C. Patrick Burrowes.
From Virginia Slave to African Statesman: Hilary Teage.
Bomi County, Republic of Liberia: Know Yourself Press, 2019. 198 pp.
$19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-70113-047-0. 
David Lee Schoenbrun. The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 376 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33250-1.
Reviewed by John K. Thornton (Boston University) Published on H-Africa (January, 2022) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56920
Rebekah Lee.
Health, Healing and Illness in African History.
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 272 pp.
$90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-5438-0; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4742-5437-3.
Marie A. Muschalek. Violence as Usual: Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi + 255 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-4285-9.
Reviewed by Oliver Owen (University of Oxford) Published on H-Africa (December, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Leslie Anne Hadfield. A Bold Profession: African Nurses in Rural Apartheid South Africa. Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 304 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-33120-7.
Reviewed by Matt Heaton (Virginia Tech) Published on H-Africa (November, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Britta Rutert. Contested Properties: Peoples, Plants, and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Culture and Social Practice Series. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020. 300 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-4794-5.
Reviewed by Gregory H. Maddox (Texas Southern University) Published on H-Africa (November, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Fabienne Braukmann, Michaela Haug, Katja Metzmacher, Rosalie Stolz, eds. Being a Parent in the Field: Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork. Culture and Social Practice Series. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020. 295 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-8376-4831-7.
Reviewed by Scott Youngstedt (Saginaw Valley State University) Published on H-Africa (November, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Melissa Diane Armstrong.
An Ambulance on Safari: The ANC and the Making of a Health Department in Exile.
Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society Series. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. 344 pp.
$37.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-228-00330-4.
Lydia Cabrera.
Sacred Language of the Abakuá.
Edited and translated by Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 608 pp.
$45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4968-2949-8.
Reviewed by Ute Röschenthaler (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Published on H-Africa (October, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Stephen Smith.
The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent.
Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019. viii + 197 pp.
$69.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5095-3456-2; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5095-3457-9.
Reviewed by Haythem Guesmi (Independent Scholar) Published on H-Africa (October, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare. Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 296 pp. $32.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-108-45737-8.
Reviewed by Jennifer Hart (Wayne State University) Published on H-Africa (October, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56904
Valentina Peveri.
The Edible Gardens of Ethiopia: An Ethnographic Journey into Beauty and Hunger.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020. 264 pp.
$40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8165-4115-7.
Reviewed by Christopher Conz (College of the Holy Cross) Published on H-Africa (October, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Samuel Fury Childs Daly. A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii + 272 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-84076-7.
Reviewed by Roy Doron (Winston-Salem State University) Published on H-Africa (September, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Vanessa S. Oliveira. Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Illustrations, maps, tables. 272 pp. $79.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-299-32580-0.
Reviewed by John K. Thornton (Boston University) Published on H-Africa (September, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)
Virginia Comolli. Boko Haram: Nigeria's Islamist Insurgency. London: Hurst & Company, 2018. Maps. 208 pp. $19.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-84904-661-9.
Reviewed by Michael Cserkits (University of Vienna) Published on H-Africa (September, 2021) Commissioned by Dawne Y. Curry (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
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