CAP African Studies Books

THE MURIDIYYA ON THE MOVE: Islam, Migration, and Place Making by Cheikh Anta Babou (@OhioUnivPress) Reviewed by Shobana Shankar for the Journal of African History @JAH_editors ⬇️ 🔹 bit.ly/3UCQZfE 📚 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821424674/… #AfricanStudies

Ari Barbalat in conversation with @sarahastein, co-editor of @stanfordpress title WARTIME NORTH AFRICA (with @aomar_boum), for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast. Links below ⬇️ 🎧 newbooksnetwork.com/wartime-north-… 📚 combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503631991/…

Author Cajetan Iheka @profiheka discusses his new @DukePress book AFRICAN ECOMEDIA with @SOAKatz for the @NewBooksNetwork podcast. Listen now & shop the book ⬇️ 🔸 newbooksnetwork.com/african-ecomed… 🔹 combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014744/… #AfricanStudies

Congratulations to @profiheka, winner of the best book award from the African Studies Association (@ASANewsOnline)! Listen to our podcast conversation w/him, exploring themes from this award-winning work. Very deserved, an exceptionally interesting book. open.spotify.com/episode/7J9p4y…

JUST PUBLISHED ❗ Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar by @surlyBurleigh (@CornellPress) "An innovative and stimulating contribution to the global history of 1968." Shop now 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501767715/…

NEW IN STOCK ❗📚 The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postsocialist Tanzania by Michael Degani (@DukePress) "A tremendous accomplishment and contribution to ethnographies of infrastructure." Shop now 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478019145/… #AfricanStudies

REMAKING ISLAM IN AFRICAN PORTUGAL by Michelle Johnson @iupress Reviewed by António Tomás for the African Studies Review @ASRJournal ✍️ Read the full review & shop the book via the links below ⬇️ 🔹 bit.ly/3NOIL23 🔸 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253049773/… #AfricanStudies

"What would it mean for the borders that segregate—for these social, political, cultural, personal, and historicizing forces that enshroud us—to lose their dominion? In a body under constant threat, how does the human spirit stay afloat?"

❗ NEW in the African Poetry Book Series (@AfricanPoetryBF) There Where It's So Bright in Me by @TanellaBoni (Translated by Todd Fredson) @UnivNebPress Shop now 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/9781496230560/…

THE GREAT UPHEAVAL: WOMEN AND NATION IN POSTWAR NIGERIA by Judith A. Byfield @OhioUnivPress Reviewed by @TitilopeMutiat for the African Studies Review @ASRJournal Read the review online ⬇️ bit.ly/3FCnVkH Shop the book ⬇️ combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821423981/… #AfricanStudies

NEW IN STOCK ❗ Convening Black Intimacy by Natasha Erlank (@UJHistory) @OhioUnivPress An unprecedented study of how Christianity reshaped Black South Africans’ ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage & family during the first half of the 20th century. combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821424995/…

WAR AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL ZAMBIA, 1939-1953 by Alfred Tembo @OhioUnivPress Reviewed by Guy Bud in the Journal of African History @JAH_editors Read the review & shop the book now (links below) ⬇️ 🔸 bit.ly/3TWTQR5 🔹 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821425107/… #AfricanStudies

NEW 📚❗ A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili by Morgan J. Robinson (of @msstatehistory) @OhioUnivPress Explores the processes of standard making & community creation in the historical, political & cultural contexts of East Africa. combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821424957/…

A HISTORY OF TOURISM IN AFRICA by Todd Cleveland @OhioUnivPress Reviewed by Annie Hikido in the Journal of African History @JAH_editors ✍️ Links below to read the review & shop the book ⬇️ 🔹 bit.ly/3Wmp6un 🔸 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821424339/…

NEW IN PAPERBACK ❗ Apartheid's Black Soldiers by @LennartBolliger (@OhioUnivPress) "Essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of the liberation of Southern Africa & the region’s postliberation politics" Shop now 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821425114/… #AfricanStudies

"All in all, Nandita Sharma has delivered a masterpiece that further fuels the cries for global justice." Read Douglas Thomas' full review of Home Rule by @nsharma101 for the @ASRJournal ⬇️ bit.ly/3fsH1Pg Shop the book ⬇️ combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478000952/… @DukePress

NEW IN STOCK ❗ African Leaders of the 20th Century, Volume 2 from @OhioUnivPress This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Amílcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe & Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Shop now 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780821424742/…

This Wednesday, join @MuriamDavis, author of "Markets of Civilization," for an in-person discussion with Giulia Fabbiano and Thierry Fabre at Aix Marseille University. November 2, 6pm CET, at 2 place Leverrier, 13004 Marseille, France. ow.ly/yFk950Ljxi9

Jérôme Tournadre (@jetournadre) discusses his new @FordhamPress book The Politics of the Near in a Q&A for the @CAP_Ltd blog 💡 Read now & shop the book via the links below ⬇️ 🔸 bit.ly/3sKXa5K 🔹 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780823299959/…

JUST PUBLISHED ❗ The Life of Madie Hall Xuma by Wanda A. Hendricks (@IllinoisPress) "The long-overdue first biography of a remarkable leader who fought across the global stage for racial justice, gender equity & human rights." 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/9780252086649/…