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Volume 79 - May 2009

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Alcinda Honwana and Filip de Boeck (Eds), Makers and Breakers: children and youth in postcolonial Africa.Oxford: James Currey (pb £16.95 – 978 0 8525 5434 0). 2005, 320 pp.

Patricia Tang, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof percussionists of Senegal. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press (pb $27.95 – 978 1 59213 420 5; hb $79.50 – 978 1 59213 419 9). 2007, 209 pp.

José A. Saavedra Casco, Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili poetry as historical source.Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb $29.95 – 978 1 5922 1378 8). 2007, 336 pp.

David Bellin Coplan, In Township Tonight! South Africa's black city music and theatre(second edition). Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (pb $26.00 – 978 0 22611 567 2; hb $67.50 – 978 0 22611 566 5). 2008, 472 pp.

David Mcdermott Hughes, From Enslavement to Environmentalism: politics on a Southern African frontier. Seattle WA and London: University of Washington Press (pb £13.99 – 978 0 29598 840 5; hb £31.00 – 978 0 29598 590 9). 2006, xvii + 288 pp.

Chloe Campbell, Race and Empire: eugenics in colonial Kenya. Manchester: Manchester University Press (hb £50 – 978 0 71907 160 7). 2007, 256 pp.

Parker Shipton, Mortgaging the Ancestors: ideologies of attachment in Africa.New Haven CT and London: Yale University Press (hb $55.00 – 978 0 3001 1602 1). 2009, 352 pp.

Roman Loimeier and Rüdiger Seesemann (eds), The Global Worlds of the Swahili: interfaces of Islam, identity and space in nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Africa. Berlin: Lit Verlag (hb €34.90 – 3 8258 9769 9). 2006, 424 pp.

Stephan F. Miescher, Making Men in Ghana.Bloomington and Indianapolis IN: Indiana University Press (pb $24.95 – 978 0 25321 786 8). 2005, 324 pp.

Elizabeth Colson, Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century.Lusaka: Bookworld Publishers (pb £24.95 – 978 9 9822 4045 1). 2006, 316 pp.

Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelson (eds), Black and White in Colour: African history on screen. Oxford: James Currey (£14.95 – 978 1 84701 522 8). 2007, 384 pp.

John Comaroff, Jean Comaroff and Deborah James (eds), Picturing a Colonial Past: the African photographs of Isaac Schapera. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb $60–978 0 22611 411 8; pb $25 – 978 0 22611 412 5). 2007, 234 pp.

Richard C. Keller, Colonial Madness: psychiatry in French North Africa.Chicago IL: The University of Chicago Press (hb $70.00 – 978 0 2264 2972 4; pb $25.00 – 978 0 2264 2973 1). 2007, 320 pp.

Godwin R. Murunga and Shadrack W. Nasong'o (eds), Kenya: the struggle for democracy. London: Zed Books (pb £19.99 – 978 1 84277 857 9). 2007, 344 pp. - Kwame Boafo-Arthur (ed.), Ghana: one decade of the liberal state. London: Zed Books (pb £19.99 – 978 1 84277 829 6). 2007, 303 pp.

Richard Fardon, Fusions: masquerades and thought style east of the Niger-Benue confluence, West Africa.London: Saffron Books (hb £45.00 – 978 1 8728 4360 5). 2007, 207 pp.

Pierre Barrot (Ed.), Nollywood: the video phenomenon in Nigeria. Oxford: James Currey (pb £14.95 – 978 1 84701 504 4; hb £45.00 – 978 1 84701 505 1). 2008, 147 pp.

Ernest J. Wilson and Kelvin R. Wong (Eds), Negotiating the Net in Africa: the politics of internet diffusion. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers (hb $55 – 978 1 58826 421 3). 2006, 238 pp.

Michael Janis, Africa after Modernism: transitions in literature, media and philosophy.London and New York NY: Routledge (hb £65.00 – 978 0 4159 5723 6). 2008, 280 pp.

Jean-Pierre Rossie, Toys, Play, Culture and Society: an anthropological approach with reference to North Africa and the Sahara.Stockholm: SITREC (pb €47 – 978 9 1974 8113 7). 1995, 256 pp. + CD.

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