Commonwealth Bookshelf April 2026. pictures shows book and journal covers

General

Global Citizen: grassroots activism and high diplomacy, by Carl Wright, Watten at Stone, Hertford, Hansib, 2nd edition with new introduction, 2026, 348 pp.

Africa

How Africa Works: success and failure on the world’s last developmental frontier, by Joe Studwell, London, Profile, 2026, xi + 435 pp.

Tourism, Development and South Africa: culture, equity and climate change in the global south, by Garth Allen, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, xii + 208 pp.

Migration and Displacement in Africa: social exclusion, intergenerational healing and communal restoration, by Abdul Karim Bangura, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 235 pp.

Kenyan Foreign and Security Policies: the Jomo Kenyatta Presidency and Legacy, by Kipyego Cheluget and Stephen Wright, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 265 pp.

Historical Dictionary of Nigeria, by Toyin Falola and Oluwafunminiyi Wasiru Raheem, London, Bloomsbury,  3rd edn, 2026, 576 pp.

Presidents for Life in Sub-Saharan Africa: unpuzzling authoritarianism in Zimbabwe and Rwanda, by Teresa Nogueira Pinto, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 290pp.

Election Administration and Reform in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic, by Babayo Sule and Usman Sambo, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, 224 pp.

Historical Dictionary of Rwanda, by Aimable Twagilimane, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 3rd edn,  2026,  384 pp.

Broadcasting Apartheid: British television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1970, by Tal Zalmanovich, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2026, 272 pp.

Asia

Hindu, Muslim and the Dynamics of Identity in South Asia: belonging and conflict from the past to the present,  by Peter  Gottdschalk, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, 317 pp.

India’s high-tech leap: industrial policy and future of innovation, by Sunil Mani, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2026, 242 pp.

Imperial Footprints: a history of South Asian child migrants in Britain, by Sumita Mukherjee, London, Hurst, 2026, 288 pp.

Australasia

Wild Partners: indigenous worlds and industrial giants in Papua New Guinea, by Patrick Guinness, Canberra, ANU Press, 2026, 282 pp.

Landslide: the 2025 Australian Federal Election; edited Marian Sawyer, Jill Sheppard and John Warhurst, Canberra, ANU Press, 2026,

Canada

A History of Canada in 15 Moments: making and remaking a nation since 1867, by Raymond Bond B. Blake and Jeff Keshan, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2026, xi + 241 pp.

Terry Barringer is the Book Review Editor of The Round Table Journal.

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