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Volume 52 - December 2014

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Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement by A. Betts Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. Pp. 234. US$ 26·95 (pbk)

The Political Economy of Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A New Implementation Model in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal edited by Bernard Dafflon and Thierry Madiès Washington, DC: World Bank, 2013. Pp. 340. £25·50 (pbk)

African Democracy and Development: Challenges for Post-conflict African Nations, edited by Cassandra R. Veney and Dick W. Simpson Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013. 314 pp. £49·95 (hbk.)

Law and the Public Sphere in Africa: La Palabre and Other Writings by Jean Godefroy Bidima Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2014. Pp. 240. £24·99 (hbk)

Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wendy Willems Woodbridge: James Currey, 2014. Pp. 236. £45 (hbk)

Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia by Lahra Smith Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 275. £19·99 (pbk)

Ambiguous Pleasures: Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi by Rachel Spronk New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. 310. £60 (hbk)

Al-Shabaab in Somalia. The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005–2012 by Stig Jarle Hansen London: Hurst, 2013. Pp. xiii+195. £25·00 (hbk)

Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race and Nation in Tanzania by Richard Schroeder Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. Pp. 227+xvii. $75.00 (hbk), $25.00 (pbk)

The Horn of Africa (Global Political Hot Spots) by Kidane Mengisteab Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014. Pp. 272. £15·99 (hbk)

Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Politics, Piracy and the Threat of Terror by Peter Woodward London: I.B. Tauris, 2012. Pp. 240. £14·99 (pbk)

War and Politics in Sudan: Cultural Identities and the Challenges of the Peace Process by J.D. Leach London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. Pp. 268. £56·00 (hbk)

Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria by Wale Adebanwi Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. Pp. 450. $55 (pbk)

The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair by Michael Deibert London: Zed Books, 2013. Pp. 280. £12·99 (pbk)

Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar: Struggles for Identity, Movement, and Civilization by Akbar Keshodkar Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. Pp. 235. £45·00 (hbk)

Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 by Lidwien Kapteijns. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 320. US$69.95 (hbk)

Criminal Resistance: The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers by Temitope Oriola. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 243. £55·00 (hbk)

Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State by Cherry Leonardi Woodbridge: James Currey, 2013. Pp. 271. £45 (hbk)

Complementarity in the Line of Fire: The Catalysing Effect of the International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan by Sarah M. Nouwen Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 505. £75·00 (hbk)

State and Society in the Gambia since Independence, 1965–2012 edited by Abdoulaye Saine, Ebrima Ceesay and Ebrima Sall Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2013. Pp. 573. $49.95 (pbk)

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