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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Taha, Mahmoud Mohamed. The second message of Islam. 1st paperback ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1996.Reese,
Scott Steven. Renewers of the age : holy men and social discourse in colonial Benaadir. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Wild-Wood, Emma.  Migration and Christian identity in Congo (DRC). Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

 

Bruder, Edith. The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Dowden, Richard.  Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles. London : Portobello, 2008.

Africa in world politics : reforming political order.  4th ed., Fully rev. ed. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2009.

Badejo, Diedre. The African Union. New York : Chelsea House, 2008.

Ngwane, George, 1960. The power in the writer : collected essays on culture, democracy & development in Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2008.

Porteous, Tom.  Britain in Africa.  London ; New York : Zed Books ; Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008.

China returns to Africa : a rising power and a continent embrace. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

O’Fahey, R. S. (Rex S.). The Darfur Sultanate : a history. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

Ronen, Yehudit. Qaddafi’s Libya in world politics. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.

Northrup, David, 1941.  Africa’s discovery of Europe : 1450-1850. 2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

The Western Indian Ocean : essays on islands and islanders. Port Louis, Mauritius : Hassan Toorawa Trust, c2007.

Smith, James Howard. Bewitching development : witchcraft and the reinvention of development in neoliberal Kenya. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Larsen, Kjersti. Where humans and spirits meet : the politics of rituals and identified spirits in Zanzibar. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Hughes, Arnold, 1941.  Historical dictionary of The Gambia. 4th ed. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Falola, Toyin.  A history of Nigeria. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Working Group of Experts on Indigenous populations/Communities.  Report of the African Commission’s Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities : Mission to the Republic of Botswana 15-23 June 2005 = Rapport du groupe de travail de la Commission africaine sur les populations/communautes autochines : mission en Republique du Botswana 15-23 juin 2005.  Banjul, The Gambia : African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ; Copenhagen, Denmark : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs ; Somerset, N.J. : Distribution in North America, Transaction Publishers, 2008.

One Zambia, many histories : towards a history of post-colonial Zambia. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Booth, Joseph.  Africa for the African. 2nd ed. Zomba, Malawi : Kachere Series, 2007, c1996.

Donkor, Martha. Sudanese refugees in the United States : the collateral damage of Sudan’s Civil war. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edward Mellen Press, c2008.

Ray, William. Horrors of slavery, or, the American tars in Tripoli. New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008.

Africa : atlas of our changing environment. Nairobi, Kenya : United Nations Environment Programme, c2008.

Wreford, Jo Thobeka. Working with spirit : experiencing izangoma healing in contemporary South Africa. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Entrepreneurship in South Africa and the United States : comparative studies. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, c2008.

Hope, Kempe R. Poverty, livelihoods, and governance in Africa : fulfilling the development promise. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Breaking the cycle : a strategy for conflict-sensitive rural growth in Burundi: main report, January, 2008. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2008.

Wariboko, Nimi.  Pattern of institutions in the Niger Delta : economic and ethological interpretations of history and culture.  Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria : Onyoma Research Publications, 2007.

Visions of black economic empowerment. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2007.

Hoftijzer, Margo. Making work pay in Madagascar : employment, growth, and poverty reduction. Washington, DC : World Bank, 2008.

Winther, Tanja. The impact of electricity : development, desires and dilemmas. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Flint, Adrian. Trade, poverty and the environment : the EU, Cotonou and the African-Caribbean-Pacific bloc. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Williams, David.  The World Bank and social transformation in international politics : liberalism, governance and sovereignty. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Besteman, Catherine Lowe. Transforming Cape Town. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Jensen, Steffen. Gangs, politics & dignity in Cape Town. Oxford : James Currey ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press ; Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2008.

Murray, Martin J. Taming the disorderly city : the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

Fallon, Kathleen M. Democracy and the rise of women’s movements in Sub-Saharan Africa. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Disney, Jennifer Leigh.  Women’s activism and feminist agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo world : history, society and Atlantic diaspora connections. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2009.

Traditional justice and reconciliation after violent conflict : learning from African experiences. Stockholm : International Idea, c2008.

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights : the system in practice, 1986-2000. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Myers, Jason Conard. Indirect rule in South Africa : tradition, modernity, and the costuming of political power. Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2008.

Security and democracy in Southern Africa. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, c2007.

Carbone, Giovanni M. No-party democracy? : Ugandan politics in comparative perspective. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.

Kalu, Kalu Ndukwe. State power, autarchy, and political conquest in Nigerian federalism. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008.

