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Volume 40 - 1999

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SWAHILI-SPEAKING WOMEN IN COURT Pronouncing and Persevering: Gender and the Discourses of Disputing in an African Islamic Court. By Susan F. Hirsch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. ix+360. $48 (ISBN 0-226-34463-0); $19, paperback (ISBN 0-226-34464-9).

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COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ABIDJAN L'énergie sociale à Abidjan: Economie politique de la ville en Afrique noire, 1930–1995. Par MARC LE PAPE. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1997. Pp. 164. FF 100 (ISBN 2-86537-766-0).

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THE BODY IN QUESTION The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body. By Alexander Butchart. London and New York: Zed Books, 1998. Pp. xiv+220. £42.50/$62.50 (ISBN 1-85649-539-6); £14.95/$22.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85649-540-X).

AGRARIAN CHANGE IN IDERE. An African Niche Economy: Farming to Feed Ibadan, 1968–88. By JANE I. GUYER. London: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 1997. Pp. xi+260. £29.95 (ISBN: 0-7486-0931-8); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7486-1033-2).

COLONIAL LAND LAW Our Laws, Their Lands: Land Laws and Land Use in Modern Colonial Societies. Edited by Japde Moor and Dietmar Rothermund. Münster, Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1994. Pp. 172. $38 (ISBN 3-8258-2097-1).

WOMEN'S WORK. African Women and Development: A History. By MARGARET C. SNYDER and MARY TADESSE. London: Zed Press, 1995. Pp. xiii+239. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85649-300-8).

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HISTORICIZING CULTURAL EXPRESSION Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the Art of the Central Pende. By Z. S. STROTHER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xxvii+348. $49.95 (ISBN 0-226-77732-4).

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A HISTORY OF PATRIMONIAL POLITICS Comrades, Clients and Cousins: Colonialism, Socialism and Democratization in São Tomé and Príncipe. By Gerhard Seibert. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWA), no. 73, 1999. Pp. xiv+465. No price given (ISBN 90-5789-017-8).

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LOVEDU HISTORY Die Lobedu Südafrikas: Mythos und Realität der Regenkönigin Modjadji. (Missions- geschichtliches Archiv, 4). Bei ELFRIED HÖCKNER. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1998. Pp. 260. DM 88 (ISBN 3-515-06794-9).

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RETHINKING MALAGASY NATIONALISM. Padesm et luttes politiques à Madagascar, de la fin de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale à la naissance du PSD. Par JEAN-ROLAND RANDRIAMARO. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1997. FF180, paperback (ISBN 2-86537-783-0).

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Decolonization. By Raymond F. Betts. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. 112. £8.99, paperback (ISBN 0-415-15236-4).

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LIBERAL POLITICS. Liberals against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953–1968. By RANDOLPH VIGNE. London: Macmillan Press, and New York: St Martin's Press, 1997. Pp. x+268. £45. (ISBN 0-333-71355-9).

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CHRISTIANITY AND PAN-AFRICANISM Orishatukeh Faduma: Liberal Theology and Evangelical Pan-Africanism, 1857–1946. By MOSES N. MOORE. Lanham, MD and London: The American Theological Library Association and the Scarecrow Press, 1996. Pp. xiii+289. £47.05 (ISBN 0-8108-3091-4).

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICA. Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa. Archaeology, History, Languages, Cultures and Environments. Edited by JOSEPH O. VOGEL. London: Sage, 1997. Pp. 605. £95 (ISBN 0-7619-8902-1).

WOMEN IN COMBAT Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey. By Stanley B. Alpern. London: Hurst, 1998. Pp. xii+280. £35 (ISBN 1-85065-361-5); £12.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-362-3).

DIPLOMATIC FACILITATOR Malcolm MacDonald: Bringing an End to Empire. By Clyde Sanger. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press; Montreal: McGill-Queen's University, 1995. Pp. xxi+498. £25 (ISBN 0-85323-902-2); $49.95 (ISBN 077351-303-5).

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AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. By ELIZABETH ISICHEI. London: SPCK, 1995. Pp. xi+420. £25, paperback (ISBN 0-281-04764-2).

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LABOUR RELATIONS IN A SETTLER COLONIAL STATE. Capital and Labour on the Rhodesian Railway System, 1888–1947. By JON LUNN. Oxford: MacMillan, 1997. Pp. xi+194; £37.50 (ISBN 0-333-65317-3).

MARRIAGE AND POWER RELATIONS. Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900–1989. By BARBARA M. COOPER. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, and Oxford: James Currey, 1997. Pp. xlix+228. $60 (ISBN 0-435-07414-8); $23.95, paperback (ISBN 0-435-07413-X).

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