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GHANA'S MILITARY ABROAD - The Abongo Abroad: Military-Sponsored Travel in Ghana, the United States, and the World, 1959–1992. By John V. Clune. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017. Pp. 288. $55.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780826521514).

DUTCH ATLANTIC CONNECTIONS - Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680–1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders. Edited by Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. Pp. xii + 440. $120.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-90-04-27132-6).

LIVING WITH NKRUMAHISM - Living with Nkrumahism: Nation, State, and Pan-Africanism in Ghana. By Jeffrey S. Ahlman. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. ix + 322. $80.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2292-2); $32.95, paperback, (ISBN: 978-0-8214-2293-9).

THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND AFRICA'S GUINEA COAST - Making Money: Life, Death and Early Modern Trade on Africa's Guinea Coast. By Colleen E. Kriger. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2017. Pp. 254. $28.95; paperback (ISBN: 9780896802964) $75.00, hardback (ISBN: 9780896803152).

ARMY MUTINITIES IN AFRICA - Soldiers in Revolt: Army Mutinies in Africa. By Maggie Dwyer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 237. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780190876074).

ETHNIC POLITICS IN AFRICA - Beyond Ethnic Politics in Africa. By Dominika Koter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. Pp. 220. $28.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781316622759); $110.00 hardcover (ISBN: 9781107171497); $23.00, e-book (ISBN: 9781316774144).

GUINEA-BISSAU: MICRO-STATE AND NARCO-STATE? - Guinea-Bissau: Micro-State to ‘Narco-State’. Edited by Patrick Chabal and Toby Green. London: Hurst & Company, 2016. Pp. xxvi + 290. £25.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-84904-521-6)

MONROVIA MODERN - Monrovia Modern: Urban Form and Political Imagination in Liberia By Danny Hoffman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2017. Pp. 232. $26.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-0-8223-5884-8); $99.95, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-8223-6357-6).

ROGUE EMPIRES AND EUROPE'S SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA - Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa. By Steven Press. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 371. $39.95, hardback (ISBN: 9780674971851).

AFRICAN KINGS AND BLACK SLAVES IN THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC - African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic. By Herman L. Bennett. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 240. $34.95, hardcover (ISBN: 9780812250633).

CONSTRUCTING A MUSLIM PUBLIC SPHERE IN BURKINA FASO - La construction d'une sphère publique musulmane en Afrique de l'Ouest. By Frédérick Madore. Laval, Canada: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2016. Pp. viii + 208. $29.95, paperback (ISBN: 978-2-7637-2811-7).

PHILIP QUAQUE'S LETTERS TO LONDON - Philip Quaque's Letters to London, 1765–1811. By Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2017. Pp x + 165. $32.46, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-86888-840-5).

A WEST AFRICAN BRIDE OF CHRIST IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN - Black Bride of Christ: Chicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth-Century Spain. Edited by Sue E. Houchins and Baltasar Fra-Molinero. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press: 2018. Pp. 336. $65.00, hardcover (ISBN: 9780826521033).

CITIZENSHIP IN THE FRENCH ATLANTIC EMPIRE - To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France's Atlantic Empire. By Lorelle Semley. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xxi + 362. $32.99, paperback (ISBN: 9781107498471).

MUSLIM INTERPRETERS IN COLONIAL SENEGAL - Muslim Interpreters in Colonial Senegal, 1850–1920: Mediations of Knowledge and Power in the Lower and Middle Senegal River Valley. By Tamba M'Bayo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. xxvii + 205. $85.00, hardback (ISBN: 978-1-4985-0998-5).

A STORY OF THE ILLEGAL SLAVE TRADE AND ITS GLOBAL LEGACY - Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy. By Emma Christopher. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018. Pp. viii + 310. $29.95, hardcover (ISBN: 978-0-299-31620-4).

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