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Volume 49 - December 2006

Book Reviews

History - Robin Law. Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving “Port,” 1727–1892. Athens: Ohio University Press/Oxford: James Currey, 2004. vii + 308 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $29.95. Paper.

Anthropology & Sociology - Joseph K. Adjaye. Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004. viii + 195 pp. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth.

Education

Frances Vavrus. Desire and Decline: Schooling amid Crisis in Tanzania. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2003. xv + 168 pp. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

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History - Leopold Scholtz. Why the Boers Lost the War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. xiv + 202. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth.

Anthropology & Sociology - Brenda Chalfin. Shea Butter Republic: State Power, Global Markets, and the Making of an Indigenous Commodity. New York: Routledge, 2004. xx + 295 pp. Photographs. Tables. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $ 33.95. Paper.

Education

Carol Sicherman. Becoming an African University: Makerere 1922–2000. Trenton N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xxii + 416 pp. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

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Literature & The Arts - Babatunde Olatunji, with Robert Atkinson. The Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005. vii + 247 pp. Photographs. Index. $68.50. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

Literature & The Arts - Sam Hilu and Irwin Hersey. Bogolanfini Mud Cloth. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2005. 160 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. $49.95. Cloth.

Archaeology - Graham Connah. Forgotten Africa: An Introduction to Its Archaeology. London: Routledge, 2004. xiii + 193 pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $33.95. Paper.

Geography, Environment, Demography

Kate B. Showers. Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xxix + 346 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Diagrams. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Cloth.

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Economics & Development - Thandika Mkandawire and Charles C. Soludo eds. African Voices on Structural Adjustment. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2003. viii + 505 pp. Tables. Notes. $29.95. Paper.

Geography, Environment, Demography

Ruth Noorduyn. The Assertion of Rights to Agro-pastoral Land in North Cameroon: A Cascade to Violence? Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2005. Research Report 76. xv + 408 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. No price reported. Paper.

Book Reviews

Politics - Iddrisu Haruna. Zero Tolerance: Public Sector Corruption in Ghana. Accra: I. Haruna, 2003. xv + 130 pp. No price reported. Paper.

Geography, Environment, Demography

David McDermott Hughes. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. Maps. Bibliography. Index. No Price Reported. Cloth.

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Politics - Roger Pfister. Apartheid South Africa and African States: From Pariah to Middle Power, 1961–1994. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2005. xvi + 248 pp. Map. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $69.50. Cloth.

Geography, Environment, Demography

Michael Bollig. Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment: A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies. New York: Springer, 2006. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $125.00. Cloth.

Book Reviews

Geography & Environment - Quentin Gausset, Michael A. White, and Torben Birch-Thomsen, eds. Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflicts Over Natural Resource Management. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2005. 218 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. References. Bibliography. 22. Cloth.

Women & Gender - Heidi Nast. Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 288 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $68.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper.

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Volume 49 - December 2006

Book Reviews

Education

Book Reviews

Education

Book Reviews

Geography, Environment, Demography

Book Reviews

Geography, Environment, Demography

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Geography, Environment, Demography

Book Reviews

Geography, Environment, Demography

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