African Studies Review
Volume 52, Number 2, September 2009
Previous Issue E-ISSN: 1555-2462 Print ISSN: 0002-0206
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Anticolonial Nationalism in French West Africa: What Made Guinea Unique?
pp. 1-34
Special Issue: Guinea-Bissau Today
Introduction: Guinea-Bissau Today—The Irrelevance of the State and the Permanence of Change
pp. 35-45
Subject Headings:
From the Margins of the State to the Presidential Palace: The Balanta Case in Guinea-Bissau
pp. 47-67
"Culture Stops Development!": Bijagó Youth and the Appropriation of Developmentalist Discourse in Guinea-Bissau
pp. 69-92
Death and the Left Hand: Islam, Gender, and "Proper" Mandinga Funerary Custom in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal
pp. 93-117
"We Work Hard": Customary Imperatives of the Diola Work Regime in the Context of Environmental and Economic Change
pp. 119-141
Conflictual Motion and Political Inertia: On Rebellions and Revolutions in Bissau and Beyond
pp. 143-164
Subject Headings:
Conclusion: Guinea-Bissau Yesterday. . . and Tomorrow
pp. 165-179
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Review Essays
Book Reviews
Anthropology and Sociology
The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to Most Recent Foragers (review)
pp. 189-190
The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage (review)
pp. 192-194
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (review)
pp. 194-195
Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township (review)
pp. 196-197
Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (review)
pp. 197-198
History
The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa (review)
pp. 199-200
Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the "Native Mind" in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1930 (review)
pp. 200-202
Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960 (review)
pp. 202-203
A Failed Eldorado: Colonial Capitalism, Rural Industrialization, African Land Rights in Kenya, and the Kakamega Gold Rush, 1930-1952 (review)
pp. 203-205
Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities (review)
pp. 205-206
Politics, International Relations, and Globalization
Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism: Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union (review)
pp. 207-208
Anatomy of an African Tragedy: Political, Economic and Foreign Policy Crisis in Post-Independence Eritrea, and: Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners (review)
pp. 208-210
The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo (review)
pp. 211-212
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 (review)
pp. 212-214
Biko Lives! Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (review)
pp. 214-215
Economics and Development
Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa (review)
pp. 216-217
Religion
Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century (review)
pp. 218-219
Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture (review)
pp. 220-221
Languages, Literature, and the Arts
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (review)
pp. 222-223
African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity (review)
pp. 223-225
Les arts plastiques de l'Afrique contemporaine. 60 ans d'histoire à Lubumbashi, R-D Congo (review)
pp. 225-227
Painting for the Gods: Art and Aesthetics of Yoruba Religious Murals (review)
pp. 227-228
Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (review)
pp. 228-229
Media and I.T.
The African Press, Civic Cynicism, and Democracy (review)
pp. 230-231
The Guardian: The History of South Africa's Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper (review)
pp. 231-233
Bibliographies and Dictionaries
Africa: A Guide to Reference Material (review)
pp. 234-235
Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography (review)
pp. 235-237