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The Journal of African History
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ORAL TRADITION AS SEEN FROM BAMAKO - Kuma Malinke Historiography: Sundiata Keita to Almamy Samori Toure. By Nubia Kai. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. xii + 340. $100, hardback (ISBN 978-0-7391-8268-0).

EUROPEAN OFFICIALS AND AFRICAN REFORMERS - Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos. By Abosede G. George . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Pp. x + 301. $80, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2115-4); $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2116-1).

THE LANESSAN REPORT - Le rapport Brazza: Mission d'enquête du Congo: rapport et documents (1905–7). Edited by Dominique Bellec. Neuvy-en-Champagne, France: Éditions le passager clandestin, 2014. Pp. 305. €19, paperback (ISBN 978-2-36935-006-4).

IDENTITY FORMATION IN AN AFRICAN CITY - Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism. By Ato Quayson . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 297. $94.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5733-9); $25.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8223-5747-6).

PRIMARY SOURCES OUT OF CONTEXT - African Women: A Historical Panorama. By Patricia W. Romero. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2014. Pp. xii + 359. $68.95, hardback (ISBN 978-1-55876-575-7); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 978-1-55876-576-4).

THE ART OF NATION-BUILDING - Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism. By Harcourt Fuller . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xxxii + 262. $90, hardback (ISBN 9781137448569)

SAFE AND SECURE - Africanizing Democracies 1980–Present. By Alicia C. Decker and Andrea L. Arrington. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii + 100. $16.95/£10.99, paperback (ISBN 978-0-19-991539-2).

ACCUMULATING RESPONSIBILITY - Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland. By Paul Clough. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. xxv + 442. $120, hardback (ISBN 9781782382706).

SITES OF EXCEPTION - HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone. By Adia Benton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 176. $79, hardback (ISBN 9780816692422); $22.50, paperback (ISBN 9780816692439).

URBAN POLITICS - The Politics of Chieftaincy: Authority and Property in Colonial Ghana, 1920–50. By Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2014. Pp. xiv + 242. $80, hardback (ISBN 978-1-58046-494-9).

BEYOND THE HUMAN RIGHTS PANACEA - Examining Human Rights Issues and the Democracy Project in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Theoretical Critique and Prospects for Progress in the Millennium. By E. Ike Udogu. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. xxi + 218. $85, hardback (ISBN 978-0-7391-8695-4).

ATLANTIC WORLD TOOLS IN AN ISLAMIC SETTING - Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam. By Chouki El Hamel . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii + 331. $99, hardback (ISBN 978-1-107-02577-6).

RESTORING BERBER WOMEN'S AGENCY - Moroccan Feminist Discourses. By Fatima Sadiqi . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. xviii + 238. $95, hardback (ISBN 9781137392688).

AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF THE SOUTH - Africa-Centered Knowledges: Crossing Fields and Worlds. Edited By Brenda Cooper and Robert Morrell. Suffolk, England: James Currey, 2014. Pp. xix + 211. $90, hardback (ISBN 978-1-84701-095-7).

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THE HUMAN SIDE OF RESEARCH - Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding. Edited By David Crawford and Rachel Newcomb . Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 284. $80, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-00904-3); $28.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-00911-1).

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