Christine Cynn.
Prevention: Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and the Media in Côte d'Ivoire.
Abnormalities: Queer/Gender/Embodiment Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2018. xi + 240 pp.
$29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8142-5498-1; $99.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8142-1381-0. 
Barbara MacGowan Cooper.
Countless Blessings: A History of Childbirth and Reproduction in the Sahel.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xii + 345 pp.
$44.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-04201-9.
Reviewed by Sarah E. Duff (Colby College) Published on H-Africa (July, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Charlotte Walker-Said. Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. xxi + 314 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84701-182-4.
Reviewed by Jeremy M. Rich (Marywood University) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
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Mari K. Webel.
The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920.
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2019. 272 pp.
$80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-2399-8.
Reviewed by Kirk A. Hoppe (University of Illinois at Chicago) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
James Copnall.
A Poisonous Thorn In Our Hearts: Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce.
Updated edition. London: Hurst, 2017. Maps. xxix + 317 pp.
$27.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84904-830-9.
Reviewed by Ian Spears (University of Guelph) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Andreana C. Prichard. Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860-1970. African History and Culture Series. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2017. 360 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-240-9.
Reviewed by Adam H. Mohr (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Megan A. Styles. Roses from Kenya: Labor, Environment, and the Global Trade in Cut Flowers. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019. Illustrations, map, charts. 256 pp. $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-74650-0; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-295-74651-7.
Reviewed by Thaddeus Sunseri (Colorado State University) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Lindsey B. Green-Simms. Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Illustrations. 280 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5179-0114-1; $112.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5179-0113-4.
Reviewed by Martha Lagace (Boston University) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Julia Pauli.
The Decline of Marriage in Namibia: Kinship and Social Class in a Rural Community.
Culture and Social Practice Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2019. xiii + 296 pp.
$55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-4303-9.
Reviewed by Meredith McKittrick (Georgetown University) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Achille Mbembe.
Necropolitics.
Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2019. viii + 213 pp.
$25.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4780-0651-0.
Reviewed by Derick Becker (University of Nottingham Malaysia) Published on H-Africa (June, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Jennifer L. Derr.
The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 264 pp.
$26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-0965-5.
Reviewed by George M. La Rue (Clarion University) Published on H-Africa (May, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Harry N. K. Odamtten. Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations: Afropublicanism, Pan-Africanism, Islam, and the Indigenous West African Church. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019. 292 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-320-8.
Reviewed by Andrew E. Barnes (Arizona State University) Published on H-Africa (April, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Jonathon Repinecz. Subversive Traditions: Reinventing the West African Epic. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019. 336 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61186-334-5.
Reviewed by Jan Jansen (Leiden University) Published on H-Africa (April, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Isiah Lavender III. Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement. New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Series. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019. xi + 230 pp. $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8142-5556-8.
Reviewed by Nkenna Onwuzuruoha (University of Utah) Published on H-Africa (April, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
Nathan Riley Carpenter, Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds. Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity. Framing the Global Series. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. xvi + 337 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-253-03808-1; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-03807-4.
Reviewed by Katherine Luongo (Northeastern University) Published on H-Africa (March, 2020) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Boston University)
