Volume 51; Issue 2

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Volume 51; Issue 2

African Studies Review

Volume 51; Issue 2

1

History of the City of Gondarby Solomon Getahun

Review by: Heran Sereke-Brhan

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 290 KB

english, 2008

2

Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary Worldby Carolyn Nordstrom

Review by: Béatrice Hibou

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 404 KB

english, 2008

3

Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin: A Study of Their Socio-Political Roleby Patrick Claffey

Review by: Jane E. Soothill

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 392 KB

english, 2008

4

Front Matter

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.26 MB

english, 2008

5

Individualism, Community, and Cooperatives in the Development Thinking of the Union Soudanaise-RDA, 1946-1960

Monica M. van Beusekom

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.90 MB

english, 2008

6

Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s-1960s

Brett L. Shadle

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.73 MB

english, 2008

7

Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin

Douglas J. Falen

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.70 MB

english, 2008

8

Reading the Diary of Akinpelu Obisesan in Colonial Africa

Olufunke Adeboye

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.71 MB

english, 2008

9

A Critical Examination of Honor Cultures and Herding Societies in Africa

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.22 MB

english, 2008

10

Wage Labor, Precarious Employment, and Social Inclusion in the Making of South Africa's Postapartheid Transition

Franco Barchiesi

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 2.64 MB

english, 2008

11

Chief of Station, Congo: A Memoir of 1960-67by Larry Devlin

Review by: Herbert F. Weiss

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 378 KB

english, 2008

12

Practicing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory and Performanceby Gregory H. Maddox; Ernest M. Kongola;A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzaniaby James L. Giblin;In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority and Dissidence in Tanzaniaby Gregory H. Maddox; James L. Giblin

Review by: Kirk A. Hoppe

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 570 KB

english, 2008

13

Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisisby Colin Murray; Peter Sanders

Review by: Richard F. Weisfelder

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 487 KB

english, 2008

14

Playful Performers: African Children's Masqueradesby Simon Ottenberg; David A. Binkley

Review by: Ferdinand de Jong

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 267 KB

english, 2008

15

The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziakuby Stephanie Newell

Review by: Kristin Mann

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 282 KB

english, 2008

16

The King of Drinks: Schnapps Gin from Modernity to Traditionby Dmitri van den Bersselaar

Review by: Charles Ambler

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 278 KB

english, 2008

17

A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuaryby Jeremy Rich

Review by: Laurent Fourchard

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 405 KB

english, 2008

18

African Underclass: Urbanisation, Class and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaamby Andrew Burton

Review by: Kirk Arden Hoppe

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 271 KB

english, 2008

19

A History of Sub-Saharan Africaby Robert O. Collins; James M. Burns

Review by: Kenneth Wilburn

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 284 KB

english, 2008

20

Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformedby William F. S. Miles

Review by: Michal Ran

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 289 KB

english, 2008

21

International Organizations and Peace Enforcement: The Politics of International Legitimacyby Katharina P. Coleman

Review by: Mark Davidheiser

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 287 KB

english, 2008

22

Getting in: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflictsby Mohammed O. Maundi; I. William Zartman; Gilbert M. Khadiagala; Kwaku Nuamah

Review by: Laurie Nathan

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 286 KB

english, 2008

23

Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodiaby Edward Kissi

Review by: Fikru Gebrekidan

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 273 KB

english, 2008

24

Exilés, réfugiés, déplacés en Afrique centrale et orientaleby André Guichaoua

Review by: Jude Murison

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 277 KB

english, 2008

25

Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africaby Olufemi Vaughan

Review by: Elizabeth Normandy

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 280 KB

english, 2008

26

China and Africa: Engagement and Compromiseby Ian Taylor;China in Africaby Margaret C. Lee; Henning Melber; Sanusha Naidu; Ian Taylor

Review by: Jean Kachiga

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 387 KB

english, 2008

27

African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islamby Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

