My review of Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future has been published in Nomadic Peoples. The edited volume Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, is an overview of a research program led by Michael Bollig at the University of Cologne, Germany. The volume highlights the variation and dynamic change within and across pastoral societies in Africa. The research program carried out under Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa (ACACIA) project was a 12-year-long, interdisciplinary study of the emergence and spread of pastoralism in Africa (1995-2007). The project has resulted in hundreds of publications from archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, linguists, geographers and botanists (for a list see http://www.uni-koeln.de/sfb389/).