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Volume 48 - March 2007

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CHANGING CONSTRUCTIONS OF MASCULINITY IN GHANA Making Men in Ghana. By STEPHAN F. MIESCHER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xxxii+323. $65 (ISBN 0-253-34636-3); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21786-5).

ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM AND URBAN VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA - Warri City & British Colonial Rule in Western Niger Delta. Edited by Peter P. Ekeh. Lagos: Urhobo Historical Society, 2004. Pp. xxx+295. £19.95/$29.95 (isbn978-064-925-5).

THE CENTRAL ROLE OF LAND IN ZIMBABWEAN HISTORY - The Unsettled Land. State-making & the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe 1893–2003. By Jocelyn Alexander. Oxford: James Curry, 2006. Pp. x+230. £50 (isbn0-85255-893-5); £18.95, paperback (isbn0-85255-892-9).

PORTRAIT OF A NAMIBIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and Myth. The Biography of a Barefoot Soldier. By ELLEN NDESHI NAMHILA. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2005. Pp. xi+157. No price given (ISBN 3-905141-86-8).

A SUBTLE EXPLORATION OF STATE–SOCIETY RELATIONSHIPS IN NIGERIA - Constructions of Belonging. Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century. By Axel Harneit-Sievers. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Pp. x+388. £45 (isbn1-58046-167-0).

SCIENCE AND NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA - A Commonwealth of Knowledge. Science, Sensibility, and White South Africa 1820–2000. By Saul Dubow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+296. $60 (isbn0-19-929663-4).

THE DIVERSE AND COMPLEX ROLES OF NSUKKA WOMEN - Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900–1960. By Nwando Achebe. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2005. Pp. xii+274. $99.95 (isbn0-325-07079-2); $29.95, paperback (isbn0-325-07078-4).

CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES AND SLAVES IN EASTERN AFRICA The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa. By PAUL V. KOLLMAN. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2005. Pp. xxviii+356. $25 (ISBN 1-57075-626-0).

THE LONG HISTORY OF SAME-SEX DESIRE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA - Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in South Africa. By Marc Epprecht. Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+317. $57 (isbn0-7735-2750-8); $18.95, paperback (isbn0-7735-2751-6).

TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE LELA CEREMONY IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS - Lela in Bali. History through Ceremony in Cameroon. By Richard Fardon. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. Pp. xxiii+162. $65 (isbn1-84545-215-1).

LOCAL HISTORIES IN TANZANIA Practicing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory, and Performance. By GREGORY H. MADDOX with ERNEST M. KONGOLA. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2006. Pp. vii+181. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07056-3).

A HOMAGE TO BETI SOCIETY - In Search of Salt. Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society 1880–1960. By Frederick Quinn. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006. Pp. 175. $70 (isbn1-84545-006-X).

WHAT SHAPED THE LIVES OF WORKING WOMEN IN UGANDA? - Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900–2003. By Grace Bentebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. Oxford: James Currey, 2006. Pp. xii+308. £50 (isbn0-85255-988-7); £17.95, paperback (isbn0-85255-987-9).

BRIDEWEALTH INFLATION AND MARRIAGE CRISIS IN COLONIAL KENYA - ‘Girl Cases’: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890–1970. By Brett L. Shadle. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2006. Pp. xliii+256. $92.95 (isbn0-325-07092-X); $29.95, paperback (isbn0-325-07094-6).

GERMAN SETTLERS IN NAMIBIA AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR - Zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Apartheid. Die deutsche Bevölkerungsgruppe Südwestafrikas 1915–1965. By Martin Eberhardt. Münster: LIT, 2007. Pp. 584. €39.90, paperback (isbn978-3-8258-0225-7).

THE CHALLENGES FOR POSTCOLONIAL LEADERS IN EAST AFRICA - Transformational Leadership in East Africa: Politics, Ideology and Community. By Eric Masinde Aseka. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2005. Pp. viii+464. £29.95; $39.95, paperback (isbn9970-02-480-9).

FRESH CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY Journal of African Archaeology (2003–2005, volumes 1–3). Edited by PETER BREUNIG and SONJA MAGNAVITA, Frankfurt am Main: Africa Magna Verlag. Annual subscription (individual rate, two issues) €60 (ISSN 1612-1651).

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