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Adebajo, Adekeye, Adedeji Adebayo, and Chris Landsberg. (eds). 2007. South Africa in Africa : The Post-Apartheid Era. Scottsville, South African: University of KwaZulu Natal Press. 329 pp.
Adegbile, Isaiah O. 2008. The African and African American History: an introduction , the political-socio-economic context in historical perspective. NY: University Press of America . 334 pp.
Adekunle, Julius, O. 2007. Culture and Customs of Rwanda. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press 164 pp.
Akpan-Obong, Patience Idaraesit. Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria: prospects and challenges for development. Society and Politics in Africa, 2009.Vol 19.
Aryeety, Ernest & Ravi Kanbur (eds). 2008. The Economy of Ghana: analytical perspectives on stability, growth and poverty. Suffolk, UK & Rochester, NY: James Currey & Woeli Publishing Services. 424 pp.
Balogun, M. J. 2009. The Route to Power in Nigeria: a dynamic engagement option for current and aspiring leaders. New York, NY: Pelgrave MacMillan. 255 pp.
Barham, Lawrence, and Peter Mitchell. 2008. The First Africans: African archealogy from the earliest toolmakers to most recent foragers. NY: Cambridge University Press. 601 pp.
Barrot, Pierre. 2009. Nollywood: the video phenomenon in Nigeria. Oxford, UK: James Currey. 147 pp.
Baudendistel, Rainer. 2006. Between Bombs and Good Intentions: The Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935 – 1936. New York : Berghahn Books. 337 pp.
Bargna, Ivan: translated by Rosanna M. Frongia. 2009. Africa: dictionaries of civilization. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 385 pp.
Bey, Maissa: translated by Senja. L. Djelouah; afterword by Micheal Mortimer. 2009. Above all,don't look back. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 1990 pp.
Blake, Cecil. 2009. The African origins of rhetoric. New York, NY: Routledge. 137 pp.
Bongmba, Elias, K. 2006. The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa . New York : Palgrave Macmillan. 310 pp.
Brier, Bob and Hoyt, Hobbs . 2008. Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians, 2 nd Edition. Westport , Connecticut . Greenwood Press. 311pp.
Brockman, Norbert, C. 2006. An African Biographical Dictionary. (Second Edition). Millerton , NY : Grey House Publishing. 667 pp.
Cammett, Melani Claire. 2007. Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North Africa : A Comparative Perspective. New York : Cambridge University Press. 265 pp.
Carswell, Grace. 2007. Cultivating Success in Uganda : Kigezi Farmers & Colonial Policies. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 252 pp.
Chabal, Patrick. 2009. Africa: the politics of suffering and smiling. Scottville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 212 pp.
Chabal, Patrick, Ulf Engel, and Leo de Haan (eds.). 2007. African Alternatives (vol. 2). Leiden , Netherlands : Brill. 178 pp.
Christiansen, Catrine, Mats Utas, and Henrik Vigh (eds). 2006. Navigating Youth and Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Uppsala , Sweden : Nordic Africa Institute. 266 pp.
Claassens, Aninka and Ben Cousins.(eds). 2008. Land , Power and Custom: controversies generated by South Africa 's Communal Land Rights Act. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 392 pp.
Cole, Catherine M., Takyiwaa Manu, and Stephan F. Miescher (eds). 2007. Africa After Gender? Bloomington , IN : University of Indiana Press. 328 pp.
Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff (ed). 2006. Law and Order in the Postcolony. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. 357 pp.
Comaroff, John L., Jean L. Comaroff, and Deborah James (eds). 2007. Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 224 pp.
Davies, J.E. 2007. Constructive Engagement? Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa , Namibia & Angola , 1981-8. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 241 pp.
Dawson, Allan Charles (ed). 2009. Shrines in Africa: history, politics and society. Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press. 210 pp.
Dawason, Carl. 2009. EU intergration with North Africa: Trade negotiations and democracy deficits in Morocco. London: Tauris Academic Studies.
De Bruijn, Mirjam, Rijk Van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald (eds). 2007. Strength Beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa . Leiden : Brill. 344 pp.
De Jong, Ferdinand. 2007. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 216 pp.
Delèage, Paul; translated by Fleur Webb. 2008. End of a Dynasty: the last days of the Prince Imperial, Zululand 1879. Scottville , South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 212 pp.
