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Volume 84 - May 2014

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JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY , Living the Hiplife: celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb $89.95 – 978 0 8223 5352 2). 2013, 344 pp.
JENNY F. MBAYE
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09 April 2014, pp. 339-341
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TESHALE TIBEBU, Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb $90 – 978 1 58046 428 4). 2012, x+219 pp.
PHILIP S. ZACHERNUK
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23 July 2014, pp. 494-495
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ANDREAS DAFINGER, The Economics of Ethnic Conflict: the case of Burkina Faso. Martlesham: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 068 1). 2013, 224 pp.
JOOST BEUVING
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22 October 2014, pp. 669-671
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MARIKANA AND THE LIMITS OF BIOPOLITICS: THEMES IN THE RECENT SCHOLARSHIP OF SOUTH AFRICAN MINING
Keith Breckenridge
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05 February 2014, pp. 151-161
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AÏSSATOU MBODJ-POUYE, Le fil de l’écrit: une anthropologie de l'alphabétisation au Mali. Lyon: ENS Éditions (pb €24 – 978 2 84788 375 6). 2013, 316 pp.
JAN JANSEN
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22 October 2014, pp. 671-672
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RICHARD ELPHICK , The Equality of Believers: Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa. Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press (hb $40 – 978 0 8139 3273 6). 2012, 437 pp.
JOEL CABRITA
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09 April 2014, pp. 341-342
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AFR volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
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MARION PAPE, Gender Palava: Nigerian women writing war. Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (pb €23.50 – 978 3 86821 282 2). 2011, 184 pp.
FRANÇOISE UGOCHUKWU
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23 July 2014, pp. 495-496
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MICHAEL GOULD , The Struggle for Modern Nigeria: the Biafran War 1967–1970. London and New York NY: I. B. Tauris (hb £56 – 978 1 84885 864 0; pb £14.99 – 978 1 78076 463 4). 2012, 258 pp.
AXEL HARNEIT-SIEVERS
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09 April 2014, pp. 343-344
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HEIKE I. SCHMIDT, Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe: a history of suffering. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £55 – 978 1 84701 051 3). 2013, xvi+287 pp.
TIM STAPLETON
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23 July 2014, pp. 497-498
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DEREK R. PETERSON, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent, c.1935–1972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £62 – 978 1 1070 2116 7). 2012, 344 pp.
THOMAS G. KIRSCH
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22 October 2014, pp. 672-674
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DAVID P. SANDGREN, Mau Mau's Children: the making of Kenya's postcolonial elite. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (pb US$26.95 – 978 0 2992 8784 9). 2012, xxv+185 pp.
DAVID M. ANDERSON
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22 October 2014, pp. 674-675
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KINGS M. PHIRI, JOHN McCRACKEN, WAPULUMUKA O. MULWAFU, editors, Malawi in Crisis: the 1959/60 Nyasaland State of Emergency and its legacy. Zomba: Kachere Books (pb £24.95 – 978 9 990887 77 8). 2012, xiv+412 pp.
MARKKU HOKKANEN
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23 July 2014, pp. 498-499
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T. JACK THOMPSON , Light on Darkness? Missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans (pb $45 – 978 0 8028 6524 3). 2012, 304 pp.
PAUL S. LANDAU
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09 April 2014, pp. 344-345
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CHARLES HORNSBY, Kenya: a history since independence. London: I. B. Tauris (£45 – 978 1 84885 886 2). 2012, 958 pp.
RICHARD D. WALLER
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22 October 2014, pp. 675-677
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GRANT HAMILTON, editor, Reading Marechera. Woodbridge: James Currey (pb £19.99 – 978 1 84701 062 9). 2013, 196 pp.
DOBROTA PUCHEROVA
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23 July 2014, pp. 499-501
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KOEN STROEKEN , Moral Power: the magic of witchcraft. Epistemologies of Healing, Volume 9. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb $99 – 978 1 84545 735 8; pb $29.95 – 978 0 85745 659 5). 2012, 284 pp.
JANE PARISH
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09 April 2014, pp. 345-346
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GERD SPITTLER and MICHAEL BOURDILLON (eds), African Children at Work: work and learning in growing up for life. Berlin: Lit Verlag (pb €39·90 – 978 3 643 90205 4). 2012, 360 pp.
AFUA TWUM-DANSO IMOH
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09 April 2014, pp. 347-348
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LINDA KREITZER, Social Work in Africa: exploring culturally relevant education and practice in Ghana. Calgary: University of Calgary Press (pb CA$34.95 – 978 1 55238 510 4). 2012, 270 pp.
FIBIAN LUKALO
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23 July 2014, pp. 501-502
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JESSE WEAVER SHIPLEY , Living the Hiplife: celebrity and entrepreneurship in Ghanaian popular music. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press (hb $89.95 – 978 0 8223 5352 2). 2013, 344 pp.

