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Volume 47 - Issue 1 - March 2006

Book Review

INTELLECTUAL LIBERATION The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. Pp. ix+486. $45, paperback (ISBN 0-89089-582-1).

LES ‘ÉVOLUÉS’ ET LA CHANGE DANS L'AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE FRANÇAISE Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914–1956. By JAMES E. GENOVA. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. xi+300. Swiss Francs 114 (ISBN 0-8204-6941-6).

MEMOIRS OF A MALIAN INTELLECTUAL Almamy: l'âge d'homme d'un lettré malien. By ALMAMY MALIKI YATTARA and BERNARD SALVAING. Brinon-sur-Sauldre: Éditions Grandvaux, 2003. Pp. 446. €23 (ISBN 2-909550-37-0).

IN DEFENCE OF BRITISH COLONIALISM AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau. By DAVID LOVATT SMITH. East Sussex: Mawenzi Books, 2005. Pp. 359. No price given, paperback (ISBN 0-9544713-2-6).

POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE DECOLONIZATION ERA IN NIGERIA Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945–1965. By TOYIN FALOLA. Kent OH: Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+272. $49 (ISBN 0-87338-801-1).

ETHNO-ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A POSTCOLONIAL CASE An Ethnoarchaeological Analysis of Human Functional Dynamics in the Volta Basin of Ghana: Before and After the Akosombo Dam. By E. KOFI AGORSAH. Lewiston NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. Pp. xxvi+407. $139.95 (ISBN 0-7734-6677-0).

WOMEN AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN RECENT AFRICAN HISTORY Femmes d'Afrique dans une société en mutation. Edited by PHILIPPE DENIS and CAROLINE SAPPIA. Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium: Bruylant-Academia, 2004. Pp. 212. €20, paperback (ISBN 2-87209-744-9).

POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY AND THE LONGUE DURÉEAfrica since Independence: A Comparative History. By PAUL NUGENT. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 620. Price not given (ISBN 0-333-68272-6); £17.99, paperback (ISBN 0-333-68273-4).

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The History of Egypt. By GLENN E. PERRY. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. Pp. xxiii+184. £25.99 (ISBN 0-313-32264-3).

Poverty, Health and Reproduction in Early Colonial Uganda. By JAN KUHANEN. Joensuu, Finland: University of Joensuu Publications, 2005. Pp. 433. No price given (ISBN 952-458-630-4).

Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale. By DON PETTERSON. Boulder: Westview Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+286. $16, paperback (ISBN 0-8133-4268-6).

Telling Our Own Story: Local Histories from South Mara, Tanzania. Edited by JAN BENDER SHETLER. Leiden: Brill, 2003. Pp. xiii+331. €26 (ISBN 90-04-12625-2).

Guerilla Government: Political Changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990s. By OYSTEIN ROLANDSEN. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2005. Pp. 201. €20;£15.95, paperback (ISBN 91-7106-537-7).

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