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Volume 56 - December 2013

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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.

GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY - Kristen Reed. Crude Existence: Environment and the Politics of Oil in Northern Angola.Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009. xiii + 323 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

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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.

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John Kinsman. AIDS Policy in Uganda: Evidence, Ideology, and the Making of an African Success Story.New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xviii + 240 pp. Graphs. Tables. Maps. Acknowledgments. Acronyms and Abbreviations. Appendix. Notes. References. Index. $95.00. Cloth.

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.

Julie Livingston. Improvising Medicine: An African Cancer Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. xvi + 228 pp. Map. Photos. Preface. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $84.95. Cloth. $23.95. 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.

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS - Charles Novia. Nollywood till November: Memoirs of a Nollywood Insider. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2012. 152 pp. $23.99. Cloth. $14.95. 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.

Alex Perullo. Live from Dar es Salaam: Popular Music and Tanzania’s Music Economy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. African Expressive Cultures Series. xxxii + 459 pp. Map. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. References. Discography. Index. $80.00. Cloth. $27.95. 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.

Toyin Falola and Tyler Fleming, eds. Music, Performance and African Identities. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. ix + 346 pp. Photographs. Index. $125.00. Cloth.

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.

Akin Adesokan. Postcolonial Artists and Global Aesthetics. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2011. xix + 230 pp. Film stills. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.

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