African Studies Review
Volume 52, Number 1, April 2009
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Rereading the History and Historiography of Epistemic Domination and Resistance in Africa
pp. 1-22
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Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Central Tanzania
pp. 23-45
Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Rights and Rites of Defiance in Northern Tanzania
pp. 47-71
The Environmental and Social History of African Sacred Groves: A Tanzanian Case Study
pp. 73-98
Aḥmadu Bamba’s Pedagogy and the Development of ͑Ajamī Literature
pp. 99-123
Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa
pp. 125-156
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Review Essay
African Women and Globalization: Recent Research and Theoretical Perspectives
pp. 157-162
Book Reviews
Anthropology and Sociology
From Modern Myths to Global Encounters: Belonging and the Dynamics of Change in Postcolonial Africa (review)
pp. 163-165
Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar (review)
pp. 165-167
Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique (review)
pp. 167-168
Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War (review)
pp. 168-170
Contesting the Commons: Privatizing Pastoral Lands in Kenya (review)
pp. 170-171
History
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (review)
pp. 172-173
The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria (review)
pp. 173-174
The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (review)
pp. 174-176
Politics, International Relations, and Globalization
African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State: Contradictions of Neo-liberal Land Reform (review)
pp. 177-178
Held Together by Pins: Liberal Democracy Under Siege in Africa (review)
pp. 178-180
Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientelist Democracy in Senegal (review)
pp. 180-181
Kenya’s Quest For Democracy: Taming Leviathan (review)
pp. 181-183
Transitions in Namibia: Which Changes for Whom? (review)
pp. 183-184
African Counterterrorism Cooperation: Assessing Regional and Subregional Initiatives (review)
pp. 185-186
The Politics of War and the Culture of Violence: North-South-Essays by Ali A. Mazrui (review)
pp. 186-187
Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (review)
pp. 188-189
Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-colonial Angola, and: Angola: The Weight of History (review)
pp. 189-191
From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years during Genocide (review)
pp. 192-194
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It (review)
pp. 194-196
Le Château: The Lives of Prisoners in Rwanda (review)
pp. 196-197
Economics and Development
Growing Apart: Oil, Politics and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria (review)
pp. 198-199
Post-Stabilization Economics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Mozambique (review)
pp. 199-200
Democracy, Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction in Malawi (review)
pp. 201-202
Surrogates of the State: NGOs, Development, and Ujamaa in Tanzania (review)
pp. 202-204
The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid and Transformation in Western Tanzania (review)
pp. 204-206
Geography, Environment, and Demography
African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change (review)
pp. 207-208
Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present (review)
pp. 208-210
Health and Environment
Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics (review)
pp. 211-212
Religion
A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church (review)
pp. 213-214
Medicine and Scottish Missionaries in the Northern Malawi Region, 1875–1930: Quests for Health in a Colonial Society (review)
pp. 214-215
Languages, Literature, and the Arts
Yorùbá Bàtá Goes Global: Artists, Culture Brokers, and Fans (review)
pp. 216-217
Asen, Ancestors and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art (review)
pp. 217-219
Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu’s Zaire (review)
pp. 219-220
Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity, and: Utenzi, War Poems, and the German Conquest of East Africa: Swahili Poetry as Historical Source (review)
pp. 220-222
Words and Worlds: African Writing, Theatre, and Society (review)
pp. 222-224
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Drama and the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Popular Theater Experiment (review)
pp. 224-225
Diaspora Topics
Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty (review)
pp. 226-227
Media and Information Technology
Books Received
Books Received
pp. 231-232
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