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Tosha Grantham. 2009.
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South
Africa since 1950. Richmond: Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts. 150 pp.
Erin Haney. 2010.
Photography and Africa. London: Reaktion
Books. 192 pp.
Review by Todd
Leedy (107-109)
Sefi Atta. News from
Home. Northampton, Massachusetts: Interlink
Publishing Group, Incorporation, 2010. 293 pp.
Review by Rosetta
Codling (109-110)
Ivan Bargna. Africa.
Translated by Rosanna M. Giammanco. Book
series "Dictionaries of Civilization Series."
N° 6. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 2008. 385 pp.
Review by Yves
Laberge (110-112)
Ama Biney and Adebayo
Olukoshi. Speaking Truth to Power: Selected
Pan-African Postcards. Cape Town: Pambazuka
Press, 2010. ix, 248 pp.
Review by Kelli N. Moore (112-113)
Barbara Bompani and
Maria Frahm-Arp. Development and Politics from
Below: Exploring Religious Spaces in the African
State. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xiii,
257pp.
Review by Lady Jane
Acquah (113-115)
Babacar Camara. Reason in
History: Hegel and Social Changes in Africa.
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2011. 135 pp.
Review by Robert Munro (115-117)
Peter Cunliffe-Jones. My
Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, 2010. 238
pp.
Review by Kawu
Bala (117-118)
Irit Eguavoen. The
Political Ecology of Household Water in
Northern Ghana. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2008. xi,
309 pp.
Review by Heidi G.
Frontani (119-120)
Linda K. Fuller.
African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to
HIV/Aids: Communication Perspectives and
Promises. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
iv, 309 pp.
Review by Ridwa Abdi (120-122)
Sandra E. Greene. West
African Narratives of Slavery: Texts from Late
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ghana.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
ix, 300 pp.
Review by Toni
Pressley-Sanon (122-123)
Larry Grubbs. Secular
Missionaries: Americans and African
Development in the 1960's. Amherst,
Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts
Press, 2009. vii, 243 pp.
Review by Farah Abdi (124-126)
John W. Harbeson and
Donald Rothchild (eds.). Africa in World
Politics: Reforming Political Order. Boulder:
Westview Press, 2009. xvi, 408 pp.
Review by Percyslage
Chigora (126-127)
Kassim Mohammed Khamis.
Promoting the African Union. Washington, DC:
Lilian Barber Press, Inc., 2008. 421 pp.
Review by Antonia Witt (127-129)
Stephen J. King. The
New Authoritarianism in the Middle East and
North Africa. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana
University Press, 2009. 290 pp.
Review by Steven
Stottlemyre (129-130)
Herbert S. Klein. The
Atlantic Slave Trade. 2nd edition. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010. xx, 242 pp.
Review by A.T. Gorton
(130-131)
Kofi Oteng Kufuor. The
African Human Rights System: Origin and
Evolution. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan,
2010. vii. 182 pp.
Review by Eric M. Moody (132-133)
John McAleer.
Representing Africa, Landscape, Exploration
and Empire in Southern Africa, 1780-1870.
Manchester and New York: Manchester University
Press, 2010. 241 pp.
Review by Adel Manai (133-134)
Hassimi Oumarou Maïga.
Balancing Written History with Oral Tradition:
The Legacy of the Songhoy People. New York:
Routledge, 2010. xi, 206 pp.
Review by Helena Cantone
(135-136)
Cedric Mayson. Why Africa
Matters. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books,
2010. 217 pp.
Review by Lily
Sofiani (136-137)
Janet McIntosh. The Edge
of Islam: Power, Personhood, and
Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xi, 325
pp.
Review by Terje Østebø (137-138)
Augustine S. O. Okwu. Igbo
Culture and the Christian Missions: Conversion
in Theory and Practice, 1857-1957. New York:
University Press of America, Inc., 2010. x,
336 pp.
Review by Jason Bruner (139-140)
Tejumola
Olaniyan and James Sweet. The African Diaspora
and the Disciplines. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2010. viii, 363 pp.
Review by Ken Walibora
Waliaula (140-142)
Brett
L. Shadle. "Girl Cases:" Marriage and
Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006. x, 256 pp.
Review by Jacqueline-Bethel
Mougoué (142-144)
Elinami Veraeli Swai.
Beyond Women's Empowerment in Africa:
Exploring Disclocation and Agency. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 2010. xv, 189 pp.
Review by Emmanuel Botlhale (144-146)
United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa. African Governance
Report II 2009. New York: Oxford University
Press. xii, 274 pp.
Review by Uchendu Eugene
Chigbu (146-147)
Michael Vickers. A Nation
Betrayed: Nigeria and the Minorities
Commission of 1957. Trenton, New Jersey:
Africa World Press. 2010. xxvii, 324 pp.
Review by
Okechukwu Edward Okeke
(147-149)
Cherryl Walker, Anna
Bohlin, Ruth Hall, and Thembela Kepe (eds.).
Land, Memory, Reconstruction, and Justice:
Perspectives on Land Claims in South Africa.
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010.
xiv, 335 pp.
Review by Harvey
M. Feinberg
(149-152)
