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Volume 50 - December 2007

Book Review

Book Review

Anne Marie Goetz and Shireen Hassim, eds. Wo Shortcuts to Power: African Women in Politics and Policy Making. London: Zed Books, 2003. ix + 239 pp. Notes. References. Index. $31.95. Paper.

Health and Disease

Amy S. Patterson. The Politics of AIDS in Africa. Boulder. Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. xii + 226 pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. Index. $52.00. Cloth. $19.95. Paper.

Religion

Jean Allman and John Parker. Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xi + 299 pages. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

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Jean Davison. The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya. Austin, Tex.: Kirinyaga Press, 2006. ii + 213 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Glossary. $14.95. Paper.

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Stephanie Newell. Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures. West African Literatures: Ways of Reading. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. ix + 259 pp. Maps. Charts. Time Line. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $22.95. Paper.

Goretti Kyomuhendo. Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007. The Women Writing Africa series. 127 pp. Afterword. Notes. Works Cited. $13.95. Paper.

Religion

Toyin Falola, ed. Christianity and Social Change in Africa. Essays in Honor of J. D. Y. Peel. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 696 pp. Figures. Photographs. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. $65.00. Cloth.

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Okechukwu Ukaga and Osita G. Afoaku, eds. Sustainable Development in Africa: A Multifaceted Challenge. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. 254 pp. List of Contributors. References. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Toyin Falola. Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945-1965. Kent Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2004. xvi + 272 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Cloth.

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Patricia Tang. Masters of the Sabar: Wolof Griot Percussionists of Senegal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. xiv + 209 pp. Photographs. Musical Transcriptions. Maps. Notes. Glossary of Terms. References. Discography. Interviews. Index. Includes CD. $79.50. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.

Religion

Alessandra Vianello and Mohamed M. Kassim, eds. Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadis' Court of Brava, 1893–1900. 2 volumes. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xviii + 2185 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. General Index. Index of Personal Names. $99.00. Paper.

Emmanuel M . Katongole. A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination. Scranton, Pa.: The University of Scranton Press, 2005. xix + 264 pp. Bibliography. Index. $25.00. Paper.

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Gregory Maddox. Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Nature and Human Societies Series. ix + 355 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth.

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Steven Nelson. From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xiv + 247 pp. Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00. Cloth.

George J. Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Eblaghie Bahador, and Riyad Ahmed Shahjahan. Schooling and Difference in Africa: Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xviii + 333 pp. Charts. References. Index. $39.95. Paper.

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Language, Literature, and the Arts

Pascal James Imperato. African Mud Cloth. The Bogolanfini Art Tradition of Gneli Traoré of Mali. Manhasset, N.Y.: Kilima House Publishers/Tenafly, N.J.: The African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, 2006. xvi + 103 pp. Photographs. References. Bibliography. $30.00. Paper.

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Books Received

Language, Literature, and the Arts

Bayo Ogunjimi and Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah. Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xxi + 256 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

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Book Review

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