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    Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
    Anne Mager, University of Cape Town, South Africa
    Justin Willis, University of Durham, UK

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Obituaries

 
 

JOHN FAGE A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION

ROLAND OLIVER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 1-2
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008344 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Research Articles

 
 

NEO-TRADITIONALISM AND THE LIMITS OF INVENTION IN BRITISH COLONIAL AFRICA

THOMAS SPEAR

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 3-27
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008320 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

‘CIRCLE OF IRON’: AFRICAN COLONIAL EMPLOYEES AND THE INTERPRETATION OF COLONIAL RULE IN FRENCH WEST AFRICA

EMILY LYNN OSBORN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 29-50
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008307 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

AMBIGUOUS SPACES: THE STRUGGLE OVER AFRICAN IDENTITIES AND URBAN COMMUNITIES IN COLONIAL DOUALA, 1914–45

LYNN SCHLER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 51-72
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008332 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

CONVERSION TO ISLAM: MILITARY RECRUITMENT AND GENERATIONAL CONFLICT IN A SEREER-SAFÈN VILLAGE (BANDIA), 1920–38

JAMES F. SEARING

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 73-94
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008174 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

THE DECOLONIZATION OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA: THE RELEVANCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL FACTOR

ALICIA CAMPOS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 95-116
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008319 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

ETHNOGENESIS AND FRACTAL HISTORY ON AN AFRICAN FRONTIER: MAMBILA–NJEREP–MANDULU

DAVID ZEITLYN and BRUCE CONNELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 117-138
doi:10.1017/S002185370200823X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Review Articles

 
 

ISLAM, CASH CROPS AND EMANCIPATION IN SENEGAL ‘God Alone is King’: Islam and Emancipation in Senegal. The Wolof Kingdoms of Kajoor and Bawol, 1859–1914. By JAMES SEARING. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. Pp. xxxiv+293. $65 (ISBN 0-325-07074-1); $27, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07073-3).

DAVID ROBINSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 139-144
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008253 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Shorter Notices

 
 

Historical Dictionary of Zimbabwe. Third edition. Edited by STEVEN C. RUPERT and R. KENT RASMUSSEN. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. Pp. xxxv+451. $89.50 (ISBN 0-8108-3471-5).

SARA RICH DORMAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703558480 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Media and Resistance Politics: The Alternative Press in Namibia, 1960–1990. (Basel Namibia Studies Series 6). By WILLIAM HEUVA. Basel: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 2001. Pp. xvi+166. CHF 48 (ISBN 3-908193-10-9).

GRETCHEN BAUER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703548484 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Protestant Churches and the Formation of Political Consciousness in Southern Mozambique (1930–1974). By TERESA CRUZ E SILVA. Introduction by DAVID HEDGES. Basel: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 2001. Pp. xvii+210. CHF 48; €32 (ISBN 3-908193-09-5).

ERIC MORIER-GENOUD

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703538488 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar. By JENNIFER COLE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xvii+361. No price given (ISBN 0-520-22845-6); paperback (ISBN 0-520-22846-4).

STEPHEN ELLIS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703528481 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Deutsches Kolonialrecht in Ostafrika, 1885–1891. By KLAUS RICHTER. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001. Pp. 122. €25.10 (ISBN 3-631-37578-6).

JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703518485 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence. Edited by WILLIAM H. WORGER, NANCY L. CLARK and EDWARD A. ALPERS. Phoenix AZ: Oryx Press, 2001. Pp. ix+428. $85 (ISBN 1-57356-245-5).

LINDA HEYWOOD

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703508489 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective. Second edition. By GRAHAM CONNAH. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+340. $65 (ISBN 0-521-59309-3); $23, paperback (ISBN 0-521-59690-4).

SCOTT MACEACHERN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703498484 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

REVIEWS

 
 

PASTORALISTS AND POVERTY The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism. Edited by DAVID M. ANDERSON and VIGDIS BROCH-DUE. Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: E.A.E.P.; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1999. Pp. xi+276. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-266-1); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-265-3).

