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Benjamin F. Soares, Islam and the Prayer Economy: history and authority in a Malian town. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute (pb £17.99–978 07486 2358 7). 2005, xiv + 306 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 314-315
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Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett and Paul Nugent (eds), Making Nations, Creating Strangers: states and citizenship in Africa. Leiden: Brill (pb £55.00 – 978 9 00415 790 3). 2007, 277 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 459-460
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David M. Gordon, Nachituti's Gift: economy, society, and environment in Central Africa. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (pb $24.95 – 978 0 29921 364 0; hb $60 – 978 0 29921 360 2). 2006, xii + 301 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 617-620
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Patrick Atuobi, Anthony Obeng Boamah and Sjaak Van Der Geest (eds), Life, Love and Death: conversations with six elders in Kwahu-Tafo, Ghana. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis (pb €7.50–978 90558 9261 7). 2005, 56 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 315-316
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Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston Mcintosh Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb $26.95 – 978 0 82141 734 8; hb $55.00 – 978 0 82141 733 1). 2006, 308 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 620-621
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John Laband (Ed.), Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: from slavery days to Rwandan genocide. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press (hb £37.95 978 0 313 33540 2). 2007, 301 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 461-462
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Alamin Mazrui, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: literature, language and identity. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (Ohio University Research in International Studies Series, African Series no. 85) (pb $24 – 978 0 89680 252 0). 2007, ix + 206 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 621-623
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Kevin A. Yelvington (ed.), Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: anthropology in the diaspora. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press (pb $34.95–978 19306 1846 6). Oxford: James Currey (pb £18.95–978 08525 5978 9). 2006, 502 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 316-317
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Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn and Richard L. Roberts (eds), Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African employees in the making of colonial Africa. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (hb £30.95 – 978 0 299 21950 X). 2006, 344 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 462-463
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M. S. C. Okolo, African Literature as Political Philosophy. Dakar: CODESRIA Books/London: Zed Books (pb £19.99 – 978 1 84277 895 1; hb £65.00 – 978 1 84277 894 4). 2007, 164 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 623-624
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Jan-Georg Deutsch, Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa, c. 1884–1914. Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam, Mkuki na Nyota; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (hb £55.00 – 978 0 852 55986 4 and pb £17.95 – 978 0 852 55985 7). 2006, 320 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 463-465
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Francesca Castaldi, Choreographies of African Identities: Négritude, dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal. Urbana and Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press (pb $25.00–978 02520 7268 0 and hb $50.00–978 02520 3027 7). 2006, 264 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 318-319
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Cheikh Anta Babou, Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb $26.95 – 978 0 821 41766 9; hb $55.00 – 978 0 821 41765 2). 2007, 320 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 465-467
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Ranka Primorac, The Place of Tears: the novel and politics in modern Zimbabwe. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies (pb US$85 – 978 1 84511 120 5). 2006, 241 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 624-625
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Henrik Vigh, Navigating Terrains of War: youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (pb £15.00–978 18454 5149 3 and hb £45.00–978 18454 5148 6). 2006, 268 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 319-320
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Björn Beckman and Gbemisola Adeoti (eds), Intellectuals and African Development: pretension and resistance in African politics. London: CODESRIA/zed Books/UNISA (pb £19.99–978 18427 7765 7 and hb £65.00–97818427 7765 7). 2006, 192 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 321-322
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Jeff D. Grischow, Shaping Tradition: civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899–1957. Brill: Leiden (pb €72.00 – 978 9 00415 243 4). 2006, 268 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 467-469
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Friedrich W. Schwerdtfeger, Hausa Urban Art and its Social Background: external house decorations in a northern Nigerian city. Berlin: LIT Verlag (hb €45.90 – 978 3 82585 643 4). 2007, 392 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 469-471
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Mohammed Umar, Amina. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press (pb. $19.95–978 15922 1404 4). 2005, 243 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 322-324
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Ruth Finnegan, The Oral and Beyond: doing things with words in Africa. Oxford: James Currey; Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press; Pietermaritzburg: University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal Press (pb £16.95 – 978 1 84701 001 8). 2007, 258 pp.
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- 19 May 2011, pp. 471-472
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