Deng, Francis M; with the collaboration of Daniel J.Deng, David K. Deng, and Vanessa Jim é nez .2008. Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa . Washington D.C: United States Institute of Peace. 271 pp.
Don de Savigny. Harun, Kasale. Conrad, Mbuya and Graham, Reid. (eds). 2008. Fixing Health Systems. 2nd Edition. Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research and Development. 127 pp.
Dooling, Wayne. 2008. Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa . Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 249 pp.
Dubin, Steven C. 2006. Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa . New York : Palgrave Macmillan. 321 pp.
Dull, Laura J. 2006.Disciplined Development: Teachers and Reform in Ghana. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 101 pp.
Durrani, Shirazi. 2006. Never Silent: Publishing & Imperialism in Kenya, 1884 – 1963. London: Vita Books. 268 pp.
El-Mahid, Rahib & Philip Marfleet (eds). 2009. Egypt : the moments of change. London & New York: Zed Books. 186 pp.
Ensign, Margee M & William E. Bertrand. 2010. Rwanda: history and hope. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. 154 pp.
Ephirim-Donkor, Anthony. 2009. The Making of an Africa King: patrilineal and matrilineal struggle among the Efutu of Ghana. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. 224 pp.
Epprecht, Marc.2008. Heterosexual Africa ?: the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS. Scottvillw , South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 231 pp.
Essien, Kwame and Toyin Falola. 2009. Culture and customs of Sudan . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press. 193 pp.
Falola, Toyin & Aribidesi Usman (eds). 2009. Movements, borders and indentities in Africa. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 318pp.
Falola, Toyin & Amanda Warnock (eds). 2007. Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Westport , CT : Greenwood Press. 425 pp.
Farley, Jonathan. 2008. Southern Africa. Making of the Contemporary World. Madison, New York: Routledge. 155 pp.
Fikes, Kesha. 2010. Managing African Portugal: the citizen-migrant distinction. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 195 pp.
Fuller, Linda K. 2008. African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: communication perspectives and promises. New York , NY : Pelgrave McMillan. 309 pp.
Gberie, Lansana (ed). 2009. Rescuing a fragile state: Sierra Leone 2002-2008. Waterloo, Ontario: LCMSDS Press of Wilfrid Laurier University. 133 pp.
Gezon, Lisa L. 2006. Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar . Lanham , MD : AltaMira Press. 215 pp.
Gibson, James L. 2009. Overcoming historical injustices: land reconcililation in South Africa. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 306 pp.
Glennie, Jonathan. 2008. The trouble with aid: Why less could mean more for Africa . New York , NY : Zed Books Ltd. 175 pp.
Grant, William D. 2009. Zambia, Then and Now: Colonial Rulers and their African Successors. New York, NY: Routledge. 327 pp.
Green, Matthew. 2009. The Wizard of the Nile : the hunt for Africa 's most wanted. Massachusetts : Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 333 pp.
Guy, Jeff. 2006. Remembering the Rebellion: The Zulu Uprising of 1906. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 197 pp.
Hanciles, Jehu J. 2008. Beyond Christendom: globalization, African migration, and the transformation of the West. Maryknoll , NY : Orbis Books. 430 pp.
Hanretta, Sean. 2009. Islam and Social Change in West Africa: history of an emancipatory community. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 305 pp.
Harneit-Sievers, Axel. 2006. Constructions of Belonging: Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century. Rochester , NY : University of Rochester Press. 388 pp.
Hassim, Shireen. 2006. Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa : Contesting Authority. Madison , WI : University of Wisconsin Press. 339 pp.
Hebinck, Paul and Peter C. Lent (eds). 2007. Livelihoods and Landscapes: The People of Guquba and Koloni and their Resources. Leiden , Netherlands . Brill. 390 pp.
Henk, Dan. 2007. The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African Environment. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. 219 pp.
Holtzman, Jon. 2009. Uncertain Tastes: memory, ambivalence, and the politics of eating in Sambaru, Northern Kenya. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 285 pp.
Homewood, Katherine. 2008. Ecology of African Pastoral Societies. Oxford, UK: James Currey Ltd. 292 pp.
Hughes, David McDermott. 2006. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. Seattle , WA : University of Washington Press.285 pp.
Hugon, Philippe. 2009. African Geopolitics. (translated by Steven Rendall). Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner Publishers. 174 pp.
