Volume 58 - April 2015
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HISTORY
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Tanja R. Müller. Legacies of Socialist Solidarity: East Germany in Mozambique.Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014. xvi + 205 pp. List of Figures. List of Tables. List of Acronyms. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth. - Ulrich Van der Heyden, Wolfgang Semmler, and Ralf Straßburg, eds. Mosambikanische Vertragsarbeiter in der DDR-Wirtschaft: Hintergründe–Verlauf–Folgen. (Mozambican Contract Laborers in the GDR Economy: Background–Course–Consequences.) Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014. Appendix. Index. €39.90. Paper.
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ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
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Mike McGovern. Unmasking the State: Making Guinea Modern. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xvi + 293 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $87.00 Cloth. $29.00 Paper. Also E-book. ISBN: 978-0226925103.
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Mustafa Mirzeler. Remembering Nayeche and the Gray Bull Engiro: African Storytellers of the Karamoja Plateau and the Plains of Turkana. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. xxi + 365 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1442626317.
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ASR FORUM ON WOMEN AND GENDER IN AFRICA: PART 1
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Rhiannon Stephens. A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700–1900.New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xvi + 223 pp. List of Maps and Figures. Acknowledgments. Note on Language. Vocabulary List. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1107030800.
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Annie E. Coombes, Lotte Hughes, and Karega-Munene. Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya. London: I. B.Tauris, 2014. xviii + 258 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth.
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Emily S. Burrill. States of Marriage: Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015. xiv + 239 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 780-821421451.
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Maria Grosz-Ngate, John H. Hanson, and Patrick O’Meara, eds. Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. 4th edition. viii + 376 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Contributors. Index. $35.00. Paper and E-book. ISBN: 978-0253012920.
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Myles Osborne, ed. The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2015. xviii + 282 pp. Map. Notes. Index. $26.95. Paper.
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Raymond E. Dumett. Imperialism, Economic Development and Social Change in West Africa. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2013. xviii + 538 pp. List of Raymond Dumett’s publications. Index. $61.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1594609763.
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Abosede A. George. Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. x + 301 pp. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $80.00 Cloth. $32.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0821421161.
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POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION
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Susan Thomson. Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. xxvii + 258 pp. List of illustrations. List of abbreviations. Note on Kinyarwanda language. Glossary. Index. $27.95. Paper.
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John Laband. Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the Southern African Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. xv + 345 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Terminology. Bibliography. Index. $40.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0300180312.
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Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, and Susan Kingsley Kent. The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xiv + 278 pp. List of Illustrations. Chronology of Major Events. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Paper. ISBN 978-0325070308.
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HEALTH AND DISEASE
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William Beinart and Karen Brown. African Local Knowledge and Livestock Health: Diseases and Treatments in South Africa. Woodbridge, U.K.: James Currey, 2013. xvi + 304 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $90.00. Cloth.
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LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS
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Adeshina Afolayan, ed. Auteuring Nollywood: Critical Perspectives on The Figurine. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, 2014. 457 pp. No price reported.
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Tiffany Willoughby-Herard. Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xviii + 171 pp. Illustrations. Endnotes. Appendixes. Bibliography. $65.00. Cloth. IBSN-978-0-520-28086-1.
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Alicia C. Decker. In Idi Amin’s Shadow: Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014. xviii + 244 pp. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Note on the Use of Names. Appendix: Methods and Sources. Notes. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-0821421185.
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MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHY
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Lisa Lindsay and John Wood Sweet, eds. Biography and the Black Atlantic. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. xiv + 370 pp. Map. Notes. Bibliography. List of Contributors. Index. $55.00. Cloth.
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Helen Dancer. Women, Land and Justice in Tanzania. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2015. East Africa Series. xxiv + 190 pp. Acknowledgments. Glossary of Kiswahili and Vernacular Words. Table of Legislation. Table of Cases. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1847011138.
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Piero Gleijeses. Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976‒1991. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. xiv + 655 pp. Maps and Illustrations. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Index. $32.00. Cloth. ISBN: 978-1469609683.
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