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Volume 48 - Issue 1 - April 2005

History

Walter Hawthorne. Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400–1900. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2003. xvi + 258 pp. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Peter Ucko series ed. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. 8 vols. London: UCL Press, 2003. Distributed by Cavendish Publishing, c/o International Specialized Book Services, 5824 NE Hassalo St., Portland, Ore. 97213-3444. $47.50 each. Paper.

Law and Human Rights

J. I. Levitt, ed. Africa: Selected Documents on Constitutive, Conflict and Security, Humanitarian, and Judicial Issues. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 2003. xvi + 451 pp. $125.00. Cloth.

Literature and The Arts

Melissa Thackway. Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press/Cape Town: James Philip/Oxford: James Currey, 2003. x + 230 pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $ 27.95. Paper.

Maxine Sample, ed. Critical Essays on Bessie Head. Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies, No. 205. xii + 150 pp. Index. $61.00. Cloth.

Martin Banham, ed. A History of Theatre in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Bibliography. Index. $130.00. Cloth.

Brent Hayes Edwards. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. 397 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.

Constantine Petridis. South of the Sahara: Selected Works of African Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003. Distributed by the University of Washington Press. 128 pp. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. $45.00. Cloth. $30.00. Paper.

Daniel P. Reed. Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Côte d'Ivoire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 212 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. For related audio and video recordings, see http://iupress.indiana.edu/reed/.

Memoirs & Biography

James Fairhead, Tim Geysbeek, Svend E. Holsoe, and Melissa Leach, eds. African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. 504 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth.

Trevor Clark. Good Second Class: Memories of a Generalist Overseas Administrator. Stanhope, U.K.: The Memoir Club, 2004. xiv + 303 pp. Photographs. Map. £17:50. Cloth.

John M. Chernoff. Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. xv + 480 pp. Glossary. $22.50. Paper.

Politics

Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison. The Failure of the United Nations Development Programs for Africa. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 2003. xiii + 154 pp. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $29.00. Paper.

Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood. Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787. London: Routledge, 2003. xi + 194 pp. Index. $28.95. Paper.

Dele Olowu and James S. Wunsch et al. Local Governance in Africa: The Challenges of Democratic Governance. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 2004. x + 310 pp. Bibliography. Index. $58.00. Cloth.

Nigel Eltringham. Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda. London: Pluto Press, 2004. xv + 232 pp. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Howard W. French. A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. xvii +280 pp. Photographs. Notes. Index. No price reported. Cloth.

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Volume 48 - Issue 1 - April 2005

History

Law and Human Rights

Literature and The Arts

Memoirs & Biography

Politics