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  1. Adams, Anne V. and Esi Sutherland-Addy. 2007. The Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism. Oxfordshire, UK: Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited. 256 pp.

  2. Adebajo, Adekaye and Abdul Raufu Mustapha. (eds). 2008. Gulliver's Troubles: Nigeria 's Foreign Policy after the Cold War. Scottville,South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 404 pp.

  3. Adebajo, Adekeye, Adedeji Adebayo, and Chris Landsberg. (eds). 2007. South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid Era. Scottsville, South African: University of KwaZulu Natal Press. 329 pp.

  4. Adegbile, Isaiah O. 2008. The African and African American History: an introduction , the political-socio-economic context in historical perspective. NY: University Press of America . 334 pp.

  5. Adekunle, Julius, O. 2007. Culture and Customs of Rwanda. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 164 pp.

  6. Alam, Shamsul S.L. 2007. Rethinking the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 246 pp.

  7. Alexander, Jocelyn. 2006. The Unsettled Land: State-making & the Politics of Land in Zimbabwe 1893 – 2003. 219 pp.

  8. Aryeety, Ernest & Ravi Kanbur (eds). 2008. The Economy of Ghana: analytical perspectives on stability, growth and poverty. Suffolk, UK & Rochester, NY: James Currey & Woeli Publishing Services. 424 pp.

  9. Ascher, William. 2009. Bringing in the future: strategies for farsightedness and sustainability in developing countries. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 328 pp.

  10. Barham, Lawrence, and Peter Mitchell. 2008. The First Africans: African archealogy from the earliest toolmakers to most recent foragers. NY: Cambridge University Press. 601 pp.

  11. Baudendistel, Rainer. 2006. Between Bombs and Good Intentions: The Red Cross and the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935 – 1936. New York : Berghahn Books. 337 pp.

  12. Bay, Edna G. 2008. Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 186 pp.

  13. Beck, Linda J. 2008. Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientalist Democracy in Senegal. Palgrave Macmillan. 261 pp.

  14. Benjamin, Thomas. 2009. The Atlantic world: Europeans, Africans, Indians and their shared history, 1400-1900. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 721 pp.

  15. Bivens, Mary Wren. 2007. Telling Stories, Making Histories Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate. Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann. 192 pp.

  16. Bongmba, Elias, K. 2006. The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa . New York : Palgrave Macmillan. 310 pp.

  17. Brier, Bob and Hoyt, Hobbs . 2008. Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians, 2 nd Edition. Westport , Connecticut . Greenwood Press. 311pp.

  18. Brockman, Norbert, C. 2006. An African Biographical Dictionary. (Second Edition). Millerton , NY : Grey House Publishing. 667 pp.

  19. Buckely-Zistel, Susanne. 2008. Conflict Transformation and Social Change in Uganda : remembering after violence. NY: Pelgrave McMillan. 192pp.

  20. Cammett, Melani Claire. 2007. Globalization and Business Politics in Arab North Africa: A Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press. 265 pp.

  21. Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C Miller (eds). 2007. Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic. (Volume One). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 382 pp.

  22. Campbell, Gwyn, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C Miller (eds). 2008. Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic. (Volume Two). Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 317 pp.

  23. Carswell, Grace. 2007. Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers & Colonial Policies. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 252 pp.

  24. Chabal, Patrick, Ulf Engel, and Leo de Haan (eds.). 2007. African Alternatives (vol. 2). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 178 pp.

  25. Cheney, Kristen, E. 2007. Pillars of the Nation: Child Citizens and Ugandan National Development. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 299 pp.

  26. Christiansen, Catrine, Mats Utas, and Henrik Vigh (eds).  2006. Navigating Youth and Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute.  266 pp.

  27. Claassens, Aninka and Ben Cousins.(eds). 2008. Land , Power and Custom: controversies generated by South Africa 's Communal Land Rights Act. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 392 pp.

  28. Cohen, Jared. 2007. One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 228 pp.

  29. Cole, Catherine M., Takyiwaa Manu, and Stephan F. Miescher (eds). 2007. Africa After Gender? Bloomington, IN: University of Indiana Press. 328 pp.

  30. Collins, Robert O. 2008. A History of Modern Sudan . Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press. 331 pp.

  31. Comaroff, Jean, and John L. Comaroff (ed). 2006. Law and Order in the Postcolony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 357 pp.

