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African Studies Review 50.1 (2007) 225-227

Books Received
Alexakis, Vassilis. Foreign Words. Iowa City: Autumn Hill Books, 2006. 215 pp. $16.95. Paper.
Arnedo-Gómez, Miguel. 2006. Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. x + 217 pp. Bibliography. Notes. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $21.50. Paper.
Barber, Karin, and Graham Furniss, eds. 2006. "Writing in African Languages." Special issue of Research in African Literatures: Creative Writing in African Languages 37, no. 3 (Fall). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 220 pp.
Chayes, Antonia, ed. 2006. "Special Report on Human Security." The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 7, no. 1 (Winter-Spring).
Christiansë, Yvette. 2006. Unconfessed. New York: Other Press. 360 pp. $25.95. Cloth.
Clarke, Kamari Maxine, and Deborah A. Thomas, eds. 2006. Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. vi + 407 pp. Bibliography. Index. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.
Falola, Toyin and Matthew M. Heaton, eds. 2006. Traditional and Modern Health Systems in Nigeria. Trenton, N.J.; Africa World Press, Inc. xvi + 468 pp. Charts. Notes. Index. $119.95. Cloth. $39.95. Paper.
Galal, Ahmed, and Nadeem Ul Haque, eds. 2006. Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Markets: International Experience and Implications for Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press. ix + 289 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.50. Paper.
Goodwin, Stefan. 2006. Africa's Legacies of Urbanization: Unfolding Saga of a Continent. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. xii + 514 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $120.00. Cloth.
Greene, Melissa Fay. 2006. There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children. New York: Bloomsbury. 472 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $25.95. Cloth.
Hart, Jonathan. Interpreting Cultures: Literature, Religion, and the Human Sciences. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xi + 340 pp. $75.00. Cloth.
Hirsch, Susan F. 2006. In the Moment of Greatest Calamity: Terrorism, Grief, and a Victim's Quest for Justice. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. xi + 296 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Index. $29.95. Cloth.
Howe, Marvine. 2005. Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges. Oxford: Oxford University Press. xi + 428 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $16.95. Cloth.
Idris, Amir. 2005. Conflict and Politics of Identity in Sudan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. xiv + 143 pp. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth.
Ilo, Stan Chu. 2006. The Face of Africa: Looking Beyond the Shadows. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse. xxvii + 353 pp. Notes. Index. $22.50. Cloth. $15.70. Paper.
Johnson, R. W. 2006. South Africa: The First Man, The Last Nation. No. Pomfret, Vt.: Trafalgar Square Publishing, 2006. xxiii + 250 pp. Maps. Index. $15.95. Paper.
Knudsen, Lara M. 2006. Reproductive Rights in a Global Context. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press. xviii + 312 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $69.95. Cloth. $29.95. Paper. [End Page 225]
Makdisi, Ussama, and Paul A. Silverstein, eds. 2006. Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. viii + 243 pp. Notes. References. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper.
McGowan, Patrick, Scarlett Cornelissen, and Philip Nel. 2006. Power, Wealth and Global Equity: An International Relations Textbook for Africa. Lansdowne, S.A.: UCT Press, 2006. xx +442 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. No price reported. Paper.
Osmani, S. R. 2005. The Employment Nexus between Growth and Poverty. Stockholm: Sida Studies no.15. 113 pp. Diagrams. No price reported. Paper.
Otiso, Kefa M. 2006. Culture and Customs of Uganda. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. xxiv + 193 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth.
Perryer, Sophie, ed. 2004. 10 Years, 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa. Cape Town: Bell-Roberts. 447 pp. Photographs. $59.95. Cloth.
Piccone, Ted, and Richard Youngs, eds. 2006. Strategies for Democratic Change: Assessing the Global Response. Washington D.C.: Democracy Coalition Project. 204 pp. Notes. No price reported. Paper.
Quinn, Frederick. 2006. In Search of Salt: Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society, 1880–1960. Cameroon Studies, Volume 6. New York: Berghahn Books. 175 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $70.00. Cloth.
Sensbach, Jon F. 2005. Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic...

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