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  • Editor(s):
  • Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard University, USA
    Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
    Anne Mager, University of Cape Town, South Africa
    Justin Willis, University of Durham, UK

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THE NEOLITHIC OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

KARIM SADR

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 195-209
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008393 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

NEAR DEATH IN THE STREETS OF KARIBIB: FAMINE, MIGRANT LABOUR AND THE COMING OF OVAMBO TO CENTRAL NAMIBIA

JAN-BART GEWALD

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 211-239
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008381 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

BRIDEWEALTH AND FEMALE CONSENT: MARRIAGE DISPUTES IN AFRICAN COURTS, GUSIILAND, KENYA

BRETT L. SHADLE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 241-262
doi:10.1017/S0021853703008429 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

FETISHIZING RELIGION: ALLAH KOURA AND FRENCH ‘ISLAMIC POLICY’ IN LATE COLONIAL FRENCH SOUDAN (MALI)

GREGORY MANN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 263-282
doi:10.1017/S0021853703008442 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

CHIEFTAINCY POLITICS AND COMMUNAL IDENTITY IN WESTERN NIGERIA, 1893–1951

OLUFEMI VAUGHAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 283-302
doi:10.1017/S002185370200837X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

WAR, WITCHES AND TRAITORS: CASES FROM THE MPLA'S EASTERN FRONT IN ANGOLA (1966–1975)

INGE BRINKMAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 303-325
doi:10.1017/S0021853702008368 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

Review Articles

 
 

AFROCENTRISM: BETWEEN CROSSCULTURAL GRAND NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL RELATIVISM History in Black: African-Americans in Search of an Ancient Past. By YAACOV SHAVIT. London: Frank Cass, 2001. Pp. xxii+422. £45 (ISBN 0-7146-5062-5); £19.50, paperback (ISBN 0-7146-8126-0). Afrocentrismes: l'histoire des Africains entre Egypte et Amérique. Edited by FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE-AYMAR, JEAN-PIERRE CHRÉTIEN and CLAUDE-HÉLÈNE PERROT. Paris: Karthala, 2000. Pp. 402. No price given (ISBN 2-84586-008-0). The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism: An Afrocentric Response to Critics. By MOLEFI KETE ASANTE. Trenton NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 1999. Pp. xvii+128. No price given (ISBN 0-86543-742-4); £13.99, paperback (ISBN 0-86543-743-2). We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism. By CLARENCE E. WALKER. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xxxv+172. £18.99; $25 (ISBN 0-19-509571-5).

P. F. DE MORAES FARIAS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 327-340
doi:10.1017/S002185370200840X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

REVIEWS

 
 

GREAT ZIMBABWE: A MAJOR SYNTHESIS The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline of Southern Zambezian States. By INNOCENT PIKIRAYI. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, 2001. Pp. xxx+303. $65 (ISBN 0-7591-0090-X); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7591-0091-8).

MARTIN HALL

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 341-342
doi:10.1017/S0021853703218557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND AFRICAN HISTORY The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800. By CHRISTOPHER EHRET. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia; Oxford: James Currey 2002. Pp. xii+480. $50 (ISBN 0-8139-2084-1); $22.50; £18.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-475-3).

SCOTT MACEACHERN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 342-343
doi:10.1017/S0021853703228553 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE OF NUBIA The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia: Pagans, Christians and Muslims along the Middle Nile. By DEREK A. WELSBY. London: British Museum Press, 2002. Pp. 296, col. pls. 19, figs. 103, maps 5. £29.99 (ISBN 0-7141-1947-4).

JACKE PHILLIPS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 344-345
doi:10.1017/S002185370323855X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NILE The Cross and the River: Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Nile. By HAGGAI ERLICH. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002. Pp. xii+249. $49.95; £42.50 (ISBN 1-55587-970-5).

PETER P. GARRETSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 345-346
doi:10.1017/S0021853703248556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

THE STUDY OF SLAVERY IN THE HISTORY OF MUSLIM AFRICA Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa. By HUMPHREY J. FISHER. London: Hurst, 2001. Pp. xxi+410. $16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85056-464-6).

MARTIN A. KLEIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 346-347
doi:10.1017/S0021853703258552 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

LEARNING FROM MAURITIUS ABOUT SLAVERY AND IDENTITY History, Memory and Identity. Edited By VIJAYALAKSHMI TEELOCK and EDWARD A. ALPERS. Mauritius: Nelson Mandela Centre for African Culture and the University of Mauritius, 2001. Pp. vii+236. No price given (ISBN 99903-904-3-6).