  32. Comaroff, John L., Jean L. Comaroff, and Deborah James (eds). 2007. Picturing a Colonial Past: The African Photographs of Isaac Schapera. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 224 pp.

  33. Cossa, José Augusto. 2009. Power, Politics, and Higher Education in Southern Africa : international regimes, local governments, and educational autonomy. Amherst , NY : Cambria Press. 226 pp.

  34. Crais, Clifton and Pamela Scully. 2009. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: a ghost story and a biography. Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press. 232 pp.

  35. d'Almedia Irène Assiba (ed). 2009. A Rain of Words: a bilingual anthology of women's poetry in Francophone Africa. Translated by Janis A. Mayes. Charlottesville & London: University of Virginia Press. 293 pp.

  36. Daley, Patricia O. 2008. Gender and genocide in Burundi : the search of spaces of peace in the Great Lakes Region. Bloomington , IN : Indiana University Press. 268 pp.

  37. Daly, M. W. 2007. Darfur’s Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. New York: Cambridge University Press. 368 pp.

  38. Davies, J.E. 2007. Constructive Engagement? Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981-8. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 241 pp.

  39. De Bruijn, Mirjam, Rijk Van Dijk, Jan-Bart Gewald (eds). 2007. Strength Beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa. Leiden: Brill. 344 pp.

  40. De Jong, Ferdinand. 2007. Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 216 pp.

  41. Delèage, Paul; translated by Fleur Webb. 2008. End of a Dynasty: the last days of the Prince Imperial, Zululand 1879. Scottville , South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 212 pp.

  42. Deng, Francis M; with the collaboration of Daniel J.Deng, David K. Deng, and Vanessa Jim é nez .2008. Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa . Washington D.C: United States Institute of Peace. 271 pp.

  43. Diouf, Sylviane A. 2007. Dreams of Africa in Alabama: the slave ship Clotilda and the story of the last Africans brought to America. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 340 pp.

  44. Don de Savigny. Harun, Kasale. Conrad, Mbuya and Graham, Reid. (eds). 2008. Fixing Health Systems. 2nd Edition. Ottawa, Canada: International Development Research and Development. 127 pp.

  45. Dooling, Wayne. 2008. Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa . Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 249 pp.

  46. Doxtader, Erik & Philippe-Joseph Salazar. 2007. Truth & Reconciliation in South Africa: The Fundamental Documents. Claremont, South Africa: Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. 478 pp.

  47. Doyle, Shane. 2006. Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population & Environment in Western Uganda, 1860 – 1955. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa. 269 pp.

  48. Drewal, Henry John (ed). 2008. Sacred waters: arts for Mami Wata and other divinities in Africa and the diaspora. Bloomington , IN : Indiana University Press. 681 pp.

  49. Dube, Musa W. 2008. The HIV and AIDS bible: selected essays. Chicago , IL : University of Scranton Press. 208 pp.

  50. Dubin, Steven C. 2006. Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 321 pp.

  51. Dull, Laura J. 2006.Disciplined Development: Teachers and Reform in Ghana. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: 101 pp.

  52. Durrani, Shirazi. 2006. Never Silent: Publishing & Imperialism in Kenya, 1884 – 1963. London: Vita Books. 268 pp.

  53. Essien, Kwame and Toyin Falola. 2009. Culture and customs of Sudan . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press. 193 pp.

  54. Epprecht, Marc.2008. Heterosexual Africa ?: the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS. Scottvillw , South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 231 pp.

  55. Falola, Toyin & Amanda Warnock (eds). 2007. Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 425 pp.

  56. Farley, Jonathan. 2008. Southern Africa. Making of the Contemporary World. Madison, New York: Routledge. 155 pp.

  57. Feldman, Douglas A. ed. 2008. AIDS, Culture, and Africa . Gainesville : University Press of Florida . 293 pp.

  58. Fields-Black, Edda L. 2008. Deep Roots: rice farmers in West Africa and the African diaspora. Bloomington , IN : Indiana University Press. 277 pp.

  59. Flint , Karen E. 2008. Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa , 1820-1948. Athens , OH : Ohio University Pres. 274 pp.

  60. Fuller, Linda K. 2008. African Women's Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: communication perspectives and promises. New York , NY : Pelgrave McMillan. 309 pp.

