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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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KEEPING THE CITY TOTALLY CLEAN: YELLOW FEVER AND THE POLITICS OF PREVENTION IN COLONIAL SAINT-LOUIS-DU-SÉNÉGAL, 1850–1914

KALALA NGALAMULUME

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 183-202
doi:10.1017/S0021853703008636 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT? NINETEENTH-CENTURY CONTESTS FOR LAND IN SOUTH AFRICA'S CALEDON VALLEY AND THE INVENTION OF THE MFECANE

NORMAN ETHERINGTON

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 203-219
doi:10.1017/S0021853703008624 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

I REALLY CANNOT MAKE AFRICA MY HOME: WEST INDIAN MISSIONARIES AS ‘OUTSIDERS’ IN THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY CIVILIZING MISSION TO SOUTHERN NIGERIA, 1898–1925

WAIBINTE E. WARIBOKO

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 221-236
doi:10.1017/S0021853703008685 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

‘BUSHVELD MAGIC’ AND ‘MIRACLE DOCTORS’–AN EXPLORATION OF EUGÈNE MARAIS AND C. LOUIS LEIPOLDT'S EXPERIENCES IN THE WATERBERG, SOUTH AFRICA, c. 1906–1917

SANDRA SWART

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 237-255
doi:10.1017/S0021853703008703 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

ACCOUNTING FOR POWER IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

COLIN NEWBURY

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 257-277
doi:10.1017/S0021853704009466 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

TAXATION IN THE TRIBAL AREAS OF THE BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE, 1899–1957

CHRISTIAN JOHN MAKGALA

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 279-303
doi:10.1017/S0021853703008697 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

Review Articles

 
 

THE NATURE OF POWER: CAPE ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, THE HISTORY OF IDEAS AND NEOLIBERAL HISTORIOGRAPHY The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock and the Environment, 1770–1950. By WILLIAM BEINART. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii+402. £65 (ISBN 0-19-926151-2). Social History and African Environments. Edited by WILLIAM BEINART and JOANN MCGREGOR. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip, 2003. Pp. xii+275. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-951-8); £18.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-950-X). Environment, Power and Injustice: A South African History. By NANCY J. JACOBS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi+300. £45; $65 (ISBN 0-521-81191-0); £16.95; $24, paperback (ISBN 0-521-01070-5).

LANCE VAN SITTERT

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 305-313
doi:10.1017/S0021853704009454 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

Book Reviews

 
 

TREES AND BRANCHES IN THE HISTORY OF BANTU LANGUAGES Continuity and Divergence in the Bantu Languages: Perspectives from a Lexicostatistic Study. By YVONNE BASTIN, ANDRÉ COUPEZ and MICHAEL MANN. Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 1999. Pp. 225. No price given, paperback (ISBN 90-75894-27-9).

THILO C. SCHADEBERG

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 315-316
doi:10.1017/S0021853704219442 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

THE GREAT LAKES REGION IN THE VERY LONG RUN The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History. By JEAN-PIERRE CHRÉTIEN. Translated by SCOTT STRAUSS. New York: Zone Books, 2003 Pp. 503. $36 (ISBN 1-890951-34-X).

DANIELLE DE LAME

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 316-318
doi:10.1017/S0021853704229449 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

CHURCH AND STATE IN ‘MEDIEVAL’ ETHIOPIA Le domaine des rois éthiopiens (1270–1527): espace, pouvoir et monachisme. By MARIE-LAURE DERAT. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003. Pp. 383. €25 (ISBN 2-85944-480-7).

DONALD CRUMMEY

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 318-319
doi:10.1017/S0021853704239445 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

EXCAVATING NYANGA AGRICULTURAL HISTORY Nyanga: Ancient Fields, Settlements and Agricultural History in Zimbabwe. By ROBERT SOPER. Nairobi: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2002. Pp. ix+277. £50 (ISBN 1-872566-12-X).

PETER MITCHELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 319-321
doi:10.1017/S0021853704249441 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

IRON, RICE AND SLAVES ON THE GUINEA-BISSAU COAST Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400–1900. By WALTER HAWTHORNE. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xvi+258. $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07049-0).

PETER MARK

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 321-322
doi:10.1017/S0021853704259448 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

DYNAMICS OF EURAFRICAN HISTORY Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century. By GEORGE E. BROOKS. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii+355. (ISBN 0-8214-1485-2); paperback (ISBN 0-8214-1486-0).

JAMES SEARING

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 322-324
doi:10.1017/S0021853704269444 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

A WOMAN AND A WAR Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante–British War of 1900–1. By A. ADU BOAHEN. Edited with Editor's Notes by Emmanuel Akyeampong. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers; Oxford: James Currey, 2003. Pp. 182. No price given (ISBN 0-85255-443-5); £9.95, paperback (ISBN 9988-550-99-5).

