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Volume 49 - Issue 1 - April 2006

Book Reviews

History - John Iliffe. Honour in African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xxiv + 404 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $28.99. Paper.

History - James C. McCann. Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500–2000. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005. xiii + 288 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Cloth.

History - Jan Vansina. How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa before 1600. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. xiv + 325 pp. Maps. Tables. Figure. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

History - Timothy H. Parsons. Race, Resistance, and the Boy Scout Movement in British Colonial Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. xviii + 318 pp. Maps. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

History - Michael A. Gomez. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. New Approaches to African History. 236 pp. Maps. Figures. Notes. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $19.99. Paper.

History - Gabriel Warburg. Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. xvii + 252 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper.

History - E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and David William Cohen. The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. xv + 344. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Literature & The Arts - Marie-Louise Labelle. Beads of Life: Eastern and Southern African Beadwork from Canadian Collections. Gatineau: Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation. 100 Laurier St., Gatineau, Quebec J8X 4H2. xi + 185 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Paper.

Literature & The Arts - Femi Okiremuete Shaka. Modernity and the African Cinema: A Study in Colonialist Discourse, Postcoloniality, and Modern African Identities. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, Inc., 2004. 453 pp. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Literature & The Arts - Beverly B. Mack. Muslim Women Sing: Hausa Popular Song. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. African Expressive Cultures. 248 pp. Map. Illustrations. Audio CD. Bibliography. Index. $60.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.

Law & Human Rights - Rachel Murray. Human Rights in Africa: From the OAU to the African Union. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. viii + 349. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth.

Politics - Bruce Berman, Dickson Eyoh, and Will Kymlicka. eds. Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. xv + 336 pp. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $28.95. Paper.

Politics - Michel Cahen. Os Outros: Um historiador em Moçambique, 1994. Basel: P. Schlettwein Publishing Switzerland, 2004. xxxii + 229 pp. Maps. Indexes. CHF 48. Paper.

Politics - Roel van der Veen. What Went Wrong with Africa? A Contemporary History. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers/Stylus Publishing, 2004. 377 pp. References. Bibliography. Country index. $39.95. Paper.

Politics - Adigun A. B. Agbaje, Larry Diamond, and Ebere Onwudiwe, eds. Nigeria's Struggle for Democracy and Good Governance: A Festschrift for Oyeleye Oyediran. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 2004. 471 pp. Tables. References. Appendix. Index. $42.95. Paper.

Politics - Emmanuel Ike Udogu, ed. Nigeria in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies for Political Stability and Peaceful Coexistence. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. vx + 277 pp. Tables. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Politics - Dominique Jacquin-Berdal and Martin Plaut, eds. Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at War. Trenton, N.J.: The Red Sea Press, 2005. xxi + 294 pp. Tables. Appendixes. Maps. Notes. Index. $29.95. Paper.

Politics - Thomas A. Imobighe, ed. Civil Society and Ethnic Conflict Management in Nigeria. Ibadan: Spectrum Books, 2003. African Strategic and Peace Research Group. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford, xii + 329 pp. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Politics - Isabelle Duyvesteyn. Clausewitz and African Wars: Politics and Strategy in Liberia and Somalia. London: Frank Cass, 2005. 184 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00. Cloth.

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