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  1. Life Begins at Fifty: African Studies Enters Its Age of Awareness
  2. Joseph Calder Miller
  3. pp. 1-35
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0110
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  1. Regional Shifts— Marginal Gains and Ethnic Stereotypes
  2. Peter Geschiere
  3. pp. 43-56
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0094
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  1. Marginal Gains, Market Values, and History
  2. Sara Berry
  3. pp. 57-70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0082
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  1. Formalities of Poverty: Thinking about Social Assistance in Neoliberal South Africa
  2. James Ferguson
  3. pp. 71-86
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0092
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  1. Currency Devaluation and Rank: The Yoruba and Akan Experiences
  2. A. G. Adebayo
  3. pp. 87-109
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0077
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  1. When People Cross Thresholds
  2. Karin Barber
  3. pp. 111-123
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0079
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  1. Incalculable Payments: Money, Scale, and the South African Offshore Grey Money Amnesty
  2. Bill Maurer
  3. pp. 125-138
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0109
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  1. Households and the Social Organization of Consumption in Southern Ghana
  2. Christopher Udry, Hyungi Woo
  3. pp. 139-153
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0124
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  1. The Efficacy of the Economy
  2. Janet L. Roitman
  3. pp. 155-161
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0122
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  1. The Telling Challenge of Africa's Economies
  2. Helen Verran
  3. pp. 163-182
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0125
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  1. Africa Has Never Been "Traditional": So Can We Make a General Case? A Response to the Articles
  2. Jane I. Guyer
  3. pp. 183-202
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0095
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  1. Africa's Place-in-the-World
  2. Robert A. Mortimer
  3. pp. 203-209
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0112
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  1. African Economies: The Tensions Between Hope and Inertia
  2. Gilbert M. Khadiagala
  3. pp. 210-213
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0104
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  1. Cuba and the Recentering of African History
  2. Jacques Depelchin
  3. pp. 214-219
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0090
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  1. Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City (review)
  2. James R. Brennan
  3. pp. 221-223
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0084
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  1. Islam, histoire et modernité en Côte d'Ivoire (review)
  2. Ndiouga Benga
  3. pp. 223-224
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0081
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  1. The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan (review)
  2. Daniel Habtemichael
  3. pp. 225-226
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0096
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  1. Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa (review)
  2. Michelle Moyd
  3. pp. 226-228
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0113
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  1. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885–1950 (review)
  2. David Northrup
  3. pp. 228-229
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0116
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  1. The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America (review)
  2. Robert W. Harms
  3. pp. 229-230
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0097
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  1. The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia (review)
  2. Chandra Dunn
  3. pp. 231-232
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0091
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  1. American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era (review)
  2. David Chioni Moore
  3. pp. 232-234
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0111
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  1. Between Bombs and Good Intentions: The Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935–1936 (review)
  2. Bahru Zewde
  3. pp. 234-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0127
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  1. Native Son: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century, and: Hitler's African Victims. The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940 (review)
  2. Nancy Ellen Lawler
  3. pp. 235-238
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0107
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  1. South Africa (review)
  2. Lize Kriel
  3. pp. 238-239
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0105
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  1. Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa (review)
  2. Guy Martin
  3. pp. 240-242
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0108
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  1. The Shackled Continent: Power, Corruption, and African Lives (review)
  2. Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
  3. pp. 242-243
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0099
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  1. Contending Political Paradigms in Africa: Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia (review)
  2. Stephen Walter Orvis
  3. pp. 243-244
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0119
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  1. The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs and the Ruthless Determination to Create Mayhem in an Oil-Rich Corner of Africa (review)
  2. William Reno
  3. pp. 245-246
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0120
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  1. African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development (review)
  2. Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
  3. pp. 246-248
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0100
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  1. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide (review)
  2. Preben Kaarsholm
  3. pp. 248-249
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0102
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  1. Child Soldiers in Africa (review)
  2. Bonni Carryer
  3. pp. 249-251
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0086
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  1. Bandits on the Border: The Last Frontier in the Search for Somali Unity, and: The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in the Horn of Africa (review)
  2. Stephen Franklin Burgess
  3. pp. 251-252
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0085
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  1. Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa (review)
  2. Mueni wa Muiu
  3. pp. 253-254
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0115
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  1. The Battle for Zimbabwe: The Final Countdown (review)
  2. Norma J. Kriger
  3. pp. 254-255
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0106
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  1. Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (review)
  2. Rita Abrahamsen
  3. pp. 256-257
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0076
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  1. Peaceful Resistance: Advancing Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms (review)
  2. Fredrick O. Wanyama
  3. pp. 257-258
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0126
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  1. Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta (review)
  2. Okello Oculi
  3. pp. 259-260
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0118
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  1. Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority (review)
  2. Gretchen Bauer
  3. pp. 261-262
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0080
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  1. No Shortcuts to Power: African Women in Politics and Policy Making (review)
  2. Judith Van Allen
  3. pp. 262-264
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0078
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  1. The Ostrich Wakes: Struggles for Change in Highland Kenya (review)
  2. Celia Nyamweru
  3. pp. 264-266
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0117
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  1. Sustainable Development in Africa: A Multifaceted Challenge (review)
  2. Mathurin C. Houngnikpo
  3. pp. 267-268
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0101
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  1. Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945–1965 (review)
  2. Stephanie Decker
  3. pp. 268-269
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0089
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  1. Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History (review)
  2. Chris Conte
  3. pp. 270-271
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0088
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  1. Pregnancy and Childbirth: Joy or Despair? Women and Gender-Generated Crimes of Violence (review)
  2. Lisa Ann Richey
  3. pp. 272-273
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0121
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  1. Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali (review)
  2. Kari A. Hartwig
  3. pp. 273-275
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0098
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  1. Picasso's Collection of African and Oceanic Art: Masters of Metamorphosis (review)
  2. Susan Kart
  3. pp. 276-278
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0103
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  1. Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (review)
  2. Ngwarsungu Chiwengo
  3. pp. 278-280
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0087
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  1. Africa's Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self (review)
  2. Jay Straker
  3. pp. 280-281
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0123
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  1. Student Power in Africa's Higher Education: A Case of Makerere University (review)
  2. Peter Moyi
  3. pp. 282-283
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0114
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  1. Introduction: Marginal Gains Revisited
  2. Peter Geschiere, Miriam Goheen, Charles Piot
  3. pp. 37-41
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0093
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  1. Books Received
  3. pp. 285-289
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2007.0083
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