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Volume 41 - Issue 1 - April 1998

Geography, Environment, and Demography

Book Reviews

Jonathan Adams and Thomas McShane. The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusions. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 282 pp. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper.

Martin W. Lewis and Kären E. Wigen The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xv + 344 pp. Index. Endnotes. $55.00 Cloth. $19.95. Paper.

Health and Disease

Book Reviews

Jan Hoorweg, Dick Foeken, and Wijnand Klaver. Seasons and Nutrition at the Kenya Coast. Leiden: Leiden African Studies Centre, 1995. xi + 144 pp. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Tables. $38.95. Paper.

History

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Francis J. Elian Ali-Ogba: A History of Ogba People. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishing Co., 1995. Distributed by African Books Collective, Ltd., Oxford, xiii + 226 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $18.00. Paper.

Emmanuel Akyeampong. Drink, Power and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1880 to Recent Times. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1996. xxii + 189 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $60. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

Dauril Alden. The Making of an Enterprise: The Society of Jesus in Portugal, Its Empire, and Beyond. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. xxxi + 661 pp. Abbreviations. Appendices. Bibliography. Glossary. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $75. Cloth.

R. W Beachey. A History of East Africa, 1592–1902. London & New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 1996. xiv + 464 pp. Index. Photographs. Notes. $59.50. Cloth.

Human Rights

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Gaim Kibreab. Ready and Waiting…but still waiting: Eritrean Refugees in Sudan and the Dilemma of Return. Uppsala: Life and Peace Institute, 1996. 222 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Tables. $18. Paper.

Literature and the Arts

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Odile Cazenave. Femmes rebelles: Naissance d'un nouveau roman africain au féminin. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996. 349 pp. No price reported.

Laila Ibnlfassi and Nicki Hitchcott, eds. African Francophone Writing: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Berg, 1996. xl + 215 pp. Chronology. Index. Notes. $16.95. Paper.

Karin Barber, John Collins, and Alain Ricard. West African Popular Theatre. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indian University Press and Oxford: James Currey, 1997. xix + 285 pp. Bibliography. Maps. Drawings. Photographs. No price reported. Paper.

Politics

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Paul A. Beckett and Crawford Young, eds. Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997. xiv + 450 pp. Index. Tables. $45.00. Cloth.

Paul Rich and Richard Stubbs, eds. The Counter-Insurgent State: Guerrilla Warfare and State Building in the Twentieth Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. 235 pp. Index. $59.95. Cloth.

Okbazghi Yohannes. The United States and the Horn of Africa. An Analytical Study of Pattern and Process. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 353 pp. $65. Cloth.

Religion

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Pashington Obeng. Asante Catholicism. Religious and Cultural Reproduction among the Akan of Ghana. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. xi + 243 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price reported.

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Volume 41 - Issue 1 - April 1998

Geography, Environment, and Demography

Book Reviews

Health and Disease

Book Reviews

History

Book Reviews

Human Rights

Book Reviews

Literature and the Arts

Book Reviews

Politics

Book Reviews

Religion

Book Reviews