Review by: Bereket Habte Selassie

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 268 KB

english, 2008

28

A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocideby Eric Reeves

Review by: Scott Straus

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 396 KB

english, 2008

29

Women and Conflict in the Nigerian Civil Warby Egodi Uchendu

Review by: Felix K. Ekechi

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 275 KB

english, 2008

30

Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africaby David M. Gordon

Review by: Jacob Tropp

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 302 KB

english, 2008

31

Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africaby Richard C. Keller

Review by: James McDougall

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 274 KB

english, 2008

32

Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghanaby Jane E. Soothill

Review by: Patrick Claffey

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 286 KB

english, 2008

33

African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collectionby Christine Mullen Kreamer; Bryna Freyer; Andrea Nicolls

Review by: Pascal James Imperato

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 254 KB

english, 2008

34

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to Americaby Sylviane A. Diouf

Review by: Lisa A. Lindsay

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 283 KB

english, 2008

35

The Media and Conflicts in Central Africaby Marie-Soleil Frère

Review by: Emizet F. Kisangani

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 328 KB

english, 2008

36

Books Received

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 965 KB

english, 2008

37

Back Matter

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 3.15 MB

english, 2008

38

Burton Andrew. African Underclass: Urbanisation, Class and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam. Eastern African Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press; Nairobi: British Institute in East Africa; Oxford: James Currey Publishers; Dar es Salaam: Mkuti wa Nyota, 2005. xviii + 301 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Hoppe, Kirk Arden

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 331 KB

english, 2008

39

On the Cusp of Colonial Rule: Medicine Murder in Lesotho

Weisfelder, Richard F.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 453 KB

english, 2008

40

ASR volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 11.78 MB

english, 2008

41

Kissi Edward. Revolution and Genocide in Ethiopia and Cambodia. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006. xxxvi + 189 pp. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. $77.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.

Gebrekidan, Fikru

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 344 KB

english, 2008

42

Claffey Patrick. Christian Churches in Dahomey-Benin: A Study of Their Sociopolitical Role. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Studies of Religion in Africa: Supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa, vol. 31. viii + 328 pp. Photographs. Notes. Appendixes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth.

Soothill, Jane E.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 408 KB

english, 2008

43

Gordon David M.. Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. xiii + 304 pp. Photographs. Figures. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $60.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 346 KB

english, 2008

44

Miles William F. S., ed. Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. xi + 221 pp. Map. Notes. Bibliography. List of Contributors. Index. $49.95. Cloth.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 338 KB

english, 2008

45

Books Received

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 712 KB

english, 2008

46

Guichaoua André, ed. Exilés, réfugiés, déplacés en Afrique centrale et orientate. Paris: Karthala, 2004. 1066 pp. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. €48. Paper.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 350 KB

english, 2008

47

Nordstrom Carolyn. Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. xxi + 234 pp. Photographs. Notes. References. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $21.95. Paper.

Hibou, Béatrice

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 415 KB

english, 2008

48

Soothill Jane E.. Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power: Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. Studies of Religion in Africa series, xii + 261 pp. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth.

Claffey, Patrick

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 352 KB

english, 2008

49

Rich Jeremy. A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization series, xx + 220 pp. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

Fourchard, Laurent

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 417 KB

english, 2008

50

Coleman Katharina P.. International Organizations and Peace Enforcement: The Politics of International Legitimacy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiii + 360 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Abbreviations. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $36.99. Paper.

Davidheiser, Mark

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 352 KB

english, 2008

51

Reading the Diary of Akinpelu Obisesan in Colonial Africa

Adeboye, Olufunke

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.64 MB

english, 2008

52

Renton David, Seddon David, and Zeilig Leo. The Congo: Plunder and Resistance. London and New York: Zed Books, 2007. Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave MacMillan. vii + 243 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $99.00. Cloth. $31.00. Paper.

Tshimanga, Charles

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 355 KB

english, 2008

53

Collins Robert O. and Burns James M.. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 406 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $27.99. Paper.

Wilburn, Kenneth

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 351 KB

english, 2008

54

Getahun Solomon. History of the City of Gondar. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xi + 278 pp. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes. $29.95. Paper.