IVOR WILKS

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 324-325
doi:10.1017/S0021853704279440 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

KILIMANJARO ECONOMIC HISTORY RECONSIDERED Kilimanjaro – A Regional History, I: Production and Living Conditions, c. 1800–1920. By LUDGER WIMMELBÜCKER. Münster: Lit Verlag, 2002. Pp. 552. €41.90 (ISBN 3-8258-5846-4).

THADDEUS SUNSERI

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 326-327
doi:10.1017/S0021853704289447 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMBAQUISTA NETWORK Afrikanische Pioniere: Trägerkarawanen im westlichen Zentralfrika (c. 1850–1890). By BEATRIX HEINTZE. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2002. Pp. 320. €25, paperback (ISBN 3-87476-410-9).

JEAN-LUC VELLUT

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 327-329
doi:10.1017/S0021853704299443 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

RECENT HISTORICAL CONTEXT, EXTINCT CULTURAL EXPRESSION Der Mond als Shuh: Zeichnungen der San: The Moon as Shoe: Drawings of the San. Edited by MIKLÓS SZALAY. Zurich: Scheidegger und Spiess, 2002. Pp. 311. SFr 98; €65 (ISBN 3-85881-138-6).

JOHN PARKINGTON

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 329-330
doi:10.1017/S0021853704309448 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

PUGILISTIC REVISIONISM The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. By RONALD HYAM and PETER HENSHAW. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv+379. £45; $60 (ISBN 0-521-82453-2); African ed., no price given (ISBN 0-521-53769-X).

BERNARD PORTER

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 331-332
doi:10.1017/S0021853704319444 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

‘SUMMING UP’ ISLAM AND POLITICS IN SUDAN Islam, Secularism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya. By GABRIEL WARBURG. London: Hurst, 2003. Pp. xvii+252. £45 (ISBN 1-85065-588-X); £19.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-590-1).

M. W. DALY

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 332-333
doi:10.1017/S0021853704329440 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

MAINTAINING WHAT THEY YEARNED TO OVERTHROW Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. By HEATHER J. SHARKEY. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+232. $65 (ISBN 0-520-23558-4); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-23559-2).

ANN M. LESCH

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 333-334
doi:10.1017/S0021853704339447 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

INTERACTIONS OF COLONIAL AND INDIGENOUS IDIOMS OF POWER The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination. Edited by CLIFTON C. CRAIS. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. 216. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07084-9); US$24, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07083-0).

JENNIFER ROBINSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 335-336
doi:10.1017/S0021853704349443 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER AND CHANGES IN MEANING AMONG THE ANLO-EWE Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana. By SANDRA E. GREENE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. xix+200. No price given (ISBN 0-253-34073-X); $19.95; £15.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21517-X).

D. E. K. AMENUMEY

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 336-338
doi:10.1017/S002185370435944X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

THE WRITTEN WORD AND THE COLONIAL ENCOUNTER Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana: The Encounter between the LoDagaa and ‘the World on Paper’. By SEAN HAWKINS. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. xv+468. £55 (ISBN 0-8020-4872-2).

CAROLA LENTZ

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 338-339
doi:10.1017/S0021853704369446 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

INDIGENOUS AGENCY IN ‘TOP-DOWN’ DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS Negotiating Development: African Farmers and Colonial Experts at the Office du Niger, 1920–1960. By MONICA VAN BEUSEKOM. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. Pp. xxxviii+214. $65 (ISBN 0-325-07046-6); $17.95 paperback (ISBN 0-325-07045-8).

THOMAS J. BASSETT

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 340-341
doi:10.1017/S0021853704379442 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

INSIGHTS FROM COURT RECORDS Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s. By THOMAS V. MCCLENDON. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David Philip, 2003. Pp. xxii+234. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-956-9); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07110-1).

ARAN S. MACKINNON

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 341-342
doi:10.1017/S0021853704389449 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

CHRISTIANITY IN COLONIAL KENYA The Life of Charles Muhoro Kareri. By CHARLES MUHORO KARERI. Edited with an Introduction by DEREK R. PETERSON. Translated by JOSEPH KARIUKI MURIITHI. Madison WI: The African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2003. Pp. xix+104. $17 (ISBN 0-942615-53-0).

W. O. MALOBA

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 343-344
doi:10.1017/S0021853704399445 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

EXAGGERATING THE CONTINUTIES IN MADAGASCAR POLITICAL HISTORY? Société et luttes anticoloniales à Madagascar (1896 à 1946). By SOLOFO RANDRIANJA. Paris: Kharthala, 2001. Pp. 485. No price given (ISBN: 2-84586-136-2).

