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LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND CHANGING SAVANNAS African Savannas: Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change. Edited by THOMAS J. BASSETT and DONALD CRUMMEY. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. 263+xvii. $27.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07128-4).
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WOMEN'S EDUCATION AND FERTILITY DECLINE IN KINSHASA Kinshasa in Transition: Women's Education, Employment, and Fertility. By DAVID SHAPIRO with B. OLEKO TAMBASHE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xviii+279. $37.50; £26.50 (ISBN 0-226-75057-4).
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AFRICAN COLONIES IN ITALIAN POLITICAL CULTURE A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present. Edited by PATRIZIA PALUMBO. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 332. No price given (ISBN 0-520-23232-1); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-23234-8).
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THINKING BETWEEN FRANCE AND AFRICA Les intellectuels africains en France. By ABDOULAYE GUEYE. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. Pp. xvi+275. €22.90 (ISBN 2-7475-1641-5).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 519-521
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ALGERIA: THE INDEPENDENCE WAR AND AFTER Algeria 1830–2000: A Short History. By BENJAMIN STORA. Translated by JANE MARIE TODD. Foreword by WILLIAM B. QUANDT. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+283. £22.95 (ISBN 0-8014-3715-6); £11.50; $19.95, paperback (2004) (ISBN 0-8014-3715-6).
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PRODUCTIONS OF HISTORY: THE 1952 VAN RIEBEECK CELEBRATION Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts. By LESLIE WITZ. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xii+324. £22.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21613-3).
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RECENT HISTORY OF ZIMBABWE Twenty Years of Independence in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Authoritarianism. Edited by STAFFAN DARNOLF and LIISA LAAKSO. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xviii+245. £55 (ISBN 0-333-80453-8).
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- 25 November 2004, pp. 524-525
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TEXTS, MEANING AND ZIMBABWEAN HISTORY The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe. By LUISE WHITE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+128. £12.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21608-7).
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SOCIAL AND POLiTICAL ROOTS OF RENAMO Les bandits: un historien au Mozambique, 1994. By MICHEL CAHEN. Paris: Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, 2002. Pp. 351. No price given (ISBN 972-8462-28-X).
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CONTROLLING THE COUNTRYSIDE: THE STATE AND RURAL SOCIAL RELATIONS Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice. By CATHERINE BOONE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+405. £50 (ISBN 0-521-82557-1); £19.99, paperback (ISBN 0-521-53264-7).
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RESISTANCE REVISITED Rethinking Resistance: Revolt and Violence in African History. Edited by JON ABBINK, MIRJAMDE BRUIJN and KLAASVAN WALVEREN. Leiden: Brill 2003. Pp. x+365. €32.50; $38, paperback (ISBN 90-04-12634-4).
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Abou-Bakr Ibrahim, pacha de Zeyla – marchand d'esclaves; commerce et diplomatie dans le golfe de Tadjoura, 1840–1885. By MARC FONTRIER. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2003. Pp. 275. €24, paperback (ISBN 2-7475-5336-1).
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Au carrefour des histoires: traditions orales de la région Yana (Burkina Faso). Edited by ZACHARIE MINOUGOU and ANDREA REIKAT. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2004. Pp. 113. €14.80, paperback (ISBN 3-89645-162-6).
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The Police in a Federal State: The Nigerian Experience. By KEMI ROTIMI. Ibadan: College Press (available from African Books Collective, Oxford), 2001. Pp. xviii+283. £18.95, paperback (ISBN 978-2194-15-8).
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War and Slavery in Sudan. By JOK MADUT JOK. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Pp. xviii+212. $55; £38.50 (ISBN 0-8122-3595-9); $24.95; £17.50, paperback (ISBN 0-8122-1762-4).
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