Book Review: Assessing African Studies Scholarship: A Review of Reviews

BAUM, Robert M. (2004) Review of David Maxwell’s Christians and Chiefs in Zimbabwe: A Social History of the Hwesa People, in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 496-498 .

BEKOE, Dorina A. (2004) Review of Carrie L. Manning’s The Politics of Peace in Mozambique: Post-Conflict Democratization, 1992-2000, in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 492-495 .

BESSIRE, Aimee H.C. (2004) Review of Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss’s African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 490-492 .

BURGESS, Stephen F. (2004a) Review of Abdul Karim Bangura’s United States-African Relations: The Reagan-Bush Era , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 485-488 .

BURGESS, Stephen F. (2004b) Review of J. Stephen Morrison and Jennifer G. Cooke’s Africa Policy in the Clinton Years: Critical Choices for the Bush Administration , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 485-488 .

CASSANELLI, Lee (2004) Review of Nuruddin Farah’s Yesterday, Tomorrow: Voices from the Somali Diaspora , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 484-485 .

CLARK, Andrew F. (2004) Review of Peter Mark’s ‘Portuguese’ Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 481-483 .

COLLINS, Robert O. (2004) Review of Douglas H. Johnson’s The Root Causes of Sudan’s Civil Wars , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 479-481 .

CREVATIN, Franco (2004a) Review of J. Harris Memel-Fote’s ‘Un Mythe Politique des Akan en Cote d’Ivoire: Le Sens de l’Etat’, in P. Valsecchi and F. Viti (eds) (1999) Mondes Akan/Akan Worlds: Identity and Power in West Africa. Paris: L’Harmattan .

CREVATIN, Franco (2004b), Review of Adeline Masquelier’s Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 477-479 .

DUNN, Elwood D. (2004) Review of Adekeye Adebajo’s Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 472-474 .

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA (ECA) (2004) ‘Economic Report on Africa 2004: Unlocking Africa’s Trade Potential in the Global Economy’, URL (consulted April 2004): http://www.uneca.org/cfm/2004/

GLICKMAN, Harvey (2004) Review of Mark Huband’s The Skull Beneath the Skin, Africa After the Cold War , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 469-472 .

GROELSEMA, Robert (2004) Review of Alec Russell’s Big Men Little People: The Leaders Who Defined Africa , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 467-469 .

HELLSTEN, Sirkku Kristina (2004) Review of Patrick Ehlen’s Frantz Fanon, A Spiritual Biography , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 465-467 .

INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNION (ITU) (2004) ‘Has Africa’s ICT Renaissance Begun?’, URL (consulted May 2004): http://www.itu.int/AFRICA2004/media/renaissance.html

KENNEDY, Bryan (2004) Review of Patrick Chabal, David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seiert and Elisa Silva Andrade’s A History of Post-colonial Lusophone Africa , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 463-465 .

LANDAU, Lauren (2004) Review of Tony Waters’ Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan: The Limitations to Humanitarian Relief Operations , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 460-463 .

LEGUM, Colin (ed.) (1999) ‘A Period of Renaissance?’, in Africa Since Independence, pp. 71-98. Bloomington: Indiana University Press .

LEGUM, Colin (2004) Africa Since Independence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press .

LINDSAY, Lisa A. (2004) Review of Jean Allman, Susan Geiger and Nakanyike Musisi’s Women in African Colonial Histories , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 458-460 .

MBEKI, Thabo (1998) Business Day, Johannesburg , 14 April.

MONTRAT, Myriam (1994) ‘From the Heart of an African’ , in ‘The News Media and Africa’ a special issue of ISSUE: A Journal of Public Opinion 22(1): 5-6 .

PAUDRAT, Jean-Louis (1984) ‘From Africa’, in William Rubin (ed.) Primitivism in 20th Century Art, Vol. I, pp. 137-143. New York: The Museum of Modern Art .

RAMSAY, F. Jeffress and W. Edge (eds) (2004) ‘Africa: Looking for a Renaissance’, in Africa, 10th edn., pp. 13-19. Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin .

REESE, Scott (2004) Review of Nehemia Levtizion and Randall Pouwels’s The History of Islam in Africa , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 456-458 .

ROBERTS, Allen F. (2004) Review of Evan Maurer and Niangi Batulukisi’s Spirits Embodied: Art of the Congo. Selections from the Helmet F. Stern Collection , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 453-455 .

ROVINE, Victoria L. (2004) Review of Mary Jo Arnoldi and Christine Mullen Kraemer’s Crowning Achievements: African Arts of Dressing the Head , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 451-453 .

RUBIN, William (ed.) (1984) ‘Modernist Primitivism: An Introduction’, Primitivism in 20th Century Art, Vol. I, p. 5. New York: The Museum of Modern Art .

SMITH, Fred T. (2004) Review of Martha G. Anderson and Philip M. Peek’s Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 448-450 .

STAHL, Ann B. (2004) Review of Sandra E. Greene’s Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 446-448 .

THE NEWS MEDIA AND AFRICA (1994) A special issue of ISSUE: A Journal of Public Opinion 22(1).

THOMPSON, Guy (2004) Review of Christine Sylvester’s Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe: Narratives of Identity and Work from the 1980s , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 444-446 .

UZOIGWE, Godfrey N. (2004) Review of Rotimi T. Suberu’s Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 441-443 .

VAN WALRAVEN, Klaas (2004) Review of Terry M. Mays’ Africa’s First Peacekeeping Operation. The OAU in Chad, 1981-1982 , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 433-436 .

VAN WOLPUTTE, Stephen T. (2004) Review of Mathias Guenther’s Tricksters and Trancers: Bushmen Religion and Society , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 438-440 .

WALKER, LaNitra (2004) Review of Chris Spring and Julie Hudson’s Silk in Africa , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 436-438 .

WINES, Michael and Sharon LaFraniere (2004) ‘Decade of Democracy Fills Gaps in South Africa’ , New York Times, April 26: A1, 10 .

YOUMANS, Joyce M. (2004) Review of Simon Ottenberg’s The Nsukka Artists and Nigerian Contemporary Art , in Journal of Asian and African Studies 39(5): 431-433 .