General
Commerce and the Commonwealth: business association, political culture and economic governance, 1886-1975, by Andrew Dilley, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025, 386 pp.
Youth Leading Change: emerging sites of knowledge in peace and conflict, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, 250 pp.
The Crown’s Silence: the hidden history of slavery and the British monarchy, by Brooke Newman, London, Mudlark, 2026, 464 pp.
Africa
Kwame Nkrumah’s Quest for Restoration: Nkrumaism and pan-Africanism in exile, by Tunde Adeleke, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 248pp.
The Age of Change: how urban youth are transforming African politics, by Michelle D. Gavin, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 192 pp.
Shine Your Eye: in search of West Africa, by Adéwálé Májà-Pearce, London, Hurst, 2026, 221 pp.
Edison Sithole: law, liberation and the cost of dissent: selected writings of Edison Sithole, edited and with analyses by Brooks Marmon, Cape Town, HSRC Press, 2026, 224 pp.
Curating the Colonial Past: the ‘Migrated Archives’ and the struggle for Kenya’s history, by Riley Linebaugh, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 342 pp.
Minority Identities in Nigeria: contesting and claiming citizenship in the twentieth century, by Oghenetoja Okoh, 250 pp.
Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War, by Nana Osei-Opare, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 348 pp.
Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature, by Adriaan van Klinken, University Park, PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, xvii + 222 pp.
Slavery, Freedom and Dvelopment: how Africa became the mirror image of Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2026, 258 pp.
Speaking of Trust: religion and mutual aid in Southwest Kenya, by Teodor Zidaru, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 248 pp.
Asia
A Logic of Populism: India and its states, by Srikrishna Ayyanger, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 224 pp.
Elusive Democracy: Dalit politics, elections and the dilemmas of representation, by Michael A. Collins, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 288pp.
Democracy and Inequality in India: political economy of a troubled giant, by Atul Kohli and Kanta Murali, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 362 pp.
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the Making of an Indian Smart City, by Ila Nagur, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025, 235 pp.
Australasia
Search for Security: AUKUS and the new militarism, by Mark Beeson, Kanishke Jayasuriya and Sian Troath, Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 2026, 336 pp.
Caribbean
Gender-based Violence in the Caribbean: historical roots, contemporary continuities, edited by Dalea Bean and Verene A. Shepherd, Kingston, University of the West Indies Press, 2025, 602 pp.
The Elgar Companion to the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Francisco Rodríguez. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 640 pp.
Oceans of Feeling: an emotional history of Caribbean migrants in postwar Britain, by Ryan Walmsley, London, Bloomsbury, 2025, 256 pp.
