Volume 46 - December 2003
Contents
Book Reviews
Literature and The Arts
Meki Nzewi. African Music: Theoretical Content and Creative Continuum, The Culture-Exponent’s Definitions. Oldershausen: Institut für Didaktik populärer Musik, 1997. Distributed by W.D. Lugert, D-21436 Oldershausen, Germany. 84 pp. Photos. Diagrams. Musical examples. Bibliography. $13.50. Paper.
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History
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J. D. Fage and William Todoroff. A History of Africa. 4th Edition. London/New York: Routledge, 2002. xi + 653 pp. Illustrations. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. - Christopher Ehret. The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002. 480 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Recommended readings. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $22.50. Paper.
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Literature and The Arts
Tanure Ojaide and Joseph Obi. Culture, Society and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. xi + 185 pp. Notes. Index. Price not reported. Paper.
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Paul Nugent. Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana–Togo Frontier: The Lie of the Borderlands since 1914. Athens: Ohio University Press/Oxford: James Currey, 2002. 320 pp. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
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Literature and The Arts
Stephanie Newell. Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: “How to Play the Game of Life.” Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. x + 242 pp. Tables. Plates. Bibliography. Index. $22.95. Paper. - Sean Hawkins. Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter between the LoDagaa and “The World on Paper.” Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xv + 468 pp. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth.
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Owen Coetzer. Fire in the Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State, 1899–1902. Weltevreden Park, South Africa: Covos-Day Books, 2000. xvi + 338 pp. Photographs. Map. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. R120.00. Paper. - Fransjohan Pretorius. The Great Escape of the Boer Pimpernel, Christiaan de Wet: The Making of a Legend. Translated and adapted by Stephen Hofstätter, assisted by Wilhelm Snyman. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2001. xvi + 240 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Cloth.
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Literature and The Arts
Pascal James Imperato. Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards: Door Locks of the Bamana of Mali. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 2001. xxv + 93 pages. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. $50.00. Cloth. $30.00. Paper.
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Andrew Burton, ed. The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa, c. 1750–2000. Nairobi: The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2002. For ordering details go to: http://britac3.ac.uk. Photographs. Maps. Notes. $24.00. Paper.
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Doudou Diène, ed. From Chains to Bonds: The Slave Trade Revisited. New York: Berghahn/Paris: UNESCO, 2001. xxvi + 470 pp. Tables. $79.95. Cloth. $25.00. Paper.
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Literature and The Arts
Dieter Arnold. The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture. Translated by Sabine H. Gardiner and Helen Strudwick. Edited by Nigel Strudwick and Helen Strudwick. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003. 288 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Glossary. Chronological Table. Bibliography. $39.95. Cloth.
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Simon Ottenberg. Seeing with Music: The Lives of Three Blind African Musicians. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. 216 pp. Maps. Photos. Table. Bibliography. Discography. Index. $35.00. Cloth.
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Douglas H. Johnson. The Root Cause of Sudan's Civil Wars. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. xx + 234 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. $54.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
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Literature and The Arts
Elisabeth L. Cameron. Art of the Lega. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2001. 236 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. $65.00. Cloth. $40.00. Paper
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Human Rights
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Wolfgang Benedek, Esther Kisaakye, and Gerd Oberlietner, eds. The Human Rights of Women: International Instruments and African Experiences. London: Zed Books, 2002. Distributed by Palgrave. xv + 336 pp. Select Bibliography. Index. $69.95. Cloth. $29.95 Paper.
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Literature and The Arts
Adele King. Rereading Camara Laye. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xv + 210 pp. Notes. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.
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Ann Hecht. The Art of the Loom: Weaving, Spinning and Dyeing across the World. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 95 pp. Illustrations. Sources. Index. $29.95. Paper. - John Gillow. Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa. Fabric Folios Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. 88 pp. Color illustrations. Glossary. Selected Readings. Index. $18.95. Paper.
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Literature and The Arts
Roger Benjamin. Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism and French North Africa, 1880–1930. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 352 pp. 16 color plates. 123 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.
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Charles R. Larson. The Ordeal Of The African Writer. London: Zed Books, 2001. Distributed by Palgrave USA. viii + 168 pp. Works Cited. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $19.95. Paper.
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Okwui Enwezor, ed. The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945–1994. Munich: Prestel, 2001. 496 pp. Plates. Chronology. Biographies. List of Works. Index. $75.00. Cloth.
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Memoirs and Biography
Manthia Diawara. We Won’t Budge: An African Exile in the World. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2003. 255 pp. $26.00. Cloth.
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 175-176
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