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Volume 51 - July 2010

Book Review

NAMING, COLONIAL VIOLENCE, AND VILLAGE MEMORIES IN THE CONGO - Naming Colonialism: History and Collective Memory in the Congo, 1870–1960. By Osumaka Likaka. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. Pp. xii+220. £23.95/$26.95, paperback (ISBN 978-0-299-23364-8).

POLITICAL STRATEGIES OF MUSLIM LEADERS IN GHANA - Between Accommodation and Revivalism: Muslims, the State, and Society in Ghana from the Precolonial to the Postcolonial Era. By Holger Weiss. Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society, 2008. Pp. 439. €30 paperback (ISBN 978-951-9380-71-1).

A PARTICULAR PLACE IN AN EXPANDING IMPERIAL SYSTEM - Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa (An Exploration of Frontiers, 1725–1830). By Laura J. Mitchell. Gutenberg-e/Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xv+252. $60, hardback (isbn978-0-231-14252).

THE POLITICAL ROLE OF CHURCHES AND THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE - Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda. By Timothy Longman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+350. £55, hardback (ISBN 978-0-521-19139-5).

COMPARING CULTURES OF RACIAL VIOLENCE - Cultures of Violence: Lynching and Racial Killing in South Africa and the United States. By Ivan Evans. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. x+310. £65, hardback (isbn978-0-7190-7904-7).

THE ERITREAN EXPERIENCE AFTER INDEPENDENCE - Eritrea: A Dream Deferred. By Gaim Kibreab. Oxford: James Currey and Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2009. Pp. xxvi+420. £50 hardback (ISBN 978-1-84701-008-7).

A ZAMBIAN NATIONALIST IN CONTEXT - Liberal Nationalism in Central Africa: A Biography of Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula. By Giacomo Macola. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. xiv+224. £60/$90 hardback (ISBN 978-0-230-62274-6).

THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF LATE-COLONIAL MALAWI - Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi: Building Kwacha. By Joey Power. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+332. £50/$85, hardback (isbn978-1-58046-310-2).

THE DISPLACEMENT PROCESS IN ETHIOPIA - Moving People in Ethiopia: Development, Displacement and the State. Edited by Alula Pankhurst and François Piguet. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer and Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2009. Pp. xlii+301. £45 hardback (ISBN 978-1-84701-613-3).

A STUDY OF THE KIKUYU WHO FOUGHT AGAINST MAU MAU - Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War, and Decolonization. By Daniel Branch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xx+250. £55 hardback (ISBN 978-0-521-11382-3); £17.99 paperback (ISBN 978-0-521-13090-5).

THE ETHIOPIAN REVOLUTION THROUGH THE PRISM OF MILITARY HISTORY - The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa. By Gebru Tareke. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. xx+437. £30/$45, hardback (isbn978-0-300-14163-4).

THE LEGAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA IN THE LONGUE DURÉE - The Legacies of Law: Long-run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652–2000. By Jens Meierhenrich. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp xvii+385. £50/$90, hardback (ISBN 978-0-521-89873-7).

AN IMPRESSIVE SYNTHESIS OF MADAGASCAR'S HISTORY - Madagascar: A Short History. By Solofo Randrianja and Stephen Ellis. London: Hurst & Company, 2009. Pp. viii+316. £15.99/$24, paperback (isbn978-0-22670-420-3).

COLONIAL TROOPS IN THE GERMAN COLONIES - Askari und Fitafita: ‘Farbige’ Söldner in den deutschen Kolonien (Askari and Fitafita: ‘Colored’ Mercenaries in the German Colonies). By Thomas Morlang. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 2008. Pp. 204. €24.90, paperback (ISBN 978-3-86153-476-1).

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