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BIOGRAPHY OF A BIG GAME HUNTER IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - Big Game Hunter: A Biography of Frederick Courteney Selous. By Norman Etherington. Marlborough, UK: Robert Hale, 2016. Pp. 224. $39.95, hardback (ISBN: 9780719808289).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 311-312
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MODERN UGANDAN HISTORY - A History of Modern Uganda. By Richard J. Reid. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxvi + 403. $99.99, hardback (ISBN: 9781107067202); $27.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107671126).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 123-124
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HISTORY OF A SOUTH AFRICAN CITY - Welcome to Greater Edendale: Histories of Environment, Health, and Gender in an African City. By Marc Epprecht. Montreal, Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press (McGill-Queen's studies in urban governance series, 5), 2016. Pp. xiii + 336. $110.00 hardback (ISBN: 978-0-7735-4773-5); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-7735-4774-2).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 312-314
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CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN FRENCH CAMEROON - Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon. By Charlotte Walker-Said. Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer Ltd, 2018. Pp xxi + 314. $70.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-1-847-01182-4).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 493-494
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MAPPING COMMUNITY IN COLONIAL KENYA - Cartography and the Political Imagination: Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya. By Julie MacArthur. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. v + 340. $80,00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2209-0); $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2210-6).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 124-126
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NAIROBI'S LITTLE MOGADISHU - Little Mogadishu: Eastleigh, Nairobi's Global Somali Hub. By Neil Carrier. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $31.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780190646202).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 126-129
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HISTORICAL SOURCES ON SIMON KIMBANGU - Simon Kimbangu: 1921: de la prédication à la déportation, les sources. Vol. I. Fonds missionnaires catholiques. Edited by Jean-Luc Vellut. Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre Mer, 2015. Pp. v + 306. €30.00 (ISBN: 9789075652581).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 314-315
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A WOMAN OF THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS - Hadija's Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields. By Harmony O'Rourke. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. 253. $32.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02383-4); $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02375-9); $31.99, e-book (978-0-253-02389-6).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 495-497
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THE WORKINGS OF TRANSPORTATION IN NAIROBI - Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi. By Kenda Mutongi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 352. $90.00, hardback (ISBN: 9780226130866); $30.00, paperback (ISBN: 9780226471396).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 129-131
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BORNU: TERRITORIAL AND CULTURAL ENDURANCE IN NIGERIA - A History of Borno: Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State. By Vincent Hiribarren. London: Hurst & Co., 2017. Pp. 320. £50.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781849044745).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 497-499
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THE EPIC OF SUMANGURU KANTE - The Epic of Sumanguru Kante. Narrated by Abdulaye Sako, edited by Stephen P. D. Bulman and Valentin F. Vydrine. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. Pp. 172. $80.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-90-04-34796-0); $80.00, e-book (ISBN: 978-90-04-34933-9).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 316-319
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THE ELDER STATE IN COLONIAL KENYA - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya. By Paul Ocobock. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 368. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9170821422649).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 131-133
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THE BIAFRAN WAR AND POSTCOLONIAL HUMANITARIANISM - The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering. By Lasse Heerten. Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv + 398. $120, hardback (ISBN: 9781107111806); $36.99 paperback (ISBN: 9781107530423); $30.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781108515092).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 499-501
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GUNS AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL NIGERIA - Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order. By Saheed Aderinto. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 300. $80.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-253-03160-0); $35.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-03161-7); $34.99, e-book (ISBN: 978-0-253-03162-4).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 319-321
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FORT NAPIER: LAST OUTPOST ON THE ZULU FRONTIERS - Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers: Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison. By Graham Dominy. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016. Pp. xxv + 279. $45.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-252-04004-7); $30.00, ebook (ISBN: 978-0-252-09824-6).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 133-135
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THE ASABA MASSACRE DURING THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR - The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War. By S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. vii + 239. $29.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781316506165); $105.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781107140783); $24.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781108515429).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 501-502
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AFRICAN MOBILITY AND MOTOR TRANSPORT IN GHANA - Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation. By Jennifer Hart. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 250. $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02277-6); $35.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02307-0); $9.99 e-book (ISBN: 978-0-253-02325-4).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 321-323
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GLOBALIZED LABOR AND RURAL HOUSEHOLDS ON DURBAN'S DOCKS - On Durban's Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor. By Ralph Callebert. Rochester, NY and Suffolk, UK: University of Rochester Press and Boydell & Brewer, 2017. Pp. 252. $99.00, hardback (ISBN: 9781580469074).
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- 20 May 2019, pp. 135-137
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THE AHMADIYYA IN THE GOLD COAST - The Ahmadiyya in the Gold Coast: Muslim Cosmopolitans in the British Empire. By John H. Hanson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. Pp. xv + 287. $35.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-253-02933-1); $34.99, e-book (ISBN: 978-0253-02951-5); $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-0253-026194-4).
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- 20 August 2019, pp. 323-325
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THE END OF COLONIAL RULE IN BORNU - Figures in a Spare Landscape: Serving in the Twilight of Empire, Bornu Province, Nigeria 1959–60. By Peter Haring Judd. New York: Ma'arri, 2018. Pp. xiii + 247. $40.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-947980-58-7); $18.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-947980-86-0).
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- 29 November 2019, pp. 503-504
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