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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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CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS IN CENTRAL AFRICAN HISTORY

WYATT MACGAFFEY

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 189-207
doi:10.1017/S002185370400043X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTHERNMOST AFRICA FROM c. 2000 BP TO THE EARLY 1800s: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH

PETER MITCHELL and GAVIN WHITELAW

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 209-241
doi:10.1017/S0021853705000770 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

BANKOE V. DOME: TRADITIONS AND PETITIONS IN THE HO-ASOGLI AMALGAMATION, BRITISH MANDATED TOGOLAND, 1919–39

BENJAMIN N. LAWRANCE

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 243-267
doi:10.1017/S0021853705000460 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

BRINGING IN THE WILD: THE COMMODIFICATION OF WILD ANIMALS IN THE CAPE COLONY/PROVINCE c. 1850–1950

LANCE VAN SITTERT

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 269-291
doi:10.1017/S0021853704009946 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

MAKING APARTHEID WORK: AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS AND THE 1953 NATIVE LABOUR (SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES) ACT IN SOUTH AFRICA

ALEX LICHTENSTEIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 293-314
doi:10.1017/S0021853704000441 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

Review Articles

 
 

HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN AFRICA: NOBLE CLAIMS, REVISIONIST PERSPECTIVES, AND AFRICAN VOICES? African Historical Archaeologies. Edited by Andrew M. Reid and Paul J. Lane. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004. Pp. 408. $70, paperback (ISBN 0-306-47996-6).

PETER R. SCHMIDT and JONATHAN R. WALZ

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 315-319
doi:10.1017/S0021853705000484 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

NATIONHOOD, POWER AND HISTORY: UNFINISHED BUSINESS AND THE LONGUE DURÉE IN UGANDA Governing Uganda: British Colonial Rule and its Legacy. By GARDNER THOMPSON. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2003. Pp. x+366. £22.95, paperback (ISBN 9970-02-394-2). Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda. By HOLLY ELISABETH HANSON. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2003. Pp. xxii+264. No price given (ISBN 0-325-07037-7); $26.95, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07036-9).

RICHARD REID

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 321-325
doi:10.1017/S0021853704009958 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

Book Reviews

 
 

STIMULATING BUT INSULAR Sources and Methods in African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed. Edited by TOYIN FALOLA and CHRISTIAN JENNINGS. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. Pp. xxi+409. £50; $75 (ISBN 1-58046-134-4).

NIGEL WORDEN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 327-328
doi:10.1017/S0021853705210812 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

REFERENCE WORKS ON THE ANCIENT NORTHEAST Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Warfare. By ROBERT G. MORKOT. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. Pp. ix+315. £46 (ISBN 0-8108-4862-7). Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia. By RICHARD A. LOBBAN, JR. Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004. Pp. ix+511. £84 (ISBN 0-8108-4784-1).

DOUGLAS J. BREWER

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 328-330
doi:10.1017/S0021853705220819 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

CHANGING PERSPECTIVES IN SUDANESE ARCHAEOLOGY: A NEW SYNTHESIS The Nubian Past: An Archaeology of the Sudan. By DAVID N. EDWARDS. London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xii+348. £65 (ISBN 0-415-36987-8); £25, paperback (ISBN 0-415-36988-6).

RODOLFO FATTOVICH

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 330-331
doi:10.1017/S0021853705230815 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

ARCHAEOLOGY FROM AFRICA Climate Change, Trade and Modes of Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by FELIX CHAMI, GILBERT PWITI and CHANTAL RADIMILAHY. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+197. £17.95; $35.95 (ISBN 997-660-392-4).

PETER MITCHELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 332-333
doi:10.1017/S0021853705240811 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

SAHARAN ARCHAEOLOGY Vallée de l'Azawagh (Sahara du Niger). By EDMOND BERNUS, PATRICE CRESSIER, ALAIN DURAND, FRANÇOIS PARIS and JEAN-FRANÇOIS SALIEGE. Etudes Nigériennes, No. 57. Editions Sépia, 1999. Pp. 422. €24.39, paperback (ISBN 2-907888-95-1).

RODERICK J. MCINTOSH

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 333-335
doi:10.1017/S0021853705250818 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

WHY ‘ISLANDS’ OF INTENSITY AMID ‘SEAS’ OF EXTENSIVE FARMING? Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa. Edited by MATS WIDGREN and JOHN E. G. SUTTON. The British Institute in Eastern Africa and Stockholm University. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota; Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2004. Pp. xii+160. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-428-1).

