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Volume 53 - March 2015

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Africa and the Expansion of International Society: Surrendering the Savannah, by John Anthony Pella Jr. London: Routledge, 2014, Pp. 204. £85 (hbk)

The New Kings of Crude: China, India and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan, by Luke Patey London: Hurst and Company, 2014. Pp. 357. £25 (pbk)

Building the Ghanaian Nation-State: Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism by Harcourt Fuller New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 296. £56·50 (hbk)

Charting Transformation through Security: Contemporary EU–Africa Relations by Toni Haastrup Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 239. £57·50 (hbk)

Dictators and Democracy in African Development: The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria by A. Carl Levan Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 282. £60 (hbk)

Predicaments of Mursi (Mun) Women in Ethiopia's Changing World by Shauna LaTosky Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2013. Pp. 260. $49.80 (pbk)

Transnational Companies and Security Governance: Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World by Jana Hönke Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. Pp. 234. £85 (hbk)

Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party Formation by Sebastian Elischer New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xvi + 319. $30 (pbk)

Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui London: Nordic Africa Institute and Zed Books, 2014. Pp. 256. £21·99 (pbk)

Poor Numbers: How we are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It by Morten Jerven Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013, xx + 187 pp. $22.95 (pbk)

Eritrea at a Crossroads: A Narrative of Triumph, Betrayal and Hope, by Andeberhan Welde Giorgis Strategic Publishing and Rights Co. Pp. xv + 661. $36.50 (pbk)

Globalizing Somalia: Multilateral, International and Transnational Repercussions of Conflict, edited by Emma Leonard and Gilbert Ramsay New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Pp. 304. £21·99 (pbk)

The Political Economy of Tanzania: Decline and Recovery by Michael F. Lofchie Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp. 255. $59.95 (hbk)

Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan by Mark Fathi Massoud New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 277. $34.99 (pbk)

Searching for the normal in the wake of the Liberian war by Sharon Alane Abramowitz Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. Pp 268. $65 (hbk)

Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song by Jean Ngoya Kidula Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. 312. £19·99 (pbk)

Resilience in South Sudanese Women: Hope for Daughters of the Nile, by Godriver Wanga-Odhiambo Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2014. Pp. 215. $85 (hbk)

Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation by Ananda Breed London: Seagull Books, 2014. Pp. 221. £24·50 (pbk)

Rwanda 1994: The Myth of the Akazu Genocide Conspiracy and Its Consequences by Barrie Collins Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 272. £65·00 (hbk)

Sects & Social Disorder: Muslim Identities and Conflict in Northern Nigeria, edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha Woodbridge: James Currey, 2014. Pp. 234. $90 (hbk)

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