Compiled by Terry A. Barringer
General
Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation in the Global South: politics, praxes and futures, edited by Anis Ben Brik, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2025, xi +514 pp.
Strategic Collaboration in the Security Sector: India and Australia, by Sonia Khosa, Canberra, ANU Press, 2025, xxii + 484 pp. (Free download)
Africa
Democracy and Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, edited by Wale Adebanwi, Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer, hardback, 2023, paperback, 2025, 464 pp.
Reflections on Serving in Malawi, Southern and Central Africa, by Archbishop Donald Arden, edited by Jane Arden, Rickmansworth, STL2024, 250 pp.
Youth Pentecostalism and Child Witchcraft Accusations, by Clare P. Ayelotan, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2025, 372 pp.
Christians in the Cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria: becoming an African megacity, by Stéphan de Beer, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, xiii +326 pp.
Ecumenical Christianity and Politics in Zimbabwe, 1980-2023, edited by David Kaulemu, David Maxwell & Munetsi Ruzivo, Harare, Catholic University of Zimbabwe, 2025 xxxv + 303pp
The Violence of Law: the formation and deformation of Gacaca courts in Rwanda, by Jens Meierheinrich, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 320 pp.
Christians in the City of Nairobi: an African city and the future of world Christianity, by Kyama Mugambi and Mark Shaw, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, xii + 183 pp.
Christians in the City of Lagos, by Caleb O. Oladipo, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 224 pp.
Unbroken Chains: a 5,000 year history of African enslavement, by Martin Plaut, London, Hurst, 2025, vii + 307 pp.
Building the African Nation: the African Association and Pan-Africanism in twentieth century East Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 344 pp.
Asia
China, India and the Forging of a New World, by Vince Cable, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2025, xi + 338 pp.
Shattered Lands: five partitions and the making of modern Asia, by Sam Dalrymple, London William Collins, 2025, 528 pp.
M.S. Swaminathan: the man who fed India, by Priyamback Jayakumar, Harper Collins, India, 2025.
The Nehru Years: an international history of Indian non-alignment, by Swapna Kona Nayudu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xii +226 pp.
Immoral Traffic: an ethnography of law, NGOs and the governance of prostitution in India, by Vibhuti Ramachandran, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Australasia
Struggle, Reform, Boom and Bust: an economic history of Papua New Guinea since independence, by Stephen Howes and others, Canberra, ANU Press, 2025, 442 pp. (Free download)
Canada
Christians in the City of Montréal, by Glenn Smith, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, xxiv + 249 pp.
Caribbean
Sixty Years of Independence: achievements, challenges and the road ahead for Trinidad and Tobago, edited by Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Roger Hosein and Rebecca Gookool-Bosland Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2025, 558pp.
Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: small island states in the Caribbean, by Grace Carrington, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, xiv + 306 pp.
Reordering Caribbean Futures in the Fires of Global Change; edited by Patricia Northover and others, Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2005, 438 pp.
Terry Barringer is the Book Review Editor of The Round Table Journal.
