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Gail M. Gerhart and Clive L. Glaser. From Protest to Challenge. Volume 6: A Documentary History of
African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990, Challenge and Victory 1980-1990. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2010. xxxiv, 778 pp.
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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
(120-121)
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
(121-123)
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
(123-127)
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
(127-128)
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
(129-130)
Padraig Carmody. The New Scramble for Africa. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2011. xi, 194 pp.
Review by Emmanuel Botlhale
(130-131)
Stephen Chan. Southern Africa: Old Treacheries and New Deceits. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. 302 pp.
Review by Elizabeth Williams
(132-134)
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
(134-136)
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
(136-137)
Donald L. Donham. Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine,
1994. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. xiv, 237 pp.
Review by Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers
(137-138)
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 Ukonowo
(138-140)
Toyin Falola and Saheed Aderinto. Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History. Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2010. xiii, 333 pp.
Review by John Olushola Magbadelo
(140-142)
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
(142-143)
Jonathan Glassman. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 2011. xii, 398 pp.
Review by Katrina Demulling
(144-145)
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
(145-146)
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
(147-148)
Michelle T. Kuenzi. Education and Democracy in Senegal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xiii, 190 pp.
Review by Anne Jebet Waliaula
(148-149)
Janie L. Leatherman. Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict. Cambridge and Oxford, UK, and Boston: Polity Press, 2011. 242 pp.
Review by Nafisatu Koroma
(150-151)
Simon Lewis. British and African Literature in Transnational Context. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2011. 257 pp.
Review by Adel Manai
(151-152)
JoAnn McGregor. Crossing the Zambezi: The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier. Suffolk: James Currey, 2009. 237 pp.
Review by Olga Sicilia
(153-154)
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
(154-157)
Mara Naaman. Urban Space in Contemporary Egyptian Literature: Portraits of Cairo. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2011. Xxv, 227 pp.
Review by Michael K. Walonen
(157-158)
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
(158-160)
William Reno. Warfare in Independent Africa: New Approaches to African History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 271 pp.
Review by Nicholas D. Knowlton
(160-161)
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
(161-163)
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
(163-164)
Aili Mari Tripp. Museveni’s Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. 222 pp.
Review by Moses Kibe Kihiko
(164-166)
Peter VonDoepp. Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa. Boulder, CO: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2009. vii, 185 pp.
Review by Danielle Resnick
(166-167)
Elke Zuern. The Politics of Necessity: Community Organizing and Democracy in South Africa. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. xvii, 242pp.
Review by Ròisìn Hinds
(168-169)