  61. Geschiere, Peter, Birgit Meyer and Peter Pels (eds). 2008. Readings in Modernity in Africa . London , UK : The International African Institute School of Oriental & African Studies. 226 pp.

  62. Gezon, Lisa L. 2006. Global Visions, Local Landscapes: A Political Ecology of Conservation, Conflict, and Control in Northern Madagascar. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. 215 pp.

  63. Glennie, Jonathan. 2008. The trouble with aid: Why less could mean more for Africa . New York , NY : Zed Books Ltd. 175 pp.

  64. Grant, William D. 2009. Zambia, Then and Now: Colonial Rulers and their African Successors. New York, NY: Routledge. 327 pp.

  65. Green, Matthew. 2009. The Wizard of the Nile : the hunt for Africa 's most wanted. Massachusetts : Interlink Publishing Group Inc. 333 pp.

  66. Guy, Jeff. 2006. Remembering the Rebellion: The Zulu Uprising of 1906. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 197 pp.

  67. Haberson, John W. and Donald, Rothchild. (eds). 2009. Africa in World Politics: Reforming Political Order. 4 th Edition. Philadephia , PA : Westview Press. 408 pp.

  68. Hale, Thomas, A. 2007.Griots and Griottes. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 391 pp.

  69. Hanciles, Jehu J. 2008. Beyond Christendom: globalization, African migration, and the transformation of the West. Maryknoll , NY : Orbis Books. 430 pp.

  70. Hanlon, Joseph and Teresa Smart. 2008. Do bicycles equal development in Mozambique ? Rochester , NY : James Currey. 242 pp.

  71. Harneit-Sievers, Axel. 2006. Constructions of Belonging: Igbo Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 388 pp.

  72. Harris, Hermione. 2006. Yoruba in Diaspora: An African Church in London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 283 pp.

  73. Hassim, Shireen. 2006. Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 339 pp.

  74. Hebinck, Paul and Peter C. Lent (eds). 2007. Livelihoods and Landscapes: The People of Guquba and Koloni and their Resources. Leiden , Netherlands . Brill. 390 pp.

  75. Held, David & Ayse Kaya. (eds). 2007. Global Inequality: Patterns and Explanations. Malden, MA: Polity Press. 272 pp.

  76. Henk, Dan. 2007. The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African Environment. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 219 pp.

  77. Hughes, David McDermott. 2006. From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.285 pp. 

  78. Iliffe, John. 2006. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 214 pp.

  79. Iliffe, John. 2007. Africans: The History of a Continent. New York: Cambridge University Press. 365 pp.

  80. Imperato, Pascal James. and Gavin H. Imperato. 2008. Historical Dictionary of Mali . 4 th Edition. Toronto : The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 455 pp.

  81. Kaarsholm, Preben (ed). 2006. Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 208 pp.

  82. Kebede, Messay. 2008. Radicalism and cultural dislocation in Ethiopia , 1960-1974. Rochester , NY : University of Rochester Press. 235 pp.

  83. Keim, Curtis. 2009. Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American mind. 2 nd Edition. Philadelphia . PA: West View Press. 234 pp.

  84. Khamis, Kassim Mohammed. 2008. Promoting the African Union. Washington, DC: Lilian Barber Press, Inc. 421 pp.

  85. Kimanuka, Oscar. 2009. Sub-Suharan Africa's Development Challenges: a case study of Rwanda 's post-genocide experience. New York , NY : Pelgrave Macmillan. 176 pp.

  86. Kyomuhendo, Grace B. & Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. 2006. Women, work & domestic virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 308 pp.

  87. Laband, John (ed). 2007. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 301 pp.

  88. LaGamma, Alisa and Christine Giuntini. 2008. The Essential Art of African Textiles: design without end. New York , NY : The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 72 pp.

  89. Lawrence, Benjamin N. 2007. Locality, Mobility, and ‘Nation’: Periurban Colonialism in Togo’s Eweland 1900-1960. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 288 pp.

  90. Levine, Stephen B. 2007. Demystifying Love: Plain Talk for the Mental Health Professional. New York: Routledge. 184 pp.

  91. Lewis, Peter, M. 2007. Growing Apart: Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan. 345 pp.

  92. Limb, Peter. 2008. Nelson Mandela: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 136 pp.

  93. Lobban, Richard, A & Paul Khalil Saucier. 2007. Historical Dictionary of Republic of Cape Verde (4th edition). Lanham, MD. Scarecrow Press, Inc. 306 pp.

