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Volume 51 - December 2008

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Sabine Jell-Bahlsen. The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2008. xiv + 433 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Jeremy Rich. A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization series, xx + 220 pp. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

Sean Redding, Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880–1963. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xi + 266 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Kristin Mann. Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. xii + 473 pp. Bibliography. Index. No price reported.

Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn, eds. Black and White in Colour: African History on Screen. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: Double Storey, 2007. ix + 374 pp. List of Contributors. Endnotes. Index. $26.95. Paper.

Solomon Getahun. History of the City of Gondar. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xi + 278 pp. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes. $29.95. Paper.

Robert O. Collins and James M. Burns. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 406 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $27.99. Paper.

Roger S. Gocking. The History of Ghana. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. The Greenwood Histories of Modern Nations series. viii + 331 pp.. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

Richard Reid. War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. Eastern African Studies series. xvi + 256 pp. Maps. Glossary & Abbreviations. Notes. Sources & Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

William F. S. Miles, ed. Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. xi + 221 pp. Map. Notes. Bibliography. List of Contributors. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts, eds. Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. viii + 332 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

Ambreena Manji, The Politics of Land Reform in Africa: From Communal Tenure to Free Markets. London and New York: Zed Books, 2006. vii + 149 pp. Notes. Index. £50.00. Cloth. £16.99. Paper.

Katharina P. Coleman. International Organizations and Peace Enforcement: The Politics of International Legitimacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 360 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Abbreviations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $36.99. Paper.

Michael W. Casey. The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of an African Democracy. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2007. Studies in Rhetoric and Religion 2. xiii + 389 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

Jared Cohen. One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. xxviii + 230 pp. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00. Cloth. $18.95. Paper.

Nicholas Shaxson, Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. viii + 280 pp. Notes. Index. $26.95. Cloth.

Mohammed O. Maundi, I. William Zartman, Gilbert M. Khadiagala, and Kwaku Nuamah. Getting In: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006. xiii + 229 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $17.50. Paper.

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