Volume 59 - December 2016
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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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Mohammed Hassen. The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, 1300–1700. Woodbridge, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. xx + 379 pp. Oromo Glossary. Spelling of Ethiopian Names. Maps. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978–1847011176.
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Andrew Dosunmu, director. Restless City. 2011. 80 minutes. English and French. United States. African-American Film Festival Releasing Movement. $8.59.
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- 05 April 2016, pp. 232-234
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Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell, eds. The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2016. xiii + 476 pp. Illustrations. Index. $27.95/£18.99. Paper. ISNB: 978-0-8233-5992-0. $99.95/£69.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0-8233-7496-1. $27.95/£17.99. E-book. ISBN: 978-0-8223-7496-1.
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Kunle Afolayan, director. October 1. 2014. 115 minutes. English, Nigerian Pidgin, Igbo Yoruba, and Hausa, with Yoruba/English subtitles. Nigeria. GMEDIA. $2.00.
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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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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Kate Baldwin. The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xv + 237 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.99. Paper. ISBN 978-1-107-56644-6.
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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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- 30 August 2016, pp. 270-272
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Jim Chuchu, director. Stories of Our Lives. 2014. 60 minutes. Swahili and English, with English subtitles. Kenya. The Nest, with UHAI and Big World Cinema. No price reported.
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- 05 April 2016, pp. 236-237
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Hermon Hailay, director. Price of Love. (YäFïqïr Wagaw). 2015. 99 minutes. Amharic. Ethiopia. International distribution limited to film festivals.
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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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- 30 August 2016, pp. 272-274
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Mattia Fumanti. The Politics of Distinction: African Elites From Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town. Canon Pyon, U.K.: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2016. vii + 311 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $115.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1-907774-46-1.
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Brent McCusker, William G. Moseley, and Maano Ramutsindela. Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. ix + 214 pp. References. Index. $78.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9781442207165.
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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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DOCUMENTARY
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Manthia Diawara, director. Edouard Glissant: One World in Relation. 2010. 50 minutes. Third World Newsreel. French with English subtitles. No price reported. www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1299.
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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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- 30 August 2016, pp. 275-277
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
ASR volume 59 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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- 05 April 2016, pp. f1-f7
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ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
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Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens, eds. Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy. London: Zed Books, 2016. In association with the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, Sweden. 186 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. £24.99/$39.95. Paper. ISBN: 9781783606283.
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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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