David Attwell and Derek Attridge (eds.). 2012. The Cambridge History of South African Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xvii, 877 pp.
Review by Simon Keithe Lewis
(95-98)
Maddalena Camrioni and Patrick Noack (eds). 2012. Rwanda Fast Forward: Social, Economic, Military and Reconciliation Prospects. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 283 pp.
Review by Jonathan R. Beloff
(98-99)
Jerry Dávilla. 2010. Hotel Trópico. Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980. Duke University Press. 312 pp.
Review by Tendai Chiguware
(100-101)
Lynda Day. 2012. Gender and Power in Sierra Leone: Women chiefs of the Last Two Centuries. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 229 pp.
Review by Ogunleye Adetunbi Richard
(101-103)
Ashwin Desai. 2012. Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island. Pretoria: UNISA Press. xiv, 129 pp.
Review by Tony Voss
(103-104)
Gail Fincham. 2012. Dance of Life: The Novels of Zakes Mda in Post-apartheid South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press. 182 pp.
Review by Robert Cancel
(104-106)
Marie-Soleil Frère. 2011. Elections and the Media in Post-Conflict Africa: Votes and Voices for Peace? London: Zed Books Ltd. хi, 289 pp.
Review by Oluwaseun Bamidele
(106-107)
Toby Green. 2012. The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589. New York: Cambridge University Press. 366 pp.
Review by Andrew Barsom
(107-109)
Iyorwuese Hagher. 2011. Nigeria: After the Nightmare. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 165 pp.
Review by Aaron King
(109-110)
Joseph Hellweg. 2011. Hunting The Ethical State: The Benkadi Movement of Cote d’lvoire. Chicago and London: The Chicago Press. 291 pp.
Review by Sunday Awoniyi
(111-112)
Dorothy L. Hodgson. 2011. Being Maasai, Becoming Indigenous: Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 265 pp.
Review by David Livingstone
(112-113)
Paul Hopper. 2012. Understanding Development: Issues and Debates. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 332 pp.
Review by Ifunanya Nwokedi
(113-116)
Andrew Ivaska. 2011. Cultured States: Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. Durham: Duke University Press. 288 pp.
Review by Beatrice Mkenda
(116-117)
Messay Kebede. 2011. Ideology and Elite Conflicts: Autopsy of the Ethiopian Revolution. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 388 pp.
Review by Zerihun Berhane Weldegebriel
(117-118)
Paul S. Landau. 2010. Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xvi, 300 pp.
Review by Hlonipha Mokoena
(119-121)
Julie Livingston. 2012. Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. Durham: Duke University Press. 228 pp.
Review by Zachary Obinna Enumah
(121-122)
Michael R. Mahoney. 2012. The Other Zulus: The Spread of Zulu Ethnicity in Colonial South Africa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 292 pp.
Review by Sara C. Jorgensen
(122-124)
Johnson W. Makoba. 2011. Rethinking Development Strategies in Africa: The Triple Partnership as an Alternative Approach: The Case of Uganda. Africa in Development Vol. 5. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York; Wien: Peter Lang. 269 pp.
Review by Julia Büchele
(124-125)
Jenny S. Martinez. 2012. The Slave Trade and The Origins of International Human Rights Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 254 pp.
Review by John Rankin
(125-127)
Volker Matthies. 2012. The Siege of Magdala: The British Empire against the Emperor of Ethiopia. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. 207 pp.
Review by Bahru Zewde
(127-129)
Philip Muehlenbeck. 2012. Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy’s Courting of African Nationalist Leaders. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 333 pp.
Review by Ogechi Anyanwu
(129-130)
Garth Myers. 2011. African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice. London: Zed Books. 242 pp.
Review by Carlos Nunes Silva
(131-132)
Beatrice Nicolini. 2012. The First Sultan of Zanzibar: Scrambling for Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Press. xxvii, 179 pp.
Review by Tony Waters
(132-133)
Gloria Nne Onyeoziri. 2011. Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 178 pp.
Review by Oguntoyinbo Deji
(134-135)
Philip M. Peek (ed.). 2011. Twins in African and Diaspora Cultures: Double Trouble, Twice Blessed. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 376 pp.
Review by Kwame Essien
(135-136)
Marleen Renders. 2012. Considering Somaliland: State-Building with Traditional Elders and Institutions. Leiden: Brill. 281 pp.
Review by Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
(137-140)
Lorelle D. Semley 2011. Mother is Gold, Father is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 235 pp.
Review by Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin
(140-141)
Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray. 2012. Africa’s Moment. David Fernbach (transl.). Malden, MA: Polity Press. 317 pp.
Review by Amanda B. Edgell
(142-143)
Matthew G. Stanard. 2012. Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 408 pp.
Review by Ilunga Tchoma Kitenge
(143-145)
Timothy Stapleton. 2011. African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80. Rochester: University of Rochester Press. xiv, 313 pp.
Review by Andrew Novak
(145-146)
Guy Vanthemsche. 2012. Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 289 pp.
Review by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
(146-148)
Nina Wilen. 2012. Justifying Interventions in Africa: (De)stabilizing Sovereignty in Liberia, Burundi and the Congo. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. xi, 225 pp.
Review by Christopher R. Cook
(148-149)
