Books Received

Aaron, Kiikpoye K., and Dawari George, eds. Placebo as Medicine: The Poverty of Development Intervention and Conflict Resolution Strategies in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. Nigeria: Kemuela Publications, 2010. xx + 249 pp. Foreword by Michael J. Watts. Abbreviations. Maps. Tables. Contributors. Bibliography. Index. No price listed.

Afolabi, Niyi, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa: Prophet, Trickster, and Provocateur. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2010. In English and Portuguese. xi + 458 pp. Notes on Contributors. Index. $39.93. Paper.

Bekers, Elisabeth. Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960–2000. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. xii + 262 pp. Women in Africa and the Diaspora. Notes. References. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Berenson, Edward. Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. xii + 360 pp. Acknowledgments. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Index. $29.95. Cloth.

Botoyiyê, Geoffroy A. Dominique. Le Passage à l'écruiture Mutation culturelle et devinir des savoirs dans une société de l'oralité. Rennes Cedex: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010. 351pp. Annexe. Bibliographie. Index nominum. €20.00

Brown, Carolyn A., and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2011. xii + 387 pp. Preface. Maps. Tables. Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Crush, Jonathan, and Bruce Frayne, eds. Surviving on the Move: Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. Cape Town: Idasa Publishing, 2010. viii + 242 pp. Tables. Figures. Index. $30.00. Paper.

———. The State of Urban Food Insecurity in Southern Africa. Cape Town: Unity Press (distributed by IDASA), 2010. 54 pp. Tables. Graphs. Endnotes. No price listed.

Ekotto, Frieda. Race and Sex Across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical and Theater Discourse. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011. xxiv + 103 pp. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth.

Falola, Toyin, and Adebayo O. Oyebade. Hot Spot: Sub-Saharan Africa. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Press, 2010. Hot Spot Histories Series. xxiii + 200 pp. Abbreviations. Timeline. Appendix. Selected Bibliography. Index. About the Authors. $65.00. Cloth.

Frishkopf, Michael, ed. Music and Media in the Arab World. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2010. xiii + 308 pp. Contributors. Acknowledgments. Photographs. Tables. Diagrams. Illustrations. $29.95. Cloth.

Gibbs, Peter, Hugh Phillips, and Nick Russell, eds. Blue and Gold: The History of the British South Africa Police 1889–1980. Illustrated by Richard Hamley. Foreword by G. W. F. Ellway. Johannesburg: 30° South Publishers, 2009. 576 pp. Authors' Notes. Illustrations. Photographs, Glossary of Terms. Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. $70.00. Cloth.

Gomo, Mashingaidze. A Fine Madness. Preface by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Banbury, U.K.: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2010. Distributed in the U.S. by Lynne Rienner Publishing. xiv + 174 pp. Acknowledgments. Glossary. $17.95. Paper.

Hampton, Gregory Jerome. Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens and Vampires. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010. xxvii + 157 pp. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $60.00. Cloth.

Hawthorne, Walter. From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. xxi + 73 pp. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. Tables. List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgments. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $25.99. Paper.

de Hesse-Wartegg, Chevalier. Tunis: The Land and the People. Reading, U.K.: Garnet Publishing, 2010. xi + 292 pp. Preface. Illustrations. $39.95. Paper.

Hilton-Simpson, Melville W. Algiers and Beyond. Reading, U.K.: Garnet Publishing, 2010. xii + 295 pp. Preface. Photographs. Maps. Appendix. $39.95. Paper.

Holt, Thomas C. Children of Fire: A History of African Americans. New York: Hill and Wang, 2010. xvii + 438 pp. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. $30.00. Cloth.

Hornsby, Alton, Jr. African Americans in the Post-Emancipation South: The Outsider's View. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2010. ix + 171 pp. Preface. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $29.00. Paper.

Kalu, Wilhelmina J., Nimi Wariboko, and Toyin Falola, eds. African Pentecostalism: Global Discourses, Migration, Exchanges and Connections. The Collected Essays of Ogbu Uke Kalu. Volume 1. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2010. lxvi + 439 pp. Preface. Biographies and Testimonies. Tributes and Testimonies. Photographs. Index. $39.95. Paper...