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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).
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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).
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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).
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RAILWAYMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria. By LISA A. LINDSAY. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xvi+241. No price given (ISBN 0-325-00188-X); $23.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-00187-1).
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LIBERATION WITHOUT LIBERTY? The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe, II: Nationalism, Democracy and Human Rights. Edited by TERENCE RANGER. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Publications, 2003 (distributed outside Africa by African Books Collective, Oxford). Pp. 196. No price given (ISBN 1-7792-001-3).
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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).
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THE PRIMACY OF THE PERSONAL Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. By KELLY M. ASKEW. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. 417+xviii, 1 CD. $72 (ISBN 0-226-02980-8); $34, paperback (ISBN 0-226-02981-6).
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MEMORIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER 1994 History after Apartheid: Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa. By ANNIE E. COOMBES. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii+366. £21.50, paperback (ISBN 0-8223-3072-5).
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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).
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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).
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CONVERSIONS AND TRANSACTIONS Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa. By JANE I. GUYER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xvii+207. No price given (ISBN 0-226-31115-5); $15; £10.50, paperback (ISBN 0-226-31116-3).
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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).
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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).
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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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Le roi Kanyok au milieu de quatre coins. By RIK CEYSSENS. Fribourg, Switzerland: Editions Universitaires, 2003. Pp. 559. No price given (ISBN 3-7278-1397-0).
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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).
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Documents on South Africa: The Lienemann Collection (1970–1992). Edited by KATRIN KUZMIERZ. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien Namibia Resource Centre – Southern Africa Library, 2000. Pp. 240. CHF 30 (ISBN 3-905141-75-2).
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THE SERER AND THE STATE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LAND TENURE The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. By DENNIS C. GALVAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+317. £38.95/$60 (ISBN 0-520-22778-6); £15.95/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-23591-6).
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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).
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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).
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