Iliffe, John. 2006. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 214 pp.
Iliffe, John. 2007. Africans: The History of a Continent. New York: Cambridge University Press. 365 pp.
Jayasuriya, Shihan de Silva. 2009. African identity in Asia: cultural effects of forced migration. Princeton, NJ: Markus Weiner Publishers. 236 pp.
Kaarsholm, Preben (ed). 2006. Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa . Athens, OH : Ohio University Press. 208 pp.
Kahan, Leonard, Donna Page, and Pascal James Imperato. (eds); in collaboration with Charles Bordogna and Bolaji Campbell; with an introduction by Patrick McNaughton. 2009. Surfaces: color, substances, and ritual applications on African Sculpture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 523 pp.
Kebede, Messay. 2008. Radicalism and cultural dislocation in Ethiopia , 1960-1974. Rochester , NY : University of Rochester Press. 235 pp.
Keim, Curtis. 2009. Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American mind. 2 nd Edition. Philadelphia . PA: West View Press. 234 pp.
Khamis, Kassim Mohammed. 2008. Promoting the African Union. Washington, DC: Lilian Barber Press, Inc. 421 pp.
Kimanuka, Oscar. 2009. Sub-Suharan Africa's Development Challenges: a case study of Rwanda 's post-genocide experience. New York , NY : Pelgrave Macmillan. 176 pp.
Krog, Antjie, Nosisi Mpolweni & Kopana Ratele. 2009. There was this goat: investigating the Truth Commission testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile. Scottville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 235 pp.
Kyomuhendo, Grace B. & Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. 2006. Women, work & domestic virtue in Uganda , 1900-2003. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 308 pp.
Laband, John (ed). 2007. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 301 pp.
LaGamma, Alisa and Christine Giuntini. 2008. The Essential Art of African Textiles: design without end. New York , NY : The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 72 pp.
Larson, Pier M. 2009. Ocen of Letters: language and creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 378 pp.
Lawley, Jonathan, 2010. Beyond the Malachite Hills: a life of colonial service and business in the New Africa. Londn & New York: I.B Tauris & Co. Ltd. 304 pp.
Levine, Stephen B. 2007. Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional. New York : Routledge. 184 pp.
Lewis, Peter, M. 2007. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria. Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan . 345 pp.
Limb, Peter. 2008. Nelson Mandela: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 136 pp.
Lobban, Richard, A & Paul Khalil Saucier. 2007. Historical Dictionary of Republic of Cape Verde (4th edition). Lanham, MD. Scarecrow Press, Inc. 306 pp.
Luedke, Tracy J. 2006. Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa . Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press. 216 pp.
Lund, Christian. 2008. Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 200 pp.
Majumdumar, Margaret, A. 2007. Postcoloniality: The French Dimension. New York : Berghahn Books. 310 pp.
Malaquias, Assis. 2007. Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola . Uppsala , Sweden : Nordic Africa Institute. 258 pp.
Maiga, Hassimi Oumarou. 2009. Balancing Written History with Oral Traditions: the legacy of the Songhoy people. New York, NY: Routledge. 206 pp.
Maingard, Jacqueline. 2007. South African National Cinema. London : Routledge. 205 pp.
Manai, Adel. 2007. British Travellers in Tunisia, 1800-1930: A history of encounters and Representations. Tunis: Center for University Press. 129 pp.
Manby, Bronwen. 2009. Struggles for citizenship in Africa. London, UK: Open Society Institute. 198 pp.
Manger, Leif and Munzoul A.M. Assal (eds). 2006. Daisporas within and without Africa : Dynamism, Heterogeneity, and Variation. Uppsala , Sweden : Nordic Africa Institute. 197 pp.
Martin, Phyllis M. 2009. Catholic women of Congo-Brazzaville: mothers and sisters in troubled times. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 262 pp.
McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. (ed). 2009. The Devil You Dance With: film culture in the new South Africa. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 236 pp.
McGregor, JoAnn. 2009. Crossing the Zambezi: the politics of landscape on a Central African Frontier. Suffolk, UK: James Currey & Weaver Press. 237 pp.
McInstosh, Janet. 2009. The Edge of Islam: power, personhood, and ethno-religious boundaries on the Kenya coast. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 325 pp.
McLaughlin, Janice. 2009. Ostriches, Dung Beetles, and other Spiritual Masters: a book of wisdom from the wild. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 148 pp.