Nigeria’s stumbling democracy and its implications for Africa’s democratic movement. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.

Williams, Vincent. The prospects for migration data harmonisation in the SADC. Cape Town, South Africa : Idasa, 2007.

Globalization and Africa. New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008.

Women, the law, and HIV/AIDS in Africa : a conundrum for the legislature?  Lake Mary, FL : Vandeplas Publishing, 2008.

 Olong, Adefi M. Administrative law in Nigeria : an introduction. 2nd ed. Lagos, Lagos State : Malthouse Press, c2007.

Manichaean delirium : decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Verspoor, Adriaan.  At the crossroads : choices for secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2008.

Ng’ethe, Njuguna. Differentiation and articulation in tertiary education systems : a study of twelve African countries. Washington, DC : The World Bank, c2008.

The challenge of expanding secondary education and training in Madagascar. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2008.

Blommaert, Jan.  Grassroots literacy : writing, identity and voice in central Africa. London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Larkin, Brian. Signal and noise : media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Wehrs, Donald R.  Islam, ethics, revolt : politics and piety in francophone West African and Maghreb narrative. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2008.

Corrado, Jacopo.  The Creole elite and the rise of Angolan protonationalism : 1870-1920. Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008.

Gikandi, Simon.  The Columbia guide to East African literature in English since 1945. New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.

Africa and trans-Atlantic memories : literary and aesthetic manifestations of diaspora and history. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.

Montgomery, Georgene Bess. The spirit and the word : a theory of spirituality in Africana literary criticism. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.

Migraine-George, Therese.  African women and representation : from performance to politics. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2008.

Rastogi, Pallavi. Afrindian fictions : diaspora, race, and national desire in South Africa.  Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2008.

Knowledge is more than mere words : wey dehn sey? dehn sey kapu sehns nor kapu word : a critical introduction to Sierra Leonean literature. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.

Capobianco, Emanuele.  A review of health sector aid financing to Somalia. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2008.

Fuller, Linda K.  African women’s unique vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS : communication perspectives and promises. 1st ed. New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

 Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance. Conference (3rd : 2005 Dakar, Senegal). Skills-building for gender mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS : research and practice : seminar proceedings : from the 3rd African Conference of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, Dakar, 2005. Cape Town : HSRC Press ; Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group, 2007.

Adapting health communication to cultural needs : optimizing documents in South-African health communication on HIV and AIDS. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.

Deacon, Harriet. HIV/AIDS, stigma and children : a literature review. Cape Town : HSRC Press ; Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group, 2007.

Wisner, Geoff.  A basket of leaves : 99 books that capture the spirit of Africa.  Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2007.

 
Orji, Cyril U. Ethnic and religious conflict in Africa : an analysis of bias, decline, and conversion based on the works of Bernard Lonergan. Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2008.
Bruder, Edith. The Black Jews of Africa : history, religion, identity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Dowden, Richard.  Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles. London : Portobello, 2008.

Africa in world politics : reforming political order.  4th ed., Fully rev. ed. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2009.

Badejo, Diedre. The African Union. New York : Chelsea House, 2008.

Ngwane, George, 1960. The power in the writer : collected essays on culture, democracy & development in Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2008.

Porteous, Tom.  Britain in Africa.  London ; New York : Zed Books ; Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008.

China returns to Africa : a rising power and a continent embrace. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

O’Fahey, R. S. (Rex S.). The Darfur Sultanate : a history. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

Ronen, Yehudit. Qaddafi’s Libya in world politics. Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.

Northrup, David, 1941.  Africa’s discovery of Europe : 1450-1850. 2nd ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

The Western Indian Ocean : essays on islands and islanders. Port Louis, Mauritius : Hassan Toorawa Trust, c2007.

Smith, James Howard. Bewitching development : witchcraft and the reinvention of development in neoliberal Kenya. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Larsen, Kjersti. Where humans and spirits meet : the politics of rituals and identified spirits in Zanzibar. New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Hughes, Arnold, 1941.  Historical dictionary of The Gambia. 4th ed. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Falola, Toyin.  A history of Nigeria. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

 

 

 

Ohio University Center for African Studies Conferences

Monday, January 12th, 2009

100 years of Progressive Islam 1909-2009 a conference in honor of Mahmoud Mohmed Taha, January 17-18, 2009.  Program schedule: http://www.african.ohio.edu/Conferences/index.html

Including Children: Celebrating 10 years of the Institute for the African Child, March 12-14,  2009.  Conference information: http://www.afrchild.ohio.edu/Conferences/index.html