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Volume 52 - September 2009

Book Review

Lee Ann Fujii. Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009. xi + 212 pp. List of Abbreviations. Maps. Notes. Dramatis personae. Glossary. References. Index. $29.95. Cloth.

Daniela Kroslak. The French Betrayal of Rwanda. Bloomingon: Indiana University Press, 2008. xvi + 330 pp. Notes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Elizabeth Colson. Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century. Lusaka, Zambia: Bookworld Publishers, 2006. Distributed in the U.S. by Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, xii + 305 pp. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Peter M. Lewis. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2007. Interests, Identities, and Institutions in Comparative Politics series, xi + 345 pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Nigel Watt. Burundi: Biography of a Small African Country. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xiii + 234 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. $50.00. Cloth.

Jean A. P. Clement and Shanaka J. Peiris, eds. Post-Stabilization Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Mozambique. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 2008. viii + 397 pp. Maps. Figures. Charts. Notes. Abbreviations and Acronyms. Bibliographies. $28.00. Paper.

Jacob Olupona and Terry Rey, eds. Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xii + 609 pp. Illustrations. Notes. References. Glossary. Contributors. Bibliography. Index. $85.00 Cloth. $34.95. Paper.

Blessings Chinsinga. Democracy, Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction in Malawi. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007. Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung series, vol. 15. 233 pp. Map. Tables. Figures. References. €29,80. Paper.

Christopher L. Miller. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xvi + 571 pp. Abbreviations, llustrations. Figures. Photographs. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $99.95. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.

Kenneth Good. Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana. Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2009. African Issues Series. Distributed in the U.S. by Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, N.Y. x + 182 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendix. $27.95. Paper.

Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. African Expressive Cultures series, xviii + 381 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.

Michael Jennings. Surrogates of the State: NGOs, Development, and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2007. xxi + 243 pp. Bibliography. $50.00. Cloth.

Peter Rosset, Raj Patel, and Michael Courville, eds. Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform. Oakland, Calif.: Food First Books, 2006. xv + 380 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $21.95. Paper.

Loren B. Landau. The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid and Transformation in Western Tanzania. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2008. ix + 182 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper

Léon Verbeek, ed. Les arts plastiques de l'Afrique contemporaine. 60 ans d'histoire à Lubumbashi, R-D Congo. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. Mémoires lieux de savoir; Archive congolaise. 334 pp. €32. Paper.

Nicholas Waddell and Phil Clark, eds. Courting Conflict? Justice, Peace and the ICC in Africa. London: Royal African Society, 2008. ii + 80 pp. List of Abbreviations. Notes. No price reported.

Bolaji Campbell. Painting for the Gods: Art and Aesthetics of Yoruba Religious Murals. Trenton, N.J.: African World Press, 2008. xiv + 222 pp. Illustrations. Glossary. References. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Kenda Mutongi. Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. xv + 256 pp. Photographs. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $20.00. Paper.

Ken Harrow. Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Filmography. Bibliography. Index, xvii + 269 pp. $65.00. Cloth. $25.95. Paper.

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