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Volume 45 - Issue 1 - March 2004

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AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS HISTORY Black Business and Economic Power. Edited by ALUSINE JALLOH and TOYIN FALOLA. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002. Pp. xii+628. $67.95; £50 (ISBN 1-58046-114-x).

AFRICAN PERCEPTIONS OF RAILROAD WORK Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: Workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger, 1881–1963. By JAMES A. JONES. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. xxiii+154. $59.95 (ISBN 0-325-07089-X).

MULTIPLE ANGLES Nigeria in the Twentieth Century. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA (Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002). Pp. 918+xx+78 b/w illustrations. Price not given (ISBN 0-89089-129-X).

BORDERS, POWER AND IDENTITY Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana–Togo Frontier. By PAUL NUGENT. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Legon: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002. Pp. xiv+302. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-473-7); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-472-9).

Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World. By DAVID MCBRIDE. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Pp. viii+309. $40 (ISBN 0-8135-3067-9).

A POST-NATIONALIST HISTORY Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present. By FREDERICK COOPER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 216. No price given (ISBN 0-521-77241-9); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-521-77600-7).

HOW FRENCH INFLUENCE SURVIVED The End of Empire in French West Africa: France's Successful Decolonization? By TONY CHAFER. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002. Pp. xviii+264. £42.99; $68 (ISBN 1-85973-552-5); £14.99; $22.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85973-557-6).

SHIFTING INTERPRETATIONS Mau Mau and Nationhood. Edited by E. S. ATIENO ODHIAMBO and JOHN LONSDALE. Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. xiv+306. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-478-8); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-484-2).

THE POLITICS OF WAR VETERANS Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980–1987. By NORMA KRIGER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xi+293. £45 (ISBN 0-521-81823-0).

WOMEN'S FIGHTS IN MOZAMBIQUE Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique. By KATHLEEN E. SHELDON. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2002. $66.95 (ISBN 0-325-07091-1); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07101-2).

NATIONALISM AND PRIVATIZATION UNDER FRELIMO Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975–2000. By ANNE PITCHER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxiii+293. £45 (ISBN 0-521-82011-1).

YOUTH, HISTORY AND SOCIAL CRITICISM The Sacrificed Generation: Youth, History, and the Colonized Mind in Madagascar. By LESLEY A. SHARP. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+377. £45 (ISBN 0-520-22950-9); £19.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-22951-7).

MINDING THE GAP Re-Imagining Rwanda: Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century. By JOHAN POTTIER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii+251. £47.50; $55 (ISBN 0-521-81366-2); £17.95; $24, paperback (ISBN 0-521-52873-9).

HISTORICIZING SACRIFICIAL AND INITIATORY SYSTEMS IN ETHIOPIA Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation. By DENA FREEMAN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. x+180. £40; $55 (ISBN 0-521-81854-0).

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Archaeology and History in Ìlàrè District (Central Yorubaland, Nigeria), 1200–1900A.D. By AKINWUMI O. OGUNDIRAN. (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 55, BAR International Series 1090). Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002. Pp. viii+163. £30 (ISBN 1-84171-468-2).

East Africa. Edited by MALYN NEWITT. (Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries [General Editor: John Villiers]). Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2002. Pp. xxx+192. £42.50 (ISBN 0-7546-0181-1).

Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600. Edited by ANDREW PORTER. London: Oxford University Press for the Royal Historical Society, 2002. Pp. xx+1060. £85 (ISBN 0-19-924991-1).

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