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The Kagera River and the Making of a Contested Boundary: Territorial Legacies and Colonial Demarcations in Buganda (19 th –20th Centuries) by Médard, Henri, Kidari, Ikram

“…Precolonial demarcations of African states are often presented as being radically different from contemporary linear boundaries. Igor Kopytoff, influenced by…”
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"It Would Have Pleased the Great Spirit of Mr. Garvey": Helen and James Piper and the Return to Ethiopia by Bonacci, Giulia

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Room to Grow: Re-Installing the NCMA Permanent Collection by Perrill, Elizabeth, McKee, Katherine Mpeshi, Forbes, Carlee, Kilgore, Laurel

“…In June 2017, Washington, DC-based, Nigerian-born artist Victor Ekpuk will install a 30 x 18 foot site-specific wall drawing in the North Carolina Museum of…”
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Historicizing African Socialisms: Kenyan African Socialism, Zambian Humanism, and Communist China's Entanglements by Sun, Jodie Yuzhou

“…It is commonly recognized by scholars that there is not a monolithic definition of socialism, and the meaning of the term was the subject of fierce and…”
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Punctuated Places: Narrating Space in Burundi by Russell, Aidan

“…When Rwanda and Burundi parted ways at independence and dissolved their colonial union of Ruanda-Urundi, Burundi's Catholic newspaper Ndongozi celebrated this…”
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Assemblage, Occlusion, and the Art of Survival in the Black Atlantic by Rarey, Matthew Francis

“…In this essay, I argue that mandingas' seeming indecipherability and visual banality are not just matters of current scholarly debate, but were their core…”
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Introduction: The Bounds of Berlin's Africa: Space-Making and Multiple Territorialities in East and Central Africa by Castryck, Geert

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Historical Writing in Postcolonial Africa: The Institutional Context by Manning, Patrick, Miller, Jamie

“…Historical writing in Africa has reproduced itself since the 1950s, just as historical writing overseas in Europe and North America has reproduced itself. The…”
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A Handful of Swahili Coast Letters, 1500–1520 by Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, Alam, Muzaffar

“…The important role played by the ports and city-states of the Swahili coast of East Africa in the commerce of the western Indian Ocean in the medieval and…”
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Nationalism by Telegrams: Political Writings and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Sudan, 1920–1924 by Vezzadini, Elena

“…Independence was an important political victory for Egypt, but it was impaired by the Four Reserved Points- among which the status of Sudan- which limited…”
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Remaking Boundaries of Belonging: Protestant Missionaries and African Christians in Katanga, Belgian Congo by Maxwell, David

“…Maxwell focuses on the processes of identity formation that occurred across twentieth-century Africa via a case study on the making of the Luba Katanga,…”
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Bordering the Lake: Transcending Spatial Orders in Kigoma-Ujiji by Castryck, Geert

“…In recent years, the West Tanzanian border town of Kigoma-Ujiji has been characterized as a "Congolese" town on several occasions. Ranging from a rather banal…”
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Italy's Ethiopian Mercenaries, the Forgotten "Terenebulé" by Getahun, Solomon Addis

“…In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, European countries, including Italy, were partitioning the African continent amongst themselves…”
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LDS Materials for the Study of Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa by Hurlbut, D. Dmitri

“…Historians trying to write the history of postcolonial Africa are hindered by an absence of documentary materials in conventional national archives. Not only…”
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Navigating Different Worlds: Colonialism in the Mbomu Basin and the Rise and Demise of the Djabir-Clan (1875–1932) by De Roo, Bas

“…Colonization fundamentally reconfigured African space and hence fundamentally restructured the lives of Africans. In order to control local populations,…”
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Federation, Factories, and Foreign Capital: Economic Growth in Southern Rhodesia, 1953-1956 by Gwande, Victor M.

“…Thompson and Woodruffs analysis was premature. Furthermore, their prediction that economic development would be felt in due course proved erroneous; it…”
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James Aggrey and the African Nation: Pan-Africanism, Public Memory, and Political Imagination in Colonial East Africa by Sanders, Ethan R.

“…Different audiences have long come away with different lessons when encountering the biography of James Aggrey. The early twentieth-century educator and…”
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"Ban This Cruel Sport Boxing": Shaping the Ideal Masculine Citizen in Post-WWII Colonial Lagos, Nigeria by Gennaro, Michael

“…The Second World War ushered in a new era for boxing in Nigeria, a sport that was not very popular before the war. European notions of sport and its usefulness…”
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Moving Along, Moving Across, Moving in Time: Linear Geographies, Translocal Practices, and the Making of the "Barotse Boundary," ca. 1890 to 1925 by von Oppen, Achim

“…The European partition of Africa neither started nor ended with the Berlin Conference. The making of colonial borders in Africa from around 1880 often took…”
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Presenting the "History of Kiziba and Its Kings" by F.X. Lwamgira by Schmidt, Peter R.

“…One of the most important indigenous histories of East Africa has long been obscured by the absence of a reliable and accurate translation. Published in the…”
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