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Volume 52 - Issue 3 - December 2009

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Gebru Tareke. The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xx + 437 pp. List of Abbreviations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Map. $45.00. Cloth.

John M. Kabia. Humanitarian Intervention and Conflict Resolution in West Africa: From ECOMOG to ECOMIL. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. xiv + 219 pp. References. Index. $99.95. Cloth.

Jeremy Keenan. The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa. London: Pluto Press, 2009. Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, New York, N.Y. xviii + 278 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.

René Lemarchand. The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. xv + 327 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Index. $59.95. Cloth.

Jean-Paul Kimonyo. Rwanda. Un génocide populaire. Paris: Karthala, 2008. 535 pp. List of Abbreviations. Maps. Bibliography. Appendixes. €29. Paper.

Lee Ann Fujii. Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 212 pp. List of Abbreviations. Maps. Notes. Dramatis personae. Glossary. References. Index. $29.95. Cloth.

Daniela Kroslak. The French Betrayal of Rwanda. Bloomingon: Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi + 330 pp. Notes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Nigel Watt. Burundi: Biography of a Small African Country. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xiii + 234 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $50.00. Cloth.

Kenneth Good. Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2009. African Issues Series. Distributed in the U.S. by Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, N.Y. x + 182 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $27.95. Paper.

Peter Rosset, Raj Patel, and Michael Courville, eds. Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform. Oakland, Calif.: Food First Books, 2006. xv + 380 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $21.95. Paper.

Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark, eds. Courting Conflict? Justice, Peace and the ICC in Africa. London: Royal African Society, 2008. ii + 80 pp. List of Abbreviations. Notes. No price reported.

Kenda Mutongi. Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. xv + 256 pp. Photographs. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $20.00. Paper.

Richard Joseph and Alexandra Gillies, eds. Smart Aid for African Development. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. xiv + 306 pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $24.50. Paper.

Elena Bertoncini Zúbková, Mikhail D. Gromov, Said A.M. Khamis, and Kyallo Wadi Wamitila. Outline of Swahili Literature: Prose Fiction and Drama. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Second Edition, viii + 500 pp. Bibliography. Index. $185.00 Cloth.

Mildred Mortimer. Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. xvi + 207 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

Peter D. McDonald. The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi + 416 pp. Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Postscript. Notes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

Alisa LaGamma and Christine Giuntini. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 72 pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. $19.95. Paper.

Victoria L. Rovine. Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Second edition, xiv + 179 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

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