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Volume 54 - December 2016

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Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and Corporate Agency by Wale Adebanwi Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 312. £60 (hbk)

Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency by Virginia Comolli London: Hurst, 2015. Pp. 208. £25 (hbk)

Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali by Jaimie Bleck Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Pp. 207. $39.95 (pbk).

The African Union's Role in Peacekeeping: Building on Lessons Learned from Security Operations by Isiaka A. Badmus New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015. Pp. 296. $100 (hbk).

Bargaining for Women's Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy by Alice J. Kang Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp 241. $27 (pbk).

War and Statehood in South Sudan by Manfred Öhm Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2014. Pp. 235. £61·30 (hbk)

Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland by Paul Clough New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. xxv + 442. $120 (hbk)

The US Military in Africa. Enhancing Security and Development? edited by Jessica Piombo Boulder, CO: First Forum Press, 2015. Pp 263. $72 (hbk).

Losing Your Land: Dispossession in the Great Lakes, edited by An Ansoms and Thea Hilhorst Martlesham: James Currey, 2014. Pp. 232. £19·99 (pbk)

Making Sense of the Central African Republic edited by Tatiana Carayannis and Louisa Lombard London: Zed Books, 2015. Pp. 384. £19·99 (pbk).

Governing the Nile River Basin: The Search for a New Legal Regime by Mwangi S. Kimenyi and John Mukum Bmaku Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2015. Pp. 131. $32 (pbk)

Constitution and Conflict Management in Africa: Preventing Civil War through Institutional Design, edited by Alan J. Kuperman Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Pp. 294. $65 (hbk).

The State of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Land, Urban Development and State-Building in Juba, Southern Sudan by Naseem Badiey Woodbridge: James Currey, 2014. Pp. 207. $90 (hbk)

Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo: Power to the Margins by Timothy Raeymaekers New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 199. $95 (hbk)

Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa by Paolo Gaibazzi Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015. Pp. 218. £56 (hbk).

Preaching Prevention: Born-Again Christianity and the Moral Politics of AIDS in Uganda by Lydia Boyd Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Pp. 250. $32.95 (pbk).

Informal Transport in Practice: Matatu Entrepreneurship by Meleckidzedeck Khayesi , Fredrick Muyia Nafukho and Joyce Kemua London: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 164. £60 (hbk).

Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria by Omolade Adunbi Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2015. Pp. 296. $35 (pbk).

Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania by Helen Dancer Martlesham: James Currey, Pp. 216. £45 (hbk)

Conflict in the Horn of Africa: The Kenya–Somalia Border Problem 1941–2014 by Vincent Bakpetu Thompson Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2015. Pp. 405. £29·95 (pbk)

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