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James Barber, Mandela's World: the international dimension of South Africa's political revolution 1990–99. Oxford: James Currey (pb £14.95 – 0 85255 876 7; hb £45.00 – 0 85255 877 5); Cape Town: David Philip (pb R 150 – 0 85255 876 7); Athens: Ohio University Press (pb US $24.95 – 0 8214 1566 2; hb US $44.95 – 0 8214 1565 4). 2004, 214 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 249-250
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Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings (eds), Sources and Methods in African History: spoken, written, unearthed. Rochester NY: Rochester University Press (hb £50 – 1 58046 133 4). 2003, xxi +409 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 611-613
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Nigel Eltringham, Accounting for Horror: post-genocide debates in Rwanda. London and Sterling VA: Pluto Press (pb £15.99, US $24.95 – 0 7453 2000 7; hb £50.00, US $79.95 – 0 7453 2001 5). 2004, 232 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 444-445
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Luise White, The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: texts and politics in Zimbabwe. Bloomington: IndianaUniversity Press (pbUS $15.95, £12.95 – 0 253 21608 7; hb US $39.95, £33.00 – 0 253 34257 0). 2003, 128 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 250-251
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Jean-Pierre Chrètien, The Great Lakes of Africa: two thousand years of history. Translated by Scott Strauss. New York: Zone Books (hb US $36.00, £23.95 – 1 890951 34 X). 2003, 503 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 445-447
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Kairn A. Klieman, ‘The Pygmies Were our Compass’: Bantu and Batwa in the history of West Central Africa, early times to c. 1900 CE. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (pb $26.95 – 0 325 07105 5; hb $64 – 0325 07105 5). 2003, xxxiv +253 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 613-615
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Paul Landau and Deborah Kaspin (eds), Images and Empires: visuality in colonial and postcolonial Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press (pb US $24.95, £15.95 – 0 520 22949 5; hb US $60.00, £38.95 – 0 520 22948 7). 2002, 373 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 251-252
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Lael Brainard, Carol Graham, Nigel Purvis, Steven Radelet and Gayle E. Smith, The Other War: global poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account. Washington DC: Center for Global Development/Brookings Institution Press (pb US $18.95 – 0 8157 1115 8; hb US $46.95 – 0 8157 1114 X). 2003, 265 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 447-448
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Florence Bernault (ed.), Enfermement, prison et châtiments en Afrique: du 19e siècle à nos jours. Paris: Karthala (pb £29.50 – 2 86537 946 9). 1999, 512 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 615-617
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Isabel Hofmeyr, The Portable Bunyan: a transnational history of The Pilgrim's Progress. Princeton: Princeton University Press (pb $22.95, £14.95 – 0 691 11656 3; hb US $65.00, £41.95 – 0 691 11655 5). 2004, 314 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 252-254
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Munyae Mulinge and Pempelani Mufune (eds), Debt Relief Initiatives and Poverty Alleviation: lessons from Africa. African Century Publications, no. 13. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa (pb R120.00, £25.95, US $42.95 – 0 7983 0170 8). 2003, 395 pp. (Distributed by African Books Collective, Oxford.)
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- 03 March 2011, p. 449
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Sean Stilwell, Paradoxes of Power: the Kano ‘Mamluks’ and male royal slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1804–1903. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann (hb $79.95 – 0 325 07041 5; pb $29.95 – 0 325 07040 7). 2004, 296 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 617-618
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Margaret J. Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa (eds), Women Writing Africa: volume 1–the southern region. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York (pb US $29.95, £25.99 – 1 55861 407 9; hb US $75.00, £64.99 – 1 55861 406 0). 2003, 554 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 254-255
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John Makum Mbaku and Suresh Chandra Saxena (eds), Africa at the Crossroads: between regionalism and globalization. Westport CT and London: Praeger (hb US $99.95, £56.99 – 0 275 98020 0). 2004, 466 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 450-452
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Trevor R. Getz, Slavery and Reform in West Africa: toward emancipation in nineteenth-century Senegal and the Gold Coast. Athens: Ohio University Press (pb £26.95 – 0 2814 1520 4). 2004, 257 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 619-620
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Bernth Lindfors (ed.), Africa Talks Back: interviews with anglophone African authors. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb US $29.95, £21.99 – 0 86543 966 4). 2002, 434 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 256-257
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Christopher Gray, Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa: southern Gabon c. 1850–1940. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press (hb $70.00 – 1 580 46048 8). 2002, 304 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 620-621
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Stephen John Stedman and Fred Tanner (eds), Refugee Manipulation: war, politics, and the abuse of humanitarianism. Washington DC: Brookings Institute Press (pb US $18.95 – 0 8157 8091 5; hb US $46.95 – 0 8157 8090 7). 2003, 224 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 452-453
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Anita Jacobson-Widding, Chapungu: the bird that never drops a feather. Male and female identities in an African society. Uppsala Studies in Cultural Anthropology 28. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis (pb no price given – 91 554 4638 8). 2000, 525 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 257-259
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Harri Englund and Francis B. Nyamnjoh (eds), Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa. London: Zed Books (pb £18.95, $28.50 – 1 84277 283 X; hb £55.00, US $85.00 – 1 84277 282 1). 2004, 283 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 453-455
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