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DYNAMICS OF POSTCOLONIAL STATE BUILDING - The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010. By Crawford Young. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Pp. xviii + 468. $31.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-299-29144-0).

THE VIEW FROM RUSSIA - The Hidden Thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era. By Irina Filatova and Apollon Davidson. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. Pp. 553. No price given, paperback (isbn9781868424993).

PAN-AFRICANISM AND THE COLD WAR - Cuba & Angola: Fighting for Africa's Freedom and Our Own. Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters. New York: Pathfinder Press, 2013. Pp. 144. $12.00/£8.00, paperback (isbn978-1-60488-046-5).

THE MISSIONARY AS ETHNOGRAPHER - The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa. Edited by Patrick Harries and David Maxwell. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012. Pp. xvi + 341. $45, paperback (isbn978-0-8028-6634-9).

UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN ISLAMIC AFRICA - Muslim Societies in Africa: A Historical Anthropology. By Roman Loimeier. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xv + 358. $55, hardback (isbn978-0-253-00788-9).

ATLANTIC LIVES, ATLANTIC SOURCES - Biography and the Black Atlantic. Edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 370. $55, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8122-4546-2).

RAPTOR POETICS - A Dance of Assassins: Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo. By Allen F. Roberts. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 311. $85, hardback (isbn978-0-253-00743-8); $30, paperback (isbn978-0-253-00750-6).

THE RISE AND FALL OF SLAVERY ON A MEDITERRANEAN LITTORAL - The Abolition of Slavery in Ottoman Tunisia. By Ismael M Montana. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. xxxi + 205. $74.95, hardback (isbn978-0-8130-4482-8).

INDIAN OCEAN DEBT SLAVERY - Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World. Edited by Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. Pp. xiii + 240. $99/£60, hardback (ISBN 978-1-84893-378-1).

THE COMMERCIAL AGENT'S LAMENT - Congo: The Miserable Expeditions and Dreadful Death of Lt. Emory Taunt, USN. By Andrew C. A. Jampoler. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 256. $44.95, hardback (isbn978-1-61251-079-8).

THE JEWISH AND AFRICAN DIASPORA CONJOINED - Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem. By John L. Jackson Jr Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. vii + 394. $45, hardback (ISBN 978-0-674-04966-6).

PUTTING CINEMATIC DIRT IN ITS PLACE - Trash: African Cinema from Below. By Kenneth W Harrow. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 327. $85, hardback (isbn978-0-253-00744-5); $30, paperback (isbn978-0-253-00751-3).

ATLANTIC WORLD ANIMAL SCIENCE - Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector. By Jeremy Rich. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 220. $59.95, hardback (isbn978-0-8203-4059-3); $24.95, paperback (isbn978-0-8203-4060-9).

AN AFROMODERN CINEMA - Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry. Edited by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. viii + 371. $80, hardback (isbn978-0-253-00923-4); $30, paperback (isbn978-0-253-00935-7).

MAPPING A VISUAL TRADITION - Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa. By Elizabeth A. Sutton. Farnham, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2012. Pp. xvi + 276. $104.95, hardback (isbn978-1-4094-3970-7).

SITUATING WITNESSES TO THE MAHDIST STATE - Das Reich des Mahdi: Aufstieg und Untergang des ersten islamischen Gottesstaates, 1885–1897 By Erhard Oeser. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2012. Pp. 208. €24.90, hardback (ISBN 9783534248100).

COLONIAL MESSINESS IN A RACIALIZED CITYSCAPE - TAIFA: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. By James R. Brennan. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 292. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2001-0).

REVISITING A POLITICAL LIFE - Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957–1967. By Terence Ranger. Suffolk, England: James Currey, 2013. Pp. 218. $34.95, paperback (isbn9781847010711).

LAND TITLES AND POLITICAL ENTITLEMENT - Land, Mobility, and Belonging in West Africa. By Carola Lentz. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 331. $85, hardback (isbn978-0-253-00953-1); $30, paperback (isbn978-0-253-00957-9).

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