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.
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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.
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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.
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- 18 October 2013, pp. 174-176
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Diana K. Davis. Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Series in Ecology and History, xv + 296 pp. Photographs. Figures. Maps. Color plates. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.
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- 18 October 2013, pp. 169-170
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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.
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- 18 October 2013, pp. 196-197
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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.
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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.
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- 18 October 2013, pp. 177-178
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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.
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- 18 October 2013, pp. 197-198
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- 18 October 2013, pp. 172-173
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Benjamin N. Lawrance. Locality, Mobility, and “Nation”: Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900–1960. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora series, xv + 288 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth.
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James R. Brennan, Andrew Burton, and Yusuf Lawi, eds. Dar es Salaam: Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers. In association with the British Institute in East Africa, Nairobi, 2007. Distributed in the U.S. by Michigan State University Press, vii + 279 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Index. $34.95. Paper.
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Kjetil Tronvoll. War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia: The Making of Enemies and Allies in the Horn of Africa. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2009. Eastern Africa Series. Distributed in the U.S. by Boydell & Brewer, Inc., Rochester, N.Y. xiv + 239 pp. Selected Glossary. List of Acronyms. List of Official Interviews. References. Index. Notes. $80.00. Cloth.
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Henning Melber, ed. Transitions in Namibia: Which Changes for Whom? Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007. 262 pp. Tables. Graphs. Notes. References. $37.50. Paper.
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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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- 18 October 2013, pp. 203-205
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