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Thomas Spear and Isariah N. Kimambo (eds) East African Expressions of Christianity. Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam: Mkuti na Nyota; Nairobi: EAEP; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1999, 340 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 7361 hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 758 2 paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 316-318
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André Corten and Ruth Marshall-Fratani (eds), Between Babel and Pentecost: transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America. London: Hurst, 2001, 288 pp., £39.50, ISBN 1 85065 439 8 (hard covers), £16.50, ISBN 1 85065 438 7 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, p. 140
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Beatrix Heintze, Afrikanische Pioniere: Trägerkarawanen im westlichen Zentralafrika. Frankfurt am Main: Otto Lembeck Verlag., 2002, 319 pp., €25, ISBN 3 87476 410 9 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 630-633
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Omar Faruk Ibrahim, Prince of the Times: Ado Bayero and the transformation of emiral authority in Kano. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002, 298 pp., US$39 (£17.99), ISBN 0 8654 3952 4.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 477-478
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Luise White, Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa.Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 2000, 384 pp., US$50.00 (£31.50), ISBN 0 520 21703 9 hard covers, US$19.95 (£12.50), ISBN 0 520 21704 7 paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 318-320
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Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Press.; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002, 328 pp., US$69.95, ISBN 0 325 07017 2 (hard covers), US$28.00, ISBN 0 325 07016 4 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 633-634
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Henry Bernstein, David Hulme and Philip Woodhouse, African Enclosures? The social dynamics of wetlands in drylands. Oxford: James Currey, 2000, 256 pp., £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 761 2.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 141-142
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Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), The Transformation of Nigeria: essays in honor of Toyin Falola, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2002, 638 pp., US$34.95, ISBN 0 86543 998 2 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 478-479
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Gauthier De Villers with Jean Omasombo and Erik Kennes, République Démocratique du Congo. Guerre et politique : les trente derniers mois de L. D. Kabila (août 1998–janvier 2001), Cahiers Africains 47-48 (série 2000). Tervuren: Institut Africain-CEDAF; Paris: Harmattan, 2001, 342 pp., €23.55, ISSN 1021-9994 paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 320-321
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Thomas J. Bassett and Donald Crummey (eds), African Savannas: global narratives and local knowledge of environmental change. Oxford: James Currey, 2003, 270 pp., £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 424 9 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 634-635
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Paul Nugent, Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana–Togo Frontier: the lie of the borderlands since 1914. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Legon: Sub-Saharan Books; Oxford: James Currey, 2002, 316 pp., £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 473 7 (hard covers), £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 472 9 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 142-143
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Washington A. J. Okumu, The African Renaissance: history, significance and strategy. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002, 295 pp., US$24.95, ISBN 1 59221 013 9 (paperback). - Fantu Cheru, African Renaissance: roadmaps to the challenge of globalization. London and New York: Zed Books, 2002, 253 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1 84277 087 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 480-482
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Laurent Monnier, Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Gauthier De Villers (eds), Chasse au diamant au Congo/Zaïre, Cahiers Africains 45–6 (série 2000). Tervuren: Institut Africain–CEDAF; Paris: Harmattan, 2001, 240 pp., €18.59, ISBN 2 7475 0972 9 paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 321-322
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Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds), Black Business and Economic Power. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002, 628 pp., US$75.00 (£50.00), ISBN 1 58046 114 X.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 482-483
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Henning Melber (ed.), Zimbabwe's Presidential Elections 2002: evidence, lessons, implications. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Discussion Paper 14, 2002, 88 pp., £7.95, ISBN 91 7106 490 7 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 636-637
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Wyatt Macgaffey, Kongo Political Culture: the conceptual challenge of the particular. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, 272 pp., US$26.95, ISBN 0 253 33698 8 (hard covers).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 483-485
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Mark Shaw, Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa: transforming under fire. LondonHurst & Company, 2002, 169 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1 85065 399 2 (hard covers), £14.95, 1 85065 418 2 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 637-638
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K. N. Getachew, Among the Pastoral Afar in Ethiopia: Tradition, Continuity and Socio-economic Change. Utrecht: International Books; Addis Ababa: OSS-REA, 2001, 208 pp., £14.95, ISBN 90 5727 039 0 paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 322-324
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Barbara Trudell, Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Paul Nugent (eds), Africa's Young Majority. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2002, 342 pp., £19.50, ISBN 0 9527917 7 3 (paperback).
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 639-640
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Michael L. Fleisher, Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania–Kenya Frontier. Ann Arbor MI: Michigan University Press, 2000, 214 pp., £37.00 (US$59.50), ISBN 0 472 11152 3 hard covers, £12.50 (US$19.95), ISBN 0 472 08698 7 paperback.
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- 03 March 2011, pp. 324-325
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