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Nwando Achebe. The Female King of Colonial Nigeria Ahebi Ugbabe.
Bloomington Indiana University Press, 2010. xiii, 305 pp.
Review by Anne Jebet Waliaula
(107-108)
Heike Behrend. Resurrecting Cannibals: The Catholic Church, Witch-Hunts,
and the Production of Pagans in Western Uganda. Suffolk: James Currey, 2011. 214 pp.
Review by Richardson Addai-Mununkum
(108-110)
Elisabeth Bekers. Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision 1960-2000.
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. 262 pp.
Review by Sabine Iva Franklin
(110-114)
Megan Biesele and Robert K. Hitchcock. The Ju/’hoan San of Nyae Nyae and Namibian Independence:
Development, Democracy and Indigenous Voices in Southern Africa. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011. 269 pp.
Review by Shylock Muyengwa
(114-115)
Graham Bradshaw and Michael Neill (eds.). J.M.Coetzee’s Austerities.Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT:
Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2010. 272 pp.
Review by Mark Diachkov
(115-116)
Padraig Carmody. The New Scramble for Africa, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011. Xi, 194 pp.
Review by Emmanuel Botlhale
(117-118)
Stephen Chan. Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 302 pp.
Review by Elizabeth Williams
(118-120)
Alison Liebhafsky des Forges. Defeat is the Only Bad News: Rwanda under Musinga, 1896-1931. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 306 pp.
Review by Ilunga Tchoma Kitenge
(120-122)
Mamadou Diawara, Bernard Lategan and Jörn Rüsen. Historical Memory in Africa: Dealing with the Past,
Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context. New York: Beghahn Books, 2010. vi, 248 pp.
Review by Jan Bender Shetler
(122-123)
Donald L. Donham. Violence in a Time of liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine,
1994. Duke University Press, 2011. xiv, 237 pp.
Review by Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers
(123-124)
David. T. Doris. Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and the Strange Fates of Ordinary
Objects in Nigeria. Seattle:University of Washington Press, 2011. 420 pp.
Review by Yomi Okunowo
(124-126)
Toyin Falola and Saheed Aderinto. Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2010. xiii, 333pp.
Review by John Olushola Magbadelo
(126-128)
Timothy Derek Fernyhough. Serfs, Slaves and Shifta: Modes of Production in Pre-Revolutionary Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: Shama Books, 2010. 344 pp.
Review by Terje Østebø
(128-129)
Jonathan Glassman. War of Words, War of Stomes: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2011. xii, 398 pp.
Review by Katrina Demulling
(129-130)
Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller, eds. Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United
Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. 205 pp.
Review by Myra Ann Houser
(131-132)
Douglas H. Johnson. The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars: Peace or Truce? Suffolk: James Currey, 2011. xix, 236 pp.
Review by Sonny Lee
(132-133)
Michelle T. Kuenzi. Education and Democracy in Senegal. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xiii, 190 pp.
Review by Anne Jebet Waliaula
(134-135)
Janie L. Leatherma. Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. Cambridge and Oxford, UK, and Boston: Polity Press 2011. 242 pp.
Review by Nafisatu Koroma
(135-136)
Simon Lewis. British and African Literature in Transnational Context. Gainesville: Florida University Press, 2011. 257 pp.
Review by Adel Manai
(136-138)
JoAnn McGregor. Crossing the Zambezi. The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier. Suffolk: James Currey, 2009. 237 pp.
Review by Olga Sicilia
(138-139)
Elias Mpofu, ed. Counseling People of African Ancestry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xix, 332 pp.
Review by Omar Ahmed and Grant J. Rich
(139-142)
Mara Naaman. Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo. Palgrave McMillan, 2011. Xxv, 227 pp.
Review by Michael K. Walonen
(142-143)
Krijn Peters. War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone. London and Cambridge: International African
Institute and Cambridge University Press, 2011. xvi, 274 pp.
Review by Sverker Finnström
(143-145)
William Reno. Warfare in Independent Africa: New Approaches to African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 271 pp.
Review by Nicholas D. Knowlton
(145-146)
Mahir Saul and Ralph A. Austen (eds.). Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and
the Nollywood Video Revolution. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2010. 237pp.
Review by Lorien R. Hunter
(146-147)
Symphony Way Pave Dwellers. No Land! No house! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011. xvii, 141 pp.
Review by Uchendu E. Chigbu
(147-149)
Aili Mari Tripp. 2010. Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime. Boulder: LynneRienner Publishers. 222 pp.
Review by Moses Kibe Kihiko
(149-150)
Peter VonDoepp. Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa. Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2009. vii, 185 pp.
Review by Danielle Resnick
(150-152)
Elke Zuern. The Politics of Necessity: Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa. Wisconsin:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. xvii, 242pp.
Review by Ròisìn Hinds
(152-153)