JOHN GALATY

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703488488 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

‘WICKEDNESS’ AND GENDER IN THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY ‘Wicked’ Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Edited by DOROTHY L. HODGSON and SHERYL A. MCCURDY. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2001. Pp. xvi+325. $69.50; £40 (ISBN 0-85255-695-0); $29; £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-645-4).

DIANA JEATER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703478481 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

BELIEFS ABOUT SATAN IN EWE CHRISTIANITY Translating the Devil: Religion and Modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. By BIRGIT MEYER. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi+265. £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7486-1303-X).

ROSALIND I. J. HACKETT

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703468485 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

LOCAL VALUES AND FOREST DYNAMICS Contesting Forestry in West Africa. Edited by REGINALD CLINE-COLE and CLARE MADGE. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xi+324. £42.50 ( 0-7546-1253-8).

K. F. WIERSUM

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703458489 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

FARM WORKERS IN POST-COLONIAL ZIMBABWE Working on the Margins: Black Workers, White Farmers in Postcolonial Zimbabwe. By BLAIR RUTHERFORD. Harare: Weaver Press; London: Zed Press, 2001. Pp. xiv+268. £45; $69.95 (ISBN 1-84277-001-4); £15.95; $25, paperback (ISBN 0-7974-2241-2).

BRIAN RAFTOPOULOS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703448482 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS, UNIVERSITIES AND NATIONALISM Nationalism and African Intellectuals. By TOYIN FALOLA. University of Rochester Press: Rochester NY, 2001. Pp. xx+372. $75; £50 (ISBN 1-58046-085-2).

E. S. ATIENO ODHIAMBO

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703438486 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

CULTURE, DECOLONIZATION AND AFRICAN MODERNITY The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945–1994. Edited by OKWUI ENWEZOR. Munich: Prestel, 2001. Pp. 496. £45; $75 (ISBN 3-7913-2502-7).

KARIN BARBER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S002185370342848X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

THE UNITED DEMOCRATIC FRONT IN THE ANTI-APARTHEID STRUGGLE The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983–1991. By JEREMY SEEKINGS. Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+371. £15.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-842-2).

ALLISON DREW

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703418483 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

ORGANIZED LABOUR IN NAMIBIA Labor and Democracy in Namibia, 1971–1996. By GRETCHEN BAUER. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 1998. Pp. x+220. £40 (ISBN 0-8255-753-1); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-752-3).

CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703408487 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

DECOLONIZATION POLITICS AND MID-WEST AUTONOMY Ethnicity and Sub-Nationalism in Nigeria: Movement for a Mid-West State. By MICHAEL VICKERS. Oxford: WorldView, 2000. Pp. vii+410. £49.95 (ISBN 1-872142-43-5); £24.95, paperback (ISBN 1-872142-44-3).

OLUFEMI VAUGHAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703398482 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

UNITED STATES SUPPORT OF EUROPEAN INFLUENCE IN WEST AFRICA The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950–1960. By EBERE NWAUBANI. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001. Pp. xxi+338. £50.00; $79 (ISBN 1-58046-076-3).

JOHN KENT

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703388486 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

INTER-RACIAL WORKERS' SOLIDARITY IN SOUTH AFRICA Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid: Labour and Politics in South Africa. By PETER ALEXANDER. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip, 2000. Pp. 124. £39.95 (ISBN 0-85255-765-6); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-765-5).

LUCIEN VAN DER WALT

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S002185370337848X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

COERCION AND EXPLOITATION: LEVER IN THE BELGIAN CONGO Travail forcé pour l'huile de palme de Lord Leverhulme. By JULES MARCHAL. Borgloon, Belgium: Editions Paula Bellings, 2001. Pp. 395. €31 (ISBN 2-9600123-3-X).

DAVID NORTHRUP

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703368483 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LAW The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902–1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice. By MARTIN CHANOCK. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+571. £60 (ISBN 0-521-79156-1).

