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Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar, Worlds of Power: religious thought and political practice in Africa. London: C. Hurst & Company (pb £16.50 – 1 85065 734 3; hb £45.00 – 1 85065 735 1). 2004, 263 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 259-261
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Ruth Watson, ‘Civil Disorder is the Disease of Ibadan’: chieftaincy and civic culture in a Yoruba City. Oxford and Athens: James Currey and Ohio University Press (pb $22.95 – 0 8214 1451 8). 2003, xii +180 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 621-623
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Patrick O. Alila and Poul Ove Pedersen (eds), Negotiating Social Space: East African micro enterprises. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press (pb US $29.95, £21.99 – 0 86543 964 8; hb US $89.95 – 0 8654 3963 X). 2001, 353 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 261-263
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Frederick Cooper, Africa Since 1940: the past of the present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pb US $19.00, £14.95 – 0 521 77600 7). 2002, 216 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 623-624
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Harri Englund (ed.), A Democracy of Chameleons: politics and culture in the new Malawi. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute (pb 220 kr, £16.95, €22.00 – 91 7106 499 0). 2002, 208 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 455-457
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Michael Jackson, In Sierra Leone. Durham: Duke University Press (pb £15.50 – 0 8223 3313). 2004, 226 pp. - Talabi Aisie Lucan, The Life and Times of Madam Ella Koblo Kulama. Freetown: SLAWI (available from African Books Collective, Oxford) (pb £12.95 – 1 904 85534 2). 2004, 66 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 624-625
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Janet Roitman, Fiscal Disobedience: an anthropology of economic regulation in Central Africa. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (pb US $15.95, £12.95 – 0 691 11870 1; hb US $59.50, £38.95 – 0 691 11869 8). 2004, 216 pp.
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Daniel Mkude, Brian Cooksey and Lisbeth Levey, Higher Education in Tanzania: a case study. Oxford: James Currey (pb £9.95 – 0 85255 425 7); Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota. 2003, pp. 114.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 263-264
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Catherine Boone, Political Topographies of the African State: territorial authority and institutional choice. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press (pb £19.99, US $28.99 – 0 521 53264 7; hb £50.00 – 0 521 534164 7, US $75.00 – 0 521 82557 1). 2003, 405 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 459-461
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W. Hueva, Media and Resistance Politics: the alternative press in Namibia, 1960–1990. Basel: P. Schlettwein Publishing, Basel Namibia Studies Series 6 (pb £25.00 – 3 908193 10 9). 2001.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 626-627
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Henning Melber (ed.), Re-examining Liberation in Namibia: political culture since independence. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (pb £15.95 – 91 7106 516 4). 2003, 149 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 627-629
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Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh and Will Kymlicka (eds), Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa. Oxford: James Currey (pb £18.95 – 0 85255 860 0; hb £50.00 – 0 85255 861 9); Athens: Ohio University Press (pb US $28.95 – 0 8214 1570 0; hb US $59.95 – 0 8214 1569 7). 2004, 336 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 461-462
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Robert Vicat Turrell, White Mercy: a study of the death penalty in South Africa. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers (hb £53.99 – 0 325 07126 8). 2004, xii +281 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 630-631
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Tony Hodges, Angola: anatomy of an oil state. Oxford: James Currey (pb £12.95 – 0 85255 874 0). 2004, 236 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 463-464
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Belinda Bozzoli, Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for International Africa Institute (pb £16.95 – 0 7486 1941 0). 2004, viii and 326 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 631-632
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James Suzman, ‘Things from the Bush’: a contemporary history of the Omaheke Bushmen. With an introduction by Robert J. Gordon. Basel Namibia Studies Series 5. Basel: Schlettwein Publishing (hb CHF 48.00 – 3 908193 06 0). 2000, 191 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 464-465
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T. M. Maliyamkono and F. E. Kanyongolo (eds), When Political Parties Clash. Dar es Salaam: Tema Publishers Company Ltd (pb £24.95 – 9987 25 035 1). 2003, x +319 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 632-634
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Tatah Mentan, Dilemmas of Weak States: Africa and transnational terrorism in the twenty-first century. Aldershot: Ashgate (hb £47.50 – 0 7546 4200 3). 2004, 396 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 634-635
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Oystein H. Rolandsen, Guerrilla Government: political changes in the southern Sudan during the 1990s. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (pb SEK200 – 91 7106 537 7). 2005, 201 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 635-637
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Paul Nugent, Africa Since Independence. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £52.50 – 0 333 68272; pb £17.99 – 0 333 68273). 2004, 620 pp.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 637-638
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