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Volume 50 - November 2009

Book Review

HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA IN CONTEXT - HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being. Edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. x+414. $75 (isbn978-1-58046-240-2).

THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN HEALTH CARE - Diversity and Division in Medicine: Health Care in South Africa from the 1800s. By Anne Digby. Studies in the History of Medicine 5. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2006. Pp. 504. £55, paperback (ISBN 978-3-03910-715-5).

A USEFUL SYNTHESIS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ANGOLAN HISTORY - Angola: The Weight of History. Edited by Patrick Chabal and Nuno Vidal. London: Hurst & Company, 2007. Pp. iv+246. £45, hardback (isbn978-1-85065-880-1); £17.99, paperback (isbn978-1-85065-884-9).

LABOUR CULTURE IN EAST AFRICA'S CARAVANS - Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-century East Africa. By Stephen J. Rockel. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006. Pp. xix+345. £16.95/$29.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-325-07133-6).

A COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE FRENCH AND PORTUGUESE EMPIRES IN AFRICA SINCE 1930 - Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930–1961. By Alexander Keese. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2007. Pp. 344. €46, paperback (isbn978-3-515-09032-2).

ON THE IRRELEVANCE OF THE STATE IN RURAL UGANDA - Beyond the State in Rural Uganda. By Ben Jones. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2009. Pp. xx+199. £65, hardback (ISBN: 978-0-7486-3518-4).

CONTESTING NOTIONS OF AUTHORITY AND OF PROPER MUSLIM PRACTICES - Islam and the Prayer Economy. History and Authority in a Malian Town. By Benjamin F. Soares. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005. Pp. xiv+306. £55 (isbn978-0-7846-2285-6); £17.99, paperback (isbn978-0-7486-2358-7).

POPULAR DANCE MUSIC AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN ZAIRE UNDER MOBUTU - Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire. By Bob W. White. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xix+300. £51, hardback (isbn978-0-8223-4091-1); £12.99, paperback (isbn978-0-8223-4112-3).

A STATE-LED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN POSTCOLONIAL TANZANIA - Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania. By Jamie Monson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. ix+199. £25.99/$39.95, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35271-2).

TOWNSHIP POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN ZIMBABWE - The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe: Harare and Highfield, 1940–1964. By Timothy Scarnecchia. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+220. $80, hardback (isbn978-1-58046-281-5).

THE NILE REGION AS A SHARED THEATRE OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES - Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities. Edited by Israel Gershoni and Meir Hatina. Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. Pp. viii+275. £49.50/$59.95, hardback (ISBN 978-1-58826-3).

MEMORIES OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN GHANA - Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana. By Bayo Holsey. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. xiii+280. $53 (isbn978-0-22634-975-6); $21, paperback (isbn978-0-22634-976-3).

A BOLD ATTEMPT TO WRITE THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA - A History of Nigeria. By Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xxxvi+329. £45 (isbn978-0-521-86294-3); £15.99, paperback (isbn978-0-521-68157-5).

A TRADING NETWORK AND ITS SOUTH AFRICAN NODE - Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company. By Kerry Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+340. £45, hardback (ISBN 978-0-521-88586-7).

A REVISIONIST VIEW OF SHAKA - Myth of Iron: Shaka in History. By Dan Wylie. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. Pp. xviii+615. £19.95, paperback (isbn978-0-85255-441-8).

AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE ON AFRICAN CINEMA - Dictionary of African Filmmakers. By Roy Armes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+397. £42/$65, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35116-6).

A HETEROGENEOUS VOLUME OF YORUBA HISTORY AND CULTURE - The Yoruba in Transition: History, Values, and Modernity. Edited by Toyin Falola and Ann Genova. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2006. Pp. xxxvii+498. $55 (isbn1-59460-134-8).

LITTLE NEWS ON MAU MAU - Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya. By S. M. Shamsul Alam. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xiii+249. £42.50/$74.95, hardback (isbn978-1-4039-8374-9).

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