JAMIE MONSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 335-337
doi:10.1017/S0021853705260814 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

THE COMPLEX DYNAMICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. By CHRISTOPHER A. CONTE. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+215. $55 (ISBN 0-8214-1533-0); $24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8214-1554-9).

MICHAEL J. SHERIDAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 337-338
doi:10.1017/S0021853705270810 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

ORIENTAL ORIGINS OF SACRED KINGSHIP? Das Königtum von Gobir: Götter, Priester, Feste einer sakralen Gesellschaft. By WALTER KÜHME. Hamburg: Dr. Kovac, 2003. Pp. xiv+260. 37 colour photographs. No price given, paperback (ISBN 3-8300-0932-1).

DETLEF GRONENBORN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 338-339
doi:10.1017/S0021853705280817 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

THE DINKA AND HISTORY Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in Early South Sudan. By STEPHANIE BESWICK. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2004. Pp. xxx+270. $75; £50 (ISBN 1-58046-151-4).

JUSTIN WILLIS

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 340-341
doi:10.1017/S0021853705290813 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN ART AND PORTUGUESE CONTACTS The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th–17th Centuries. Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art (Arrábida, 26–30 November 1999). Edited by MANUEL JOÃO RAMOS with ISABEL BOAVIDA. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xxx+181. 14 colour plates. £45 (ISBN 0-7546-5037-5).

MARILYN E. HELDMAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 341-342
doi:10.1017/S0021853705300818 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE WESTERN SAHARA La vie intellectuelle islamique dans le Sahel Quest-Africain (XVIe–XIXe siècles). Une étude sociale de l'enseignement islamique en Mauritanie et au Nord du Mali (XVIe–XIXe siècles) et traduction annotée de Fath ash-Shakur d'al-Bartili al-Walati (mort en 1805). By CHOUKI EL HAMEL. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002. Pp. 492. €40, paperback (ISBN 2-7475-2597-x).

P. F. DE MORAES FARIAS

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 342-344
doi:10.1017/S0021853705310814 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

AN AFRICAN ATLANTIC Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery. Edited by JOSÉ C. CURTO and PAUL E. LOVEJOY. Amherst: Humanity Books, 2004. Pp. 323. No price given (ISBN 1-159102-153-7). Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770. By JAMES H. SWEET. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+296. $19.95/£14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8078-5482-4).

WALTER HAWTHORNE

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 344-346
doi:10.1017/S0021853705320810 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

AN ATLANTIC ODYSSEY FROM OLD CALABAR The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. By RANDY J. SPARKS. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 189. £14.95 (ISBN 0-674-01312-3).

PAUL E. LOVEJOY

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 347-348
doi:10.1017/S0021853705330817 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

AFRICANS AND THE FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development. By JOSEPH E INIKORI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi+576. £55 (ISBN 0-521-81193-7); £20.99, paperback (ISBN 0-521-01079-9).

GARETH AUSTIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 348-349
doi:10.1017/S0021853705340813 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

MALE ROYAL SLAVERY IN KANO Paradoxes of Power: The Kano ‘Mamluks’ and Male Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1804–1903. By SEAN STILWELL. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. x+281. £45.99 (ISBN 0-325-0741-5); £16.99, paperback (ISBN 0-325-07410-7).

KABIRU S. CHAFE

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 350-351
doi:10.1017/S002185370535081X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO THE END OF SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast. By TREVOR R. GETZ. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2004. Pp. xx+257. No price given (ISBN 085255-444-3); paperback (ISBN 0-8214-1521).

MARTIN A. KLEIN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 351-352
doi:10.1017/S0021853705360816 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

SLOW DEATH; STILL ALIVE Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. By SUZANNE MIERS. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. Pp. xx+503. No price given (ISBN 0-7591-0339-9); paperback (ISBN 0-7591-0340-2).

PAUL E. LOVEJOY

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 353-355
doi:10.1017/S0021853705370812 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

A HISTORY OF INEQUALITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY GHANA Le strutture della diseguaglianza, Capi, appartenenza e gerarchia nel mondo akan dell'Africa Occidentale. [The Structure of Inequality: Chiefs, Belonging and Hierarchies in the West African World of the Akan]. By STEFANO BONI. Milano: Franco Angeli, 2003. Pp. 303. €24, paperback (ISBN 88-464-4700-X).

ALICE BELLAGAMBA

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 355-356
doi:10.1017/S0021853705380819 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

A MAJOR STUDY OF A NEGLECTED RESISTANCE WAR West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War. By MAHIR SAUL and PATRICK ROYER. Oxford: James Currey Publishers; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2001. Pp. xiii+404. £45 (ISBN 0-85255-474-5); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-479-6).