  94. Loftsdóttir, Kristín. 2008. The Bush is Sweet: identity, power and development among WoDaaBe Fulani in Niger.Uppsala, Sweden: The Nordic Africa Insitute. 264 pp.

  95. Lubkemann, Stephen C. 2008. Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 391 pp.

  96. Luedke, Tracy J. 2006. Borders and Healers: Brokering Therapeutic Resources in Southeast Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 216 pp.

  97. Lund, Christian. 2008. Local Politics and the Dynamics of Property in Africa . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. 200 pp.

  98. Lydon, Ghislaine. 2009. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic law, trade networks, and cross cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 468 pp.

  99. Majumdumar, Margaret, A. 2007. Postcoloniality: The French Dimension. New York : Berghahn Books. 310 pp.

  100. Makinda, Samuel M. & F. Wafula Okumu. 2008. The African Union: Challenges of globalization, security, and governance. New York: Routledge. 201 pp.

  101. Malaquias, Assis. 2007. Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute.  258 pp.

  102. Maingard, Jacqueline. 2007. South African National Cinema. London: Routledge.  205 pp.

  103. Manai, Adel. 2007. British Travellers in Tunisia, 1800-1930: A history of encounters and Representations. Tunis: Center for University Press. 129 pp.

  104. Manger, Leif and Munzoul A.M. Assal (eds). 2006. Daisporas within and without Africa: Dynamism, Heterogeneity, and Variation. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute. 197 pp.

  105. Martin, Phyllis M. 2009. Catholic women of Congo-Brazzaville: mothers and sisters in troubled times. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 262 pp.

  106. Maxwell, David. 2006. African Gift of the Spirit: Pentecostalism and the Rise of a Zimbabwean Transnational Religious Movement. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 250 pp.

  107. Mazrui, Al’Amin. 2007. Swahili beyond the boundaries: Literature, Language and Identity. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 206 pp.

  108. McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. (ed). 2009. The Devil You Dance With: film culture in the new South Africa. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 236 pp.

  109. McGrew, Anthony & Nana K. Poku. (eds). 2007. Globalization, Development and Human Security. Malden , MA : Polity Press. 219 pp.

  110. McIntosh, Marjorie Keniston. 2009. Yoruba women, work, and social change. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 336 pp.

  111. McNaughton, Patrick R. 2008. A Bird Dance Near Saturday City : Sidi Ballo and the art of West African masquerade. Indianapolis : Indiana University Press. 300 pp.

  112. McPeak, John G. and Peter Little. 2006. Pastoral Livestock Marketing in Eastern Africa : Research and Policy Challenges. Rugby , Warwickshire , UK : ITDG Publishing. 279 pp.

  113. Mehler, Andreas, Henning Melber, and Klaas van Walraven (eds). 2007. African Yearbook 3: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2006. Leiden: Brill. 516 pp.

  114. Meierhenrich, Jens. 2008. The Legacies of Law: long run consequences of legal development in South Africa , 1652-2000. NY: Cambridge University Press. 385 pp.

  115. Melber, Henning with John Y. Jones. eds. Revisiting the heart of darkness-exploration into genocide and other forms of mass violence 60 years after the UN Convention. Development Dialogue No. 50, December 2008. 302 pp.

  116. Melber, Peter. (ed). 2007. Transitions in Namibia: Which changes for whom? Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute. 262 pp.

  117. Mensah, Joseph (ed). 2008. Neoliberalism and Globalization in Africa : contestations from the embattled continent. New York , NY : Pelgrave Macmillan. 278pp.

  118. Messiant, Christine. 2006. 1961. L’Angola colonial, historie et societe: Les premises du movement nationaliste. Bale, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. 419 pp.

  119. Mkutu-Agade, Kennedy. 2008. Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley: pastoralist conflict and small arms. Bloomington and Indiana : Indiana University Press. 178 pp.

  120. Mngxitama, A. Amander, Alexander. Nigel C. Gibson .(eds). 2008. Biko Lives!: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko. New York: Pelgrave MacMillan. 294 pp.