GWYN CAMPBELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 344-346
doi:10.1017/S002185370440944X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

AFRICAN URBAN HISTORY IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE Sites of Struggle: Essays in Zimbabwe's Urban History. Edited by BRIAN RAFTOPOULOS and TSUNEO YOSHIKUNI. Harare: Weaver Press, 1999. Pp. vii+279. £14.95; $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-797-41984-5).

STEVEN C. RUPERT

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 346-347
doi:10.1017/S0021853704419446 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

DESCRIBING MATERIAL CULTURAL AND SPATIAL PATTERNS Ethnoarchaeology of Shuwa-Arab Settlements. By AUGUSTIN HOLL. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2003. Pp. xiii+422. $85 (ISBN 0-7391-0407-1).

SCOTT MACEACHERN

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 347-348
doi:10.1017/S0021853704429442 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

ETHNICITY AFTER THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966–1986. By DOUGLAS A. ANTHONY. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey, 2002. Pp. x+272. $64.95; £45 (ISBN 0-325-07052-0); $24.95; £17.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07051-2).

MUHAMMAD S. UMAR

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 348-350
doi:10.1017/S0021853704439449 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

RELIGION AND CIVIL WAR IN SOUTHERN SUDAN Religion and Conflict in Sudan: Papers from an International Conference at Yale, May 1999. Edited by YUSUF FADL HASAN and RICHARD GRAY. Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa, 2002. Pp. 208. No price given (ISBN 9966-21-831-9).

ENDRE STIANSEN

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 350-351
doi:10.1017/S0021853704449445 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

CONTEXTS, CONNOTATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES OF ALCOHOL USE Alcohol in Africa: Mixing Business, Pleasure, and Politics. Edited by DEBORAH FAHY BRYCESON. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2002. Pp. viii+305. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07115-2).

CHARLES AMBLER

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 352-353
doi:10.1017/S0021853704459441 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

AT THE END OF COLONIAL RULE Africa, IV: The End of Colonial Rule: Nationalism and Decolonization. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. Pp. xxvi+541. No price given (ISBN 0-89089-202-4).

JOANNA LEWIS

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 353-355
doi:10.1017/S0021853704469448 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

A THOUSAND TREES Africa, V: Contemporary Africa. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2003. Pp. xxxiii+962. No price given (ISBN 0-89089-203-2).

PHILIP S. ZACHERNUK

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 355-356
doi:10.1017/S0021853704479444 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

Shorter Notices

 
 

Issues in Historiography. Edited by O. O. OLUBOMEHIN. Ibadan: College Press, 2001 (distributed by African Books Collective, Oxford). Pp. x+143. £12.95, paperback (ISBN 9782194131).

TOYIN FALOLA

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 356-357
doi:10.1017/S0021853704489440 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

Ethnoarchaeology in the Zinder Region, Republic of Niger. By ANNE HAOUR. (BAR S1133.) Oxford: Archaeopress, 2003. Pp. vii+149. £30 (ISBN 1-84171-506-9).

TIMOTHY INSOLL

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 357-358
doi:10.1017/S0021853704499447 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

Cattle Plague: A History. By C. A. SPINAGE. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2003. Pp. xx+765. No price given (ISBN 0-306-47789-0).

RICHARD WALLER

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 358-359
doi:10.1017/S0021853704509441 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

The Postal Services of the Gold Coast to 1901. Edited by JOHN SACHER (historical introduction by Philip Beale). London: Royal Philatelic Society, 2003. Pp. xii+254. £70 (ISBN 0-900831-52X).

CHRISTOPHER FYFE

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 359-360
doi:10.1017/S0021853704519448 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

Gold Coast Diaries: Chronicles of Political Officers in West Africa, 1900–1919. Compiled by THORA WILLIAMSON. Edited by ANTHONY KIRK-GREENE; Foreword by RICHARD RATHBONE. London: I. B. Tauris/Radcliffe Press, 2000. Pp. xix+419. £24.50 (ISBN 1-86064-451-1).

GARETH AUSTIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 360-361
doi:10.1017/S0021853704529444 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
 

South Africa and the Communist International: A Documentary History. Edited by APOLLON DAVIDSON, IRINA FILATOVA, VALENTIN GORODNOV and SHERIDAN JOHNS. London: Frank Cass, 2003. Vol. I: Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers, 1919–1930. Pp. lxii+263. £55 (ISBN 0-7146-5280-6). Vol. II: Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation, 1931–1939. Pp. lxi+304. £55 (ISBN 0-7146-5281-4).

ALLISON DREW

The Journal of African History, Volume 45, Issue 02, July 2004, pp 361-362
doi:10.1017/S0021853704539440 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 07 Jul 2004
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