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Volume 52 - September 2009

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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.

Jan Bender Shetler. Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present. New African Histories series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xiii + 378 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Minabere Ibelema. The African Press, Civic Cynicism, and Democracy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, xvi + 279 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $79.95. Cloth.

Lisa Ann Richey. Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. xiii + 269 pp. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95. Cloth

Richard Joseph and Alexandra Gillies, eds. Smart Aid for African Development. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. xiv + 306 pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $24.50. Paper.

Elena Bertoncini Zúbková, Mikhail D. Gromov, Said A.M. Khamis, and Kyallo Wadi Wamitila. Outline of Swahili Literature: Prose Fiction and Drama. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Second Edition, viii + 500 pp. Bibliography. Index. $185.00 Cloth.

Matthew Engelke. A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Anthropology of Christianity series, vol. 2. xv + 304 pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. References. Index. $21.95. Paper.

James Zug. The Guardian: The History of South Africa's Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press; Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2007. vi + 371 pp. Photographs. Notes. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Mildred Mortimer. Writing from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women's Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2007. xvi + 207 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

John McIlwaine. Africa: A Guide to Reference Material. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishing, 2007. liv + 608 pp. Index. $260. Cloth.

Markku Hokkanen. Medicine and Scottish Missionaries in the Northern Malawi Region, 1875–1930: Quests for Health in a Colonial Society. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007. vii + 647 pp. Maps. Notes. References. Index. $149.95. Cloth.

Hans M. Zell, with an introductory essay by Henry Chakava. Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography. 3rd edition. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishing, 2008. xlx + 687 pp. Bibliography. Index. $260.00. Cloth and online.

Debra L. Klein. Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists. Culture Brokers, and Fans. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. xxxv + 220 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. $18.00. Paper.

Peter D. McDonald. The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xvi + 416 pp. Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Postscript. Notes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

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Edna G. Bay. Asen, Ancestors and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xiv + 186 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $40.00. Cloth.

Alisa LaGamma and Christine Giuntini. The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 72 pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. $19.95. Paper.

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ASR volume 52 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

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Victoria L. Rovine. Bogolan: Shaping Culture through Cloth in Contemporary Mali. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Second edition, xiv + 179 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Bob W. White. Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. xxiii + 300 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Maps. Figures. Notes. Discography. Index. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

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