19 books to read from 2022

Check out these exciting books about Africa

Here are some of our favorite books from 2022:

Queer African Cinemas

By Lindsey B. Green-Simms

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

By Adam S. Harris

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

Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa

By Peer Schouten

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

By Saheed Aderinto

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

By Pedro Monaville

Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously

By Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts

By Fiona Feiang Shen-Bayh

Entrepreneurial Goals: Development and Africapitalism in Ghanaian Soccer Academies

By Itamar Dubinsky

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

By Keith Weghorst

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

By Joeva Sean Rock

Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics

By Chandan Deuskar

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

By Zachary Levenson

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

By Daniel Agbiboa

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

By Kwame Edwin Otu

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

By Tom Goodfellow

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

By Lauren Honig

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

By Sandra F. Joireman