TESHALE TIBEBU, Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb $90 – 978 1 58046 428 4). 2012, x+219 pp.

ANDREAS DAFINGER, The Economics of Ethnic Conflict: the case of Burkina Faso. Martlesham: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 068 1). 2013, 224 pp.

Review Article

MARIKANA AND THE LIMITS OF BIOPOLITICS: THEMES IN THE RECENT SCHOLARSHIP OF SOUTH AFRICAN MINING

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AÏSSATOU MBODJ-POUYE, Le fil de l’écrit: une anthropologie de l'alphabétisation au Mali. Lyon: ENS Éditions (pb €24 – 978 2 84788 375 6). 2013, 316 pp.

RICHARD ELPHICK , The Equality of Believers: Protestant missionaries and the racial politics of South Africa. Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press (hb $40 – 978 0 8139 3273 6). 2012, 437 pp.

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

AFR volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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MARION PAPE, Gender Palava: Nigerian women writing war. Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas. Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag (pb €23.50 – 978 3 86821 282 2). 2011, 184 pp.

MICHAEL GOULD , The Struggle for Modern Nigeria: the Biafran War 1967–1970. London and New York NY: I. B. Tauris (hb £56 – 978 1 84885 864 0; pb £14.99 – 978 1 78076 463 4). 2012, 258 pp.

HEIKE I. SCHMIDT, Colonialism and Violence in Zimbabwe: a history of suffering. Woodbridge: James Currey (hb £55 – 978 1 84701 051 3). 2013, xvi+287 pp.

DEREK R. PETERSON, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent, c.1935–1972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hb £62 – 978 1 1070 2116 7). 2012, 344 pp.

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

AFR volume 84 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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DAVID P. SANDGREN, Mau Mau's Children: the making of Kenya's postcolonial elite. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (pb US$26.95 – 978 0 2992 8784 9). 2012, xxv+185 pp.

KINGS M. PHIRI, JOHN McCRACKEN, WAPULUMUKA O. MULWAFU, editors, Malawi in Crisis: the 1959/60 Nyasaland State of Emergency and its legacy. Zomba: Kachere Books (pb £24.95 – 978 9 990887 77 8). 2012, xiv+412 pp.

T. JACK THOMPSON , Light on Darkness? Missionary photography of Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans (pb $45 – 978 0 8028 6524 3). 2012, 304 pp.

CHARLES HORNSBY, Kenya: a history since independence. London: I. B. Tauris (£45 – 978 1 84885 886 2). 2012, 958 pp.

GRANT HAMILTON, editor, Reading Marechera. Woodbridge: James Currey (pb £19.99 – 978 1 84701 062 9). 2013, 196 pp.

KOEN STROEKEN , Moral Power: the magic of witchcraft. Epistemologies of Healing, Volume 9. New York NY: Berghahn Books (hb $99 – 978 1 84545 735 8; pb $29.95 – 978 0 85745 659 5). 2012, 284 pp.

GERD SPITTLER and MICHAEL BOURDILLON (eds), African Children at Work: work and learning in growing up for life. Berlin: Lit Verlag (pb €39·90 – 978 3 643 90205 4). 2012, 360 pp.

LINDA KREITZER, Social Work in Africa: exploring culturally relevant education and practice in Ghana. Calgary: University of Calgary Press (pb CA$34.95 – 978 1 55238 510 4). 2012, 270 pp.

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