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  1. Anticolonial Nationalism in French West Africa: What Made Guinea Unique?
  2. Elizabeth Schmidt
  3. pp. 1-34
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0219
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Special Issue: Guinea-Bissau Today

  1. Introduction: Guinea-Bissau Today—The Irrelevance of the State and the Permanence of Change
  2. Lorenzo I. Bordonaro
  3. pp. 35-45
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0211
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  1. From the Margins of the State to the Presidential Palace: The Balanta Case in Guinea-Bissau
  2. Marina Padrão Temudo
  3. pp. 47-67
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0203
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  1. Death and the Left Hand: Islam, Gender, and "Proper" Mandinga Funerary Custom in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal
  2. Michelle C. Johnson
  3. pp. 93-117
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0187
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  1. "We Work Hard": Customary Imperatives of the Diola Work Regime in the Context of Environmental and Economic Change
  2. Joanna Davidson
  3. pp. 119-141
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0179
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  1. Conflictual Motion and Political Inertia: On Rebellions and Revolutions in Bissau and Beyond
  2. Henrik Vigh
  3. pp. 143-164
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0171
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  1. Conclusion: Guinea-Bissau Yesterday. . . and Tomorrow
  2. Eric Gable
  3. pp. 165-179
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0214
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Review Essays

  1. Revisiting Economic Growth in Africa
  2. Nicolas van de Walle
  3. pp. 181-183
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0206
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  1. Revisiting Decolonization in Guinea
  2. Kwabena Akurang-Parry
  3. pp. 184-187
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0198
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Book Reviews

Anthropology and Sociology

  1. The First Africans: African Archaeology from the Earliest Toolmakers to Most Recent Foragers (review)
  2. Cara Roure Johnson
  3. pp. 189-190
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0190
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  1. A Linguistic Geography of Africa (review)
  2. Christopher Ehret
  3. pp. 190-192
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0182
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  1. The Silence of Great Zimbabwe: Contested Landscapes and the Power of Heritage (review)
  2. Pius S. Nyambara
  3. pp. 192-194
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0174
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  1. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (review)
  2. Kenneth W. Harrow
  3. pp. 194-195
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0217
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  1. Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South African Township (review)
  2. Elaine Salo
  3. pp. 196-197
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0209
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  1. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal (review)
  2. Peter Mark
  3. pp. 197-198
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0201
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History

  1. The Oral and Beyond: Doing Things with Words in Africa (review)
  2. David Henige
  3. pp. 199-200
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0193
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  1. Law, Language, and Science: The Invention of the "Native Mind" in Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1930 (review)
  2. Teresa Barnes
  3. pp. 200-202
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0185
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  1. Locality, Mobility, and "Nation": Periurban Colonialism in Togo's Eweland, 1900-1960 (review)
  2. Philippe Gervais-Lambony
  3. pp. 202-203
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0177
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  1. Narrating the Nile: Politics, Cultures, Identities (review)
  2. Jay Spaulding
  3. pp. 205-206
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0212
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Politics, International Relations, and Globalization

  1. Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism: Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union (review)
  2. John W. Forje
  3. pp. 207-208
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0204
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  1. The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo (review)
  2. Ch. Didier Gondola
  3. pp. 211-212
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0188
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  1. Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87 (review)
  2. Michael Kevane
  3. pp. 212-214
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0180
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  1. Biko Lives! Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (review)
  2. Mueni wa Muiu
  3. pp. 214-215
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0215
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Economics and Development

  1. Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa (review)
  2. Anne Pitcher
  3. pp. 216-217
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0172
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Religion

  1. Tonga Religious Life in the Twentieth Century (review)
  2. David Gordon
  3. pp. 218-219
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0199
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  1. Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: The Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture (review)
  2. Bolaji Campbell
  3. pp. 220-221
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0207
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Languages, Literature, and the Arts

  1. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (review)
  2. Jonathan Gosnell
  3. pp. 222-223
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0191
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  1. African Art and the Colonial Encounter: Inventing a Global Commodity (review)
  2. Mary Nooter Roberts
  3. pp. 223-225
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0173
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  1. Les arts plastiques de l'Afrique contemporaine. 60 ans d'histoire à Lubumbashi, R-D Congo (review)
  2. Johannes Fabian
  3. pp. 225-227
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0216
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  1. Painting for the Gods: Art and Aesthetics of Yoruba Religious Murals (review)
  2. Elisha Renne
  3. pp. 227-228
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0208
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  1. Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism (review)
  2. Keyan G. Tomaselli
  3. pp. 228-229
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0200
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Media and I.T.

  1. The African Press, Civic Cynicism, and Democracy (review)
  2. Tom Rhodes
  3. pp. 230-231
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0192
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  1. The Guardian: The History of South Africa's Extraordinary Anti-Apartheid Newspaper (review)
  2. Terry Bell
  3. pp. 231-233
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0184
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Bibliographies and Dictionaries

  1. Africa: A Guide to Reference Material (review)
  2. Yuusuf S. Caruso
  3. pp. 234-235
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0176
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  1. Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography (review)
  2. Edward A. Miner
  3. pp. 235-237
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0220
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