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African Studies Review 50.2 (2007) 285-289
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Adderley, Rosanne Marion. "New Negroes From Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean. Blacks in the Diaspora series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xiv + 337 pp. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Select Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
Adejumobi, Saheed A. The History of Ethiopia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2007. xix + 219 pp. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.
Aguilar, Mario, ed. Rethinking Age in Africa: Colonial, Post-Colonial and Contemporary Interpretations of Cultural Representations. Trenton, N.J., and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2007. x + 322 pp. Tables. Notes. Notes on Contributors. Index. $29.95. Paper.
Asres, Wondem. The State, The Crisis of State Institutions, and Refugee Migration in the Horn of Africa: The Cases of Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Trenton, N.J., and Asmara, Eritrea: The Red Sea Press, 2007. xiv + 446 pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.
Attwell, David. Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South African Literary History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. x + 236 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $22.95: Paper.
Bartels, Anke, and Dirk Wiemann, eds. Global Fragments: (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. Cross/Cultures 90. ASNEL Papers #10. xvii + 361 pp. Tables. Figures. Notes. Works Cited. Notes on Contributors. $103.00. Cloth.
Begag, Azouz. Shanty-Town Kid [Le Gone due Chaâba]. Edited by Alec G. Hargreaves. Translated by Naima Wolf and Alec G. Hargreaves. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii + 212 pp. Photographs. Map. Notes. Glossary. $15.95. Paper.
Bellegarde-Smith, Patrick, and Claudine Michel, eds. Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xxvii + 161 pp. Photographs. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. List of Contributors. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
Black, Daniel. They Tell Me of a Home. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2005. viii + 335 pp. $13.95. Paper.
Blakely, Sandra. Myth, Ritual, and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xiv + 328 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00: Cloth.
Brockington, Lolita Gutiérrez. Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the Forgotten in Colonial Mizque, 1550–1782. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xiv + 342 pp. Photographs. Maps. Charts. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.
Cadena, Agustín. Carne Verde, Piel Negra: An Avocado from Michoacán. Translated by C. M. Mayo. Los Altos, Calif: Tameme, 2007. 24 pp. $6.95. Paper.
Chatterjee, Indrani, and Richard M. Eaton, eds. Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. xxi + 344 pp. Maps. Tables. Notes. List of Contributors. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. [End Page 285]
Chrétien, Jean-Pierre. The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History. Translated by Scott Straus. New York: Zone Books, 2006. 503 pp. Maps. Charts. Notes Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. $25.95: Paper.
Collingwood-Whittick, Sheila, ed. The Pain of Unbelonging: Alienation and Identity in Australasian Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. Cross Cultures 91. xliii. + 210 pp. Notes. Works Cited. Notes on Contributors. $57.00. Cloth.
Crocker, Chester A., Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds. Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World. Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007. xviii + 726 pp. Figures. Notes. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $36.00. Paper.
Devenne, François. Three Dreams on Mount Meru. Translated by Lauren Yoder. London: The Toby Press, 2006. 208 pp. $14.95: Paper.
Dibua, Jeremiah I. Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2006. xvi + 372 pp. Charts. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $114.95. Cloth.
Dobrowolska, Agnieszka, and Jarostaw Dobrowolski. Heliopolis: Rebirth of the City of the Sun. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2006. 192 pp. Photographs. $24.50. Paper.
Drayton, Arthur D., Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, and I. Peter Ukpokodu, eds. African Literatures at the Millennium. Trenton, N.J., and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2007. African Literature Association Annual Series, vol. 13. 348 pp. Charts. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $34.95.
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