McNaughton, Patrick R. 2008. A Bird Dance Near Saturday City : Sidi Ballo and the art of West African masquerade. Indianapolis : Indiana University Press. 300 pp.
McPeak, John G. and Peter Little. 2006. Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa : Research and Policy Challenges. Rugby , Warwickshire , UK : ITDG Publishing. 279 pp.
Mehler, Andreas, Henning Melber, and Klaas van Walraven (eds). 2007. African Yearbook 3: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2006. Leiden: Brill. 516 pp.
Meierhenrich, Jens. 2008. The Legacies of Law: long run consequences of legal development in South Africa , 1652-2000. NY: Cambridge University Press. 385 pp.
Melber, Henning with John Y. Jones. eds. Revisiting the heart of darkness-exploration into genocide and other forms of mass violence 60 years after the UN Convention. Development Dialogue No. 50, December 2008. 302 pp.
Melber, Peter. (ed). 2007. Transitions in Namibia: Which changes for whom? Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute. 262 pp.
Messiant, Christine. 2006. 1961. L’Angola colonial, historie et societe: Les premises du movement nationaliste. Bale , Switzerland : P. Schlettwein Publishing. 419 pp.
Miles, William F.S.; with Samuel Benjamin Miles. 2008. My African horse problem. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. 173 pp.
Miran, Jonathan. 2009. Red Sea Citizens: cosmopolitan society and cultural change in Massawa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 380 pp.
Mkutu-Agade, Kennedy. 2008. Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley: pastoralist conflict and small arms. Bloomington and Indiana : Indiana University Press. 178 pp.
Mngxitama, A. Amander, Alexander. Nigel C. Gibson .(eds). 2008. Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko. New York: Pelgrave MacMillan. 294 pp.
Moseley, William, G. 2007. Clashing Views on African Issues (Second edition). Dubuque , IA : McGraw-Hill. 396 pp.
Muiu, Mueni Wa. 2008. The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. NY: Pelgrave MacMillan. 239pp.
Murrell, Nathaniel Samuel. 2010. Afro-Caribbean Religions: an introduction to their historical, cultural, and sacred traditions. Philadephia, PA: Temple University Press. 431 pp.
Nampala, Lovisa T. and Vilho Shigwedla. 2006. Aawambo Kingdoms , History and Cultural Change: Perspectives from Northern Namibia . Basel , Switzerland : P. Schlettwein Publishing. 274 pp.
Nathans, Heather S. 2009. Slavery and Sentiment on the American Stage, 1787-1861: lifting the veil of black . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 275 pp.
Naval, Claire, Sylvie Walter and Raul Suarez de Miguel. eds. Measuring Human Rights and Democratic Governance: experiences and lessons from Metagora. OECD Journal on Development. 2008. Vol 9, No.2. 373 pp.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. 2009. The Ndebele Nation: reflections on hegemony, memory and histriography. Amsterdam: Rozernberg Publishers. 215 pp.
Ndulo, Muna (ed). 2006. Democratic Reform in Africa : Its Impact on Governance & Poverty Alleviation. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press. 304 pp.
Ndulu, Benno, J. Stephen A. O'Connell, Jean-P Azam, Robert H. Bates, Chukwuma C Soludo. (ed). 2008. The Political Economy of Growth in Africa , 1960-2000, Volume 1. Cambridge : University Press. 452 pp.
Newman, Edward and Oliver Richmond (eds). 2006. Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution. Tokyo : United Nations University Press. 329 pp.
Nganang, Patrice. 2006. Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (Translated with an Afterword by Amy Baram Reid). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 232 pp.
Nothwehr, Dawn M. 2008. That they may be one: Catholic social teaching on racism, tribalism and xenophobia. Maryknoll , NY : Orbis Books. 249 pp.
Ochunu, Moses E. (2009). Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 217 pp.
O'murchu, Diarmuid. 2008. Ancestral Grace: Meeting God in Our Human History. NY: Maryknoll. 270 pp.
Obi, Desch T.J. 2008. Fighting for Honor: the history of African martial art traditions in the Atlantic world. Columbia , South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press. 346 pp.
Ofori-Attah, Kwabena Dei. 2008. Going to School in the Middle east and North Africa . Westport , Connecticut : Greenwood Press. 133 pp.