CHRISTINA MURRAY

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703358487 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

FARMERS' AGENCY IN THE IVOIRIAN COTTON REVOLUTION The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Côte d'Ivoire, 1880–1995. By THOMAS J. BASSETT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix+243. £45; $64.95 (ISBN 0-521-78313-5).

JAN HOGENDORN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703348480 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

THE STRUGGLE OVER LABOUR IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania. By THADDEUS SUNSERI. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. Pp. xxxvi+223. £40; $64 (ISBN 0-85255-698-5); £16.95; $24, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-648-9).

THOMAS SPEAR

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703338484 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

PERSPECTIVES ON GERMAN COLONIALISM IN NAMIBIA Die Geschichte der ehemaligen Kolonie Deutsch-Südwestafrika (1884–1914): eine Gesamtdarstellung. By UDO KAULICH. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001. Pp. 639. £50, paperback (ISBN 3-631-36984-0).

REINHARD KLEIN-ARENDT

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703328488 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

SOCIAL HISTORY IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Kongo Political Culture: The Conceptual Challenge of the Particular. By WYATT MACGAFFEY. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii+274. $39.95; £26.95 (ISBN 0-253-33698-8).

MISTY L. BASTIAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703318481 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

MIGRATION, EROSION AND FISHING Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana c. 1850 to Recent Times. By EMMANUEL KWAKU AKYEAMPONG. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2001. Pp. xii+244. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-776-0); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-777-9).

JOHN PARKER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703308485 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

MOROCCO'S MODERN HISTORY Morocco since 1830: A History. By C. R. PENNELL. London: Hurst, 2000. Pp. xxxiv+442. £47.50 (ISBN 1-85065-273-2); £16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-426-3).

EDMUND BURKE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703298480 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF COLONIZATION Archaeology and the Modern World: Colonial Transcripts in South Africa and the Chesapeake. By MARTIN HALL. London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xi+218. $85 (ISBN 0-415-22965-0); £15.99; $25.99, paperback (ISBN 0-415-22966-9).

ADRIA LAVIOLETTE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703288484 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

COMBINING THE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SOUTH AFRICA South Africa's Racial Past: The History and Historiography of Racism, Segregation, and Apartheid. By PAUL MAYLAM. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. vi+264. £42.50 (ISBN 0-546-1788-2).

WILLIAM H. WORGER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703278488 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

A SLAVE TRADING VOYAGE The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. By ROBERT HARMS. New York: Basic Books, 2002. Pp. xxxi+466. £17.99 (ISBN 1-903985-18-8).

ROBIN LAW

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703268481 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SOURCE The English in West Africa: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681–1699, Part 2: 1685–1688. Edited by ROBIN LAW. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2001. Pp. xviii+468. £45 (ISBN 0-19-726252-X).

RAY A. KEA

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703258485 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF BANDA Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. By ANN BROWER STAHL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix+268. £47.50; $69.95 (ISBN 0-521-80182-6).

IVOR WILKS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703248489 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES IN THE PRE-COLONIAL SAHARA Becoming Walata: A History of Saharan Social Formation and Transformation. By TIMOTHY CLEAVELAND. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2001. Pp. xxiii+232. $67.95 (ISBN 0-325-07027-X).

DAVID GUTELIUS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703238482 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

FATIMID SYNTHESIS The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Fourth Century of the Hijra, Tenth Century CE. By MICHAEL BRETT. Leiden: Brill, 2001. Pp. xi+497. €139; US $162 (ISBN 90-04-11741-5).

MICHAEL BONNER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S0021853703228486 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
 

THE MAGHRIB AND ITS NEIGHBOURS North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World: From the Almoravids to the Algerian War. Edited by JULIA CLANCY-SMITH. London: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. 202. £42.50; $59.50 (ISBN 0-7146-5170-2); £17.50; $24.50, paperback (0-7146-8184-9).

KENNETH J. PERKINS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 01, March 2003, pp 145-194
doi:10.1017/S002185370321848X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 09 Jun 2003
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