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Volume 52 - Issue 1 - April 2009

Book Review

Andre Le Sage, ed. African Counterterrorism Cooperation: Assessing Regional and Subregional Initiatives. Washington, D.C.: National Defense University Press and Potomac Books, 2007. x + 229 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $25.00. Paper.

Seifudein Adem and Abdul S. Bemath, eds. The Politics of War and the Culture of Violence: North-South-Essays by Ali A. Mazrui. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2008. xiv + 320pp. Endnotes. References. Appendixes. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Sverker Finnström. Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xi + 286 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Acronyms. Figures. References. Index. $22.95. Paper. $79.95. Cloth.

Robert Krueger and Kathleen Tobin Krueger. From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. xviii + 308 pp. Photographs. Notes. Index. $26.00. Cloth.

Stephen Kinzer. A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. xiii + 380 pp. Map. Bibliography. Index. $28.99. Cloth.

Carina Tertsakian. Le Château: The Lives of Prisoners in Rwanda. London: Arves Books, 2008. 499 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. £20. Paper.

Peter M. Lewis. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics series, xi + 345 pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Jean A. P. Clement and Shanaka J. Peiris, eds. Post-Stabilization Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Mozambique. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 2008. viii + 397 pp. Maps. Figures. Charts. Notes. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Bibliographies. $28.00. Paper.

Blessings Chinsinga. Democracy, Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction in Malawi. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007. Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung series, vol. 15. 233 pp. Map. Tables. Figures. References. €29,80. Paper.

Michael Jennings. Surrogates of the State: NGOs, Development, and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2007. xxi + 243 pp. Bibliography. $50.00. Cloth.

Loren B. Landau. The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid and Transformation in Western Tanzania. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2008. ix + 182 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper

Jan Bender Shetler. Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present. New African Histories series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xiii + 378 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Lisa Ann Richey. Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. xiii + 269 pp. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95. Cloth

Matthew Engelke. A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Anthropology of Christianity series, vol. 2. xv + 304 pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. $21.95. Paper.

Markku Hokkanen. Medicine and Scottish Missionaries in the Northern Malawi Region, 1875–1930: Quests for Health in a Colonial Society. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. vii + 647 pp. Maps. Notes. References. Index. $149.95. Cloth.

Debra L. Klein. Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists. Culture Brokers, and Fans. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. xxxv + 220 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. $18.00. Paper.

Edna G. Bay. Asen, Ancestors and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv + 186 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00. Cloth.

Bob W. White. Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xxiii + 300 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Maps. Figures. Notes. Discography. Index. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

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