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  1. From the Editors
  2. Ralph H. Faulkingham, Mitzi Goheen
  3. p. iii
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0027
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  1. Local Violence, National Peace? Postwar "Settlement" in the Eastern D.R. Congo (2003-2006)
  2. Séverine Autesserre
  3. pp. 1-29
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0007
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  1. Popular Culture and Public Space in Africa: The Possibilities of Cultural Citizenship
  2. Nadine Dolby
  3. pp. 31-47
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0024
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Review Essay

  1. Praising the Subject: New South African Autobiography
  2. Laura Wright
  3. pp. 49-57
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0074
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Book Reviews

Anthropology & Sociology

  1. Suffering For Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe (review)
  2. Blair A. Rutherford
  3. pp. 59-61
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0065
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  1. Managing Mobility in African Rangelands: The Legitimization of Transhumance (review)
  2. Mark Moritz
  3. pp. 61-62
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0051
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  1. Food Aid after Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role (review)
  2. Karen Coen Flynn
  3. pp. 62-63
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0028
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  1. Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City (review)
  2. Lawrence B. Breitborde
  3. pp. 63-65
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0010
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  1. A Hill among a Thousand: Transformations and Ruptures in Rural Rwanda (review)
  2. Thomas Turner
  3. pp. 65-66
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0071
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  1. Grains from Grass: Aging, Gender, and Famine in Rural Africa (review)
  2. Maria G. Cattell
  3. pp. 66-67
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0014
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  1. Decisions in the Shade: Political and Juridicial Processes among the Oromo-Borana (review)
  2. Aneesa Kassam
  3. pp. 68-69
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0042
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Economics & Development

  1. Debt Relief Initiatives and Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from Africa (review)
  2. E. Wayne Nafziger
  3. pp. 70-71
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0058
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  1. Research and Development on Dryland Husbandry in Ethiopia, and: Dryland Husbandry in Uganda: Community Participation and Development, and: Dryland Husbandry for Sustainable Development in the Southern Rangelands of Kenya, and: Dryland Husbandry in the Sudan: Grassroots Experience and Development (review)
  2. Mark Moritz
  3. pp. 71-73
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0052
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  1. Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: Western Narratives and African Alternatives (review)
  2. Thomas R. DeGregori
  3. pp. 73-75
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0023
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  1. Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains, and the Global Economy (review)
  2. Barry Riddell
  3. pp. 75-76
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0062
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Education

  1. Desire and Decline: Schooling amid Crisis in Tanzania (review)
  2. Karen A. Porter
  3. pp. 77-79
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0060
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  1. Becoming an African University: Makerere 1922-2000 (review)
  2. Eckhard Breitinger
  3. pp. 79-81
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0011
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Geography, Environment, Demography

  1. Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho (review)
  2. Jane Carruthers
  3. pp. 82-83
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0012
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  1. The Assertion of Rights to Agro-pastoral Land in North Cameroon: A Cascade to Violence? (review)
  2. Hamadou Adama
  3. pp. 83-84
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0000
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  1. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier (review)
  2. Peter J. Rogers
  3. pp. 85-86
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0064
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  1. Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment: A Comparative Study of Two Pastoral Societies (review)
  2. Heidi Glaesel Frontani
  3. pp. 86-87
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0029
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  1. Towards a New Map of Africa (review)
  2. Heidi Glaesel Frontani, Honglin Xiao
  3. pp. 87-89
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0030
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  1. Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa (review)
  2. Kate Barger Showers
  3. pp. 89-90
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0069
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History

  1. Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics and the Ethics of Business (review)
  2. Catherine Higgs
  3. pp. 91-92
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0037
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  1. Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa (review)
  2. Alan Gregor Cobley
  3. pp. 92-94
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0016
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  1. Kola Is God's Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry in Asante and the Gold Coast c. 1820-1950 (review)
  2. Ezekiel Gebissa
  3. pp. 94-96
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0031
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  1. Ouidah: The Social History of a West African Slaving "Port," 1727-1892 (review)
  2. Sandra E. Greene
  3. pp. 96-97
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0032
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  1. Why the Boers Lost the War (review)
  2. John Laband
  3. pp. 97-98
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0045
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  1. Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History (review)
  2. Janice M. Saunders
  3. pp. 98-100
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0066
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  1. Creative Writing: Translation, Bookkeeping, and the Work of Imagination in Colonial Kenya (review)
  2. Michelle Moyd
  3. pp. 100-102
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0055
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  1. Black Poachers, White Hunters: A History of Hunting in Colonial Kenya (review)
  2. Jane Carruthers
  3. pp. 102-104
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0013
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  1. An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination and Development (review)
  2. Peter Limb
  3. pp. 104-106
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0048
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  1. The Dark Webs: Perspectives on Colonialism in Africa (review)
  2. Kenneth E. Wilburn
  3. pp. 106-107
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0073
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  1. Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe (review)
  2. Penelope Roach
  3. pp. 108-109
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0063
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  1. Empire in Africa: Angola and Its Neighbors (review)
  2. Brian J. Hesse
  3. pp. 109-111
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0036
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  1. Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination (review)
  2. Ismail Hussein Abdalla
  3. pp. 111-113
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0001
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Law and Human Rights

