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Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa. Andrew Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 169 pp.
Niyi Afolabi | HTML | PDF (153-154)
Political Liberation and Decolonization in Africa: Lessons from Country Experiences. Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere and John Mukum Mbaku. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 373 pp.
Pade Badru | HTML | PDF (154-158)
Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed. W. F. S. Miles ed. London: Lynne Rienner, 2007. 221 pp.
M. H. A. Bolaji | HTML | PDF (158-160)
Brown Water of Africa: Portuguese Riverine Warfare 1961-1974. John P. Cann. St. Petersburg, FL: Hailer Publishing, 2007. 248 pp.
Todd Cleveland | HTML | PDF (160-162)
Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Shareen Hassim. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 355 pp.
Erika N. Cornelius | HTML | PDF (162-164)
One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. Jared A. Cohen. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. 232 pp.
Michael H. Creswell | HTML | PDF (164-166)
Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Ferdinand De Jong. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2005. 216 pp.
Mark Davidheiser | HTML | PDF (166-168)
Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia. Manuel Jordán. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2006. 84 pp.
Olawole F. Famule | HTML | PDF (168-170)
The Internet and the Construction of the Immigrant Public Sphere: The Case of the Cameroonian Diaspora. Kehbuma Langmia. University Press of America, Inc., 2008. 97 pp.
Nancy J. Hafkin | HTML | PDF (170-172)
Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide. Scott Straus and Robert Lyons. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2006. 192 pp.
Madelaine Hron | HTML | PDF (172-174)
The African Manufacturing Firm: An Analysis Based on Firm Surveys in Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dipak Mazumdar and Ata Mazaheri. New York: Routledge, 2003. 451 pp.
Varinder Jain | HTML | PDF (174-176)
Schooling and Difference in Africa: Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context. George Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Bahador and Riyad Shahjahan. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 331 pp.
Yatta Kanu | HTML | PDF (176-181)
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 357 pp.
Walter J. Kendall III | HTML | PDF (181-184)
Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage. Laura Edmondson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. 175 pp.
Henry Kippin | HTML | PDF (184-186)
Vanguard or Vandals: Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa. Jon Abbink and Ineke van Kessel, eds. Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2005. 300 pp.
Ben Knighton | HTML | PDF (186-188)
Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa. Steven C Dubin. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 339 pp.
Yves Laberge | HTML | PDF (188-190)
The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa. Ruth Finnegan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 320 pp.
T. Spreelin MacDonald | HTML | PDF (190-192)
African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity. Sidney Littlefield Kasfir. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. 381 pp.
Adel Manai | HTML | PDF (192-194)
Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. Richard C. Keller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 294 pp.
Shane McCorristine | HTML | PDF (194-196)
Yoruba Bata Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans. Debra L. Klein. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 220 pp.
Olatunji Ojo | HTML | PDF (196-198)
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. Andrew Apter. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005. 334 pp.
Rasheed Olaniyi | HTML | PDF (198-200)
Africa: A Guide to Reference Material (2nd edition). John McIlwaine. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishing, 2007.
Dan Reboussin | HTML | PDF (200-203)
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Consumerism. Jeremy Prestholdt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 272 pp.
Jeremy Rich | HTML | PDF (203-205)
An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development. Charles Feinstein. London: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 326 pp.
Gerardo del Cerro SantamarÃa | HTML | PDF (205-208)
States of Violence: Politics, Youth, and Memory in Contemporary Africa. Edna G. Ray and Donald L. Donham, eds. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 268 pp.
Lisa Sharlach | HTML | PDF (208-210)
Xhosa Beer Drinking Rituals: Power, Practice and Performance in the South African Rural Periphery. Patrick A. McAllister. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2006. 355 pp.
Andrew Smith | HTML | PDF (210-212)
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America. Sylviane A. Diouf. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 340 pp.
Anthony J. Stanonis | HTML | PDF (212-213)
Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900. Kristin Mann. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. 473 pp.
Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani | HTML | PDF (213-214)
The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage. Joost Fontein. New York, NY: UCL Press, 2006. 246 pp.
Jonathan R. Walz | HTML | PDF (215-216)
