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D. Westerlund and E. Rosander (eds), African Islam and Islam in Africa: encounters between Sufis and Islamists.London: Hurst, 1997, 357 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1 85065 282 1, hard covers, £15.95, ISBN 1 85065 281, paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 316-317
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Ben Fine and Zavareh Rustomjee, The Political Economy of South Africa: from minerals—energy complex to industrialisation.London: Hurst, 1997, 278 pp., £35.00, ISBN 1 85065 258 9 hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 1 85065 257 0 paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 161-162
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Neil McHugh, Holymen of the Blue Nile: the making of an Arab Islamic community in the Nilotic Sudan, 1500–1850.Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press, 1994, 280 pp., $54.95, ISBN 0 8101 1069 5.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 318-319
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Peter Batchelor and Susan Willett, Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa.Oxford: Oxford University Press; Stockholm: International Peace Research Institute, 1998, 249 pp., £30.00, ISBN 0 19 829413 1.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 162-164
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Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Religious Pluralism and the Nigerian State. Monographs in International Studies, Africa series, 66, Athens OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1997, 330 pp., £22.00, ISBN 0 89680 194 2, paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 319-320
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Wolfgang Werner, ‘No one will become rich’: economy and society in the Hereto reserves in Namibia, 1915–46. Basel Namibia Studies 2, Basel: Schlettwein, 1998, 254 pp., CHF 48.00, ISBN 3 908193 01 X.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 164-165
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Peter Turkson and Frans Wijsen (eds), Inculturation: abide by the otherness of Africa and Africans.Kampen: Kok, 1994, 98 pp., ISBN 90 390 0506 0.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 320-321
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M. A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis(eds), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa.Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 208 pp., £18.95 (SEK 200, US $26.95), ISBN 91 7106 418 4.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 165-166
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Jean-François Bayart, Patrick Harries and Klauspeter Blaser, L’Héritage missionnaire en perspective: approches croise’es. Le Fait missionnaire 6, Lausanne: University of Lausanne, 1998, 107 pp., 15 Swiss francs, ISBN 1 420 20181 5, paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 321-322
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John O. Udal, The Nile in Darkness: conquest and exploration, 1504–1862.Norwich: Michael Russell, 702 pp., £55.00, ISBN 0 85955 238 1.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 166-167
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Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands: essays in regional history, from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century.Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997, 489 pp., £12.99, ISBN 0 932415 19 9.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 167-168
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Eisei Kurimoto and Simon Simonse (eds), Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa: age systems in transition.Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: East African Educational Publishing; Kampala: Fountain; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1998, 270 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 252 1, hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 251 3, paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 322-325
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Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford (eds), Mending Rips in the Sky: options for Somali communities in the twenty-first century.Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997, 673 pp., $29.95, ISBN 1 56902 074 4.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 168-169
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Paul Spencer, The Pastoral Continuum: the marginalisation of tradition in East Africa. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, 302 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 19 8233752.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 325-326
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C. Ehret, An African Classical Age: eastern and southern Africa in world history, 1000 BC to AD 400.Oxford: James Currey, 1998, 341 pp, £35.00, ISBN 0 8139 1814 6.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 170-172
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David Brokensha (ed.), A River of Blessings: essays in honor of Paul Baxter. Foreign and Comparative Studies, African series, 44, Syracuse NY: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1994, 318 pp., $29.50, 318 pp., ISBN 0 915984 69 5.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 326-327
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Julius O. Ihonvbere, Economic Crisis, Civil Society, and Democratization: the case of Zambia. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 1996, 351 pp., £13.99, 0 86543 501 4.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 327-328
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Catherine Higgs, The Ghost of Equality: the public lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885–1959.Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1997, 276 pp., ISBN 0 8214 1169 1 hard covers, ISBN 0 8214 1171 3.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 172-173
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Stanley B. Alpern, Amazons of Black Sparta: the women warriors of Dahomey.London: Hurst; New York: New York University Press, 1998, 292 pp., £35.00, ISBN 1 85065 361 5 hard covers, £12.95, ISBN 1 85065 363 3 paperback.
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Fasil Nahum, Constitution for a Nation of Nations: the Ethiopian prospect. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997, 310 pp., £13.99, 1 56902 051 5.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 328-330
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