  1. Dar Fur: The Ambiguous Genocide (review)
  2. Ismail Hussein Abdalla
  3. pp. 114-115
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0002
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  1. Genocide in Cambodia and Rwanda (review)
  2. René Lemarchand
  3. pp. 116-117
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0047
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  1. Engendering Human Rights: Cultural and Socioeconomic Realities in Africa (review)
  2. Ineke van Kessel
  3. pp. 117-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0044
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  1. Displacement Risks in Africa (review)
  2. Loren B. Landau
  3. pp. 118-120
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0046
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Literature & The Arts

  1. The Beat of My Drum: An Autobiography (review)
  2. Kathryn Barrett-Gaines
  3. pp. 121-122
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0008
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  1. Aminata Sow Fall: Oralité et société dans l'oeuvre romanesque (review)
  2. Edgard Coly
  3. pp. 122-123
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0018
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  1. Maryse Condé et Ahmadou Kourouma: Griots de l'indicible (review)
  2. Ginette Curry
  3. pp. 124-125
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0020
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  1. Bogolanfini Mud Cloth (review)
  2. Pascal James Imperato
  3. pp. 125-126
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0039
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  1. The Discerning Eye: African Art from the Collection of Carl and Wilma Zabel, and: Artists and Patrons in Traditional African Cultures: African Sculpture from the Gary Schulze Collection (review)
  2. Pascal James Imperato
  3. pp. 127-129
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0040
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  1. Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi (review)
  2. Michael Janis
  3. pp. 129-131
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0041
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  1. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French (review)
  2. Mildred P. Mortimer
  3. pp. 132-133
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0053
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Media

  1. His Master's Voice: Mass Communication and Single Party Politics in Guinea Under Sékou Touré (review)
  2. Elizabeth Schmidt
  3. pp. 134-135
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0067
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Politics

  1. Zero Tolerance: Public Sector Corruption in Ghana (review)
  2. Lisa Marie Aubrey
  3. pp. 136-137
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0006
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  1. Apartheid South Africa and African States: From Pariah to Middle Power, 1961-1994 (review)
  2. Allan D. Cooper
  3. pp. 137-138
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0019
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  1. Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition (review)
  2. Mueni wa Muiu
  3. pp. 138-140
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0056
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  1. Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms (review)
  2. Mueni wa Muiu
  3. pp. 140-142
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0057
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  1. Democracy Compromised: Chiefs and the Politics of the Land in South Africa, and: Developmental Local Government: A Case Study of South Africa (review)
  2. Noah Zerbe
  3. pp. 142-145
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0075
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  1. Africa in International Politics: External Involvement on the Continent (review)
  2. Robert A. Mortimer
  3. pp. 145-146
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0054
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  1. White Lies: Canon Collins and the Secret War against Apartheid, and: Anti-Apartheid: A History of the Movement in Britain. A Study in Pressure Group Politics (review)
  2. Richard Dale
  3. pp. 146-149
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0021
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  1. Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and Myth. The Biography of a Barefoot Soldier, and: Armed Liberation Struggle: Some Accounts of PLAN's Combat Operations (review)
  2. Richard Dale
  3. pp. 149-151
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0022
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  1. The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia: From 'Paternaltarianism' to State Collapse, and: Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic Governance in Liberia (review)
  2. D. Elwood Dunn
  3. pp. 151-154
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0025
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  1. Re-living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe, and: What Happens after Mugabe? (review)
  2. Kenneth W. Grundy
  3. pp. 154-157
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0033
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  1. Guerilla Government: Political Changes in the Southern Sudan during the 1990s (review)
  2. Robert M. Press
  3. pp. 157-158
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0061
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  1. South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction (review)
  2. James J. Hentz
  3. pp. 158-160
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0035
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  1. African Politics in Comparative Perspective (review)
  2. Constance G. Anthony
  3. pp. 160-161
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0005
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  1. Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (review)
  2. Stephen Ellis
  3. pp. 161-162
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0026
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  1. Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (review)
  2. Charles H. Ambler
  3. pp. 162-164
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0004
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  1. Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters (review)
  2. Herman J. Cohen
  3. pp. 164-165
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0017
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  1. Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress (review)
  2. Susan M. Thomson
  3. pp. 165-166
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0070
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Religion

  1. The Religious Traditions of Africa: A History (review)
  2. Ian Linden
  3. pp. 167-168
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0049
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  1. Islam and the Prayer Economy: History and Authority in a Malian Town (review)
  2. Heather J. Sharkey
  3. pp. 168-170
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0068
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  1. The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in East Africa (review)
  2. Emmanuel Katongole
  3. pp. 170-171
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0043
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  1. Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Democratic Federalism in Nigeria, and: Islam and Colonialism: Intellectual Responses of Muslims of Northern Nigeria to British Colonial Rule (review)
  2. Allan Christelow
  3. pp. 172-174
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0015
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Science and Philosophy

  1. Kwasi Wiredu and Beyond: The Text, Writing and Thought in Africa (review)
  2. B Hallen
  3. pp. 175-176
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0034
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  1. African Philosophy: The Analytic Approach (review)
  2. Polycarp Ikuenobe
  3. pp. 176-178
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0038
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Women & Gender

  1. Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere (review)
  2. Funso S. Afolayan
  3. pp. 179-181
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0003
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  1. Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960 (review)
  2. Simon Ottenberg
  3. pp. 181-184
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0059
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  1. Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace (review)
  2. Beverly B. Mack
  3. pp. 184-185
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0050
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Film Review

  1. Le Malentendu Colonial (Colonial Misunderstanding) (review)
  2. Daniel Joseph Walther
  3. pp. 187-188
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0072
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Books Received

  1. Books Received
  3. pp. 189-196
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0009
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