Oheneba-Sakyi, Yaw and Baffour K. Takyi (eds). 2006. African Families at the Turn of the 21st Century. Westport , CT : Praeger. 303 pp.
Okafaor, Victor Oguejiofor. (ed). Nigeria's Stumbling Democarcy and its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International. 190 pp.
Okwu, Augustine S. O. 2010. Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957: conversion in theory and practice. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, Inc. 336 pp.
Oladipo, Caleb Oluremi. 2006. The Will to Rise: Theological and Political Themes in African Christianity and the Renewal of Faith and Identity. New York : Peter Lang. 236 pp.
Olukoju, Ayodeji. 2006. Culture and Customs of Liberia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 154 pp.
Orji, Cyril. 2008. Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa : an analysis of bias, decline and conversion based on the work of Bernard lonergan. Milwaukee , Wisconsin : Marquette University Press. 269 pp.
Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E. 2008. Theology Brewed in an African Pot. Maryknoll , NY : Orbis Books. 162 pp.
Otiso, Kefa, M. 2006. Culture and Customs of Uganda . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press. 179 pp.
Pazzanita, Anthony G. 2006. Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara (Third Edition). Lanham , MD : Scarecow Press. 521 pp.
Peimer, David. (ed). 2009. Armed response: plays from South Africa. Culcutta: Seagull Books. 216 pp.
Pelling, Mark & Ben Wisner; with foreword by Anna Kajamulo Tibaijuka. (eds). 2009. Disaster risk reduction: cases from urban Africa. Sterling, VA: Earthscan. 224 pp.
Peterson, Charles, F. 2007. DuBois, Fanon, Cabral: The Margins of Elite Anti-Colonial Leadership. Lanham , MD : Lexington Books. 160 pp.
Peterson, Derek R & Giacomo Macola. (eds). 2009. Recasting the past: history writing and political work in modern Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 276 pp.
Prairie, Michael. 2007. Thomas Sankara Speaks. New York : New York : Pathfinder Press. 436 pp.
Pratten, David. 2007. The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 417 pp.
Prosterman, Roy L, Robert Mitchell & Tim Hanstad (eds). with a preface by Joseph E. Stiglitz. 2009. One Billion Rising: law, land and the alleviation of global poverty. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 454 pp.
Quayson, Ato (ed). 2008. Fathers and Daughters: an anthology of exploration. Oxfordshire , UK : Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited. 200 pp.
Rabaka, Reiland. 2009. African Critical Theory: reconstructing the black radical tradition from W.E.B Du Bois abd C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 431 pp.
Ranger, Shelagh. 2007. The World of Wisdom and Creation of Animals in Africa . Cambridge : James Clarke & Co. 255 pp.
Redding. Sean. 2006. Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880 – 1963. 259 pp.
Reid, Richard J. 2009. A History of Modern Africa : 1800 to present. Malden , MA : Wiley-Blackwell. 386pp.
Reyntjens, Filip. 2009. The Great African War: Congo and Regional geopolitics, 1996-2006. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 327 pp.
Rockel, Stephen, J. 2006. Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa . Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann. 335 pp.
Rubongoya, Joshua B. 2007. Regime Hegemony in Museveni’s Uganda : Pax Musevenica. New York : Palgrave Macmillan. 283 pp.
Sakin, Jeremy. (eds). 2008. Human Rights in African Prisons. Capetown , South Africa : HSRC Press. 254 pp.
Sandoval, Mercedes Cros. 2006. Worldview, the Orichas, and Santeria: frica to Cuba and Beyond. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida . 405 pp.
Schlee, Günther & Elizabeth E. Watson. (eds). 2009. Changing Indentifications and Alliances in North-East Africa: Ethiopia and Kenya, Volume 2. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. 260 pp.
Schlee, Günther & Elizabeth E. Watson. (eds). 2009. Changing Indentifications and Alliances in North-East Africa: Sudan, Uganda, and the Ethiopia-Sudan Borderlands, Volume 3. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books. 270 pp.
Tishken, Joel E, Tóyìn Falola, and Akintude Akinyemi (eds). 2009. Sàngó in the Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 365 pp.
Shadle, Brett. 2006. “Girl Cases”: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland , Kenya , 1890-1970. Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann. 250 pp.
Shandy, Dianna J. 2007. Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 197 pp.
