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Review of The Devil’s Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee by Stewart Lee Allen (1999)

Review of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (2022) by Robyn d’Avignon

Review of Electric News in Colonial Algeria (2019) by Arthur Asseraf

Review of Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa (2007) by Diana K. Davis

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by Jeffrey A. Auerbach (2018)

Anxieties, Fear, and Panic in Colonial Settings: Empires on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné (2016)

African Catholic Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church by Elizabeth A. Foster (2019)

Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World; Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade by Roquinaldo Ferreira (2012)

Historical Perspectives on Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa, by Frederick John Dealtry Lugard (1965)

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

Mapping The Slave Trade: The New Archive (No. 10)

The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Atlantic Slavery

Elevate (2012)

Book cover of People Are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali by Eric Silla

People Are Not the Same by Eric Silla (1998)

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979)

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba by Karen Bouwer

Gender and Decolonization in the Congo: The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba (2010)

Book cover of American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines

African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines (2007)

Book cover of Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism edited by Malinda S. Smith

Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism ed. Malinda S. Smith (2010)

Great Books on Africa and the U.S.

The Rebel’s Hour by Lieve Joris (2008)

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller (2003)

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