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Volume 53 - April 2010

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Joel Barkan, ed. Legislative Power in Emerging African Democracies. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2009. ix + 277 pp. Bibliography. Index. $55.95. Hardcover.

Janet McIntosh, The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood and Ethno-Religious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2009. xiv + 326 pp. Note on Language. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

Adeline Masquelier. Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. xxviii + 343 pp. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper: No price reported.

Katherine Homewood. Ecology of African Pastoralist Societies. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2009. xii + 292 pp. Photos. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

Kristen E. Cheney. Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. x + 299 pp. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Notes. References. Index. $52.00. Cloth. $21.00. Paper.

Chima J. Korieh and Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika, eds. Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race and Identity. New York: Routledge, 2009. ix + 291 pp. Notes. Bibliography. About the Contributors. Index. $95.00. Cloth.

Christine Saidi. Women's Authority and Society in Early East-Central Africa. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2010. xiv + 190 pp. Maps and Figures. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $85.00.

Edward A. Alpers. East Africa and the Indian Ocean. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2009. xii + 242 pp. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $28.95. Paper. $86.95. Cloth.

Marc Epprecht. Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. xiii + 231 pp. Bibliography. Index. $19.95. Paper.

Daniel Branch. Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya: Counterinsurgency, Civil War and Decolonization. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. African Studies Series, xxii + 250 pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $24.99 Paper.

Edda L. Fields-Black. Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xv + 277 pp. Orthography. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Appendixes. $34.95. Cloth.

Andrew E. Barnes. Making Headway. The Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2009. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, xii + 330 pp. Maps. Graphs. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $95.00. Cloth.

Thaddeus Sunseri. Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009. xxx + 293 pp. List of Illustrations. Abbreviations. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $26.95.

Mamadou Diawara, Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias, and Gerd Spittler, eds. Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique. Cologne: Rudiger Koppe Verlag, 2006. Studien zur Kulturkunde, vol. 125. 286 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ∉39.80. Paper.

Tunde Adeleke. The Case against Afrocentrism. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. xiv + 223 pp. Bibliography. Index. $50.00. Cloth.

Bayo Holsey. Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. xiii + 280 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $21.00. Paper.

Elizabeth E. Watson. Living Terraces in Ethiopia: Konso Landscape, Culture and Development. London: James Currey, 2009. xii + 242 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00. Cloth.

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