In this Issue

Table of Contents

Understanding Social Resistance to the Ebola Response in the Forest Region of the Republic of Guinea: An Anthropological Perspective

James Fairhead
pp. 7-31
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Dance, Discipline, and the Liberal Self at a Ugandan Catholic Boarding School

David G. Pier
pp. 33-59
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Staging a “Revolution”: The 2011–12 Electoral Protests in Senegal

Leila Demarest
pp. 61-82
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Mineral Wealth and Protest in Sub-Saharan Africa

Moisés Arce, Rebecca E. Miller
pp. 83-105
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Joel Barkan and Kenya

David W. Throup
pp. 115-127
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Putting the Third Wave into Practice: Democracy Promotion in Kenya

John W. Harbeson
pp. 129-137
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Applying a Counterfactual: Would 1966 Ugandan University Students Be Surprised by Ugandan Governance Today?

Nelson Kasfir
pp. 139-153
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Devolution and the New Politics of Development in Kenya

Karuti Kanyinga
pp. 155-167
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Beyond the Liberal Democracy Paradigm: A Fresh Look at Power and Institutions

Goran Hyden
pp. 169-180
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Patrons, Parties, Political Linkage, and the Birth of Competitive-Authoritarianism in Africa

Nic Cheeseman
pp. 181-200
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Legislatures and Democratic Development in Africa

Robert Mattes, Shaheen Mozaffar
pp. 201-215
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Refugees, Migration, and Gated Nations: The Eritrean Experience

Dan Connell
pp. 217-225
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African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media by Matthias Krings (review)

Matthew H. Brown
pp. 227-228
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Divination’s Grasp: African Encounters with the Almost Said by Richard Werbner (review)

David M. Gordon
pp. 229-230
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Kongo in the Age of Empire 1860–1913: The Breakdown of a Moral Order by Jelmer Vos (review)

Joseph C. Miller
pp. 230-233
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A Short History of Modern Angola by David Birmingham (review)

Jelmer Vos
pp. 233-234
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The Souls of White Folk: White Settlers in Kenya, 1900s–1920s by Brett Shadle (review)

Richard Waller
pp. 235-236
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The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey (review)

Kathryn Edwards
pp. 236-239
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The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia, 1300–1700 by Mohammed Hassen (review)

Guluma Gemeda
pp. 239-241
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The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics ed. by Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell (review)

John Parker
pp. 241-243
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The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa by Kate Baldwin (review)

Jeremy Speight
pp. 243-245
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The Politics of Distinction: African Elites From Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town by Mattia Fumanti (review)

Stephanie Quinn
pp. 245-247
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Land Reform in South Africa: An Uneven Transformation by Brent McCusker, William G. Moseley, Maano Ramutsindela (review)

Cherryl Walker
pp. 247-248
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Aid and Authoritarianism in Africa: Development without Democracy ed. by Tobias Hagmann, Filip Reyntjens (review)

Stephen Brown
pp. 248-250
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Africa’s Land Rush: Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change ed. by Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Dzodzi Tsikata (review)

Kelly M. Askew
pp. 250-253
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British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914 by Casper Andersen (review)

Frank Edward
pp. 253-254
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West Africa’s Women of God: Alinesitoué and the Diola Prophetic Tradition by Robert M. Baum (review)

Joanna Davidson
pp. 254-257
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Nollywood Central by Jade L. Miller (review)

Alessandro Jedlowski
pp. 257-259
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The African Imagination in Music by Kofi Agawu (review)

Frank Gunderson
pp. 259-261
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The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros: A Seventeenth-Century African Biography of an Ethiopian Woman by Galawdewos (review)

Neal W. Sobania
pp. 261-263
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The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen, and Father Figures by Herman J. Cohen (review)

Alexander Schuhr
pp. 263-265
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Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako (review)

Odile Cazenave, Phyllis Taoua, Alioune Sow, Kenneth Harrow
pp. 267-293
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Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako (review)

Victoria Pasley
pp. 294-301
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Taylor Swift: Wildest Dreams by Joseph Kahn, and: King Solomon’s Mines by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton (review)

Elizabeth B. Dyer
pp. 301-310
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Holy Hustlers, and: Counterpoint One, and: Counterpoint Botswana by Richard Werbner (review)

Timothy R. Landry
pp. 311-315
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Just Not Married by Uduak Obong-Patrick (review)

Aderinsola Ajao, Lagos Nigeria
pp. 317-318
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Monsoons over the Moon by Dan Muchina (review)

Marleen S. Barr
pp. 319-320
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L’oeil du cyclone (Eye of the Storm) by Sékou Traoré (review)

MaryEllen Higgins
pp. 320-322
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African Metropolis: Six Stories from African Cities (review)

Connor Ryan
pp. 322-324
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Njinga: Rainha de Angola (Njinga: Queen of Angola) by Sérgio Graciano (review)

Fernando Arenas
pp. 324-326
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La Sirène de Faso Fani. (The Siren of Faso Fani) by Michel K. Zongo (review)

Justin Izzo
pp. 326-328
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For Our Land by Wanuri Kahiu (review)

Kathryn Mara
pp. 328-330
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Editors’ Introduction

Elliot Fratkin, Sean Redding
pp. 1-5
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Introduction

Nic Cheeseman, John Harbeson, Nelson Kasfir, David W. Throup
pp. 107-114
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Books Received

pp. 331-334
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