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Volume 47 - Issue 3 - November 2006

Book Review

INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON THE SIERRA LEONE CIVIL WAR Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War. Edited by IBRAHIM ABDULLAH. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2004. Pp. vii+263. $25/£20, paperback (ISBN 2-86978-123-7).

THE HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY SOUTH AFRICA The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid. By P. ERIC LOUW. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Pp. xviii+255. $49.95 (ISBN 0-275-98311-0).

THE COLLECTION OF THE DAKAR–DJIBOUTI EXPEDITION Les Peintures sacrées d’Éthiopie: collection de la Mission Dakar–Djibouti. By CLAIRE BOSC-TIESSÉ and ANAÏS WION. Paris: Sépia, 2005. Pp. 133. No price given (ISBN 2-84280-091-5).

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES IN UGANDA The Vitality of Karamojong Religion: Dying Tradition or Living Faith? By BEN KNIGHTON. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvi+349. £55.00 (ISBN 0-7546-0383-0)

THE INTERPRETATION OF TEXTS IN COLONIAL KENYA Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya. By DEREK R. PETERSON. Portsmouth: Heinemann Books, 2004. Pp. xiii +289. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07131-4).

POLITICS, CULTURE AND KNOWLEDGE IN TANZANIA In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzania. Edited by GREGORY H. MADDOX and JAMES L. GIBLIN. Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 2005. Pp. xiv+337. £50 cloth (ISBN 0-85255-488-5); £16.95 paperback (ISBN 0-85255-487-7).

THE CONTRIBUTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS TO THE CREATION OF KENYA’S EDUCATED CLASS Western Educated Elites in Kenya, 1900–1963: The African-American Factor. By JIM C. HARPER II. New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. viii+193. No price given (ISBN 0-415-97730-4).

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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition. By JAMES RAWLEY with STEPHEN D. BEHRENDT. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. xviii+441. £38.5 (ISBN 0-8032-3961-0).

The Atlantic Slave Trade. By JOHANNES POSTMA. Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003. Paperback, Gainesville FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. Pp. xxii+177. $24.5 (ISBN 0-8130-2906-6).

Historical Dictionary of Madagascar. 2nd edition. By PHILIP M. ALLEN and MAUREEN COVELL. Historical Dictionaries of Africa, No. 98. Lanham MD, Toronto, Oxford: Scarecrow Press, 2005. Pp. lxxxiii+420. $90 (ISBN 0-8108-4636-5).

An African Trading Empire: The Story of Susman Brothers & Wulfsohn, 1901–2005. By HUGH MACMILLAN. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005. Pp. xi+492. No price given (ISBN: 1-85043-853-6).

All’inferno e ritorno: storie di deportati tra Italia ed Eritrea in epoca coloniale. By MARCO LENCI. Pisa: Biblioteca Franco Serantini, 2004. Pp. 143. €13, paperback (ISBN 88-86389-95-7).

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