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Volume 44 - March 2003

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EXPLOITATION, WITCHCRAFT AND HISTORICAL MEMORY Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone. By ROSALIND SHAW. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. Pp. xv+312. £33 (ISBN 0-226-75131-7); £13.50, paperback (ISBN 0-226-75132-5).

BELIEFS ABOUT SATAN IN EWE CHRISTIANITY Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. By BIRGIT MEYER. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi+265. £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7486-1303-X).

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JIHĀD AND DEFENSIVE MODERNIZATION IN NORTHWEST AFRICA Jihad and its Interpretations in Pre-Colonial Morocco: State–Society Relations during the French Conquest of Algeria. By AMIRA K. BENNISON. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. Pp. xviii+205. £50 (ISBN 0-7007-1693-9).

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CENTRAL AFRICAN CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFRICAN AMERICA Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora. Edited By LINDA M. HEYWOOD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £45; $64.95 (ISBN 0-521-80243-1); £15.95; $22.95, paperback (ISBN 0-521-00278-8).

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Media and Resistance Politics: The Alternative Press in Namibia, 1960–1990. (Basel Namibia Studies Series 6). By WILLIAM HEUVA. Basel: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 2001. Pp. xvi+166. CHF 48 (ISBN 3-908193-10-9).

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COASTAL AKAN STATE AND SOCIETY: PRE-COLONIAL APPOLONIA I signori di Appolonia: poteri e formazione dello Stato in Africa occidentale fra xvi e xviii secolo. By PIERLUIGI VALSECCHI. Rome: Carocci, 2002. Pp. 345. €19.30, paperback (ISBN 88-430-2146-X).

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR RE-SURVEYED The South African War, 1899–1902. By BILL NASSON. London: Arnold, 1999. Pp. xvi+304. £45 (ISBN 0-340-74154-6); paperback, £16.99 (ISBN 0-340-61427-7).

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DECOLONIZATION POLITICS AND MID-WEST AUTONOMY Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria: Movement for a Mid-West State. By MICHAEL VICKERS. Oxford: WorldView, 2000. Pp. vii+410. £49.95 (ISBN 1-872142-43-5); £24.95, paperback (ISBN 1-872142-44-3).

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON COLONIALISM The Archaeology of Colonialism. Edited By CLAIRE L. LYONS and JOHN K. PAPADOPOULOS. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2002. Pp. 284. £30, paperback (ISBN 0-89236-635-4).

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African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective. Second edition. By GRAHAM CONNAH. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+340. $65 (ISBN 0-521-59309-3); $23, paperback (ISBN 0-521-59690-4).

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TASTING MODERNITIES African Modernities. Edited by JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH, PETER PROBST and HEIKE SCHMIDT. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. viii+184. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-793-0); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-792-2).

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Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence. Edited by WILLIAM H. WORGER, NANCY L. CLARK and EDWARD A. ALPERS. Phoenix AZ: Oryx Press, 2001. Pp. ix+428. $85 (ISBN 1-57356-245-5).

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GERMAN SOURCES ON ANGOLAN HISTORY Ethnographische Aneignungen: Deutsche Forschungsreisende in Angola [Ethnographic Appropriations: German Explorers in Angola]. By BEATRIX HEINTZE. Frankfurt: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 1999. Pp. 458. €25.50 (ISBN 3-87476-343-9).

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RURAL PROTEST IN COLONIAL GHANA British Rule and Rural Protest in Southern Ghana. By LI ANSHAN. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. xvi+207. £35 (ISBN 0-8204-5188-6).

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A ‘PEOPLE'S HISTORY’ OF THE CONGO The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History. By GEORGES NZONGOLA-NTALAJA. London and New York: Zed Books, 2002. Pp. xiv+304. No price given (ISBN 1-84277-052-7); paperback (ISBN 1-84277-053).

SOCIAL HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular. By WYATT MACGAFFEY. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+274. $39.95; £26.95 (ISBN 0-253-33698-8).

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