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AN ITINERARY THROUGH THE COCOA CONTROVERSY - Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. By Catherine Higgs. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. Pp. xv+230. $26.95, hardback (isbn978-0-8214-2006-5).

INDIGENOUS MISSIONARIES - Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850–75. By Tolly Bradford. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2012. Pp. xvi+217. $94, hardback (isbn978-0-77482-279-4); $35.95, paperback (isbn978-0-77482-280-0).

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THE BLOODY POLITICS OF EXCLUSION - Civil Wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1960-2010. By Emizet François Kisangani. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. Pp. xi + 252. $58.50, hardcover (isbn978-1-58826-827-3).

Understanding Conflict in Eastern Congo

REFLECTIONS ON THE RECENT HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EASTERN CONGO *

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A MANUAL FOR OVERCOMING DICTATORSHIP - Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World. By George B. N. Ayittey. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. vi + 282. £18·99, hardback (isbn9780230108592).

THE LANDSCAPE OF RESEARCH ON AFRICA - Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xii+342. $125, hardback (isbn978-0-415-89593-4).

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RECENTERING JEWISH HISTORY IN THE MAGHRIB - Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa. Edited by Emily Benichou Gottreich and Daniel J. Schroeter. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011. Pp. ix + 373. $80, hardback (isbn978-0-253-35509-6); $29, paperback (isbn978-0-253-22225-1).

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EARLY AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY AND PAPAL INITIATIVE - Christianity, the Papacy, and Mission in Africa. By Richard Gray. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2012. Pp. 197. $50, paperback (isbn978-1-57075-986-4).

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POWER POLITICS - Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade. By Gabrielle Hecht. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2012. Pp. xx + 451. $29.95, hardback (isbn: 978-0-262-01726-8).

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CHILDHOOD AND SERVITUDE - Child Slaves in the Modern World. Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011. Pp. vi+281. $49.95, hardback (isbn: 978-0-8214-1958-8); $24.95, paperback (isbn: 978-0-8214-1959-5).

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THE LIFE OF TRANS-ATLANTIC JAZZ - Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times. By Robin D. G. Kelley. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xii-245. $24.95, hardcover (isbn978-0-67404-624-5).

IMPLICATIONS OF LAND SALES IN NUBIA - Medieval Nubia: A Social and Economic History. By Giovanni R. Ruffini. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. x + 295. £45, hardback (isbn978-0-19-989163-4).

ROMANTICIZING TRAVEL IN A TIMELESS EGYPT - Women Travelers in Egypt: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Deborah Manley. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 216. $24.95, hardback (isbn978-977-416-485-9).

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BEYOND OFFICIAL HISTORY - Paradis pour une reine. Le monastère de Qoma Fasilädäs, Éthiopie, XVIIe siècle. By Anaïs Wion. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2012. Pp. 479. €40, paperback (isbn978-2-85944-693-2).

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AKSUM AT THE CUTTING EDGE - Foundations of an African Civilisation: Aksum & the Northern Horn, 1000 BC – AD 1300. By David W. Phillipson. Suffolk, England: James Currey, 2012. Pp. x+293. $70, hardback (isbn978-1-84701-041-4).

CLANS-IN-ARMS - Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991. By Lidwien Kapteijns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. x+308. $69.95, hardback (isbn978-0-8122-4467-0).

CELEBRATING ERITREAN SOLDIERS AND ITALIAN IDENTITY - Anch'io per la tua bandiera: Il V battaglione ascari in missione sul fronte libico (1912). By Massimo Zaccaria. Ravenna, Italy: Giorgio Pozzi Editore, 2013. Pp. 263. €17, paperback (ISBN 978-88-96117-26-2).

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ANTECEDENTS OF THE GOLD RUSH - Tracing Golden Past: Historical Narratives about Shaybun and Shawabna in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan. By Enrico Ille. Leipzig: Verlag Ille&Riemer, 2011. Pp. ix + 265. €24.95, paperback (isbn978-3-936308-73-0).

THE POLITICS OF INGESTION - Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts, and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda. By Heike Behrend. New York: James Currey, 2011. Pp. vii + 215. $80, hardback (isbn978-1847010391).

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