Shepherd, Nick and Steven Robins. (eds). 2008. New South African keywords. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 266 pp.
Simon, David J., James R. Pletcher, and Brian V. Siegel. 2008. Historical Dictionary of Zambia . (Third edition). Lanham , MD : Scarecrow Press. 612 pp.
Soderbaum, Fredrik and Ian Taylor (eds). 2008. Afro-Regions: The Dynamics of Cross-Border Micro-Regionalism in Africa. Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 203 pp.
Souare, Issaka K. 2006. Civil Wars and Coups d’Etat in West Africa : An Attempt to Understand the Roots and Prescribe Possible Solutions.Lanham, MD: University Press of America . 239 pp.
St John, Ronald Bruce. 2006. Historical Dictionary of Libya . Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press. 402 pp.
Sunseri, Thaddeus. 2009. Welding the Ax: state forestry and social conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press & Swallow Press. 293 pp.
Tareke, Gebru; with foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan. 2009. The Ethopian revolution: war in the Horn of Africa. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 437 pp.
Taylor, Scott, D. 2006. Culture and Customs on Zambia . Westport, CT : Greenwood Press. 148 pp.
Thomas, Dominic. 2007. Black France : Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press. 305 pp.
Thomas, Greg. 2007. The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 200 pp.
Thorton, Robert J. 2008. Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS ijn Uganda and South Africa.London: The Regents of the University of California. 282 pp.
Tomaselli, Keyan, G. 2007. Writing in the Sand: Authethnography among Indigenous Southern Africans. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 174 pp.
Tronvoll, Kjetil, Charles Schaefer & Girmachew Alemu Aneme (eds). 2009. The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: transitional justice challenged. -(African Issues). Suffolk, UK: James Currey. 158 pp.
Tshimanga, Charles, Didier Gondola & Peter J. Bloom. 2009. Frenchness and the African Diaspora: identity and uprising in contemporary France. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 336 pp.
Turner, Thomas. 2007. The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth & Reality. London : Zed Books. 233 pp.
Turton, David (ed). 2006. Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 240 pp.
Twagilimana, Aimable. 2007. Historical Dictionary of Rwanda (New edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 227 pp.
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. African Governance Report II 2009. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 274 pp.
Van Niekerk, Anton and Loretta M. Koelman (eds). 2006. Ethics and AIDS in Africa : The Challenge to Our Thinking. Walnut Creek , CA : Left Cost Press Inc. 222 pp.
Walker , Cherry. 2008.Landmarked: Land Claims and Land Restitution in South Africa . Athens, OH: dia (Pty) Ohio University Press. 292 pp.
Walker, Patrick. 2009. Towards Independence in Africa: a district officer in Uganda at the End of Empire. New York, NY: The Radcliffe Press. 220 pp.
Ward, Kerry. 2009. Networks of Empire: forced migration in the Dutch East India Company. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 340 pp.
Waters, Robert Anthony Jr. 2009. Historical dictionary of United States-Africa relations. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press Inc. 367 pp.
Wehrs, Donald R. 2008. Islam, Ethics, Revolt: politics and piety in fancophone West African and Maghreb narrative. Plymouth , UK : Lexington Books. 279 pp.
Weinstein, Jeremy M. 2007. Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 402 pp.
Wenzel, Jennifer. 2009. Bulletproof: afterlives of anticolonial procephy in South Africa and beyond. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press. 311 pp.
West, Harry, G. 2007. Ethnographic Sorcery. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. 132 pp.
Winther, Tanja. 2008. The Impact of Electricity: development, desires and dilemma. NY: Berghan Books. 256 pp.
Woodfork, Jacqueline. 2006. Culture and Customs of the Central African Republic. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 171 pp.
Worden, Nigel. 2007. The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Apartheid, Democracy. (Fourth Edition). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. 189 pp.
Wylie, Dan. 2006. Myth of Iron: Shaka in History. Scottsville, South African: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 595 pp.
Wylie, Dan. 2006. Myth of Iron: Shaka in History. Scottsville, South African: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 595 pp.
Yonannes, Okbazghi. 2008. Water Resources and Inter-Riparian Relationships in the Nile Basin : the search for an integrative discourse. Albany : State University of New York Press. 256 pp.
Zug, James. 2007. The Guardian: The History of South Africa’s Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper. Lansing , MI : Michigan State University Press. 350 pp.

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