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Volume 49 - March 2008

Book Review

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ARCHITECTURE - From Cameroon to Paris: Mousgoum Architecture in and out of Africa. By Steven Nelson. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+247. $50 (isbn978-0-226-57183-6).

NINETEENTH-CENTURY HAUSA WOMEN - Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and Sokoto Caliphate. By Mary Wren Bivins. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+192. $89.95 (isbn0-325-07013-X); $29.50, paperback (isbn0-325-07012-1).

THEORIZING MEDIA AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN NIGERIA - Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. By Brian Larkin. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xi+313. $84.95 (isbn978-0-8223-4090-4); $23.95, paperback (isbn978-0-8223-4108-6).

HERITAGE AND HISTORY DISCOURSE IN THE POSTCOLONY - The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage. By Joost Fontein. Oxford and New York: Berg Publishers, 2007. Pp. xiii+246. £50 (isbn978-1-59874-220-6); £19.90, paperback (isbn978-1-59874-221-3).

KWAME NKRUMAH AS AFRICA'S ‘BLACK STAR’ - Black Star: A View of The Life & Times of Kwame Nkrumah. By Basil Davidson. Oxford: James Currey, 2007. Pp. 225. £14.90, paperback (isbn978-1-84701-010-0).

BRINGING THE STUDY OF PAN-AFRICANISM BACK TO AFRICA - American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era. By Kevin K. Gaines. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+342. $34.95 (isbn0-8078-3008-9).

GENOCIDE AND MEMORY - Genozid und Gedenken: Namibisch-deutsche Geschichte und Gegenwart. Edited by Henning Melber. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel, 2005. Pp. 208. €16.90, paperback (isbn3-86099-822-6).

A SUBTLE THEORETICAL ACCOUNT OF KINGSHIP IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS - The Pot-King: The Body and Technologies of Power. By Jean-Pierre Warnier. (African Social Studies Series, 17). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. Pp. x+326. €79, paperback (isbn978-90-04-15217-5).

WIDOWHOOD IN KENYA'S COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY - Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya. By Kenda Mutongi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xv+256. £50 (isbn0-226-55419-8); £12, paperback (isbn0-226-555420-1).

THE CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY OF DUTCH GIN IN WEST AFRICA - The King of Drinks: Schnapps Gin from Modernity to Tradition. By Dmitri van den Bersselaar. Leiden: Brill, 2007. Pp. xiv+268. €69 (isbn978-90-04-16091-0).

AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT - Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930–64. By Lawrence J. Butler. Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xii+425. £60 (isbn978-0-230-55526-6).

A EUGENICS MOVEMENT IN KENYA IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD - Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya. By Chloe Campbell. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. x+214. £50 (isbn978-0-7190-7160-7).

PERIURBAN EWELAND - Locality, Mobility and ‘Nation’: Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland 1900–1960. By Benjamin N. Lawrance. Rochester NY: Rochester University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+288. $75 (isbn978-1-58046-264-8).

ORGANIZED MINE-LABOUR IN INDEPENDENT ZAMBIA - Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa. By Miles Larmer. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. Pp. viii+270. £47.50 (isbn978-1-84511-299-8).

A LONGUE DURÉE RECONSTRUCTION OF ETHNIC CONSCIOUSNESS - Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. By Elizabeth MacGonagle. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. 192. $75 (isbn978-15804-6257-0).

AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN ZIMBABWE - Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report of the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands, 1980–1988 (Introduction by Elinor Sisulu). London: Hurst & Company, 2007. Pp. xxxii+440. £19.99, paperback (isbn978-1-85065-890-0).

THE 1947 ANTI-COLONIAL INSURRECTION IN MADAGASCAR - The Many Faces of an Anti-Colonial Revolt: Madagascar's Long Journey into 1947. By Raymond K. Kent. Albany, CA: Foundation for Malagasy Studies, 2007. Pp. xvi+326. $20, paperback (isbn no. pending).

A REASSEMENT OF VIOLENCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EASTERN AFRICA - War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa. By Richard Reid. Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 2007. Pp. xvi+256. £55 (isbn978-184701-605-8); £16.95, paperback (isbn978-184701-604-1).

AFRICAN AGENCY WITHIN THE COLONIAL ORDER IN LESOTHO - Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870–1960. By Elizabeth A. Eldredge. Madison: Wisconsin University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+275. £44.50 (isbn978-0-299-22370-0).

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