The Journal of African History 2007: Vol 48 Index

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The Journal of
African
History
EDITED BY
EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG, ANDREAS ECKERT,
ANNE MAGER and JUSTIN WILLIS
VOLUME 48
No. 1 Pages 1-171
2? Pages 173-347
3 Pages 349-514
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AUTHOR INDEX TO VOLU ME 48, 2007
ACHEBE, Nwanpbo, Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power
and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1goo-1960, reviewed by Gloria
Chuku, 499
ALEXANDER, JOCELYN, The Unsettled Land. State-making & the Politics of Land
in Zimbabwe 1893-2003, reviewed by lan Phimister, 328
ALLMAN, JEAN and PARKER, JoHN, Tongnaab : The History of aW est African God,
reviewed by Carola Lentz, 157
AMBLER, CHARLES, review of African Filmmaking North and South of the Sahara,
by Roy Armes, 492
Ames, Eric, KLorz, Marcia and WILDENTHAL, Lora (eds.), Germany's Colonial
Pasts, reviewed by Reinhart Késsler, 170
ANDERSON, Davip M., review of The Risks of Knowledge : Investigations into the
Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, 1990, by David
William Cohen and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo, 165
ArLT, Vert, review of Making Men in Ghana, by Stephan F. Miescher, 159
Armes, Roy, African Filmmaking North and South of the Sahara, reviewed by
Charles Ambler, 492
ARNOLD, Guy, Africa: A Modern History, reviewed by Stephen Ellis, 317
AsAnTE, Movert Ketre, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony,
reviewed by Toyin Falola, 488
Aseka, Eric MAsinpe, Transformational Leadership in East Africa: Politics,
Ideology and Community, reviewed by John Lonsdale, 336
Austen, RALPH A., review of In Human Bondage : The Rise and Fall of Slavery in
the New World, by David Brion Davis, 149
BaprisTe, RACHEL JEAN-, see JEAN-BapTisTe, RACHEL
BARNES, TERESA, review of History Making and Present Day Politics: The
Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa, by Hans Erik Stolten, 508
Benson, Prevrer, Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the
1920s, reviewed by Juergen Martschukat, 347
BERSSELAAR, DMITRI VAN DEN, review of Constructions of Belonging. Igbo
Communities and the Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century, by Axel
Harneit-Sievers, 497
BickFORD-SMITH, VIVIAN and MENDELSOHN, RICHARD (eds.), Black and White in
Colour. African History on Screen, reviewed by Glenn Reynolds, 321
BosToeN, Koen, ‘Pots, Words and the Bantu Problem: On _ Lexical
Reconstruction and Early African History’, 173
Brancu, Dante, ‘The Enemy Within: Loyalists and the War against Mau Mau
in Kenya’, 291
BRENNAN, JAMeEs R., review of The Global Worlds of the Swahili: Interfaces of
Islam, Identity and Space in 19th- and 20th-Century East Africa, edited by
Roman Loimeier and Riidiger Seesemann, 512
—, review of A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in
Twentieth-Century Tanzania, by James L. Giblin, 337
iv AUTHOR INDEX
BreuniGc, Perer and MAGNavitTA, SONJA (eds.), Journal of African Archaeology
(2003-2005, vols. 1-3), reviewed by Kevin C. Macdonald, 168
Burton, ANDreEw, African Underclass : Urbanisation, Crime & Colonial Order in
Dar es Salaam, reviewed by Jonathon Glassman, 340
Cuuku, GLoria, review of Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings : Female Power
and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1g00-—1960, by Nwando Achebe, 499
Couen, Davip WILLIAM and OpuHIAMBo, E. S. Arieno, The Risks of Knowledge :
Investigations into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in
Kenya, 1990, reviewed by David M. Anderson, 165
CoQuERY-VIDROVITCH, CATHERINE, Des victimes oubliées du nazisme. Les Noirs et
l’Allemagne dans la premiére moitié du XX e siécle, reviewed by Raffael
Scheck, 493
—, review of French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West
Africa, by Ruth Ginio, 155
CorbDe__, Dennis D., review of The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, by John
Wright, 490
Davis, Davip Brion, In Human Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the
New World, reviewed by Ralph A. Austen, 149
Day, Lynpa R., ‘Nyarroh of Bandasuma, 1885-1914: A Re-interpretation of
Female Chieftaincy in Sierra Leone’, 415
Deutscnu, JAN-GeorG, Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa c.
