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February 22, 2006
Zimbabwe: What Happens after Mugabe?
What Happens After Robert Mugabe Read more »
November 29, 2005
Senegal: Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal
Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal Read more »
August 29, 2005
Uganda: Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda
Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda is a wonderful book on the history of one of the least known Jewish communities in the world. I first came across literature on the Jewish community… Read more »
August 12, 2005
Uganda: Violence in Northwestern Uganda
Inside West Nile by Mark Leopold Read more »
July 11, 2005
Africa: New Book Exposes New and Old Attitudes Towards Gender in Africa
Readings in Gender in Africa Read more »
July 06, 2005
Africa: African Leaders and Policy Makers Speak out on Peace and Security in Africa
Demilitarizing the Mind: African Agendas for Peace and Security. Edited by Alex de Waal Read more »
June 08, 2005
Africa: New Book Examines Yoruba Religion in Nigeria and the Diaspora
In August 2002, Nigerian National Television broadcasted live coverage of the second Black Heritage Festival, which the Nigerian state organized to "reconcile Africans in diaspora… Read more »
May 25, 2005
South Africa: Straddling Two Worlds - An Israeli Journalist Writes about his South African Childhood
Hirsh Goodman grew up in South Africa and as a young adult emigrated to Israel. His new memoir is called Let Me Create a Paradise, God Said to Himself: A Journey of Conscience… Read more »
April 15, 2005
Southern Africa: Media's Role in Democracy Analyzed in New Book
Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu Ogundimu, eds. Media and Democracy in Africa. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. 260 pp. $39.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. … Read more »
February 25, 2005
Angola: New Book Raises Tantalizing Questions About What Might Have Been
Engaging Africa: Washington and the Fall of Portugal's Colonial Empire. Witney W. Schneidman.University Press of America. Read more »
January 28, 2005
Angola: Book Outlines Trees, Misses the Forest
Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State. Tony Hodges. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 236 pp. $22.95. Read more »
January 26, 2005
West Africa: Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl. John M. Chernoff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 496 pp. $65.00, cloth. $22.50 paper. Read more »
January 19, 2005
Zimbabwe: Man Discovers Relative's Past in Dust Diaries
The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps. Owen Sheers. Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2004. 310 pp. $23.00 cloth. Read more »
January 05, 2005
South Africa: Novel Explores Women's Experiences in Prison
Journey to Myself: Writings by Women from Prison in South Africa. Edited by Julia Landau. Rondebosch, South Africa: Footprints, 2004. 80 pp. Read more »
December 15, 2004
South Africa: Rainbow Nation Pursues `Elusive Equity'
Ten years after the fall of apartheid, many wonder whether South Africa's new government has the ability to keep its reforms afloat. With the belief that equity in society begins… Read more »
December 03, 2004
Kenya: Playwright Tries His Hand at the Novel Format
Before The Rooster Crows. Peter Kimani. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2002. 174 pp. $16.95, cloth. African Books Collective. Read more »
Ghana: New Book Examines Charismatic Churches in Ghana
Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy. Paul Gifford. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 216 pp. $24.95 paper. Read more »
November 10, 2004
Nigeria: Novel Explores Religion and Silence
Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Chapel Hill:Algonquin, 2003. 320 pp. $16.77 cloth, $10.40 paper. 165123875 Read more »
Africa: New Book on Aids Pandemic Paints a Troubling Picture
The Invisible People: How the U.S. has Slept through the Global Aids Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of our Time. Greg Behrman. Free Press, 2004. 368 pp. $17.50… Read more »
October 13, 2004
Nigeria: Author Explores Faith and Country in Acclaimed New Novel
Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel, Purple Hibiscus, has received much critical acclaim, having been short listed for the Orange Prize and long listed for the… Read more »
August 16, 2004
South Africa: Bittersweet Travels - A Journalist Comes to Terms with a Troubled Continent
Mandela, Mobutu and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey, by Lynne Duke. Doubleday, ©2003. $24.00 hardcover. Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday Read more »
August 05, 2004
West Africa: Debate Over al Qaeda's Connection to West Africa's Diamond Trade Takes New Turns
The arrest of a Tanzanian fugitive in Pakistan last week, release of the 9-11 Commission report in Washington and a forthcoming finding by a war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone… Read more »
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