946–1974. By Félix F. Germain. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv + 232. $39.95, paperback (ISBN 9781611862041).

NIGERIAN SEAFARERS AND NATIONALISM - Nation on Board: Becoming Nigerian at Sea. By Lynn Schler. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 241. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9780821422175); $32.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821422182).

MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN COTE D'IVOIRE - African Miracle, African Mirage: Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast. By Abou B. Bamba. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. 320. $89.00, hardback (ISBN 978081422380); $34.95, paperback (ISBN 9780821422397).

RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IN NIGERIA - Beyond Religious Tolerance: Muslim, Christian and Traditionalist Encounters in an African Town. Edited by Insa Nolte, Olukoya Ogen, and Rebecca Jones. Woodbridge, Suffolk and Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2017. Pp. xviii + 318. $80.00, hardback (ISBN 9781847011534).

ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE IN AFRICA - Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa. By Paul Wenzel Geissler, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, and Noemi Tousignant. Chicago, IL: Intellect, 2016. Pp. 255. $28.50, paperback (ISBN 9781783207251).

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