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Volume 53 - April 2010

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Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton. A History of Nigeria. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xl + 329 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. $24.99. Paper.

David Dickinson. Changing the Course of AIDS: Peer Education in South Africa and Its Lessons for the Global Crisis. Ithaca and London: ILR Press, imprint of Cornell University Press, 2009. 252 pp. Bibliography. Index. Hardback. $39.95.

Steven L. Robins. From Revolution to Rights in South Africa: Social Movements, NGO's and Popular Politics after Apartheid. Rochester, NY.: James Currey, 2008. xvi + 192 pp. List of Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth.

Solofo Randrianja and Stephen Ellis. Madagascar: A Short History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. viii + 316 pp. Maps. Pictures. Notes. Appendixes. Acronyms. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $64.00. Cloth. $24.00. Paper.

Paul Gifford. Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya. New York: Columbia University Press; London: C. Hurst & Co, 2009. 251 pp. Maps. Cartoons. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth. £17.99. Paper.

Roger Southall and John Daniel, eds. Zunami! The 2009 South African Elections. Auckland Park: Jacana Media; Dunkeld, South Africa: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2009. xiv + 300 pp. List of Contributors. Statistical Notes. List of Abbreviations. Tables. Figures. Notes. R 148.00. Paper.

JoAnn McGregor, Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier. Oxford, U.K.: James Currey, 2009. Distributed in the U.S. by Boydell & Brewer, Rochester, N.Y. x + 237 pp. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth.

Steven M. Friedson. Remains of Ritual: Northern Gods in a Southern Land. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. vi + 254 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $22.00. Paper.

Filip Reyntjens. The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 327 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth.

Jonathan Derrick. Africa's Agitators: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. x + 483 pp. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $50.00. Cloth.

Harold Scheub. Shadows: Deeper into Story. Madison: Parallel Press (University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries), 2009. 398 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $25.00. Paper.

Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, eds. Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. xii + 303 pp. Abbreviations. Figures. Tables. Contributors. Notes. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $19.95.

Beverly Lindsay, ed. Ralph Johnson Bunche: Public Intellectual and Nobel Peace Laureate. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii + 199 pp. Tables. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $35.00. Cloth.

Merrick Posnansky. Africa and Archaeology: Empowering an Expatriate Life. London and New York: The Radcliffe Press, 2009. xii + 275. Maps. Illustrations. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. $55.00. Cloth.

Ben Jones. Beyond the State in Rural Uganda. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2009. xv + 199 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $105.00. Cloth. £22.99. Paper.

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Tobe Levin and Augustine H. Asaah, eds. Empathy and Rage: Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature. Banbury, U.K.: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd., 2009. Distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers, xxi + 218 pp. Notes and References. Index. €16.99/$26.50 Paper.

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