New academic text, edited by Jennifer Cole and Lynn M. Thomas, about that stuff most Western journalists don’t write about when they write about Africa.

Chapters on such exotic topics as “Love, Sex, and the Modern Girl in 1930s Southern Africa,” ” Making Love in the Indian Ocean,” and “Media and the Therapeutic Ethos of Romantic Love in Middle-Class Nairobi,” among others.

[The photograph has nothing to do with the book. I just like it. It is by one of favorite photographers, Zanele Muholi]