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Robert Rotberg, Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa. Washington: Brookings Institution and World Peace Foundation (pb $19.95 - 978 0 8157 7571 3 and hb $49.95-978 0 8157 7570 6). 2005, viii+210
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 613-614
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W. John Young, The Quiet Wise Spirit: Edwin W. Smith 1876–1957 and Africa. Peterborough: Epworth Press (pb £19.95 – 0 7162 0553 X). 2002, 292 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 290-292
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Isak Niehaus with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane, Witchcraft, Power and Politics: exploring the occult in the South African lowveld. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan University Press (pb $22 – 978 0 7453 1558 4). 2001, 246 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 460-461
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Alice Dinerman, Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa: the case of Mozambique,1975-1994. London:Routledge: hb $145 - 0415770173)2006, 394 pp.,
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 614-616
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M. J. Spierenburg, Strangers, Spirits and Land Reforms: conflicts about land in Dande, northern Zimbabwe. Leiden: Brill (pb 978 9004139 57 2). 2004, 260 pp.
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Michael Bollig, Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment. New York: Springer (hb £80.50 – 387 27581 9). 2006, 442 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 292-293
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Tanya Lyons, Guns and Guerrilla Girls: women in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle. Trenton: Africa World Press (pb US$29.95 – 1 592 21167 4). 2004, 338 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 462-464
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Shane Doyle, Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: population and environment in western Uganda, 1860–1955. Nairobi: British Institute in Eastern Africa (pb £16.95 – 0 85255 431 1; hb £45.00 – 0 85255 432 X). 2006, 276 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 293-294
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Arnold Hughes and David Perfect, A Political History of The Gambia 1816-1994. Rochester: University of Rochester Press(hb $90 - 1 58046 230 8). 2006, 540 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 616-617
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Effa Okupa, Carrying the Sun on Our Backs: unfolding German colonialism in Namibia from Caprivi to Kasikili.. Berlin:LIT (pb £14.94 - 3 8258 7872 4) 2006, 433 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 617-618
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Jeff Guy, The View across the River: Harriette Colenso and the Zulu struggle against imperialism. Claremont, South Africa: David Philip Publishers (pb price not stated – 0 86486 373 X); Charlottsville, VA: University Press of Virginia (pb price not stated – 0 8139 2133 3); and Oxford: James Currey (pb £19.95 – 0 85255 791 4). 2001 and 2002, 498 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 294-295
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Christine J. Walley, Rough Waters: nature and development in an East African marine park. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (pb $22.95 – 978 0691115603; hb $60 978 0691115597). 2004, 336 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 464-465
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Thomas V. McClendon, Gender and Generations Apart: labour tenants and customary law in segregation-era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s. Oxford: James Currey (pb £16.95 – 9780 85255 955 0); New York: Heinemann (pb $24.95 – 0 325071101). 2003, 233 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 465-467
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Jeremy Krikler, White Rising: the 1922 insurrection and racial killing in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press (hb £25.00 – 0719068444). 2005, xiv, plates + 405pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 296-297
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John O. Udal,The Nile in Darkness: a flawed unity, 1863-1899. Norwich: Michael Russell(pb £55.00 - 0 85955 291 8). 2005699 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 618-620
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Adam Jones and Peter Sebald, An African Family Archive: the Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841–1938. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy Fontes Historiae Africanae New Series No. 7. (hb £55.00 - 9 780197 263082). 2005566 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 620-621
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James L. Giblin with Blandina Kaduma Giblin, A History of the Excluded: making family a refuge from state in twentieth-century Tanzania. Oxford, Dar es Salaam: James Currey, Oxford/Mkuki na Nyota (pb £ 16.95 – 97808525546-61); Athens: Ohio University Press (pb $55 – 0821416685). 2005, xii + 304 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 467-468
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Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong (ed.), Themes in West Africa's History. Oxford: James Currey (pb £16.95 – 0 85255 995 X; hb £50.00 – 0 85255 996 8); Athens: Ohio University Press (pb $24.95 – 0 8214 1641 3; hb $49.95 – 0 8214 1640 5); Accra: Woeli (pb price not stated – 9988 626 56 8). 2006, 322 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 297-298
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James M Burns,Flickering Shadows: cinema and identity in colonial Zimbabwe. Athens OH: Ohio University Press Africa series no.77 (pb $28.00 - 0 89680 224 8). 2002, xxv+ 278 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 621-622
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Simon Ottenberg, Farmers and Townspeople in a Changing Nigeria: Abakaliki during colonial times (1905–1960). Ibadan: Spectrum Books (pb N3000, £24.95 – 978 029 533 X). 2005, xxi + 364 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 468-470
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