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Volume 46 - Issue 3 - November 2005

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THE MANDATE SYSTEM MATTERED A Sacred Trust: The League of Nations and Africa, 1929–1946. By MICHAEL D. CALLAHAN. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2004. Pp. xii+308. £55 (ISBN 1-84519-016-5).

NEXT DOOR TO VICHY Soldiers, Airmen, Spies, and Whisperers: The Gold Coast in World War II. By NANCY ELLEN LAWLER. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii+286. $49.95 (ISBN 0-8214-1430-5).

THE RESURRECTION OF CHIEFTAINCY Le retour des rois: les autorités traditionelles et l'État en Afrique contemporaine. Edited by CLAUDE-HÉLÈNE PERROT and FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE-AYMAR. Paris: Editions Karthala, 2003. Pp. 568. €32 (ISBN 2-84586-343-8).

THE WHITE SIDE OF THE TRANSITION Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid: South Africa and World Politics. By ADRIAN GUELKE. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xvii+248. $75 (ISBN 0-333-9812-7); £18.99/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 033-98123-5).

THE UNITED STATES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN AFRICA U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution. By F. UGBOAJA OHAEGBULAM. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. xvi+280. $32.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8204-7091-0).

A CHALLENGE TO PESSIMISM ON NIGERIA Troubled Journey: Nigeria since the Civil War. Edited by LEVI A. NWACHUKU and G. N. UZOIGWE. Dallas: University Press of America, 2004. Pp. xxviii+338. No price given (ISBN 0-7618-2712-9).

TRUE FICTIONS Voices of the Poor in Africa: Moral Economy and the Popular Imagination. By ELIZABETH ISICHEI. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002. Pp. ix+287. £50/$75 (ISBN 1-58046-107-7).

THE POLITICS OF DRESS Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress. Edited by JEAN ALLMAN. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. vi+248. $50 (ISBN 0-253-34415-8); $21.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21689-3).

AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHY IN A BREMEN MUSEUM Zur Sammlungsgeschichte afrikanischer Ethnographica im Uebersee-Museum Bremen 1841–1945. By BETTINA VON BRISKORN. Pp. 335. Bremen: Uebersee-Museum, 2000. €10 (ISBN 3-929439-57-3).

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Historical Dictionary of Egypt. By ARTHUR GOLDSCHMIDT and ROBERT JOHNSTON. Third edition. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003. Pp. xxxviii+510. £65 (ISBN 0-8108-4856-2).

Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master's Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844–1846. Edited by C. HERBERT GILLILAND. Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+334. $27.95 (ISBN 1-59114-320-9).

The First World War in Africa. By HEW STRACHAN. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x+224. £8.99 (ISBN 0-19-925728-0).

Colonialism and Economic Change in Swaziland, 1940–1960. By HAMILTON SIPHO SIMELANE. Kampala: JANyeko Publishing Centre, and Manzini: JAN Publishing Centre, 2003. Pp. x+231. £23.95/$39.95 (ISBN 9970-510-04-9). Distributed by African Book Collective, Oxford.

Land, Gender and the Periphery: Themes in the History of Eastern and Southern Africa. Edited by BAHRU ZEWDE. Addis Ababa: OSSREA, 2003. Pp. vi+178. £19.95, paperback (ISBN 0-954538420).

Origins of Rwandan Genocide. By JOSIAS SEMUJANGA. Amherst: Humanity Books, 2003. Pp. 265. $35 (ISBN 1-59102-053-0).

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