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THE WAS, THE IS AND THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
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- 22 December 2008, pp. 467-474
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VARIOUS APPROACHES TO AFRICA'S URBAN PAST - Villes d'Afrique: Explorations en histoire urbaine. Edited by Jean-Luc Vellut. (Cahiers Africains, 73). Paris: L'Harmattan, 2007. Pp. 237. €22.50, paperback (isbn978-2-296-03685-7).
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- 23 April 2008, pp. 138-140
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A GLOBAL HISTORY OF THE SLAVE TRADE - Les traites négrières: essai d'histoire globale. By Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2004. Pp. 468. €32, paperback (isbn2-07-073499-4).
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- 24 September 2008, pp. 306-308
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THE BLACK ATLANTIC FROM AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE - Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora. Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+509. $59.95; £33 (isbn978-0-253-34919-4).
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- 22 December 2008, pp. 475-476
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DUTCH SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY DOCUMENTS ON THE GOLD COAST - Expeditie naar de Goudkust. Het journaal van Jan Dirckz Lam over de Nederlandse aanval op Elmina, 1624–1626. Edited by Henk Den Heijer. Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 2006. Pp. 208. €25 (isbn90-5730-445-7).
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- 24 September 2008, pp. 308-309
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THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF OIL IN AFRICA - Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil. By Nicholas Shaxson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. Pp. viii+280. No price given (isbn978-1-4039-7194-4).
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- 23 April 2008, pp. 140-141
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AFRICAN IDENTITY AS A DIASPORIC CREATION? - Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic. By James Sidbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix+291. $29.95 (isbn978-0-195-32010-7).
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- 22 December 2008, pp. 476-478
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HEINRICH BARTH'S TRAVELOGUE AS A SOURCE FOR AFRICAN HISTORY - Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique. Edited by Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias and Gerd Spittler. Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe, 2006. Pp. 286. €39.80, paperback (isbn978-3-89645-220-7).
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- 23 April 2008, pp. 141-143
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TREES, SOCIAL POWER, AND ECOSYSTEMS - African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change. Edited by Michael J. Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2008. Pp. x+230. £45 (isbn978-1-84701-401-6 James Currey); £16.95 paperback (isbn978-1-84701-400-9 James Currey); R160, paperback (isbn978-1-86888-494-0 UNISA); $59.95 (isbn10-0-8214-1788-6 Ohio University Press); $26.95 paperback (isbn10-0-8214-1789-4 Ohio University Press).
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- 22 December 2008, pp. 478-479
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ACADEMIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND COLONIAL RULE - Ordering Africa. Anthropology, European Imperialism, and the Politics of Knowledge. Edited by Helen Tilley with Robert J. Gordon. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+390. £60; $84.95 (isbn978-0-7190-6239).
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- 24 September 2008, pp. 309-311
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SOCIAL HISTORY AND EVERYDAY LITERACY - Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy And Making the Self. Edited by Karin Barber. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. Pp. xii+452. $75 (isbn978-0-253-34729-9); $29, paperback (isbn978-0-253-21843-8).
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- 23 April 2008, pp. 143-144
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MISSIONS AND COLONIAL RULE - Missions, States and European Expansion in Africa. Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Raphael Chijioke Njoku. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xi+302. No price given (isbn0-415-95559-9).
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- 22 December 2008, pp. 479-481
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SWISS MISSIONARIES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AFRICA - Butterflies & Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries & Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. By Patrick Harries. Oxford: James Currey, 2007. Pp. xviii+286. £55 (isbn978-085255-984–0); £19.95, paperback (isbn978-085255-983-3).
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- 24 September 2008, pp. 311-313
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LIVERPOOL'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE SLAVE TRADE - Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press/National Museums Liverpool/Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 2007. Pp. xii+315. £50 (isbn978-1-84631-066-9).
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- 22 December 2008, pp. 481-482
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AFRICAN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN AMERICA - African Immigrant Religions in America. Edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Pp. vii+352. $23 (isbn978-8147-6212-7).
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- 24 September 2008, pp. 313-314
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THE SLOW SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA - The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885–1950. By A. E. Afigbo. Rochester, NY:University of Rochester Press, 2006. Pp. xv+208. $75/£45 (isbn1-58046-242-1).
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- 23 April 2008, pp. 144-146
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CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? - Muslim–Christian Encounters in Africa. Edited by Benjamin F. Soares. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. x+310. €98 (isbn10-90-04-15264-4).
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- 24 September 2008, pp. 314-315
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TRANSFORMATIONS IN SLAVERY IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION - Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. Edited by Henri Médard and Shane Doyle. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press;Nairobi: EAEP; Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2007. Pp. xiv+273. £55 (isbn978-184701-602-7); £17.95, paperback (isbn978-1847 01-603-4).
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- 23 April 2008, pp. 146-147
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THE RISE OF THE ‘LIVERPOOL OF WEST AFRICA’ - Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900. By Kristin Mann. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+473. $55 (isbn978-0-253-34884-5).
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- 22 December 2008, pp. 482-484
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THE MURID COMMUNITY OF DAROU MOUSTY - Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal: The Murid Order. By John Glover. Rochester: The University of Rochester Press, 2007. Pp. viii+236. No price given (isbn978-1-58046-268-6).
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- 24 September 2008, pp. 316-317
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