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Volume 51 - Issue 1 - April 2008

Book Review

Ruth Iyob and Gilbert Khadiagala. Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2006. 224 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $15.95. Paper.

Stephen Ellis. The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War. 2nd edition. New York: New York University Press, 2007. xxxiii + 350 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Annexes. Bibliography. Index. $24.00. Paper.

Preben Kaarsholm, ed. Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey; Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2006. xi + 208 pp. Notes. References. Index. $24.00. Paper.

Ahmad A. Sikainga and Ousseina Alidou, eds. Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2006. vii + 251 pp. Figures. Tables. Figures. Notes. Notes on Contributors. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Michael Amoah. Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana. International Library of Africa Studies 19. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. vii + 248 pp. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95. Cloth.

Tuulikki Pietilä. Gossip, Markets and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro. Women in Africa and the Diaspora series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. xi + 241 pp. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

Samir Amin. A Life Looking Forward: Memoirs of an Independent Marxist. Translated by Patrick Camiller. London and New York: Zed Books, 2006. 266 pp. Notes. Index. $89.95. Cloth. $28.50. Paper.

Andrew Mushita and Carol B. Thompson. Biopiracy of Biodiversity: Global Exchange as Enclosure. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. xiv + 330 pp. Map. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Didier Fassin. When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa. Translated by Amy Jacobs and Gabrielle Varro. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xxiv + 365 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $21.95. Paper.

Benjamin F. Soares, ed. Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. Islam in Africa. Volume 6. ix + 308 pp. Tables. Notes. Index. $125.00. Cloth.

Laurent Fourchard, André Mary, and René Otayek, eds. Entreprises religieuses transnationales en Afrique de l'Ouest. Hommes et Sociétés series. Paris: Éditions Karthala; Ibadan: IFRA, 2005. 537 pp. Footnotes. Tables. Bibliography. €32. Paper.

Brigid M. Sackey. New Directions in Gender and Religion: The Changing Status of Women in African Independent Churches. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. viii + 219 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00. Cloth.

Ogbu U. Kalu. Power, Poverty and Prayer: The Challenges of Poverty and Pluralism in African Christianity, 1960–1996. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2006. xxvi + 258 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Matthews A. Ojo. The End-Time Army: Charismatic Movements in Modern Nigeria. Religion in Contemporary Africa series. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2006. xxii + 292 pp. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Sources and Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Hermione Harris. Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. vii + 294 pp. Charts. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95. Cloth.

Miranda K. Hassett. Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiv + 295 pp. Figures. Notes. Index. $39.50. Cloth.

Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi. The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945. The Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945 series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xxii + 194 pp. References. Selected Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth.

Reinhard Sander, Bernth Lindfors, and Lynette Citron, eds. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2006. xxvi + 445 pp. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.

James Ogude and Joyce Nyairo, eds. Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. vii + 337 pp. Photographs. Cartoons. Notes. References. Index. $29.95. Paper.

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