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Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton. A History of Nigeria. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xl + 329 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. $24.99. Paper.

Solofo Randrianja and Stephen Ellis. Madagascar: A Short History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. viii + 316 pp. Maps. Pictures. Notes. Appendixes. Acronyms. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $64.00. Cloth. $24.00. Paper.

JoAnn McGregor, Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier. Oxford, U.K.: James Currey, 2009. Distributed in the U.S. by Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, N.Y. x + 237 pp. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth.

Jonathan Derrick. Africa's Agitators: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. x + 483 pp. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00. Cloth.

Beverly Lindsay, ed. Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii + 199 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $35.00. Cloth.

Christian Lund. Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiii + 200 pp. Maps. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $80.00. Cloth.

Abiodun Alao. Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora series, xix + 353 pp. Map. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth.

J. N. C. Hill. Identity in Algerian Politics: The Legacy of Colonial Rule. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. vii + 223 pp. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth.

Terry Pickard. Combat Medic: An Australian's Eyewitness Account of the Kibeho Massacre. Newport, NSW, Australia: Big Sky Publishing, 2008. 192 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Glossary. $19.95. Paper.

Satu Riutta. Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education. Boulder, Colo.: First Forum Press, 2009. xiv + 225 pp. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. List of Acronyms. Interviews. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $59.95. Cloth.

Giorgio Blundo and Pierre-Yves Le Meur, eds. The Governance of Daily Life in Africa: Ethnographic Explorations of Public and Collective Services. Leiden: Brill, 2009. African Social Studies series, vol. 19. x + 347 pp. Tables. Map. Notes. Bibliography. About the Contributors. Index. $108.00. Paper.

Rebecca Davies. Afrikaners in the New South Africa: Identity Politics in a Globalised Economy. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2009. International Library of African Studies, 23 vii + 200 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $82.00. Cloth.

Messay Kebede. Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960–1974. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2008. xi + 237 pp. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth.

Tricia Redeker Hepner. Soldiers, Martyrs, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Ethnography of Political Violence series, xiv + 249 pp. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. Maps. $55.00. Cloth.

Jens Meierhenrich. The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652–2000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xvii + 385 pp. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth.

John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond. Darfur and the Crime of Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society series, xxiv + 271 pp. Glossary. List of Characters. Maps. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $25.99. Paper.

Walter C. Soderlund, E. Donald Briggs, Kai Hildebrandt, and Abdel Salam Sidahmed. Humanitarian Crises and Intervention: Reassessing the Impact of the Media. Sterling, Va: Kumarian Press, 2008. xiv + 335 pp. Tables. Maps. Notes. About the Contributors. References. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, with Anthony P. Lombardo. Reparations to Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 264 pp. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

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