MYRON ECHENBERG

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 356-357
doi:10.1017/S0021853705390815 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

COUPLING RESPECTABILITY AND RESISTANCE IN SOUTH AFRICA Respectability and Resistance: A History of Sophiatown. By DAVID GOODHEW. Westport CN: Praeger, 2004. Pp. xxvi+190. $84.95 (ISBN 0-325-07100-4).

VIVIAN BICKFORD-SMITH

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 358-359
doi:10.1017/S002185370540081X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST OF AFRICA IN BRITAIN AND IN NAZI GERMANY Leben und Werk Günter Wagners (1908–1952). By UDO MISCHEK. Gehren: Escher Verlag, 2002. Pp. 293. No price given (ISBN 3-932642-21-X).

FELICITAS BECKER

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 359-360
doi:10.1017/S0021853705410816 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

THE COLD WAR DIMENSION OF KENYAN DECOLONIZATION Britain, Kenya and the Cold War: Imperial Defence, Colonial Security, and Decolonisation. By DAVID A. PERCOX. London: Taurus Academic Studies, 2004. Pp. vii+252. £47.50 (ISBN 1-85043-460-3).

ROBERT L. TIGNOR

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 360-361
doi:10.1017/S0021853705420812 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

YOUNG FALOLA A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir. By TOYIN FALOLA. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. Pp. viii+271. $35 (ISBN 0-472-11401-8).

JAN VANSINA

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 362-363
doi:10.1017/S0021853705430819 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

PEUPLEMENT, RELATIONS INTERETHNIQUES ET IDENTITÉS Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Dir. RICHARD KUBA, CAROLA LENTZ et CLAUDE NURUKYOR SOMDA. Paris: Karthala, 2003. Pp. 296. €25 (ISBN 284586-4950).

MICHEL IZARD

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 363-365
doi:10.1017/S0021853705440815 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

THE POWER OF PRAETORIAN SOCIAL MEMORY Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau. By JOSHUA B. FORREST. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey Ltd., 2003. Pp. xiv+312. $49.45 (ISBN 0-8214-1490-9); no price given, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-496-6).

JOYE BOWMAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 366-367
doi:10.1017/S0021853705450811 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

THE SERER AND THE STATE IN THE EVOLUTION OF LAND TENURE The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. By DENNIS C. GALVAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xiv+317. £38.95/$60 (ISBN 0-520-22778-6); £15.95/$24.95, paperback (ISBN 0-520-23591-6).

JAMES SEARING

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 367-369
doi:10.1017/S0021853705460818 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

PHILOSOPHY, POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE BANDA REGIME Malawi's First Republic: An Economic and Political Analysis. By HARVEY J. SINDIMA. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 2002. Pp. xv+260. £29 (ISBN 0-7618-2332-8).

HARRI ENGLUND

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 369-370
doi:10.1017/S0021853705470814 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

GENDER AND NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa. By THEMBISA WAETJEN. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. vii+158. $30 (ISBN 0-252-02908-9).

ROBERT MORRELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 370-372
doi:10.1017/S0021853705480810 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

CHARISMATIC CHRISTIANITY AND ‘MODERNITY’ IN GHANA Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. By PAUL GIFFORD. London: C. Hurst, 2004. Pp. xv+216. £45 (ISBN 1-85065-718-1); £16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-718-X).

BIRGIT MEYER

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 372-374
doi:10.1017/S0021853705490817 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

Shorter Notices

 
 

West Africa: An Introduction to its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation. By EUGENE L. MENDONSA. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2002. Pp. 660. $50, paperback (ISBN 0-89089-649-6).

AKOSUA PERBI

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 374-375
doi:10.1017/S0021853705500811 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

Archives of Empire. Volume II. The Scramble for Africa. Edited by BARBARA HARLOW and MIA CARTER. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xix+821. £87 (ISBN 0-8223-3152-7); £26.50, paperback (ISBN 0-8223-3189-6).

JEREMY BLACK

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 375-375
doi:10.1017/S0021853705510818 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By CHARLES M. GOOD JR. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xx+487. £21/$30 (ISBN 0-226-30282-2).

GIACOMO MACOLA

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 376-376
doi:10.1017/S0021853705520814 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
 

African Posters: A Catalogue of the Poster Collection in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. By GIORGIO MIESCHER and DAG HENRICHSEN. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2004. Pp. 301. CHF 85 (ISBN 3-905141-82-5).

JAN-BART GEWALD

The Journal of African History, Volume 46, Issue 02, July 2005, pp 377-377
doi:10.1017/S0021853705530810 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 01 Jul 2005
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