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Volume 54 - December 2011

Book Review

Peter Sanders. “Throwing Down White Man:” Cape Rule and Misrule in Colonial Lesotho, 1871–1884. Morija, Lesotho: Morija Museum and Archives, 2010; Pontypool, Wales: The Merlin Press Ltd., 2011. x + 304 pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $37.95. Paper.

Karuti Kanyinga and Duncan Okello, eds. Tensions and Reversals in Democratic Transitions: The Kenya 2007 General Elections. Nairobi: Society for International Development, in conjunction with the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, 2010. 709 pp. Notes. Paper. No price reported.

Ghislaine Lydon. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxviii + 486 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index, Notes. $95.00. Cloth.

Birgit Englert and Elizabeth Daley, eds. Women's Land Rights and Privatization in Eastern Africa. Eastern Africa Series. 2008. James Currey, Fountain Publishers, EAEP, and E&D Vision Publishing. 180 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $37.95. Cloth.

M. W. Daly. Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 2nd edition, xxii + 376 pp. Figures. Maps. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $24.99. Paper.

Pierre Englebert. Africa: Unity. Sovereignty and Sorrow. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. xiv + 301 pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $26.50. Paper.

Cheryl Toman. Contemporary Matriarchies in Cameroonian Francophone Literature: “On est ensemble.” Birmingham, Ala.: Summa Publications, 2008. vii + 185 pp. Bibliography. Index. $45.95. Cloth.

Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy. Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2010. With a forward by George McGovern. xxxvii + 424 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

Alan Wieder. Teacher and Comrade: Richard Dudley and the Fight for Democracy in South Africa. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2008. 175 pp. Photographs. Glossary. Sources. Index. $65.50. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

Derrick Fay and Deborah James, eds. The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution: “Restoring What Was Ours.” New York: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009. xx + 288 pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. References. Index. $75.00. Cloth.

Séverine Autesserre. The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xvii + 311 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. $28.99. Paper.

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Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson. The Atlas of World Hunger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiii + 201 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibiography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

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Kamari Maxine Clark. Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxvi + 324 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $29.99. Paper.

Peter Paris, ed. Religion and Poverty: Pan-African Perspectives. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. xxiv + 360 pp. Notes. Contributors. Index. $89.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Gerrie ter Haar. How God Became African: African Spirituality and Western Secular Thought. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. pp. ix + 120 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Cloth

Obiora Chinedu Okafor. The African Human Rights System: Activist Forces and International Institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv + 336 pp. Select Bibliography. Index $121.00. Cloth.

Ambreena Manji. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa: From Communal Tenure to Free Markets. London: Zed Books Ltd., 2006. vii + 149 pp. Notes. Index. $31.95. Paper.

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