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EDITORIAL NOTE: LOCAL INTELLECTUALS IN AFRICA EDITORIAL NOTE: LOCAL INTELLECTUALS IN AFRICA

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Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 173 - 174

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000039 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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LANREWAJU ADEPỌJU AND THE MAKING OF MODERN YORUBA POETRY LANREWAJU ADEPỌJU AND THE MAKING OF MODERN YORUBA POETRY

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Oyeniyi Okunoye

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 175 - 203

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000192 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRATION AND REPUTATION IN KINSHASA THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRATION AND REPUTATION IN KINSHASA

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Joseph Trapido

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 204 - 225

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000064 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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DEATH ‘ON THE MOVE’: FUNERALS, ENTREPRENEURS AND THE RURAL–URBAN NEXUS IN SOUTH AFRICA DEATH ‘ON THE MOVE’: FUNERALS, ENTREPRENEURS AND THE RURAL–URBAN NEXUS IN SOUTH AFRICA

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Rebekah Lee

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 226 - 247

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000040 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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BETWEEN THE UMBRELLA AND THE ELEPHANT: ELECTIONS, ETHNIC NEGOTIATIONS AND THE POLITICS OF SPIRIT POSSESSION IN TESHI, ACCRA BETWEEN THE UMBRELLA AND THE ELEPHANT: ELECTIONS, ETHNIC NEGOTIATIONS AND THE POLITICS OF SPIRIT POSSESSION IN TESHI, ACCRA

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Meera Venkatachalam

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 248 - 268

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000180 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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THINGS OF THE GROUND: CHILDREN'S MEDICINE, MOTHERHOOD AND MEMORY IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS THINGS OF THE GROUND: CHILDREN'S MEDICINE, MOTHERHOOD AND MEMORY IN THE CAMEROON GRASSFIELDS

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Nicolas Argenti

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 269 - 294

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000015 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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BIRDS AND KHOESĀN: LINKING SPIRITS AND HEALING WITH DAY-TO-DAY LIFE BIRDS AND KHOESĀN: LINKING SPIRITS AND HEALING WITH DAY-TO-DAY LIFE

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Chris Low

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 295 - 313

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000027 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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WRITING ABOUT CONFLICT IN AFRICA: STAKES AND STRATEGIES WRITING ABOUT CONFLICT IN AFRICA: STAKES AND STRATEGIES

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Mike McGovern

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 314 - 330

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000052 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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ROGAIA MUSTAFA ABUSHARAF, Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: politics and the body in a squatter settlement. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb £38 – 978 0 22600 199 9; pb £14 – 978 0 22600 200 2). 2009, 208 pp.

WENDY JAMES, War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: voices from the Blue Nile. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £83 – 978 0 19929 867 9; pb £26 – 978 0 19957 226 7). 2007, 368 pp. ROGAIA MUSTAFA ABUSHARAF, Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: politics and the body in a squatter settlement. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press (hb £38 – 978 0 22600 199 9; pb £14 – 978 0 22600 200 2). 2009, 208 pp.

WENDY JAMES, War and Survival in Sudan's Frontierlands: voices from the Blue Nile. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £83 – 978 0 19929 867 9; pb £26 – 978 0 19957 226 7). 2007, 368 pp.

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CHERRY LEONARDI

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 331 - 333

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000088 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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DEREK PETERSON (ed.), Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb $28.95 – 978 0 82141 902 1). 2010, 248 pp.

SEYMOUR DRESCHER and PIETER C. EMMER (eds), Who Abolished Slavery? Slave Revolts and Abolitionism: a debate with João Pedro Marques. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb £26.50 – 978 1 84545 636 8). 2010, 216 pp. DEREK PETERSON (ed.), Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb \$28.95 – 978 0 82141 902 1). 2010, 248 pp.

SEYMOUR DRESCHER and PIETER C. EMMER (eds), Who Abolished Slavery? Slave Revolts and Abolitionism: a debate with João Pedro Marques. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb £26.50 – 978 1 84545 636 8). 2010, 216 pp.

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MARTIN A. KLEIN

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 333 - 336

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000197201100009X (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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BEHNAZ A. MIRZAI, ISMAEL MUSAH MONTANA and PAUL E. LOVEJOY (eds), Slavery, Islam and Diaspora. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb £24.99 – 978 1 59221 705 2). 2009, 336 pp. BEHNAZ A. MIRZAI, ISMAEL MUSAH MONTANA and PAUL E. LOVEJOY (eds), Slavery, Islam and Diaspora. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb £24.99 – 978 1 59221 705 2). 2009, 336 pp.

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SUZANNE MIERS

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 336 - 338

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000106 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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JAY SPAULDING and STEPHANIE BESWICK (eds), African Systems of Slavery. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb US$29.95 – 978 1 59221 725 0). 2009, 304 pp. JAY SPAULDING and STEPHANIE BESWICK (eds), African Systems of Slavery. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb US\$29.95 – 978 1 59221 725 0). 2009, 304 pp.

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BENEDETTA ROSSI

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 338 - 339

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000118 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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JOEL E. TISHKEN, TOYIN FALOLA and AKINTUNDE AKINYEMI (eds), Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb, $27.95 – 978 0 25322 094 3). 2009, 365 pp. JOEL E. TISHKEN, TOYIN FALOLA and AKINTUNDE AKINYEMI (eds), Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press (pb, \$27.95 – 978 0 25322 094 3). 2009, 365 pp.

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J. D. Y. PEEL

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 340 - 341

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000197201100012X (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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KAI KRESSE, Philosophizing in Mombasa: knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute (hb £65 – ISBN 978 0 74862 786 8). 2007, 288 pp. KAI KRESSE, Philosophizing in Mombasa: knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute (hb £65 – ISBN 978 0 74862 786 8). 2007, 288 pp.

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JUSTIN WILLIS

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 341 - 342

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000131 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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MAMADOU DIAWARA, PAULO FERNANDO DE MORAES FARIAS and GERD SPITTLER (eds), Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique. Studien zur Kulturkunde 125. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe (pb €39.90 – 978 3 89645 220 7). 2006, 286 pp. MAMADOU DIAWARA, PAULO FERNANDO DE MORAES FARIAS and GERD SPITTLER (eds), Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique. Studien zur Kulturkunde 125. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe (pb €39.90 – 978 3 89645 220 7). 2006, 286 pp.

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PEKKA MASONEN

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 342 - 344

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000143 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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DAVID KILLINGRAY, with MARTIN PLAUT, Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. Oxford: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 015 5). 2010, 296 pp. DAVID KILLINGRAY, with MARTIN PLAUT, Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War. Oxford: James Currey (hb £45 – 978 1 84701 015 5). 2010, 296 pp.

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TERENCE RANGER

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 344 - 345

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000155 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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Review of the British Museum exhibition Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa (4 March–6 June 2010). Review of the British Museum exhibition Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa (4 March–6 June 2010).

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ANNA PORTISCH

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 345 - 347

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000167 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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Review of the exhibition Djenné: African City of Mud, Royal Institute of British Architects (London), 3 March–29 April 2010 (extended until 29 May). Review of the exhibition Djenné: African City of Mud, Royal Institute of British Architects (London), 3 March–29 April 2010 (extended until 29 May).

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SOPHIE MEW

Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp 347 - 349

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000179 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp f1 - f4

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000076 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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Africa / Volume 81 / Issue 02 / May 2011, pp b1 - b7

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972011000209 (About DOI), Published online: 28 April 2011

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