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Volume 56 - December 2013

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Gina S. Lambright. Decentralization in Uganda: Explaining Successes and Failures in Local Governance.Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Reinner, 2011. xiv + 318 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95. Cloth.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY - Parker Shipton. Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. Yale Agrarian Studies Series. xxvii + 335 pp. Notes. References. Index. Illustrations. $37.00. Paper.

Walter van Beek and Annette Schmidt, eds. African Hosts and Their Guests: Cultural Dynamics of Tourism. Rochester, N.Y.: James Currey, 2012. xi + 352 pp. Foreword by Valene Smith. Afterword. List of Illustrations. Notes. Index. $90.00. Cloth.

Tim Allen and Koen Vlassenroot, eds. The Lord’s Resistance Army: Myth and Reality.London and New York: Zed Books, 2010. xi + 356 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. £19.99/$35.95. Paper.

POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION - Zachariah Cherian Mampilly. Rebel Rulers: Insurgent Governance and Civilian Life during War.Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2011. xxi + 293pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.

HISTORY - Jan Vansina. Being Colonized: The Kuba Experience in Rural Congo, 1880–1960. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. xiv + 342 pp. Maps. Figures. Notes. Index. $26.95. Paper. (Also available in e-book format.)

Adrienne LeBas. From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa.New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xiv + 300 pp. Figures. Tables. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Cloth.

Andrew Ivaska. Cultured States: Youth, Gender and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011. iii + 276 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. Paper.

Carmela Garritano. African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History.Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. xii + 246pp. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Notes. List of Films and Videos. References. Index. $32.95. Paper.

Jing Men and Benjamin Barton, eds. China and the European Union in Africa: Partners or Competitors?Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2011. xxi + 279 pp. Tables. Graphs. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. Index. $114.95. Cloth.

POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION - M. Anne Pitcher. Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa’s Democracies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xviii + 305 pp. List of Tables. Figures. Maps. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $29.99. Paper.

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FEATURE FILM - Newton I. Aduaka. One Man’s Show.2012. Nigeria/France. French, English, Latin, and Beti, with English subtitles. 75 minutes. Granit Films, Paris. Price not reported.

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ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT - Bessie House-Soremekun and Toyin Falola, eds. Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2011. xvii + 463 pp. Abbreviations. Selected Bibliography. List of Contributors. Index. $80.00. Cloth.

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DOCUMENTARIES - Ton van Zantvoort. A Blooming Business.2009. Kenya/The Netherlands. English/Swahili. 52 minutes. NEWTON film, in coproduction with VPRO. €22.00.

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Joseph Hanlon, Jeanette Manjengwa, and Teresa Smart. Zimbabwe Takes Back Its Land. Sterling, Va.: Kumarian Press, 2013. ix + 245 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Acronyms. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $26.95. Paper.

Wale Adebanwi. Authority Stealing: Anti-Corruption War and Democratic Politics in Post-Military Nigeria. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2012. xxxi + 450 pp. Notes. Index. $55.00. Paper.

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Ingrid Sinclair, Bridget Pickering, and Wanjiru Kinyanjui. Africa is a Woman’s Name.2009. Spain, Africa. Shona with English subtitles. 52 minutes. Transparent Productions. Women Make Movies. $250.00.

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Greg Ruiters, ed. The Fate of the Eastern Cape; History, Politics and Social Policy. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2011. xvi + 352 pp. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Postscript. Appendix. Index. $44.00. Paper.

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