WILLIAM K. STOREY

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 347-349
doi:10.1017/S0021853703268559 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

EXPLOITATION, WITCHCRAFT AND HISTORICAL MEMORY Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone. By ROSALIND SHAW. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2002. Pp. xv+312. £33 (ISBN 0-226-75131-7); £13.50, paperback (ISBN 0-226-75132-5).

CHRISTOPHER FYFE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 349-350
doi:10.1017/S0021853703278555 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

CENTRAL AFRICAN CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFRICAN AMERICA Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora. Edited By LINDA M. HEYWOOD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. £45; $64.95 (ISBN 0-521-80243-1); £15.95; $22.95, paperback (ISBN 0-521-00278-8).

JAMES T. CAMPBELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 350-352
doi:10.1017/S0021853703288551 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

COASTAL AKAN STATE AND SOCIETY: PRE-COLONIAL APPOLONIA I signori di Appolonia: poteri e formazione dello Stato in Africa occidentale fra xvi e xviii secolo. By PIERLUIGI VALSECCHI. Rome: Carocci, 2002. Pp. 345. €19.30, paperback (ISBN 88-430-2146-X).

JOHN K. THORNTON

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 352-353
doi:10.1017/S0021853703298558 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

BASEL PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTHERN GHANAIAN SLAVERY Slaves and Slave Holders on the Gold Coast: Towards an Understanding of Social Bondage in West Africa. By PETER HAENGER. Edited by J. J. SHAFFER and PAUL E. LOVEJOY. Introduction by Paul E. Lovejoy. Translated from the German by Christina Handford. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 2000. Pp. xvi+213. CHF 48 (ISBN 3-908193-04-4).

LARRY W. YARAK

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 353-355
doi:10.1017/S0021853703308552 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON COLONIALISM The Archaeology of Colonialism. Edited By CLAIRE L. LYONS and JOHN K. PAPADOPOULOS. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2002. Pp. 284. £30, paperback (ISBN 0-89236-635-4).

ADRIA LAVIOLETTE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 355-356
doi:10.1017/S0021853703318559 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

GERMAN SOURCES ON ANGOLAN HISTORY Ethnographische Aneignungen: Deutsche Forschungsreisende in Angola [Ethnographic Appropriations: German Explorers in Angola]. By BEATRIX HEINTZE. Frankfurt: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 1999. Pp. 458. €25.50 (ISBN 3-87476-343-9).

UTE RÖSCHENTHALER

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 356-357
doi:10.1017/S0021853703328555 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

A ‘PEOPLE'S HISTORY’ OF THE CONGO The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History. By GEORGES NZONGOLA-NTALAJA. London and New York: Zed Books, 2002. Pp. xiv+304. No price given (ISBN 1-84277-052-7); paperback (ISBN 1-84277-053).

JEAN-LUC VELLUT

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 358-359
doi:10.1017/S0021853703338551 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

GERMAN CONQUEST AND AFRICAN MERCENARIES Mikono ya Damu: ‘Hands of Blood’: African Mercenaries and the Politics of Conflict in German East Africa, 1888–1904. By ERICK J. MANN. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 335. £33 (ISBN 3-631-37614-6).

GREGORY H. MADDOX

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 359-360
doi:10.1017/S0021853703348558 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

PLAGUE AND POLITICS IN COLONIAL SENEGAL Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914–1945. By MYRON ECHENBERG. Portsmouth NH, Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. Pp. xviii+303. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-696-9); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-646-2).

JAMES F. SEARING

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 361-362
doi:10.1017/S0021853703358554 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

AN HISTORICAL APPROACH TO THE POLITICS OF ECOLOGY Eroding the Commons: The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890–1963. By DAVID M. ANDERSON. Oxford: James Currey; Nairobi: EAEP; Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi+336. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-469-9); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-468-0).

DOROTHY L. HODGSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 362-363
doi:10.1017/S0021853703368550 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

RESTORING WOMEN TO CENTRE STAGE Women in African Colonial Histories. Edited By JEAN ALLMAN, SUSAN GEIGER and NAKANYIKE MUSISI. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 352. No price given (ISBN 0-253-34047-0); £18.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21507-2).

SANDRA E. GREENE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 364-365
doi:10.1017/S0021853703378557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

ORIGINS OF THE ANGLOPHONE PROBLEM Southern Cameroons, 1922–1961: A Constitutional History. By VICTOR JULIUS NGOH. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. xv+218. £40 (ISBN 0-7546-1401-8).

ANDREAS ECKERT

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 365-366
doi:10.1017/S0021853703388553 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

INDIGENOUS AND IMPORTED THERAPIES Health, State, and Society in Kenya. By GEORGE O. NDEGE. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001. Pp. xvi+224. £45; $65 (ISBN 1-58046-099-2).

