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Volume 57 - Issue 3 - December 2014

HISTORY

BOOK REVIEWS

Toby Green, ed. Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Precolonial Western Africa. New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2012. xv + 415 pp. Map. Figures. Tables. Index. $125.00. Cloth.

POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION

BOOK REVIEWS

Lahra Smith. Making Citizens in Africa: Ethnicity, Gender, and National Identity in Ethiopia.Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press. 2013. xxi + 252 pp. Maps and Tables. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Glossary. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $29.99. Paper.

GENDER

BOOK REVIEWS

Helen Nabasuta Mugambi and Tuzyline Jita Allan, eds. Masculinities in African Literary and Cultural Texts. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner for Ayeba Clarke Publishing, 2010. 352 pp. $27.50. Paper.

Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez et al., eds. African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. 360 pp. Acknowledgments. Foreword. Contributors. $26.95. Paper.

HEALTH AND DISEASE

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Claire Decoteau. Ancestors and Antiretrovirals: The Biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvii + 324 pp. Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Note on Terminology. Abbreviations. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. $32.50. Paper.

Ellen Grünkemeier. Breaking the Silence: South African Representations of HIV/AIDS. Woodbridge, Surrey, U.K.: James Currey. 2013. viii + 243 pp. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth.

RELIGION

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Marion Kilson. Dancing with the Gods: Essays in Ga Ritual. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2013. xi + 148 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $60.00. Cloth.

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS

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Katrina Daly Thompson. Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. xii + 237 pp. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. $80.00, £58.00. Cloth. $27.00, £19.99. Paper. $22.99, £16.99. EBook.

Eric Charry, ed. Hip Hop Africa: New African Music in a Globalizing World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012. x + 390 pp. Graphs. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Discography. Videography. Webography. Index. $35.00. Paper.

Frank Gunderson. Sukuma Labor Songs from Western Tanzania: “We Never Sleep, We Dream of Farming.” African Sources for African History. Leiden: Brill, 2010. xxxii + 536 pp. List of Illustrations. List of Figures and Maps. Glossary. Sukuma Aphorisms. Bibliography. Indexes. $129.00. Paper.

Moyo Okediji. Western Frontiers of African Art. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2011. xi + 336 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth.

MEDIA AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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Marie-Soleil Frère. Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace?London: Zed Books, 2011. Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan. xiv + 289 pp. Tables. Note on Currency. Bibliography. Index. $44.95. Paper.

FEATURE FILMS

FILM REVIEWS

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, director. Le Président. 2013. 64 minutes. French, with English subtitles. Cameroon. 64 minutes. Weltfilm and Jean-Pierre Bekolo Sarl, in association with Canal + Afrique. $500.00.

Jean-Pierre Bekolo, director. Le President.2013. 64 minutes. In French, with English subtitles. Cameroon, Weltfilm, and Jean-Pierre Bekolo Sarl, in association with Canal + Afrique. $500.00.

Mama Keita, director. L’Absence.2009. 164 minutes. French and Wolof. France, Guinea, Senegal. Kinterfilm. 2009. No price reported.

Haile Gerima, director. Teza. 2008. 140 minutes. Amharic, German, and English, with English subtitles. Ethiopia/Germany. Negod-Gwad Productions, Pandora Filmproduktion, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk. $29.95.

Hicham Lasri, director. They Are the Dogs. Original title: C’est eux les chiens. 2013. 85 minutes. Darija (Moroccan Arabic), with French subtitles. France/Morocco. Nour Films. Price not reported.

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Volume 57 - Issue 3 - December 2014

HISTORY

BOOK REVIEWS

POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION

BOOK REVIEWS

GENDER

BOOK REVIEWS

HEALTH AND DISEASE

BOOK REVIEWS

RELIGION

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LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS

BOOK REVIEWS

MEDIA AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BOOK REVIEWS

FEATURE FILMS

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