  121. Monson, Jamie. 2009. Africa's freedom railway: how a Chinese development project changed lives and livelihoods in Tanzania. Bloomington, ID: Indiana University Press. 199 pp.

  122. Moorman, Marissa J. 2008. Intonations: a social history of music and nation in Luanda , Angola from 1945 to recent times. OH: Ohio University Press. 290pp.

  123. Morton, Fred. Jeff, Ramsay. Part Themba Mgadla. 2008. Historical Dictionary of Botswana . Lanham , Maryland : Scare Crow Press, Inc. 472 pp.

  124. Moseley, William, G. 2007. Clashing Views on African Issues (Second edition). Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill. 396 pp. 

  125. Muiu, Mueni Wa. 2008. The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. NY: Pelgrave MacMillan. 239pp.

  126. Nampala, Lovisa T. and Vilho Shigwedla. 2006. Aawambo Kingdoms, History and Cultural Change: Perspectives from Northern Namibia. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. 274 pp.

  127. Naval, Claire, Sylvie Walter and Raul Suarez de Miguel. eds. Measuring Human Rights and Democratic Governance: experiences and lessons from Metagora. OECD Journal on Development. 2008. Vol 9, No.2. 373 pp.

  128. Ndulo, Muna (ed). 2006. Democratic Reform in Africa: Its Impact on Governance & Poverty Alleviation. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 304 pp.

  129. Ndulu, Benno, J. Stephen A. O'Connell, Jean-P Azam, Robert H. Bates, Chukwuma C Soludo. (ed). 2008. The Political Economy of Growth in Africa , 1960-2000, Volume 1. Cambridge : University Press. 452 pp.

  130. Ndulu, Benno, J. Stephen A. O'Connell, Jean-P Azam, Robert H. Bates, Augustin K. Fosu, Jan Willem Gunning, Dominique Nijunkeu. (ed). 2008. The Political Economy of Growth in Africa, 1960-2000, Volume 2. Cambridge: University Press. 719 pp.

  131. Newman, Edward and Oliver Richmond (eds). 2006. Challenges to Peacebuilding: Managing Spoilers During Conflict Resolution. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. 329 pp.

  132. Nganang, Patrice. 2006. Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle (Translated with an Afterword by Amy Baram Reid). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 232 pp.

  133. Nicolson, Ronald (ed). 2008. Persons in Community: African ethics in a global culture. Scottville , South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.146 pp.

  134. Norris, Pippa. 2008. Driving Democracy: Do Power Sharing Institutions Work? Cambridge , New York , Melbourne , Madrid , Capetown: Cambridge University Press. 306 pp.

  135. Nothwehr, Dawn M. 2008. That they may be one: Catholic social teaching on racism, tribalism and xenophobia. Maryknoll , NY : Orbis Books. 249 pp.

  136. Ntarangwi, Mwenda, David Mills, and Mustapha Babiker. (eds). 2006. African Anthropologies: History, Critique, and Practice. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA. 266 pp.

  137. O'murchu, Diarmuid. 2008. Ancestral Grace: Meeting God in Our Human History. NY: Maryknoll. 270 pp.

  138. Obi, Desch T.J. 2008. Fighting for Honor: the history of African martial art traditions in the Atlantic world. Columbia , South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press. 346 pp.

  139. Ofori-Attah, Kwabena Dei. 2008. Going to School in the Middle east and North Africa . Westport , Connecticut : Greenwood Press. 133 pp.

  140. Oheneba-Sakyi, Yaw and Baffour K. Takyi (eds). 2006. African Families at the Turn of the 21st Century. Westport, CT: Praeger. 303 pp.

  141. Okafaor, Victor Oguejiofor. (ed). Nigeria's Stumbling Democarcy and its Implications for Africa's Democratic Movement. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Security International. 190 pp.

  142. Oladipo, Caleb Oluremi. 2006. The Will to Rise: Theological and Political Themes in African Christianity and the Renewal of Faith and Identity. New York: Peter Lang. 236 pp.

  143. Olukoju, Ayodeji. 2006. Culture and Customs of Liberia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 154 pp.

  144. Orji, Cyril. 2008. Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa : an analysis of bias, decline and conversion based on the work of Bernard lonergan. Milwaukee , Wisconsin : Marquette University Press. 269 pp.

  145. Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E. 2008. Theology Brewed in an African Pot. Maryknoll , NY : Orbis Books. 162 pp.

