The Journal of African History: Volume 45 - Issue 2

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Volume 45 - Issue 2 - July 2004

Book Review

INTERACTIONS OF COLONIAL AND INDIGENOUS IDIOMS OF POWER The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination. Edited by CLIFTON C. CRAIS. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. 216. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07084-9); US$24, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07083-0).

THE WRITTEN WORD AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter between the LoDagaa and ‘the World on Paper’. By SEAN HAWKINS. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xv+468. £55 (ISBN 0-8020-4872-2).

EXAGGERATING THE CONTINUTIES IN MADAGASCAR POLITICAL HISTORY? Société et luttes anticoloniales à Madagascar (1896 à 1946). By SOLOFO RANDRIANJA. Paris: Kharthala, 2001. Pp. 485. No price given (ISBN: 2-84586-136-2).

AFRICAN URBAN HISTORY IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE Sites of Struggle: Essays in Zimbabwe's Urban History. Edited by BRIAN RAFTOPOULOS and TSUNEO YOSHIKUNI. Harare: Weaver Press, 1999. Pp. vii+279. £14.95; $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-797-41984-5).

DESCRIBING MATERIAL CULTURAL AND SPATIAL PATTERNS Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements. By AUGUSTIN HOLL. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2003. Pp. xiii+422. $85 (ISBN 0-7391-0407-1).

ETHNICITY AFTER THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966–1986. By DOUGLAS A. ANTHONY. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey, 2002. Pp. x+272. $64.95; £45 (ISBN 0-325-07052-0); $24.95; £17.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07051-2).

RELIGION AND CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHERN SUDAN Religion and Conflict in Sudan: Papers from an International Conference at Yale, May 1999. Edited by YUSUF FADL HASAN and RICHARD GRAY. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2002. Pp. 208. No price given (ISBN 9966-21-831-9).

CONTEXTS, CONNOTATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL USE Alcohol in Africa: Mixing Business, Pleasure, and Politics. Edited by DEBORAH FAHY BRYCESON. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. viii+305. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07115-2).

AT THE END OF COLONIAL RULE Africa, IV: The End of Colonial Rule: Nationalism and Decolonization. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi+541. No price given (ISBN 0-89089-202-4).

A THOUSAND TREES Africa, V: Contemporary Africa. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xxxiii+962. No price given (ISBN 0-89089-203-2).

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Issues in Historiography. Edited by O. O. OLUBOMEHIN. Ibadan: College Press, 2001 (distributed by African Books Collective, Oxford). Pp. x+143. £12.95, paperback (ISBN 9782194131).

Ethnoarchaeology in the Zinder Region, Republic of Niger. By ANNE HAOUR. (BAR S1133.) Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003. Pp. vii+149. £30 (ISBN 1-84171-506-9).

Cattle Plague: A History. By C. A. SPINAGE. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2003. Pp. xx+765. No price given (ISBN 0-306-47789-0).

The Postal Services of the Gold Coast to 1901. Edited by JOHN SACHER (historical introduction by Philip Beale). London: Royal Philatelic Society, 2003. Pp. xii+254. £70 (ISBN 0-900831-52X).

Gold Coast Diaries: Chronicles of Political Officers in West Africa, 1900–1919. Compiled by THORA WILLIAMSON. Edited by ANTHONY KIRK-GREENE; Foreword by RICHARD RATHBONE. London: I. B. Tauris/Radcliffe Press, 2000. Pp. xix+419. £24.50 (ISBN 1-86064-451-1).

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