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Volume 42 - July 2001

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LEPROSY: People are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali. By ERIC SILLA. Oxford: James Currey and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. Pp. xi + 220. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-680-2); £15.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-630-6).

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Historical Dictionary of The Gambia. By ARNOLD HUGHES and HARRY A. GAILEY. Third Edition. Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 1999. Pp. xxii+231. £41.25 (ISBN 0-8108-3660-2).

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AFRICAN METROPOLIS Historical Dictionary of Greater Johannesburg. By NAOMI MUSIKER and REUBEN MUSIKER. (Historical Dictionaries of Cities of the World). Folkestone: Scarecrow Press, 1999. Pp. viii+480. £88.65 (ISBN 0-8108-3520-7).

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SWAZILAND When the Sleeping Grass Awakens: Land and Power in Swaziland. By RICHARD LEVIN. Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand Press, 1997. Pp. 290. SA Rand 98.94 (ISBN 1-86814-301-5).

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THE POPULAR FRONT IN AFRICA AND BEYOND: French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front: Hope and Disillusion. Edited by TONY CHAFER and AMANDA SACKUR. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp. xv + 264. £45 (ISBN 0-333-72973-0).

FULBE IN SIERRA LEONE: Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone: A Case History of Twentieth-Century Migration and Settlement among the Kissi of Koindu. By M. ALPHA BAH. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. x + 191. £25 (ISBN 0-8204-2180-4).

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ETHIOPIA The Ethiopians. By RICHARD PANKHURST. (Peoples of Africa series). Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. xx+299. £45/$59.95 (ISBN 0-631-18468-6).

SCHOLARSHIP AND POPULIST POLEMIC L'État libre du Congo: Paradis perdu. By JULES MARCHAL. Borgloon, Belgium: Editions Paula Bellings, 1996. 2 vols. Pp. 399+429. Paperback, no price given (ISBN 2-9600123-0-5).

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‘WITCHES’, ‘CANNIBALS’ AND WAR IN LIBERIA: The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War. By STEPHEN ELLIS. London: C. Hurst, 1999. Pp. xix + 350. £35.40 (ISBN 1-85065-401-8); £16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-417-4).

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IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA AND BEYOND The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. By PHILLIP D. CURTIN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+294. $27.50/£19.95 (ISBN 0-521-77135-8).

SEEKING POLITICAL SOLUTIONS FOR NIGERIA Inter-Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution in Nigeria. Edited by ERNEST E. UWAZIE, ISAAC O. ALBERT and GODFREY N. UZOIGWE. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. Pp. ix+172. $40 (ISBN 0-7391-0033-5).

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DUALA LANDS AND COLONIAL REGIMES Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel: Douala 1880 bis 1960. By ANDREAS ECKERT. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999 (Beiträge zur Kolonial- und Überseegeschichte, Band 70). Pp. X+504; DM 144.00, paperback (ISBN 3-515-06777-9).

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TRANSCENDING THE LIMITS OF MICROHISTORY: Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-Century Cape Characters. By NIGEL PENN. Hilversum: Verloren, 1999. Pp. viii + 195. F35, paperback (ISBN 90-6550-054-5).

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Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Second edition. By D. ELWOOD DUNN, AMOS J. BEYAN and CARL PATRICK BURROWES. (African Historical Dictionaries, 83). Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Pp. xxxv+436. £61.75 (ISBN 0-8108- 1767-5).

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THE SWISS IN GHANA: Afrika macht oder bricht einen Mann: Sozialers Verhalten und politische Einschätzung einer Kolonialgesellschaft am Beispiel der Schweizer in Ghana, 1945–1966. By RENÉ LENZIN. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1999. Pp. 272. S.F. 29.80, paperback (ISBN 3-905141-72-8).

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ETHNIC IDENTITIES Ethnicity in Ghana: The Limits of Invention. Edited by CAROLA LENTZ and PAUL NUGENT. London: Macmillan, New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000. Pp. xi+236. £42.50 (ISBN 0-312-22405-2).

ALFRED XUMA'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE ANC Alfred B. Xuma: African, American, South African. By STEVEN D. GISH. London: Macmillan Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+305. £45 (ISBN 0-333-67073-6).

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BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY: ‘Il flagello degli shiavisti’: Romolo Gessi in Sudan, 1874–1881. By MASSIMO ZACCARIA. Ravenna: Fernandel, 1999. Pp. 269. 32,000 Lire (ISBN 88-87433-08-9).

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Historical Dictionary of Djibouti. By DAOUD A. ALWAN and YOHANIS MIBRATHU (African Historical Dictionaries, 82). Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii–165. £57.00 (ISBN 0-8108-3873-7).

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