JOHN LONSDALE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 366-367
doi:10.1017/S002185370339855X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

ORIGINS OF A DICTATORSHIP Revolt of the Ministers: The Malawi Cabinet Crisis 1964–1965. By COLIN BAKER. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. Pp. xiv+370. £45; $69.50 (ISBN 1-86064-642-5).

LANDEG WHITE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 367-369
doi:10.1017/S0021853703408554 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

LIBERALISM AND COMMUNITARIANISM Black Political Thought in the Making of South African Democracy. By C. R. D. HALISI. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. xxi+192. £22.95 (ISBN 0-253-33589-2).

JEREMY SEEKINGS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 369-370
doi:10.1017/S0021853703418550 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE STATE IN ZIMBABWE Democracy in Zimbabwe: From Liberation to Liberalisation. By ALFRED NHEMA. Harare: University of Zimbabwe Press, 2002. Pp. 205. No price given, paperback (ISBN 0-908307-93-4).

BRIAN RAFTOPOULOS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 370-372
doi:10.1017/S0021853703428557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

MULTIPLE WARS, MULTIPLE CAUSES The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. By DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON. Oxford: James Currey; Kampala: Fountain; Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. xx+234. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-392-7); £12.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-392-7).

JUSTIN WILLIS

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 372-373
doi:10.1017/S0021853703438553 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

CHANGES IN ETHIOPIA AND IN ITS HISTORIOGRAPHY Remapping Ethiopia: Socialism and After. Edited By WENDY JAMES, DONALD L. DONHAM, EISEI KURIMOTO and ALESSANDRO TRIULZI. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii+306. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-455-9).

CHARLES W. MCCLELLAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 373-374
doi:10.1017/S002185370344855X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

‘LUSOPHONE AFRICA’ AFTER 1975? A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. By PATRICK CHABAL with DAVID BIRMINGHAM, JOSHUA FORREST, MALYN NEWITT, GERHARD SEIBERT and ELISA SILVA ANDRADE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xx+339. £40 (ISBN 1-85065-594-4); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21565-X).

JEANNE MARIE PENVENNE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 375-376
doi:10.1017/S0021853703458556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

ADRIAN HASTINGS AND AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY Christianity and the African Imagination: Essays in Honour of Adrian Hastings. Edited By DAVID MAXWELL with INGRID LAWRIE. Leiden: Brill, 2002. Pp. xii+421. $87 (ISBN 90-04-11668-0).

THOMAS SPEAR

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 377-378
doi:10.1017/S0021853703468552 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

ESTABLISHING POWER IN LIGHTLY POPULATED TERRITORIES States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. By JEFFREY HERBST. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. x+280. $55; £35 (ISBN 0-691-01027-7); $17.95; £11.50, paperback (ISBN 0-691-01028-5).

GARETH AUSTIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 379-380
doi:10.1017/S0021853703478559 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

Shorter Notices

 
 

The Nile. By ROBERT O. COLLINS. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+260. £30 (ISBN 0-300-09764-6).

P. M. HOLT

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 380-381
doi:10.1017/S0021853703488555 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

The South African War Reappraised. Edited by DONAL LOWRY. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. xii+258. No price given. £49.50 (ISBN 0-7190-52580); £16.99, paperback (ISBN 0-7190-58252).

JEREMY BLACK

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 381-382
doi:10.1017/S0021853703498551 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

DOCUMENTING DECOLONIZATION IN NIGERIA Nigeria. Edited by MARTIN LYNN. (British Documents on the End of Empire, Series B, Volume 7). Part I: Managing Political Reform, 1943–1953; Part II: Moving to Independence, 1953–1960. London: The Stationery Office for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 2001. Part I, pp. vii+643. No price given (ISBN 0-11-290597-8). Part II, pp. vii+801. No price given (ISBN 0-11-290598-6).

OLUFEMI VAUGHAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 382-383
doi:10.1017/S0021853703508556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

People Power and Democracy: The Popular Movement against Military Despotism in Nigeria, 1989–1999. By RITA KIKI EDOZIE. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+205. $24.95; €17.99, paperback (ISBN 0-86543-917-36).

MAC DIXON-FYLE

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 383-384
doi:10.1017/S0021853703528559 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
 

African Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius K. Nyerere. By A. B. ASSENSOH. Malabar FL: Krieger, 1998. Pp. 220. $19.50, paperback (ISBN 0-89464-911-6).

E. S. ATIENO ODHIAMBO

The Journal of African History, Volume 44, Issue 02, July 2003, pp 383-383
doi:10.1017/S0021853703518552 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 04 Jul 2003
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