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Volume 48 - March 2007

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THE HIGH POLITICS OF INDEPENDENT AFRICA - Africa: A Modern History. By Guy Arnold. London: Atlantic Books, 2005. Pp. xliii+1,028. £35 (isbn1-84354-175-0).

HOW MAIZE BECAME THE DOMINANT FOOD CROP IN AFRICA Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop 1500–2000. By JAMES C. MCCANN. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+289. $27.95 (ISBN 0-674-01718-8).

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF A MAJOR WEST AFRICAN TOWN - West African Early Towns: Archaeology of Households in Urban Landscapes. By Augustin F. C. Holl. (Anthropological Papers No. 95). Ann Arbor MI: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2006. Pp. ix+168. $26, paperback (isbn0-915703-61-0).

A SMART INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN HISTORY - African History: A Very Short Introduction. By John Parker and Richard Rathbone. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 165. £6.99, paperback (isbn978-0-19-280248-4).

AN AFROCENTRIC VISION OF AFRICAN HISTORY - The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony. By Molefi Kete Asante. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xii+397. £16.95, paperback (isbn978-0-415-77139-9).

ASSERTION RATHER THAN EVIDENCE Decolonization and the Decolonized. By ALBERT MEMMI. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. Pp. 148. No price given (ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-4734-7).

A BALANCED ASSESSMENT OF CATHOLIC MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE - Cross and Flag in Africa: The ‘White Fathers’ during the Colonial Scramble (1892–1914). By Aylward Shorter. Maryknoll NY: Orbis Books, 2006. Pp. xxxv+294. $25, paperback (isbn1570756554).

THE SLAVE TRADE ACROSS THE SAHARA - The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. By John Wright. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xiv+226. £75 (isbn0-415-38046-4).

EVOKING THE AFRICAN PAST THROUGH MOVIES - Black and White in Colour. African History on Screen. Edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: Double Storey, 2007. Pp. ix+374. £14.95, paperback (isbn978-184701-5228).

TIRAILLEURS AS A LINK BETWEEN FRANCE AND AFRICA - Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. By Gregory Mann. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. ix+333. $84 (isbn0-8223-3775-X); $23.95, paperback (isbn0-8223-3768-1).

CADBURY'S TIES WITH SLAVE-GROWN COCOA Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of Business. By LOWELL J. SATRE. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. 352. £36.50 (ISBN 0-8214-1625-1).

THE HISTORY AND STATE OF AFRICAN FILM - African Filmmaking North and South of the Sahara. By Roy Armes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+224. £50 (isbn978-0-7486-2123-1); £16.95, paperback (isbn978-0-7486-2124-0).

THE FATE OF BLACKS IN NAZI GERMANY - Des victimes oubliées du nazisme. Les Noirs et l'Allemagne dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. Paris: le cherche midi, 2007. Pp. 196. €15, paperback (isbn978-2-7491-0630-4).

THE COLONIAL SOCIETY IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA IN TRANSITION French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa. By RUTH GINIO. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. xviii+243. £40 (ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-2212-2).

THE LIMITS OF INVENTION OF ETHNICITY - Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana. By Carola Lentz. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. Pp. xi+345. £29.95 (isbn978-0-7486-2401-0).

NEW INSIGHTS INTO MOZAMBIQUE'S POSTCOLONIAL HISTORY - Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in Postcolonial Africa. The Case of Mozambique, 1975–1994. By Alice Dinerman. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xxiv+394. £80 (isbn0-415-77017-3).

A SOURCE BOOK FOR GAMBIAN ELECTIONS - A Political History of the Gambia 1816–1994. By Arnold Hughes and David Perfect. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2006. Pp. xviii+530. £50/$90 (isbn1-58046-230-8).

DEFYING DICHOTOMIES OF TRADITION VERSUS MODERNITY Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. By JEAN ALLMAN and JOHN PARKER. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xi+301. $65 (ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34665-0); $24.95, paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21806-3).

CHANGING CONSTRUCTIONS OF MASCULINITY IN GHANA Making Men in Ghana. By STEPHAN F. MIESCHER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xxxii+323. $65 (ISBN 0-253-34636-3); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21786-5).

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