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19 books to read from 2022

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19 books to read from 2022

Check out these exciting books about Africa

Jeffrey Paller
Jan 4
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Here are some of our favorite books from 2022:

Queer African Cinemas

By Lindsey B. Green-Simms

Queer African Cinemas

Everyday Identity and Electoral Politics: Race, Ethnicity, and the Bloc Vote in South Africa and Beyond

By Adam S. Harris

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Everyday Identity and Electoral Politics

Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa: Beyond Fake News

By Idayat Hassan and Jamie Hitchen

WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa: Beyond Fake News

Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa

By Peer Schouten

Roadblock Politics

Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria

By Saheed Aderinto

Cover of Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa

Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

By Pedro Monaville

Students of the World

Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously

By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts

By Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh

Undue Process

Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies

By Itamar Dubinsky

Entrepreneurial Goals: cover depicting black, female soccer players wearing blue and pink jerseys. One looks directly at the viewer with a stoic expression. The title text is written in white font above the girls.

Activist Origins of Political Ambition: Opposition Candidacy in Africa’s Electoral Authoritarian Regimes

By Keith Weghorst

Activist Origins of Political Ambition

We are Not Starving: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty in Ghana

By Joeva Sean Rock

We Are Not Starving

Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics

By Chandan Deuskar

book: Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics

Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City

By Zachary Levenson

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Delivery as Dispossession

They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria

By Daniel Agbiboa

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They Eat Our Sweat

Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

By Kwame Edwin Otu

Amphibious Subjects by Kwame Edwin Otu

Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa

By Tom Goodfellow

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Politics and the Urban Frontier

Land Politics: How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal

By Lauren Honig

Land Politics

Peace, Preference, and Property: Return Migration after Violent Conflict

By Sandra F. Joireman

Book cover for 'Peace, Preference, and Property'
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