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MIXED-RACE INVISIBILITY - Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa. By Christopher J. Lee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. xvii + 346. $94.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5713-1); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5725-4).
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 301-303
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PRODUCING MODERN AFRICAN SUBJECTS - Modernization as Spectacle in Africa. Edited by Peter J. Bloom , Stephan F. Miescher , and Takyiwaa Manuh . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. vii + 368. $85, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-01225-8); $35, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-01229-6).
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- 07 November 2016, pp. 476-478
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PERFORMING CITIZENSHIP - Training for Model Citizenship: An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda. By Molly Sundberg. Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 2014. Pp. 296. No price given, paperback (ISBN 978-91-554-9054-6).
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 303-305
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RECURRENT AGGRESSION - Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa. Edited by Jacky Bouju and Mirjam de Bruijn . Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2014. Pp. ix + 180. $60/€46, paperback (ISBN 978-90-04-27155-5).
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- 07 November 2016, pp. 478-479
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TO CURE OR NOT TO CURE - The Long Struggle Against Malaria in Tropical Africa. By James L. A. Webb Jr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xxi + 219. $90, hardback (ISBN 9781107052574).
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- 12 February 2016, pp. 149-150
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TRANSCENDING A RIVERINE ELITE - Civil Uprisings in Modern Sudan: The ‘Khartoum Springs’ of 1964 and 1985. By W. J. Berridge . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Pp. vii + 293. $112, hardback (ISBN 9781472574015).
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- 07 November 2016, pp. 479-481
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A REGIONAL WAR OF COLONIAL ANNEXATION - The Horns of the Beast: The Swakop River Campaign and World War I in South-West Africa 1914–15. By James Stejskal. Solihull, England: Helion & Co., 2014. Pp. ix + 140. £16.95, paperback (ISBN 978-1-909982-78-9).
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 305-306
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A DYNAMIC AND COMPLEX KUSH - The Double Kingdom under Taharqo: Studies in the History of Kush and Egypt, c. 690–664 BC. By Jeremy Pope. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2014. Pp. xxii + 327. $240/€185, hardback (ISBN 9789004262942).
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- 12 February 2016, pp. 150-152
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MATERIAL LIFE IN THE CAPE UNDER THE VOC - Historical Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape. Edited by Carmel Schrire. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2014. Pp. 285. $89, hardback (ISBN 978-1-59874-164-3).
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 306-308
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TECHNOLOGIES OF THE HUNT - Transient Workspaces: Technologies of Everyday Innovation in Zimbabwe. By Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 296. $34, hardback (ISBN 9780262027243).
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- 07 November 2016, pp. 481-483
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IMPLICATIONS OF THE INVASION OF ETHIOPIA - Collision of Empires: Italy's Invasion of Ethiopia and its International Impact. Edited by G. Bruce Strang. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publising, 2013. Pp. xii + 385. £70, hardback (ISBN 978-1-4094-3009-4).
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- 12 February 2016, pp. 152-154
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UNEVEN TERRAIN - Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic. Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 404. $65, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-01386-6).
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 308-310
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STORYTELLERS AND STRAW MEN - Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana. By Mustafa Kemal Mirzeler. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Pp. xxi + 365. $80, hardback (ISBN 9781442648661); $34.95, paperback (ISBN 9781442626317).
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- 12 February 2016, pp. 154-155
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MAPPING RURAL RESISTANCE - Colonial Survey and Native Landscapes in Rural South Africa, 1850–1913: The Politics of Divided Space in the Cape and Transvaal. By Lindsay Frederick Braun . Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2015. Pp. xv + 410. €75/$97, paperback (ISBN 978-90-04-27233-0).
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- 07 November 2016, pp. 483-484
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COOPERATION BEYOND CONVERSION - Who Shall Enter Paradise? Christian Origins of Muslim Northern Nigeria, ca. 1890–1975. By Shobana Shankar. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xxx + 209. $80, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2123-9); $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2124-6).
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 310-312
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ASKARI AGENDAS - Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa. By Michelle R. Moyd. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. xxii + 328. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2089-8).
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- 12 February 2016, pp. 155-157
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NO LONGER AT EASE - Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid. By Carli Coetzee . Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 182. $34.95/R290, paperback (ISBN 978-186814740-3).
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- 07 November 2016, pp. 484-487
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SUBCOLONIALISM NIGERIAN STYLE - Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria. By Moses E. Ochonu. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 273. $85, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-01160-2); $30, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-01161-9).
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- 09 June 2016, pp. 312-314
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DOCUMENTING VIOLENCE - Daniel J. Danielsen and the Congo: Missionary Campaigns and Atrocity Photographs. By Óli Jacobsen . Ayrshire, Scotland: Brethren Archivists and Historians Network, 2014. Pp. 200. No price given, paperback (ISBN 978-0-9570177-4-0).
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- 07 November 2016, pp. 487-488
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MERCENARY MYSTERY - Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler. By Colin D. Heaton and Anne-Marie Lewis. Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2014. Pp. 274. $32.95, hardback (ISBN 978-1-61200-175-3).
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- 12 February 2016, pp. 157-158
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