Executive Staff Editorial Committee Advisory Board ASQ is indexed in Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) and by the Gale Group. ASQ is available only in electronic format. There is no print version. To receive an email when a new issue of the journal is published click the "subscribe" button. Electronic Citation Styles African Studies Related Links African Studies Quarterly PO Box 115560 427 Grinter Hall Gainesville, FL 32611 Tel: (352) 392-2187 Fax: (352) 392-2435 Email: 11africanstudiesquarterly@gmail.com Volume 10, Issue 4 Spring 2009 Print/Download PDF Version of entire issue  ARTICLES 'We Want to Belong to Our Roots and We Want to be Modern People': New Farmers, Old Claims Around Lake Mutirikwi, Southern Zimbabwe Joost Fontein Alternative Electoral Systems and the 2005 Ethiopian Parliamentary Election John Ishiyama The 2007 General Election in Lesotho: The Application and the Challenges of the Electoral System Fako Johnson Likoti Kwasi Konadu. Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society. New York: Routledge, 2007. Review by Sandra Amponsah Donald A. Yerxa (ed.). Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. Review by Sandra Amponsah Roy Armes. African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. Review by Helena Cantone Sara Dorman, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.). Making Nations, Creating Strangers: States and Citizenship in Africa. Boston: Brill, 2007. Review by Heidi G. Frontani and Kristine Silvestri Preben Kaarsholm (ed). Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2006. Review by Detlev Krige Michael Ba Banutu-Gomez. Africa: We Owe it to Our Ancestors, Our Children, and Ourselves. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2005. Review by Linda Lilian Alfred Nhema and Paul Zeleza, (eds). The Roots of African Conflicts: The Causes & Costs. Oxford, UK: James Currey (in association with OSSREA), 2008. Review by Linda Lilian Stephanie E. Smallwood. Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Review by Saneta Maiko Alvin O. Thompson. Economic Parasitism: European Rule in West Africa, 1880-1960. Barbados, West Indies: University of West Indies, 2006. Review by Okechukwu Edward Okeke Kathleen Bickford Berzock. Hesi how BENIN: Royal Arts of a West African Kingdom. The Art Institute of Chicago. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Review by Yomi Okunowo Patrick Harries. Butterflies and Barbarians: Swiss Missionaries and Systems of Knowledge in South-East Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Review by Jeremy Rich A. E. Afigbo. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885-1950. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Review by Assan Sarr Fyle C. Magbaily. Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Review by William Augustus Sawyerr, Jr. George O. Ndege. Culture and Customs of Mozambique. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. Review by Frank Vollmer