Volume 41 - Issue 1 - April 1998
Geography, Environment, and Demography
Book Reviews
Jonathan Adams and Thomas McShane. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 282 pp. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper.
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Susanna Davies. Adaptable Livelihoods: Coping with Food Insecurity in the Malian Sahel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xxii + 335 pp. Maps. Tables. Diagrams. Graphs. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. - Siri Damman. Sécurité alimentaire et stratégies de maîtrise chez les pêcheurs du delta intérieur du fleuve Niger au Mali. Trans, from Norwegian by Yves Boutroue. Oslo: Lobo Grafisk as, Postboks, 1997. 154 pp. Maps. Tables. Charts. Notes. Bibliography. No price reported.
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Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xv + 344 pp. Index. Endnotes. $55.00 Cloth. $19.95. Paper.
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Health and Disease
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Jan Hoorweg, Dick Foeken, and Wijnand Klaver. Seasons and Nutrition at the Kenya Coast. Leiden: Leiden African Studies Centre, 1995. xi + 144 pp. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Tables. $38.95. Paper.
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Leon A. Bijlmakers, Mary Basset, and David M. Sanders Health and Structural Adjustment in Rural and Urban Zimbabwe. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Research Report No. 101, 1996. 78 pp. Bibliography. Tables. Figures. No price reported. Paper. - Sandra Wallman. Kampala Women Getting By: Wellbeing in the Time of AIDS. London: James Currey, 1996. 246 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Tables. Figures. No price reported. Paper.
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History
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Francis J. Elian Ali-Ogba: A History of Ogba People. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishing Co., 1995. Distributed by African Books Collective, Ltd., Oxford, xiii + 226 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $18.00. Paper.
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Emmanuel Akyeampong. Drink, Power and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1880 to Recent Times. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. xxii + 189 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $60. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.
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Dauril Alden. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, Its Empire, and Beyond. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. xxxi + 661 pp. Abbreviations. Appendices. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $75. Cloth.
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R. W Beachey. A History of East Africa, 1592–1902. London & New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1996. xiv + 464 pp. Index. Photographs. Notes. $59.50. Cloth.
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Human Rights
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Chris Dunton and Mai Palmberg Human Rights and Homosexuality in Southern Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikaininstituet, 06 1996. 41pp. Appendices. No price reported. Paper. - Beset by Contradictions: Islamization, Legal Reform and Human Rights in Sudan. New York and Washington, 07 1996. 98 pp. Appendices. No price reported. Paper.
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Gaim Kibreab. Ready and Waiting…but still waiting: Eritrean Refugees in Sudan and the Dilemma of Return. Uppsala: Life and Peace Institute, 1996. 222 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Tables. $18. Paper.
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Literature and the Arts
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Odile Cazenave. Femmes rebelles: Naissance d'un nouveau roman africain au féminin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996. 349 pp. No price reported.
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Veit Erlmann. Nightsong. Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa. Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxvi + 446 pp. Bibliography. Discography. Figures. Glossary. Index. Music examples. Photographs. No price reported. Paper. Videocassette available separately from the publisher.
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Laila Ibnlfassi and Nicki Hitchcott, eds. African Francophone Writing: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Berg, 1996. xl + 215 pp. Chronology. Index. Notes. $16.95. Paper.
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Karin Barber, John Collins, and Alain Ricard. West African Popular Theatre. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indian University Press and Oxford: James Currey, 1997. xix + 285 pp. Bibliography. Maps. Drawings. Photographs. No price reported. Paper.
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Politics
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Eghosa E Osaghae. Ethnicity, Class and the Struggle for Power in Liberia. Dakar: CODESRIA, 1996. vii + 122 pp. Bibliography. $18.00. Paper. - Emmanuel Dolo. Democracy versus Dictatorship. The Quest for Freedom and Justice in Africa's Oldest Republic—Liberia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996. 198 pp. Bibliography. Index. $39.00. Cloth.
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Paul A. Beckett and Crawford Young, eds. Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997. xiv + 450 pp. Index. Tables. $45.00. Cloth.
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Paul Rich and Richard Stubbs, eds. The Counter-Insurgent State: Guerrilla Warfare and State Building in the Twentieth Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 235 pp. Index. $59.95. Cloth.
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Okbazghi Yohannes. The United States and the Horn of Africa. An Analytical Study of Pattern and Process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 353 pp. $65. Cloth.
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Religion
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Pashington Obeng. Asante Catholicism. Religious and Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. xi + 243 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price reported.
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