Volume 59 - Issue 2 - September 2016
Contents
HISTORY
BOOK REVIEWS
Gérard Prunier and Éloi Ficquet, eds. Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia: Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi. London: Hurst, 2015. Abbreviations. Maps. Index. xvii + 521 pp. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781849042611.
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Chris Vaughan. Darfur: Colonial Violence, Sultanic Legacies & Local Politics, 1916–1956. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. xiv + 231 pp. Map. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-84701-111-4.
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Todd Cleveland. Diamonds in the Rough: Corporate Paternalism and African Professionalism on the Mines of Colonial Angola, 1917–1975. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. xvi + 289. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2134-5.
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Benedetta Rossi. From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxxiv + 364 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Note on Language, Names and Acronyms. Currency Conversion Rates. Glossary. Bibliography. Notes. Index. $99.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-107-11905-5.
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Jeanne Penvenne. Women, Migration and the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique, 1945–1975. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2015. xx + 281 pp. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Glossary. Sources and Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-184701282.
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Allison K. Shutt. Manners Make a Nation: Racial Etiquette in Southern Rhodesia, 1910–1963. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2015. xiv + 245 pp. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-58046-520-5.
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Grace Musila. A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. xvii + 216 pp. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781847011374.
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Ronald Aminzade. Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Tanzania. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xx + 424 pp. Acknowledgments. Map of Tanzania. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107044388.
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Clive Gabay. Exploring an African Civil Society: Development and Democracy in Malawi, 1994–2014. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2015. vii + 123 pp. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-7391-8434-9.
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Cedric de Coning, Linnéa Gelot, and Jonh Karlsrud, eds. The Future of African Peace Operations: From the Janjaweed to Boko Haram. London: Zed Books, 2016. xiv + 154 pp. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. $39.95 Paper. ISBN 978-1-7860-708-2.
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Elizabeth Holzer. The Concerned Women of Buduburam: Refugee Activists and Humanitarian Dilemmas. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015. viii + 200 pp. Bibliography. Index. Paper. $21.00. ISBN: 978-0-8014-5690-9.
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LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
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Mensah Adinkrah. Witchcraft, Witches and Violence in Ghana. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015. xii + 325 pp. Maps. Photographs and Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $110.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-78238-560-8.
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GENDER
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Aili Mari Tripp. Women and Power in Postconflict Africa. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxvi + 292 pp. Maps. Charts. Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. $99.99. Paper. $29.99. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-107-11557-6.
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Ousseina D. Alidou. Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation and Social Change. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. xviii + 225 pp. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0299294649. - Alice J. Kang. Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xvi + 241 pp. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $27.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-0816692187.
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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY
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Benjamin Gardner. Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. xxxii +210 pp. Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8203-4508-6.
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John Beardsley, ed. Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2016. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture 37. Distributed by Harvard University Press. 486 pp. 141 color illustrations, 27 halftones, 6 line illustrations, 6 tables. Bibliography. List of contributors. Index. $60.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0884024101.
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HEALTH AND DISEASE
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Emmanuel Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill, and Arthur Kleinman, eds. The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. ix + 349 pp. Contributors. Index. $35.00 Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-253-01293-7.
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James C. McCann. The Historical Ecology of Malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the Spirits. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. xiv + 196 pp. List of illustrations. Acknowledgments. Afterword. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780821421475.
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RELIGION
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J. J. Carney. Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xv + 343 pp. Timeline. Glossary. Index. $78.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0199982271.
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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, AND ARTS
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Cécile Fromont. The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. For the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia. xviii + 328 pp. 37 color plates, 3 drawings, 89 halftones. Map. Notes. Index. $45.00. Cloth. $44.99. E-book. ISBN: 978-1-4696-1871-5.
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