Books Received

Abegunrin, Olayiwola, ed. Africa in the New World Order: Peace and Security Challenges in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Lexington Books, 2014. xxii + 254 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Allen, Tony, with Michael E. Veal. Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. ix + 199 pp. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

Amtaika, Alexius. Local Government in South Africa Since 1994: Leadership, Democracy, Development and Service Delivery in a Post-Apartheid Era. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xviii + 374 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Ascher, William, and Natalia Mirovitskaya, eds. The Economic Roots of Conflict and Cooperation in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiv + 276 pp. $100.00. Cloth.

Badru, Pade, and Brigid Maa Sackey, eds. Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2013. xi + 416 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Barnes, Hazel, ed. Arts Activism, Education, and Therapies: Transforming Communities Across Africa. New York: Rodopi, 2013. xvi + 291 pp. $95.20. Cloth.

Biehl, Joao, and Adriana Petryna. When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013. 446 pp. $29.95. Paper.

Bisschoff, Lizelle, and Stefanie Van De Peer, eds. Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Music, Visual Arts, Literature and Film. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xxxiii + 325 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Bjarnesen, Jesper. Diaspora at Home? Wartime Mobilities in the Burkina Faso–Cote d’Iviore Transnational Space. Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala Universitet, 2013. 279 pp. No price reported.

Bongila, Jean-Pierre K. Grounding Leadership Ethics in African Diaspora and Election Rights. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2013. xiv + 171 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Borzel, A. Tanja, and Thauer R. Christian. Business and Governance in South Africa: Racing to the Top? Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillian, 2013. xiv + 274 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Campbell, Bonnie K., ed. Modes of Governance and Revenue Flows in African Mining. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xv + 253 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

Carmody, Padraig. The Rise of the BRICS in Africa: The Geopolitics of South–South Relations. London: Zed Books, 2013. viii + 176 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Chirwa, Danwood M., and Nijzink Lia. Accountable Government in Africa: Perspectives from Public Law and Political Studies. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2012. xii + 448 pp. $42.00. Paper.

Chuku, Gloria, ed. The Igbo Intellectual Tradition: Creative Conflict in African and African Diasporic Thought. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xv + 342 pp. $95.00. Cloth.

Chukwuma, Helen O., and Preselfannie E. Whitfield McDaniels, eds. Meeting Points in Black/Africana Women’s Literature. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. v + 315 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Ciment, James. Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013. xx + 296 pp. $30.00. Cloth.

Cochrane, Laura L. Weaving Through Islam in Senegal. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xix + 147 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Cooper, Brenda. A New Generation of African Writers: Migration, Material, Culture and Language. Suffolk, U.K.: Boydell & Brewer, 2013. ix + 182 pp. $29.95. Paper.

———. Floating in an Antibubble from South Africa to Salford: A Mosiac of Pictures and Stories. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. vii +198 pp. $34.95. Paper.

Crawford, David, and Rachel Newcomb, eds. Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. ix + 284 pp. $80.00. Cloth. $28.00. Paper. $23.99. E-Book.

Dafinger, Andreas. The Economics of Ethnic Conflict: The Case of Burkina Faso. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2013. xi + 212 pp. $80.00. Cloth.

Deibert, Michael. The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair. London: Zed Books, 2013. xiv + 260 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Desta, Amare, Mengesha Mentesnot, and Muchie Mammo. Putting Knowledge to Work: From Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Exchange. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2016. v + 423 pp. $39.95. Paper.

Dibua, Jeremiah I. Development and Diffusion: Looking Beyond Neopatrimonialism in Nigeria, 1962–1985. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xviii + 255 pp. No price reported. Cloth.

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