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Volume 46 - Issue 2 - July 2005

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AFRICANS AND THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development. By JOSEPH E INIKORI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi+576. £55 (ISBN 0-521-81193-7); £20.99, paperback (ISBN 0-521-01079-9).

MALE ROYAL SLAVERY IN KANO Paradoxes of Power: The Kano ‘Mamluks’ and Male Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1804–1903. By SEAN STILWELL. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. x+281. £45.99 (ISBN 0-325-0741-5); £16.99, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07410-7).

SLOW DEATH; STILL ALIVE Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. By SUZANNE MIERS. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. Pp. xx+503. No price given (ISBN 0-7591-0339-9); paperback (ISBN 0-7591-0340-2).

COUPLING RESPECTABILITY AND RESISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA Respectability and Resistance: A History of Sophiatown. By DAVID GOODHEW. Westport CN: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xxvi+190. $84.95 (ISBN 0-325-07100-4).

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST OF AFRICA IN BRITAIN AND IN NAZI GERMANY Leben und Werk Günter Wagners (1908–1952). By UDO MISCHEK. Gehren: Escher Verlag, 2002. Pp. 293. No price given (ISBN 3-932642-21-X).

THE COLD WAR DIMENSION OF KENYAN DECOLONIZATION Britain, Kenya and the Cold War: Imperial Defence, Colonial Security, and Decolonisation. By DAVID A. PERCOX. London: Taurus Academic Studies, 2004. Pp. vii+252. £47.50 (ISBN 1-85043-460-3).

YOUNG FALOLA A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir. By TOYIN FALOLA. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. viii+271. $35 (ISBN 0-472-11401-8).

PEUPLEMENT, RELATIONS INTERETHNIQUES ET IDENTITÉS Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Dir. RICHARD KUBA, CAROLA LENTZ et CLAUDE NURUKYOR SOMDA. Paris: Karthala, 2003. Pp. 296. €25 (ISBN 284586-4950).

THE POWER OF PRAETORIAN SOCIAL MEMORY Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau. By JOSHUA B. FORREST. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey Ltd., 2003. Pp. xiv+312. $49.45 (ISBN 0-8214-1490-9); no price given, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-496-6).

PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE BANDA REGIME Malawi's First Republic: An Economic and Political Analysis. By HARVEY J. SINDIMA. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 2002. Pp. xv+260. £29 (ISBN 0-7618-2332-8).

GENDER AND NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa. By THEMBISA WAETJEN. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. vii+158. $30 (ISBN 0-252-02908-9).

CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANITY AND ‘MODERNITY’ IN GHANA Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. By PAUL GIFFORD. London: C. Hurst, 2004. Pp. xv+216. £45 (ISBN 1-85065-718-1); £16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-718-X).

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West Africa: An Introduction to its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation. By EUGENE L. MENDONSA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. Pp. 660. $50, paperback (ISBN 0-89089-649-6).

Archives of Empire. Volume II. The Scramble for Africa. Edited by BARBARA HARLOW and MIA CARTER. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xix+821. £87 (ISBN 0-8223-3152-7); £26.50, paperback (ISBN 0-8223-3189-6).

The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By CHARLES M. GOODJR. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xx+487. £21/$30 (ISBN 0-226-30282-2).

African Posters: A Catalogue of the Poster Collection in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. By GIORGIO MIESCHER and DAG HENRICHSEN. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2004. Pp. 301. CHF 85 (ISBN 3-905141-82-5).

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