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Volume 47 - November 2006

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ETHNICITY: A PROBLEM FOR DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA? Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa. Edited by BRUCE BERMAN, DICKSON EYOH and WILL KYMLICKA. Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. xv+336. £50 (ISBN 0-85255-861-9); £18.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-860-0).

INTELLECTUAL LIBERATION The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. Pp. ix+486. $45, paperback (ISBN 0-89089-582-1).

LES ‘ÉVOLUÉS’ ET LA CHANGE DANS L'AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE FRANÇAISE Colonial Ambivalence, Cultural Authenticity, and the Limitations of Mimicry in French-Ruled West Africa, 1914–1956. By JAMES E. GENOVA. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. xi+300. Swiss Francs 114 (ISBN 0-8204-6941-6).

GENDER AND NATIONALISM IN GUINEA Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939–1958. By ELIZABETH SCHMIDT. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2005. Pp. xv+293. $99.95 (ISBN 0-325-07031-8); $27.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07030-x).

MEMOIRS OF A MALIAN INTELLECTUAL Almamy: l'âge d'homme d'un lettré malien. By ALMAMY MALIKI YATTARA and BERNARD SALVAING. Brinon-sur-Sauldre: Éditions Grandvaux, 2003. Pp. 446. €23 (ISBN 2-909550-37-0).

THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL QUESTION The Amalgamation and Its Enemies: An Interpretive History of Modern Nigeria. Edited by RICHARD A. OLANIYAN. Ile Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, 2003 (distributed by African Books Collective, Oxford). Pp. xxiii+242. £18.95/$30.95 (ISBN 9-78136-134-4).

INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON THE SIERRA LEONE CIVIL WAR Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War. Edited by IBRAHIM ABDULLAH. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2004. Pp. vii+263. $25/£20, paperback (ISBN 2-86978-123-7).

BLOOD INTO MONEY: THE NIGERIAN POSTCOLONIAL STATE The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. By ANDREW APTER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. x+334. $24/£17, paperback (ISBN 0-226-02355-9).

THE HISTORY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY SOUTH AFRICA The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid. By P. ERIC LOUW. Westport CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004. Pp. xviii+255. $49.95 (ISBN 0-275-98311-0).

IN DEFENCE OF BRITISH COLONIALISM AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY Kenya, the Kikuyu and Mau Mau. By DAVID LOVATT SMITH. East Sussex: Mawenzi Books, 2005. Pp. 359. No price given, paperback (ISBN 0-9544713-2-6).

THE COLLECTION OF THE DAKAR–DJIBOUTI EXPEDITION Les Peintures sacrées d’Éthiopie: collection de la Mission Dakar–Djibouti. By CLAIRE BOSC-TIESSÉ and ANAÏS WION. Paris: Sépia, 2005. Pp. 133. No price given (ISBN 2-84280-091-5).

‘PARTIAL REFORM SYNDROME’ IN ZAMBIA Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991–2001. By LISE RAKNER. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 2003. Pp. 235. SEK 220/€25/£16.95/$ 27.95 (ISBN 91-7106-506-7).

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POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF THE DECOLONIZATION ERA IN NIGERIA Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945–1965. By TOYIN FALOLA. Kent OH: Kent State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+272. $49 (ISBN 0-87338-801-1).

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Hunting for Development: People, Land and Wildlife in Southern Zimbabwe. By PER ZACHRISSON. Göteborg: University of Göteborg, 2004. Pp. v+277. No price given (ISBN 91-628-6329-0).

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RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES IN UGANDA The Vitality of Karamojong Religion: Dying Tradition or Living Faith? By BEN KNIGHTON. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xvi+349. £55.00 (ISBN 0-7546-0383-0)

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