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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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Table of Contents - Volume 49 - Issue 03  

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Research Articles

 
 

DEATH AND DYING IN THE HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1800

REBEKAH LEE and MEGAN VAUGHAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 341-359
doi:10.1017/S0021853708003952 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

‘THE CHILD OF DEATH’: PERSONAL NAMES AND PARENTAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS MORTALITY IN BUNYORO, WESTERN UGANDA, 1900–2005

SHANE DOYLE

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 361-382
doi:10.1017/S0021853708003678 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

‘DIVINE KINGS’: SEX, DEATH AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN INTER-WAR EAST/CENTRAL AFRICA

MEGAN VAUGHAN

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 383-401
doi:10.1017/S0021853708003654 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

KILLING THE CONDEMNED: THE PRACTICE AND PROCESS OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN BRITISH AFRICA, 1900–1950s

STACEY HYND

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 403-418
doi:10.1017/S0021853708003988 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

DEATH, NATIONAL MEMORY AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEROISM

WALE ADEBANWI

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 419-444
doi:10.1017/S0021853708003642 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

THE OKIJA SHRINE: DEATH AND LIFE IN NIGERIAN POLITICS

STEPHEN ELLIS

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 445-466
doi:10.1017/S0021853708003940 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

Review Articles

 
 

THE WAS, THE IS AND THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

BILL NASSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 467-474
doi:10.1017/S002185370800399X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

Book Reviews

 
 

THE BLACK ATLANTIC FROM AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora. Edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii+509. $59.95; £33 (isbn 978-0-253-34919-4).

PETER MITCHELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 475-476
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004003 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

AFRICAN IDENTITY AS A DIASPORIC CREATION? Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic. By James Sidbury. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix+291. $29.95 (isbn 978-0-195-32010-7).

MICHAEL A. GOMEZ

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 476-478
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004015 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

TREES, SOCIAL POWER, AND ECOSYSTEMS African Sacred Groves: Ecological Dynamics and Social Change. Edited by Michael J. Sheridan and Celia Nyamweru. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2008. Pp. x+230. £45 (isbn 978-1-84701-401-6 James Currey); £16.95 paperback (isbn 978-1-84701-400-9 James Currey); R160, paperback (isbn 978-1-86888-494-0 UNISA); $59.95 (isbn 10-0-8214-1788-6 Ohio University Press); $26.95 paperback (isbn 10-0-8214-1789-4 Ohio University Press).

NANCY J. JACOBS

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 478-479
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004027 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

MISSIONS AND COLONIAL RULE Missions, States and European Expansion in Africa. Edited by Chima J. Korieh and Raphael Chijioke Njoku. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xi+302. No price given (isbn 0-415-95559-9).

FRIEDER LUDWIG

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 479-481
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004039 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

LIVERPOOL'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE SLAVE TRADE Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Edited by David Richardson, Suzanne Schwarz and Anthony Tibbles. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press/National Museums Liverpool/Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 2007. Pp. xii+315. £50 (isbn 978-1-84631-066-9).

LAURENCE WESTGAPH

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 481-482
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004040 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

THE RISE OF THE ‘LIVERPOOL OF WEST AFRICA’ Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760–1900. By Kristin Mann. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+473. $55 (isbn 978-0-253-34884-5).

LISA A. LINDSAY

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 482-484
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004052 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

NINETEENTH-CENTURY HAUSA WOMEN Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and Sokoto Caliphate. By Mary Wren Bivins. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+192. $89.95 (isbn 0-325-07013-X); $29.50, paperback (isbn 0-325-07012-1).

SEAN STILWELL

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 484-485
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004064 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

THEORIZING MEDIA AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN NIGERIA Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria. By Brian Larkin. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. xi+313. $84.95 (isbn 978-0-8223-4090-4); $23.95, paperback (isbn 978-0-8223-4108-6).

CHARLES AMBLER

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 485-487
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004076 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

A SUBTLE THEORETICAL ACCOUNT OF KINGSHIP IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS The Pot-King: The Body and Technologies of Power. By Jean-Pierre Warnier. (African Social Studies Series, 17). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. Pp. x+326. €79, paperback (isbn 978-90-04-15217-5).

DAVID ZEITLYN

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 487-489
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004088 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE ZAMBIAN COPPERBELT Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c. 1930–64. By Lawrence J. Butler. Houndsmill, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. xii+425. £60 (isbn 978-0-230-55526-6).

JAN-BART GEWALD

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 489-491
doi:10.1017/S002185370800409X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

ORGANIZED MINE-LABOUR IN INDEPENDENT ZAMBIA Mineworkers in Zambia: Labour and Political Change in Post-Colonial Africa. By Miles Larmer. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. Pp. viii+270. £47.50 (isbn 978-1-84511-299-8).

JANE L. PARPART

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 491-493
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004106 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE IN ZIMBABWE Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report of the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands, 1980–1988 (Introduction by Elinor Sisulu). London: Hurst & Company, 2007. Pp. xxxii+440. £19.99, paperback (isbn 978-1-85065-890-0).

TIMOTHY SCARNECCHIA

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 493-495
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004118 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

A REASSEMENT OF VIOLENCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EASTERN AFRICA War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa. By Richard Reid. Oxford: James Currey Publishers, 2007. Pp. xvi+256. £55 (isbn 978-184701-605-8); £16.95, paperback (isbn 978-184701-604-1).

NEIL KODESH

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 495-497
doi:10.1017/S002185370800412X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

CHANGES OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIAL LIFE IN THE SERENGETI Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from the Earliest Times to the Present. By Jan Bender Shetler. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv+378. No price given (isbn 0-8214-1750-9).

CHRISTOPHER CONTE

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 497-498
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004131 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

Shorter Notices

 
 

SHORTER NOTICES The Women Writing Africa Project. Volume iii: Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region. Edited by Amandina Lihamba, Fulata L. Moyo, M. M. Mulokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi and Saïda Yahya-Othman. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007. Pp. xxv+478. $29.95, paperback (isbn 978-155861534-2).

IRIS BERGER

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 498-499
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004143 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

SHORTER NOTICES Historical Dictionary of Morocco. Second edition. By Thomas Park and Aomar Boum. (Historical Dictionaries of Africa, 95). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006. Pp. lxxii+675. $115 (isbn 0-8108-5341-8).

MADIA THOMSON

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 499-500
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004155 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

SHORTER NOTICES A History of Christianity in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450–1990: A Documentary Sourcebook. Edited by Klaus Koschorke, Frieder Ludwig and Mariano Delgado. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: William B. Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. xxxiii+426. No price given. Paperback (isbn 978-0-8028-2889-7).

ANDREW PORTER

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 500-501
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004167 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
 

SHORTER NOTICES Twilight Institutions. Public Authority and Local Politics in Africa. Edited by Christian Lund. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2007. Pp. 272. No price given (isbn 978-4051-5528-1).

ULF ENGEL

The Journal of African History, Volume 49, Issue 03, November 2008, pp 501-502
doi:10.1017/S0021853708004179 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 22 Dec 2008
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