HISTORY
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Mohammed Hassen. The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, 1300–1700. Woodbridge, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. xx + 379 pp. Oromo Glossary. Spelling of Ethiopian Names. Maps. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1847011176.
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Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell, eds. The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. xiii + 476 pp. Illustrations. Index. $27.95/£18.99. Paper. ISNB: 978-0-8233-5992-0. $99.95/£69.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8233-7496-1. $27.95/£17.99. E-book. ISBN: 978-0-8223-7496-1.
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Kate Baldwin. The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xv + 237 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.99. Paper. ISBN 978-1-107-56644-6.
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Mattia Fumanti. The Politics of Distinction: African Elites From Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town. Canon Pyon, U.K.: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2016. vii + 311 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $115.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-907774-46-1.
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Brent McCusker, William G. Moseley, and Maano Ramutsindela. Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. ix + 214 pp. References. Index. $78.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781442207165.
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ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
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Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens, eds. Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy. London: Zed Books, 2016. In association with the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, Sweden. 186 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £24.99/$39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781783606283.
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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY
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Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, and Dzodzi Tsikata, eds. Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. xx + 204 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-84701-130-5.
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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Casper Andersen. British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914. London: Routledge, 2011. Notes. Works Cited. Indexes. xxvii + 229 pp. $150.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1848931183.
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RELIGION
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Robert M. Baum. West Africa’s Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. x + 301 pp. Photographs and Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-253-01767-3.
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, CINEMA, AND ARTS
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Jade L. Miller. Nollywood Central. London: British Film Institute, 2016. vii + 175 pp. Figures and Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-84457-691-3.
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Kofi Agawu. The African Imagination in Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 372 pp. Photographs. Discography. Videography. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-19-026321-8.
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MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHY
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Galawdewos. The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman. Translated and edited by Wendy Laura Belcher and Michael Kleiner. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. v + 500 pp. Maps. Photographs. Index. $39.95. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-691-16421-2.
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Herman J. Cohen. The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen, and Father Figures. Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing, 2015. xiii + 205 pp. Index. $24.00. Paper. ISBN: 9780986435300.
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FILM REVIEW ESSAYS
TIMBUKTU—THE CONTROVERSY - Abderrahmane Sissako, director. Timbuktu. Original title: Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux. 2014. 97 minutes. In French, Bambara, Songhay, Tamashek, Arabic, and English. France/Mauritania. Worso Films.
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BEYOND VIOLENCE IN ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO’S TIMBUKTU - Abderrahmane Sissako, director. Timbuktu. Original title: Timbuktu, le chagrin des oiseaux. 2014. 97 minutes. In French, Bambara, Songhay, Tamashek, Arabic, and English. France/Mauritania. Worso Films.
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WHITEWASHED AFRICAN FILM SETS: TAYLOR SWIFT’S WILDEST DREAMS AND KING SOLOMON’S MINES - Joseph Kahn, director. Taylor Swift: Wildest Dreams. 2015. 4 minutes. English. World-Wide Release: Big Machine Records. - Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton, directors. King Solomon’s Mines. 1950. 103 minutes. English. U.S., U.K., Belgium, France, West Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, Argentina: MGM.
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BLURRING BOUNDARIES: NOTES ON ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE HOLY HUSTLERS OF BOTSWANA - Richard Werbner, director. Holy Hustlers. 2009. 53 minutes. English subtitles. United Kingdom. International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. No price reported. - Richard Werbner, director. Counterpoint One. 2011. 37 minutes. United Kingdom. Royal Anthropological Institute. No price reported. - Richard Werbner, director. Counterpoint Botswana. 2011. 45 minutes. United Kingdom. International Centre for Contemporary Cultural Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. No price reported.
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FEATURE FILMS
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Uduak Obong-Patrick, director. Just Not Married. 101 minutes. English/Nigerian Pidgin (with English subtitles). Judith Audu Productions/Blacreek Pictures. 2016. No price reported.
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Dan Muchina, director. Monsoons over the Moon. 2015. 8 minutes (part 1) and 10 minutes (part 2). English and Swahili (no subtitles). Kenya, YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q72Mmwhza-k (Part 1). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMFRGv55ggQ (Part 2).
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Sékou Traoré, director. L’oeil du cyclone (Eye of the Storm). 2015. 104 minutes. French. Burkina Faso. Les Films d’Avalon, Abissia Productions, Vynavy. No price reported.
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