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DANCE FEVER - The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits. By James C. McCann . Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Pp. xiii + 196. $75.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8211-2146-8); $28.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-2147-5).

TRANSNATIONAL LINKAGES IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA - Ethnicities, Nationalities, and Cross-Cultural Representations in Africa and the Diaspora. Edited by Gloria Chuku . Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2015. Pp. xlvi + 363. $49.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-61163-663-5).

BACK TO THE FUTURE - Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972. By Derek R. Peterson . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xx + 344. $109.99, hardback (ISBN 9781107021167); $34.99, paperback (ISBN 9781107636965).

HISTORIANS IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA - Guardians of the Tradition: Historians and Historical Writing in Ethiopia and Eritrea. By James De Lorenzi . Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 219. $110.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-58046-519-9).

EARLY NORTH AFRICA - North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam. Edited by Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan P. Conant . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 322. $70.00, hardback (ISBN 9780884024088).

TRAVELS IN MOROCCO - Return to Casablanca: Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist. By André Levy . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 219. $85.00, hardback (ISBN 9780226292410); $27.50, paperback (ISBN 9780226292557).

MUSLIMS FRAGMENTED BY ETHNICITY AND HISTORY - Muslims in Kenyan Politics: Political Involvement, Marginalization, and Minority Status. By Hassan J. Ndzovu . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 209. $79.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8101-6787-2).

THE OBSERVER OBSERVED - Colonial Kenya Observed: British Rule, Mau Mau and the Wind of Change. By S. H. Fazan . Edited by John Lonsdale . London: I. B. Tauris, 2015. Pp. xliii + 358. £35.00/$65.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-78076-865-6).

SOMALI MIGRATION - Elusive Jannah: The Somali Diaspora and a Borderless Muslim Identity. By Cawo M. Abdi . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. Pp. ix + 289. $94.50, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8166-9738-0); $27.00, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8166-9739-7).

ALGERIA AFTER INDEPENDENCE - Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization and the Third World Order. By Jeffrey James Byrne . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xv + 388. $65.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-989914-2).

CONTINGENCY AND THE PREDICTION OF VIOLENCE - On the Path to Genocide: Armenia and Rwanda Reexamined. By Deborah Mayersen . New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. Pp. xi + 248. $95.00, hardback (ISBN 9781782382843).

FOOD SECURITY IN THE HORN - Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011–12. By Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 269. $32.50, paperback (ISBN 9780190499389).

ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN CONVERSATION - Lettres de Sanga. By Deborah Lifchitz and Denise Paulme . Edited by Marianne Lemaire . Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2015. Pp. ix + 278. €25.00, paperback (ISBN 978-2-271-07615-1).

EMPIRE BUILDING - Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897–1964. By Sarah Longair . Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate Publising, 2015. Pp. xvi + 321. $134.95, hardback (ISBN 978-1-4724-3787-7).

MAU MAU REVISITED - Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity, and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya. By Nicholas K. Githuku . Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. Pp. xviii + 554. £95.00/$140.00, hardback (ISBN 978-1-4985-0698-4).

BURUNDI'S FIRST CAPITAL - Gitega, capitale du Burundi: Une ville du Far West en Afrique orientale allemande (1912–1916). By Jean-Pierre Chrétien . Paris: Karthala, 2015. Pp. 257. €24.00, paperback (ISBN 978-2-8111-1509-8).

AFRICAN LANDSCAPES - Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by John Beardsley . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. vi + 478. $60.00, hardback (ISBN 9780884024101).

PAROCHIAL NATIONALISM - Imagining a Nation: History and Memory in Making Zimbabwe. By Ruramisai Charumbira . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Pp. xvii + 280. $45.00, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8139-3822-6).

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