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Volume 52 - September 2009

Book Review

Brad Weiss. Street Dreams and Hip Hop Barbershops: Global Fantasy in Urban Tanzania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xii + 263 pp. Appendix. Photographs. Notes. References. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Brian Larkin. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xi + 313 pp. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

Nicolas Argenti. The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xviii + 362 pp. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Reference List. Index. $70.00. Cloth. $28.00. Paper.

Erik Bähre. Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township. Afrika-Studiecentrum Series. Leiden: Brill, 2007. x + 194 pp. Photographs. Figures. Glossary. Notes. References. Index. $54.00. Paper.

Holger Stoecker. Afrikawissenschaften in Berlin von 1919 bis 1945; Zur Geschichte und Topographie eines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerkes. Stuttgart: Steiner, 2008. Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv, Band 25. 359 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. €49. Cloth.

Sam Moyo. African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State: Contradictions of Neo-liberal Land Reform. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2008. Working Paper Series, vii + 159 pp. Boxes. Tables. Notes. References. $14.95. Paper.

Ferdinand de Jong. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xi + 228 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Plates. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth.

Tatah Mentan. Held Together by Pins: Liberal Democracy Under Siege in Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. xiii + 307 pp. References. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Ruth Finnegan. The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Oxford: James Currey; Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007. xiv + 258 pp. References. Index. $63.00. Cloth. $25.00. Paper.

Edith Bruder. The Black Jews of Africa: History, Religion, Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xii + 283 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

Jay Straker. Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. x + 264 pp. Map. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Linda J. Beck. Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientelist Democracy in Senegal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xiii + 280 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth.

Diana Jeater. Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the “Native Mind” in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1930. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2007. Social History of Africa series, xxi + 273 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $94.95. Cloth. $38.75. Paper.

Makau Mutua. Kenya's Quest For Democracy: Taming Leviathan. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. Change and Challenge in African Politics series, x + 331 pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth.

Henning Melber, ed. Transitions in Namibia: Which Changes for Whom? Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007. 262 pp. Tables. Graphs. Notes. References. $37.50. Paper.

Priscilla M. Shilaro. A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, African Land Rights in Kenya, and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930–1952. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2008. xxi + 296 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. $39.00. Paper.

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