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COLONIAL EDUCATION AND AFRICAN SELF-EMPOWERMENT Colonial Lessons: Africans' Education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918–1940. By CAROL SUMMERS. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. Pp. xxix+212. £45; $64.95 (ISBN 0-85255-953-4); £16.95; $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-952-6).
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- 09 March 2004, pp. 148-149
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LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND CHANGING SAVANNAS African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change. Edited by THOMAS J. BASSETT and DONALD CRUMMEY. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. 263+xvii. $27.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07128-4).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 515-516
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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).
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- 07 July 2004, pp. 335-336
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NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH IN COLONIAL MALAWI Feeding Families: African Realities and British Ideas of Nutrition and Development in Early Colonial Africa. By CYNTHIA BRANTLEY. Westwood CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. Pp. xviii+248. $64.95 (ISBN 0-325-07081-4); paperback, no price given (ISBN 0-325-07080-6).
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WOMEN'S EDUCATION AND FERTILITY DECLINE IN KINSHASA Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility. By DAVID SHAPIRO with B. OLEKO TAMBASHE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xviii+279. $37.50; £26.50 (ISBN 0-226-75057-4).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 516-517
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THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND CHANGES IN MEANING AMONG THE ANLO-EWE Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana. By SANDRA E. GREENE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xix+200. No price given (ISBN 0-253-34073-X); $19.95; £15.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21517-X).
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- 07 July 2004, pp. 336-338
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AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS HISTORY Black Business and Economic Power. Edited by ALUSINE JALLOH and TOYIN FALOLA. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002. Pp. xii+628. $67.95; £50 (ISBN 1-58046-114-x).
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- 09 March 2004, pp. 150-152
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AFRICAN COLONIES IN ITALIAN POLITICAL CULTURE A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present. Edited by PATRIZIA PALUMBO. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 332. No price given (ISBN 0-520-23232-1); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-23234-8).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 518-519
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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).
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- 07 July 2004, pp. 338-339
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INDIGENOUS AGENCY IN ‘TOP-DOWN’ DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Negotiating Development: African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger, 1920–1960. By MONICAVAN BEUSEKOM. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. Pp. xxxviii+214. $65 (ISBN 0-325-07046-6); $17.95 paperback (ISBN 0-325-07045-8).
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- 07 July 2004, pp. 340-341
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AFRICAN PERCEPTIONS OF RAILROAD WORK Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: Workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger, 1881–1963. By JAMES A. JONES. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. xxiii+154. $59.95 (ISBN 0-325-07089-X).
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- 09 March 2004, pp. 152-153
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THINKING BETWEEN FRANCE AND AFRICA Les intellectuels africains en France. By ABDOULAYE GUEYE. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. Pp. xvi+275. €22.90 (ISBN 2-7475-1641-5).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 519-521
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MULTIPLE ANGLES Nigeria in the Twentieth Century. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA (Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002). Pp. 918+xx+78 b/w illustrations. Price not given (ISBN 0-89089-129-X).
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- 09 March 2004, pp. 153-154
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INSIGHTS FROM COURT RECORDS Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s. By THOMAS V. MCCLENDON. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David Philip, 2003. Pp. xxii+234. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-956-9); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07110-1).
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- 07 July 2004, pp. 341-342
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ALGERIA: THE INDEPENDENCE WAR AND AFTER Algeria 1830–2000: A Short History. By BENJAMIN STORA. Translated by JANE MARIE TODD. Foreword by WILLIAM B. QUANDT. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+283. £22.95 (ISBN 0-8014-3715-6); £11.50; $19.95, paperback (2004) (ISBN 0-8014-3715-6).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 521-523
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BORDERS, POWER AND IDENTITY Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana–Togo Frontier. By PAUL NUGENT. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Legon: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002. Pp. xiv+302. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-473-7); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-472-9).
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- 09 March 2004, pp. 154-156
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PRODUCTIONS OF HISTORY: THE 1952 VAN RIEBEECK CELEBRATION Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts. By LESLIE WITZ. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xii+324. £22.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21613-3).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 523-524
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CHRISTIANITY IN COLONIAL KENYA The Life of Charles Muhoro Kareri. By CHARLES MUHORO KARERI. Edited with an Introduction by DEREK R. PETERSON. Translated by JOSEPH KARIUKI MURIITHI. Madison WI: The African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2003. Pp. xix+104. $17 (ISBN 0-942615-53-0).
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- 07 July 2004, pp. 343-344
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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).
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- 07 July 2004, pp. 344-346
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RECENT HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE Twenty Years of Independence in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism. Edited by STAFFAN DARNOLF and LIISA LAAKSO. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xviii+245. £55 (ISBN 0-333-80453-8).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 524-525
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