Volume 57 - December 2014
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Philip E. Muehlenbeck. Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ix + 333 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth.
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Michael Bollig, Michael Schnegg, and Hans-Peter Wotzka, eds. Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future. New York: Berghahn, 2013. xviii + 525 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $99.00. Cloth.
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION - Leonardo R. Arriola. Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xxiii + 301 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Abbreviations. Appendixes. References. $30.99. Paper.
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Minkah Makalani. In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. xviii + 309 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper. - Hakim Adi. Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919–1939. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2013. xxvi + 445 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper.
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Scott M. Youngstedt. Surviving with Dignity: Hausa Communities of Niamey, Niger. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 2013. xv + 226 pp. List of Photos. List of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. About the Author. $85.00. Cloth.
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Craig Phelan, ed. Trade Unions in West Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Trade Unions Past, Present and Future, Volume7. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011. 282pp. Index. Notes on Contributors. $66.95. Paper.
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ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT - Morten Jerven. Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. Cornell Studies in Political Economy, 2013. xx + 187 pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Tables. Charts. $65.00. Cloth. $22.95. Paper.
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Cherry Leonardi. Dealing With Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2013. xvi + 253 pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $80.00, £45.00. Cloth.
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Michael Brett. Approaching African History. Oxford: James Currey, 2013. xi + 356 pp. List of Maps. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth.
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Andrew Banks and Leslie Banks, eds. Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiv + 354 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. List of Contributors, Index. $95.00. Cloth.
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HEALTH AND DISEASE - Johanna Taylor Crane. Scrambling for Africa: AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2013. xiii + 208 pp. Figures. Notes. References. Index. $89.95. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.
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SCIENCE AND PHILOSPHY - Souleymane Bachir Diagne. African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude. Translated by Chike Jeffers. London: Seagull Books, 2012; distributed by University of Chicago Press. 210 pp. Bibliography. $25.00. Cloth.
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Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo. Japan–Africa Relations. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xv + 277 pp. List of tables. References. Index. $100.00. Cloth.
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Klaas Van Walraven. The Yearning for Relief: A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger. Leiden: Brill, 2013. vii + 968 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $136.00. Paper.
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LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS - Kenneth W. Harrow. Trash: African Cinema from Below. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. ix + 344 pp. Photographs. Filmography. Bibliography. Index. $25.00. Paper.
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Samuel Kalman. French Colonial Fascism: The Extreme Right in Algeria, 1919–1939. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. ix + 268 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth.
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Anika Wilson. Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi: No Secret Under the Sun. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xi + 190pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90. Cloth.
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MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHY - Roland Minor. A Lot of Loose Ends: A Vet in Africa. Cirencester, U.K.: Memoirs Publishing, 2013. 368 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. £14.00. Paper.
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Archie L. Dick. The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. xvi + 196. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth.
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Anneke Verheijen. Balancing Men, Morals, and Money: Women’s Agency Between HIV and Security in a Malawian Village. Leiden: African Studies Centre, African Studies Collection, vol. 53, 2013. xii + 301pp. References. Appendixes. Summary. https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/21741.
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