New Books in African Studies
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Kevin Dawson, "Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic ...
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists...
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Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility...
Green-Simms examines the paradoxes and ambivalences of automobility through the lens of West African films, novels, plays, and poems...
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David Stenner, "Globalizing Morocco: Transnatio...
The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...
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Elizabeth R. Baer, "The Genocidal Gaze: From Ge...
Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...
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Reinhart Kössler, "Namibia and Germany: Negotia...
Only in 2015, 100 years after the end of formal German rule, has the German government begun to atone for the Herero/Nama genocide...
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Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, "Rethinking...
Black German Studies is an interdisciplinary field that has experienced significant growth over the past three decades, integrating subjects such as gender studies, diaspora studies, history, and media and performance studies...
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Sasha D. Pack, "The Deepest Border: The Strait ...
Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...
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Chris S. Duvall, "The African Roots of Marijuan...
Duvall helps us understand cannabis as a crop, commodity, and tool in African culture and in the history of slavery...
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Joseph Hill, "Wrapping Authority: Women Islamic...
Hill provides life stories of various fascinating and powerful female muqaddamas (or Sufi leaders) in Dakar and explores how they navigate the complexity of their gendered authority in religious, familial, and public domains...
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Jeannette Eileen Jones, "Search of Brightest Af...
Jones talks about the many different groups, from naturalists and conservationists to African American artists and intellectuals, who begin to recast Africa in the America imagination in the early 20th century...
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Dannel Jones, "An African in Imperial London: T...
In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...
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Jane Hooper, "Feeding Globalization: Madagascar...
Jane Hooper talks about Madagascar and its importance to the history of Indian Ocean trade and exploration...
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Stephan Bullard, "A Day-by-Day Chronicle of the...
Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?
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Daniel Hershenzon, "The Captive Sea: Slavery, C...
For hundreds of years, people living on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea enslaved one another...
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Ryan Hanley, "Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Bla...
Hanley seeks to shift the focus of black history away from a slavery and abolition, and toward something more complex...
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Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa f...
Toby Green draws upon a range of underutilized sources to describe the evolution of West Africa over a period of four transformative centuries...
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Andrew Wallis, "Stepp’d in Blood: Akazu and th...
Andrew Wallis has published a significant new survey of the origins and aftermath of the genocide....
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Kristin D. Phillips, "An Ethnography of Hunger:...
Families in parts of rural Tanzania regularly face periods when they cut back on their meals because their own food stocks are running short and they cannot afford to buy food...
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Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Domesticating Empire: E...
Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden...
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Jeremy Black, "Imperial Legacies: The British E...
Professor Black shows the reader how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today.
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James L. A. Webb, "The Long Struggle against Ma...
It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...
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Elizabeth Schmidt, "Foreign Intervention in Afr...
Using a variety of different case studies, Schmidt illuminates some of the patterns that have informed western intervention in Rwanda, Somalia, and elsewhere, and the complicated role of international institutions in this process.
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Elena Schneider, "The Occupation of Havana: War...
Histories of the British occupation of Havana in 1762 have focused on imperial rivalries and the actions and decisions of European planters, colonial officials, and military officers...
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Kathleen Keller, "Colonial Suspects: Suspicion,...
Focused on suspects and surveillance in the port city of Dakar in Senegal, the book traces a variety of ways in which colonial authorities sought to suppress forms of political activity including communism, pan-Africanism, anticolonialism, black radicalism, and pan-Islamism...
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Emma Hunter, "Political Thought and the Public ...
Hunter documents the emergence of a public sphere in Tanzania, which predated the nationalist period and allowed for a wide range of voices to debate ideas about political authority and society...
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