  146. Otiso, Kefa, M. 2006. Culture and Customs of Uganda. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 179 pp.

  147. Pazzanita, Anthony G. 2006. Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara (Third Edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecow Press. 521 pp.

  148. Pelling, Mark & Ben Wisner; with foreword by Anna Kajamulo Tibaijuka. (eds). 2009. Disaster risk reduction: cases from urban Africa. Sterling, VA: Earthscan. 224 pp.

  149. Perkins, Kathy A (ed). 2009. African Women Playwrights. Illinois : University of Illinois Press and Urbana and Chicago . 364 pp.

  150. Peterson, Charles, F. 2007. DuBois, Fanon, Cabral: The Margins of Elite Anti-Colonial Leadership. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 160 pp.

  151. Porter, Philip W. 2006. Challenging Nature: Local knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 310 pp.

  152. Prairie, Michael. 2007. Thomas Sankara Speaks. New York: New York: Pathfinder Press. 436 pp.

  153. Pratten, David. 2007. The Man-Leopard Murders: History and Society in Colonial Nigeria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 417 pp.

  154. Pritchett, James A. 2007. Friends for Life, Friends for Death: Cohorts and Consciousness Among the Lunda-Ndembu. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 266 pp.

  155. Quayson, Ato (ed). 2008. Fathers and Daughters: an anthology of exploration. Oxfordshire , UK : Ayebia Clarke Publishing Limited. 200 pp.

  156. Ranger, Shelagh. 2007. The World of Wisdom and Creation of Animals in Africa. Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. 255 pp.

  157. Redding. Sean. 2006. Sorcery and Sovereignty: Taxation, Power, and Rebellion in South Africa, 1880 – 1963. 259 pp.

  158. Reid, Richard J. 2009. A History of Modern Africa : 1800 to present. Malden , MA : Wiley-Blackwell. 386pp.

  159. Rice, Laura. 2007. Of Inquiry and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 241 pp.

  160. Richey, Lisa Ann. 2008. Population Politics and Development: From the Policies to the Clinics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 261 pp.

  161. Robins, Steve L. 2008. From revolution to rights in South Africa : social movements, NGOs & popular politics after apartheid. Scottsville , South Africa : University of KwaZuku-Natal Press. 192 pp.

  162. Rockel, Stephen, J. 2006. Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 335 pp.

  163. Rubongoya, Joshua B. 2007. Regime Hegemony in Museveni’s Uganda: Pax Musevenica. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 283 pp.

  164. Sackey, Brigid, M. 2006. New Directions in Gender and Religion: The Changing Status of Women in African Independent Churches. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 214 pp.

  165. Sakin, Jeremy. (eds). 2008. Human Rights in African Prisons. Capetown , South Africa : HSRC Press. 254 pp.

  166. Sandoval, Mercedes Cros. 2006. Worldview, the Orichas, and Santeria: frica to Cuba and Beyond. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 405 pp.

  167. Shadle, Brett. 2006. “Girl Cases”: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya, 1890-1970. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 250 pp.

  168. Shandy, Dianna J. 2007. Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 197 pp.

  169. Shetler, Jan Bender. 2007. Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscapes Memory in Tanzania from Earliest Times to the Present. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. 378 pp.

  170. Shepherd, Nick and Steven Robins. (eds). 2008. New South African keywords. Athens , OH : Ohio University Press. 266 pp.

  171. Simon, David J., James R. Pletcher, and Brian V. Siegel. 2008. Historical Dictionary of Zambia. (Third edition). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 612 pp.

  172. Soderbaum, Fredrik and Ian Taylor (eds). 2008. Afro-Regions: The Dynamics of Cross-Border Micro-Regionalism in Africa. Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 203 pp.

  173. Souare, Issaka K. 2006. Civil Wars and Coups d’Etat in West Africa : An Attempt to Understand the Roots and Prescribe Possible Solutions.Lanham, MD: University Press of America . 239 pp.

  174. St John, Ronald Bruce. 2006. Historical Dictionary of Libya. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. 402 pp.

  175. Storey, William Kelleher. 2008. Guns, Race and Power in Colonial South Africa . NY: Cambridge University Press. 378 pp.

  176. Taylor, Scott, D. 2006. Culture and Customs on Zambia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 148 pp.

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