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Volume 54 - July 2013

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RECOVERING THE HISTORY OF A DEFEATED SOCIAL MOVEMENT - The Yearning for Relief: A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger. By Klaas van Walraven. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013. Pp. xxvii + 968. $136; €98, paperback (isbn9789004245747).

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THE COMPLEX SOUND OF COSMOPOLITANISM - Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. By Steven Feld. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. xii + 311. $84.95, hardback (isbn978-0-8223-5148-1); $23.95, paperback (isbn978-0-8223-5162-7).

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THE SEPHARDI CONNECTION - The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589. By Toby Green. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxvi+333. $99, hardcover (isbn978-1-107-01436-7).

WEST AFRICAN STRANGERS IN BRAZZAVILLE - Migrants and Strangers in an African City: Exile, Dignity, Belonging. By Bruce Whitehouse. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. x+274. $25, paperback (isbn978-0-253-00082-8).

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BEYOND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE - Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana. By Jenna Burrell. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012. Pp. xi + 236. $30, hardback (isbn: 978-0-262-01736-7).

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A PHENOMENOLOGY OF ISLAMIC REFORM - Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-Century West African Islamic Reforms. By Ousman Murzik Kobo. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2012. Pp. xxxix + 383. $189, hardback (isbn9789004215252).

AN EXEMPLARY MODUS VIVENDI? - Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal. Edited by Mamdou Diouf. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Pp. ix + 282. $89.50, hardback (isbn978-0-231-16262-3); $20.50, paperback (isbn978-0-231-16263-0).

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INVIGORATING LANDSCAPES - Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives. Edited by J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xx-390. $99, hardback (isbn978-1-107-00939-4).

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ENDURANCE AND VULNERABILITY - Mother is Gold, Father is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town. By Lorelle D. Semley. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii+235. $70, hardback (isbn978-0-253-35545-4); $24.95, paperback (isbn978-0-253-22253-4).

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ALTERNATIVE PATHS TO ADULTHOOD - A Sociological Study of Street Children in Ghana: Victims of Kinship Breakdown and Rural-Urban Migration. By Vivian Amantana. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012. Pp. xi+164. $49.95, paperback (isbn978-0-7734-1606-2).

THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF VALUE - Muslim Families in Global Senegal: Money Takes Care of Shame. By Beth Buggenhagen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. xi+242. $70, hardback (isbn978-0-253-35710-6); $24.95, paperback (isbn978-0-253-22367-8).

NOVA SCOTIA AND SIERRA LEONE - The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland. By Kevin G. Lowther. Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2011. Pp. xx+301. $39.95, hardback (isbn978-1-57003-960-7).

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