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Volume 51 - July 2010

Book Review

A FIRST HAND PERSPECTIVE ON THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE - The Diary of Antera Duke, An Eighteenth-century African Slave Trader. By Stephen D. Behrendt, A. J. H. latham, and David Northrup. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+300. £45/$75 hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-537618-0).

A COSMOPOLITAN RED SEA CITIZENRY - Red Sea Citizens: Cosmopolitan Society and Cultural Change in Massawa. By Jonathan Miran. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. xvi+380. £58/$75, hardback (isbn978-0-253-35312-2); £18.99/$27.95, paperback (isbn978-0-253-22079-0).

A FASCINATING EPISODE IN AFRICAN AND GLOBAL HISTORY - Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South. By Andrew Zimmerman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+397. £24.95/$35 hardback (ISBN 978-0-691-12362-2).

REINTEGRATING WOMEN IN THE MIGRATORY HISTORY OF SENEGAL - Les migrantes ignorées du Haut-Sénégal, 1900–1946. By Marie Rodet. Paris: Karthala, 2009. Pp. 338. €26, paperback (ISBN 978-2-8111-0094-0).

AN UNSATISYING EDITION OF AN AFRICAN EPIC - The Epic of Kelefaa Saane. By Sirifo Camara. Edited and translated by Sana Camara. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2010. Pp. xxxiv+185. £22.99/$34.95 hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35463-1).

CULTURAL DIFFERENCE AND CHANGING TRADITIONS OF MEANING IN AFRICAN ART - African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity. By Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. 408. £18.99/$27.95, paperback (isbn978-0-253-21922-0).

MIGRATION AND THE ORIGINS OF ‘IVOIRIAN IDENTITY’ - Migrants soudanais/maliens et conscience ivoirienne: Les étrangers en Côte d'Ivoire (1903–1980). By Daouda Gary-Tounkara. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. Pp. 343. €32, paperback (ISBN 978-2-296-06347-1).

THE COMPLEXITIES OF POPULAR CULTURE - Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture. Edited by Toyin Falola and Augustine Agwuele. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2009. Pp. vii+333. £45/$80 hardback (ISBN: 978-1-58046-331-7).

THE CONTRIBUTION OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES TO DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA - Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa. Edited by Terence O. Ranger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxx+267. £14.99/$29.95, paperback (isbn978-0-19-530802-0).

CASE STUDIES ON ETHNICITY - Ethnicity and the Long-term Perspective: The African Experience. Edited by Alexander Keese. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. Pp. 215. £28.80/€32 paperback (ISBN 978-3-0343-0337-8).

AFRICAN INTERMEDIARIES IN EARLY COLONIAL NIGERIA - Brokering Colonial Rule: Political Agents in Northern Nigeria, 1886–1914. By Philip Afeadi. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2008. Pp. 184. £45, paperback (ISBN 978-3-63907-094-1).

AN EXPLORATION OF NIGERIA'S VIOLENT COLONIAL PAST - Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria. By Toyin Falola. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+256. £54/$65, hardback (ISBN 978-0-253-35356-6); £17.99/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-253-22119-3).

NORTH AFRICAN HISTORY IN THE LONGUE DURÉE - North Africa: A History from Antiquity to the Present. By Phillip C. Naylor. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+355. £29.99/$45 hardback (ISBN: 978-0-292-71922-4); £19.99/$30 paperback (ISBN: 978-0-292-72291-0).

DIASPORA INTELLECTUALS AND THE END OF COLONIAL RULE - Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause. By Carol Polsgrove. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. xviii+186. £60, hardback (isbn978-0-7190-7767-8).

THE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF WESTERN CAMEROON - Encounter, Transformation, and Identity: Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891–2000. Edited by Ian Fowler and Verkijika G. Fanso. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. Pp. xxvii+253. £58/$95, hardback (isbn978-1-84545-336-7).

A PROBLEMATIC VIEW ON LIBYAN HISTORY - The Emergence of Libya: Selected Historical Essays. By John Wright. London: Silphium Press, 2008. Pp. 368. £18 paperback (ISBN 978-1-900971-06-5).

COLONIAL COERCION AND EXPLOITATION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA - Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. By Moses E. Ochonu. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009. Pp. xii+217. £48.95/$55, hardback (ISBN 978-0-8214-1889-5); £22.50/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-8214-1890-1).

BRITISH FEMALE MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA AND THEIR IMPACT ON PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS IN BRITAIN - The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole. By Elizabeth E. Prevost. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+312. £65 hardback (ISBN 978-0-19-957074-4).

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