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Volume 52 - July 2011

Book Review

IMPERIAL ‘HEROES’ - Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa. By Edward Berenson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Pp. xii+360. $29.95, hardback (isbn978-0-520-23427-7).

A USEFUL COLLECTION OF PORTUGUESE SOURCES - The Portuguese in West Africa, 1415–1670: A Documentary History. Edited by Malyn Newitt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xviii+246. £46.75 hardback (ISBN 978-0-521-76894-8); £19.99 paperback (ISBN 978-0-521-15914-2).

BEING AKAN IN AFRICA AND AMERICA - The Akan Diaspora in the Americas. By Kwasi Konadu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+307. $74, hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-539064-3).

HOW CHOLERA BECAME AN AFRICAN DISEASE - Africa in the Time of Cholera: A History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present. By Myron Echenberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+208. $85.00, hardback (isbn978-1-107-00149-7); $27.99, paperback (isbn978-1-521-18820-3).

THE STORY OF A MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN WEST AFRICA - Islam and Social Change in French West Africa: History of an Emancipatory Community. By Sean Hanretta. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp xiii+311. £48/$80 hardback (ISBN 978-0-521-89971-0).

A SOVIET VIEW ON SOUTHERN AFRICAN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS - The Hot ‘Cold War’: The USSR in Southern Africa. By Vladimir Shubin. London: Pluto Press, 2008. Pp. xvi+320. $30.00, paperback (isbn978-0-7453-2472-2).

THE WORKINGS OF SLAVING NETWORKS IN THE BIGHT OF BIAFRA - The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra. By G. Ugo Nwokeji. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xxiv+279. $68, hardback (ISBN 978-0-521-88347-4).

MEANINGS OF MEMORY IN THE BRAZIL-BENIN NEXUS - Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. By Ana Lucia Araujo. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2010. Pp. xix+478. $134.99, hardback (isbn978-1-60497-714-1).

A NIGERIAN NATIONALIST IN LOCAL POLITICS - Obafemi Awolowo and the Making of Remo. The Local Politics of a Nigerian Nationalist. By Insa Nolte. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2009. Pp. xiii+321. £65, hardback (ISBN 978-0-7486-3895-6).

A SOUTH AFRICAN MISSION COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE - Wupperthal: The Formation of a Community in South Africa 1830–1965. By Mark Charles Bilbe. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2009. Pp. xi+292. €34.80 paperback (ISBN 978-3-89645-448-5).

THE FULL RANGE OF WEST AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY - West African Archaeology: New Developments, New Perspectives. BAR International Series S2164. Edited by Philip Allsworth-Jones. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010. Pp x+170. £39.00, paperback (isbn978-1-4073-0708-4).

THE CREATION OF THE EQUATORIA PROVINCE - Egypt's African Empire: Samuel Baker, Charles Gordon and the Creation of Equatoria. By Alice Moore-Harell. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010. Pp. v+250. £49.95/$74.95 hardback (ISBN 978-1-84519-387-4).

A SPACE FOR WOMEN TO FORM COMMUNITIES - Catholic Women of Congo-Brazzaville: Mothers and Sisters in Troubled Times. By Phyllis M. Martin. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+262. $65, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35281-1); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-22055-4).

REEXAMINING THE YORUBA NATION - A History of the Yoruba People. By Steven Adebanji Akintoye. Dakar: Amalion Publishing, 2010. Pp. 512. $64.95, £40.99, €48.50, CFA 25,000, hardback (isbn978-2-35926-005-2).

ONE OF AFRICA'S MOST INFLUENTIAL COLONIAL OFFICIALS - White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845–1878. By Thomas V. Mcclendon. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+177. £40/$75, hardback (ISBN 978-1-58046-341-6).

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Studies in District Administration in the East Africa Protectorate (1895–1918). By T. H. R. Cashmore. Cambridge: African Studies Centre, 2010. Pp. xiv+254. No price given, no ISBN.

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