Books Received

Adebajo, Adekeye. From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2009. xxviii + 664 pp. List of Contributors. Appendixes. Index. $66.00. Cloth.

Afolabi, Niyi. Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2009. xi + 429 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth.

Africa Spectrum 1/2009. Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies. 143 pp. References. No price reported.

African Development Bank. African Development Report 2008/2009: Conflict Resolution, Peace and Reconstruction in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. List of Boxes. List of Figures. List of Tables. References. Statistical Appendix. Data Sources. Paper. $35.00.

African Development Bank. Debt Relief Initiatives, Development Assistance and Service Delivery in Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxiv + 178 pp. Figures. Tables. Boxes. Abbreviations. References. $75.00. Cloth.

Afrika Spectrum 43, 2 (2008). Hamburg: German Institute of Global and Area Studies. 296 pp. Notes. References. No price reported. Paper.

Agwumezie, Fidelia. The Plunge: The Fate of Paragon. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2007. 124 pp. $24.95. Cloth. $6.99. Paper.

Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. An Economic History of Ghana: Reflections on a Half-Century of Challenges and Progress. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008. 280 pp. Index. $55.00. Cloth.

Akinyemi, Akintunde, and Toyin Falola, eds. Emerging Perspectives on Akinwumi Isola. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2008. x + 491 pp. Index. About Contributors and Editors. Figures. Images. References. $39.95. Paper.

Akinyemi, Akintunde, Toyin Falola, and Joel Tishken, eds. Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 376 pp. Images. Maps. Bibliography. Index. List of Contributors. $75.00. Cloth. $27.95. Paper.

Akinyemi, Tunde, and Toyin Falola, eds. Emerging Perspectives on Femi Osofisan. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2009. x + 481 pp. Photos. Notes on Authors and Editors. Index. References. Graphs. $39.95. Paper.

Akpan-Obong, Patience Idaraesit. Information and Communication Technologies in Nigeria: Prospects and Challenges for Development. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009. xxii + 203 pp. List of Illustrations. List of Tables. Bibliography. Index. $33.95. Paper.

Allan, Tuzyline Jita, and Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi, eds. Twelve Best Books by African Women: Critical Readings. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. 278 pp. Notes on Contributors. Index. $28.00.

Angelfors, Christina, and Maria Olaussen, eds. Africa Writing Europe: Opposition, Juxtaposition, Entanglement. N.Y.: Rodopi, 2009. xxxii + 278 pp. Notes on Contributors & Editors. Works Cited. Index. No price reported. Cloth.

Aryeetey, Ernest, and Ravi Kanbur, eds. The Economy of Ghana: Analytical Perspectives on Stability, Growth, and Poverty. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2008. viii + 424 pp. List of Acronyms. Notes. Tables. Graphs. Figures. References. Appendixes. Index. $95.00. Cloth.

Asante, Molefi Kete. Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation. 2nd edition. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2009. 370 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. $19.00. Paper.

Askew, Kelly M., and M. Anne Pitcher, eds. African Socialisms and Postsocialisms. Africa 76, 1 (2006). New York: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 130 pp. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. References. $30.00. Paper.

Athera, Said Salman Abu, and Clove Holes. Poetry and Politics in Contemporary Bedouin Society. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2009. xvii + 351 pp. Notes. Glossary. References. Index. $69.95. Paper.

Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall: The Real and the Imaginary in her Novels. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2007. xii + 319 pp. Photographs. Notes. Works Cited. Selected Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka, and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier, eds. Emerging Perspectives on Ken Bugull: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2009. xi + 371 pp. Works Cited and Select Bibliography. Appendixes. Index. Notes on Contributors. $34.95. Paper.

Bala, Arun. The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xii + 230 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Indexes. $74.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Balogun, M. J. The Route to Power in Nigeria: A Dynamic Engagement Option for Current and Aspiring Leaders. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xiv + 264 pp. Figures. Tables. Boxes. Notes. References. Index. $80.00 Cloth.

Barany, Zoltan, and Robert G. Moser, eds. Is Democracy Exportable? New York: Cambridge...