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Volume 50 - Issue 2 - September 2007

Book Review

Claude A. CleggIII. The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 344 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $21.95. Paper.

Kevin K. Gaines. American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xiv + 342 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Cloth.

Rainer Baudendistel. Between Bombs and Good Intentions: The Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006. xviii + 342 pp. Photographs. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth.

Sheldon Gellar. Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xix + 207 pp. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Robert Guest. The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2004. Distributed by HarperCollins. 280 pp. Notes. Index. $27.50. Cloth.

Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o. Contending Political Paradigms in Africa: Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia. New York: Routledge, 2005. xx + 225 pp. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth.

Adam Roberts. The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and the Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa. New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xv + 303 pp. Bibliography. Index. $26.00. Cloth.

Thandika Mkandawire, ed. African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development. London: Zed Books/Dakar: CODESRIA, 2005. 234 pp. Notes. References. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

John Laband, ed. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. ix + 301 pp. Photographs. Maps. Charts. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth.

Alcinda Honwana. Child Soldiers in Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 216 pp. Index. $45.00. Cloth. $22.50. Paper.

Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass. Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 464 pp. Tables. Graphs. Figures. Charts. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth.

Harri Englund. Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 247 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00 Cloth. $21.95 Paper.

Robert M. Press. Peaceful Resistance: Advancing Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. xix + 227 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $99.95. Cloth.

Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas. Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta. London: Verso, 2003. xii + 267 pp. Notes. References. Index. $17.00. Paper.

Shireen Hassim. Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series. xiv + 355 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

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