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Volume 45 - 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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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).

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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