Volume 44 - Issue 3 - December 2001
History
Book Reviews
Jean Allman and Victoria Tashjian. “I Will Not Eat Stone”: A Women's History of Colonial Asante. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000. xlvi + 255 pp. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.
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John Springhall. Decolonization since 1945: The Collapse of European Overseas Empires. New York: Palgrave, 2001. xxiii + 240 pp. Chronology. Abbreviation Maps. Bibliography. Index. $65. Cloth. $21.95. Paper.
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John Gooch, ed. The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image. London: Frank Cass, 2000. xxi + 310 pp. Photographs. Index. $35.00. Cloth.
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Law and Human Rights
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Mahmood Mamdani, ed. Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk: Comparative Essays on the Politics of Rights and Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. v + 170 pp. References. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $19.95. Paper.
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Literature and the Arts
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Wendy Griswold. Bearing Witness: Readers, Writers, and the Novel in Nigeria. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. 340 pp. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.50. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 150-151
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Gay Robins. The Art of Ancient Egypt. London: British Museum Press/Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997 (paperback, 2000). 271 pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $39.95 Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 151-152
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Edna R. Russmann, ed. Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum. Berkeley: University of California Press/American Federation of Arts, 2001. 288 pp. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $39.95. Paper.
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 153-154
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Margaret Jean Hay, ed. African Novels in the Classroom. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. 314 pp. $59.95. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.
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Cheryl B. Mwaria, Silvia Federici, and Joseph McLaren, eds. African Visions: Literary Images, Political Change, and Social Struggle in Contemporary Africa. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000. Prepared under the auspices of Hofstra University, xxiii + 280 pp. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
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Annie Gagiano. Achebe, Head, Marechera: On Power and Change in Africa. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. 307 pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth.
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 158-160
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John Cullen Gruesser. Black on Black: Twentieth-Century Writing about Africa. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 2000. 205 pp. Notes. Index. Illustrations. $29.95. Cloth.
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David Lewis-Williams, ed. Stories That Float from Afar: Ancestral Folklore of the San of Southern Africa. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2000. xi + 285 pp. Illustrations. References and Suggested Reading. R88.00. Paper.
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Laura Chrisman. Rereading the Imperial Romance: British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. 241 pp. Index. $70.00. Cloth.
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Media
Book Reviews
Les Switzer and Mohamed Adhikari, eds. South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 2000. Research in International Studies Africa Series No. 74. xxii + 505 pp. Illustrations. Index. $30.00. Paper. - Greg Marinovich and João Silva. The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War. New York: Basic Books, 2000. xiv + 254 pp. Photographs. Glossary. Chronology. Index. $26.00. Cloth. $15.00. Paper.
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Memoirs and Biography
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Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel. Over Land and Sea: Memoir of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857–1909. Edited and with an introduction by Ronald E. Coons, Pascal James Imperato, and J. Winthrop Aldrich. Foreword by SirVivian Fuchs. New York and London: Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc. xxvi + 358 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 169-170
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Politics
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Daniel T. Osabu-Kle. Compatible Cultural Democracy: The Key to Development in Africa. New York: Broadview Press, 2000. 282 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $22.95. Paper.
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Richard Spitz, with Matthew Chaskalson. The Politics of Transition: A Hidden History of South Africa's Negotiated Settlement. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000. xviii + 461 pp. Map. Notes. Index. $45.00. Paper.
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Hevina S. Dashwood. Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Transformation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. xii + 252 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
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Pierre Englebert. State Legitimacy and Development in Africa. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.2000. xii + 244 pp. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth.
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Jeffrey Herbst. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. 272 pp. Figures. Maps. Tables. Index. $17.95. Paper.
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- 23 May 2014, pp. 179-182
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