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Volume 56 - Issue 2 - September 2013

BOOK REVIEWS

LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS - Abou Jeng. Peacebuilding in the African Union: Law, Philosophy and Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi + 334 pp. Table of Cases. Table of Declarations and Resolutions. List of Abbreviations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cloth. $99.00.

GENDER - Ashley Currier. Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. xii + 255 pp. Acknowledgments. Acronyms. Introduction. Conclusion. Methodological Appendix. Notes. Works Cited. Index. Cloth. $75.00. Paper. $25.00.

Margot Badran, ed. Gender and Islam in Africa: Rights, Sexuality, and Law. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2011. Distributed by Stanford University Press. ix + 324 pp. Glossary. Bibliography. Contributors. Index. $60.00. Cloth.

ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT - Diane Frost. From the Pit to the Market: Politics and the Diamond Economy of Sierra Leone. Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: James Currey, 2012. xxi + 226 pp. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte. Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. xv + 253 pp. Preface. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Works Cited. Index. $18.95. Paper.

HEALTH AND DISEASE - Vinh-Kim Nguyen. The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 238 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper.

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS - Steven Feld. Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xii + 312 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. CDs. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

MEDIA AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Jenna Burrell. Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012. ix + 236 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Cloth.

FILM REVIEW ESSAY

FILM REVIEWS

FEATURE FILMS - Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. A Screaming Man. Original title: Un homme qui crie. 2010. Chad and France. French and Chadian Arabic, with English subtitles. 91 min. Film Movement and Pyramide International. $24.95.

Mohamed Moutakfkir. Pegasus (Al-Burāq). 2010. Morocco. Moroccan Arabic, with English subtitles. 104 min. Dreamaker Productions/Global Film Initiative. No price reported. See http://catalogue.globalfilm.org.

Kivu Ruhorahoza. Grey Matter. Original Title: Matière Grise. 2011. Rwanda. Kinyarwanda and French, with English subtitles. 100 min. Scarab Studio (POV Productions), Global Film Initiative (distributor). No price reported.

DOCUMENTARIES - Jean-Marie Teno. Sacred Places. 2009. Cameroon/France. French, with German, English, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish subtitles. 70 min. The Films of Jean-Marie Teno. $195.00

Jarreth Merz. An African Election. 2011. Ghana. English. 89 minutes. Cinema Guild. $295.00

Frank Bieleu. The Big Banana. 2011. Cameroon. French, with English subtitles. 85 min. ArtMattan. $295.00

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