Sereke-Brhan, Heran

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 355 KB

english, 2008

55

Vaughan Olufemi, ed. Tradition and Politics: Indigenous Political Structures in Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. 395 pp. Endnotes. References. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Normandy, Elizabeth

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 348 KB

english, 2008

56

Diouf Sylviane A.. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 340 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Cloth.

Lindsay, Lisa A.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 352 KB

english, 2008

57

Exploring State and Society in Tanzania

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 498 KB

english, 2008

58

An-Na'im Abdullahi Ahmed. African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. xii + 199 pp. References. Index. $65.00. Cloth.

Selassie, Bereket Habte

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 343 KB

english, 2008

59

Ottenberg Simon and Binkley David A., eds. Playful Performers: African Children's Masquerades. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2006. 268 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth.

de Jong, Ferdinand

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 340 KB

english, 2008

60

Taylor Ian. China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise. New York: Routledge, 2006. vi + 230 pp. Bibliography. Index. $150.00. Cloth.Lee Margaret C., Melber Henning, Naidu Sanusha, and Taylor Ian; compiled by Melber Henning. China in Africa. Uppsala: The Nordic Africa Institute, 2007. Current African Issues No. 35. 46 pp. Figures. Notes. References. Appendix. €9. Paper.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 407 KB

english, 2008

61

Maundi Mohammed O., Zartman I. William, Khadiagala Gilbert M., and Nuamah Kwaku. Getting In: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006. xiii + 229 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $17.50. Paper.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 353 KB

english, 2008

62

ASR volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 2.97 MB

english, 2008

63

Uchendu Egodi. Women and Conflict in the Nigerian Civil War. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. xviii + 307 pp. Photographs. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Ekechi, Felix K.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 347 KB

english, 2008

64

Individualism, Community, and Cooperatives in the Development Thinking of the Union Soudanaise-RDA, 1946–1960

van Beusekom, Monica M.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.73 MB

english, 2008

65

Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin

Falen, Douglas J.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.63 MB

english, 2008

66

Keller Richard C.. Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. xi + 294 pp. Photographs. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00. Cloth. $25.00. Paper.

McDougall, James

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 345 KB

english, 2008

67

Reeves Eric. A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide. Toronto: The Key Publishing House, 2007. 360 pp. Photographs. Maps. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $37.99. Paper.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 411 KB

english, 2008

68

Kreamer Christine Mullen, with contributions from Bryna Freyer and Andrea Nicolls and an introducton by Martin Sklar. African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; Munich and New York: Prestel, 2007. xix + 235 pp. Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. $65.00. Cloth.

Imperato, Pascal James

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

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PDF, 336 KB

english, 2008

69

From the Editors

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African Studies Review

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2008

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english

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PDF, 414 KB

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70

A Critical Examination of Honor Cultures and Herding Societies in Africa

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.35 MB

english, 2008

71

den Bersselaar Dmitri van. The King of Drinks: Schnapps Gin from Modernity to Tradition. African Social Studies Series, vol. 18. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. xiv + 268 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Paper.

Ambler, Charles

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 335 KB

english, 2008

72

Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s–1960s

Shadle, Brett L.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.62 MB

english, 2008

73

Newell Stephanie. The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. vii + 233 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $46.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 336 KB

english, 2008

74

Frère Marie-Soleil. The Media and Conflicts in Central Africa. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. viii + 287 pp. Maps. Notes. List of Acronyms. Bibliography. Index. $52.00. Cloth. $22.50. Paper.

Kisangani, Emizet F.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 360 KB

english, 2008

75

Wage Labor, Precarious Employment, and Social Inclusion in the Making of South Africa's Postapartheid Transition

Barchiesi, Franco

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 1.59 MB

english, 2008

76

Inside The cia: Congo in the 1980s

Weiss, Herbert F.

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 377 KB

english, 2008

77

The Congo: Plunder and Resistanceby David Renton; David Seddon; Leo Zeilig

Review by: Charles Tshimanga

Journal:

African Studies Review

Year:

2008

Language:

english

File:

PDF, 367 KB

english, 2008