1884-1914, reviewed by Thaddeus Sunseri, 342
DINERMAN, ALICE, Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism in
Postcolonial Africa. The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994, reviewed by
Gerhard Seibert, 325
DoyLe, SHANE, Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population and Environment in
Western Uganda 1860-1955, reviewed by Holly Hanson, 167
Dusow, Sau_, A Commonwealth of Knowledge. Science, Sensibility, and White
South Africa, 1820-2000, reviewed by Christoph Marx, 330
DurRANI, SHIRAZ, Never Be Silent: Publishing and Imperialism in Kenya,
1884-1963, reviewed by Sloan Mahone, 510
EBERHARDT, Martin, Zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Apartheid. Die
deutsche Bevilkerungsgruppe Stidwestafrikas 1915-1965, reviewed by Birthe
Kundrus, 505
Exken, Perer P. (ed.), Warri City & British Colonial Rule in Western Niger
Delta, reviewed by Ruth Watson, 496
ELuis, STEPHEN, ‘Tom and Toakafo: The Betsimisaraka Kingdom and State
Formation in Madagascar, 1715-1750", 439
—, review of Africa: A Modern History, by Guy Arnold, 317
Eprecut, Marc, Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in South
Africa, reviewed by Heike Schmidt, 332
FALOLA, Toyin, review of The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony,
by Molefi Kete Asante, 488
FarpDoN, Ricuarpb, Lela in Bali. History through Ceremony in Cameroon, re-
viewed by Ute Réschenthaler, 501
Garpinier, Davin E. and Yates, DouGuas A., Historical Dictionary of Gabon,
3rd ed., reviewed by Rachel Jean-Baptiste, 345
AUTHOR INDEX Vv
GiB.in, JAMes L., A History of the Excluded : Making Family a Refuge from State
in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, reviewed by James R. Brennan, 337
Gino, Rutu, French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West
Africa, reviewed by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, 155
GLASSMAN, JONATHON, review of African Underclass: Urbanisation, Crime &
Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam, by Andrew Burton, 340
Guyer, JANE I., review of In Search of Salt. Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society
1880-1960, by Frederick Quinn, 503
Hanson, HOouvy, review of Crisis and Decline in Bunyoro: Population and
Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955, by Shane Doyle, 167
HaARNEIT-Sievers, AXEL, Constructions of Belonging. Igbo Communities and the
Nigerian State in the Twentieth Century, reviewed by Dmitri van den
Bersselaar, 497
Hoi, AuGustTIN F. C., West African Early Towns: Archaeology of Households
in Urban Landscapes (Anthropological papers no. 95) reviewed by Peter
Mitchell, 318
HuGues, ARNOLD and Perrecr, Davin, A Political History of the Gambia
1816-1994, reviewed by Paul Nugent, 494
Hypen, Goran, African Politics in Comparative Perspective, reviewed by
Michael Jennings, 153
Jackson, Lynerre A., Surfacing Up. Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial
Zimbabwe, 1g0o8—1968, reviewed by Terence Ranger, 327
Jean-Baptiste, RACHEL, review of Historical Dictionary of Gabon, 3rd ed., by
David E. Gardinier and Douglas A. Yates, 345
JENNINGS, MICHAEL, review of Africa: The Politics of Independence and Unity,
by Immanuel Wallerstein, 153
—, review of African Politics in Comparative Perspective, by Goran Hyden, 153
KLEIN, Martin A., review of Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in
the Twentieth Century, by Gregory Mann, 322
Kiorz, Marcia, see AMEs, Eric
KOLLMAN, Pau V., The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern
Africa, reviewed by Henri Medard, 162
KONGOLA, Ernest M., see MADpox, GreGcory H.
KOssLerR, REINHART, review of Germany's Colonial Pasts, edited by Eric Ames,
Marcia Klotz and Lora Wildenthal, 170
KuNpbrus, BirTHE, review of Zwischen Nationalsozialismus und Apartheid.
Die deutsche Bevélkerungsgruppe Stidwestafrikas 1915-1965, by Martin
Eberhardt, 505
KYOMUHENDO, GRACE BENTEBYA and McINnrosu, MARjoriE Keniston, Women,
Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003, reviewed by Brett
L. Shadle, 333
LARSON, Pier M., ‘Enslaved Malagasy and ‘* Le Travail de la Parole”’ in the Pre-
Revolutionary Mascarenes’, 457
LaureNcE, Tony, The Dar Mutiny of 1964, reviewed by Timothy Parsons,
511
Lawi, Yusurvu SHANKAR, ‘Tanzania’s Operation Vijiji and Local Ecological
Consciousness: The Case of Eastern Iraqwland, 1974-1976’, 69
vi AUTHOR INDEX
Lentz, CAro.a, Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern Ghana, re-
viewed by Wyatt MacGaffey, 324
—, review of Tongnaab: The History of a West African God, by Jean Allman and
John Parker, 157
LoimmeleR, ROMAN and SEESEMANN, RUDIGER (eds.), The Global Worlds of
the Swahili : Interfaces of Islam, Identity and Space in 1gth- and 20th-Century
East Africa, reviewed by James R. Brennan, 512
LONSDALE, JOHN, review of Transformational Leadership in East Africa : Politics,
Ideology and Community, by Eric Masinde Aseka, 336
McCann, JAMes C., Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New World
Crop 1500-2000, reviewed by Jamie Monson, 150
McCaskie, T. C., ‘Denkyira in the Making of Asante c. 1660-1720’, 1
MAcDONALD, Kevin C., review of Journal of African Archaeology (2003-2005,
vols. 1-3), edited by Peter Breunig and Sonja Magnavita, 168
MacGarrey, Wyatt, review of Ethnicity and the Making of History in Northern
Ghana, by Carola Lentz, 324
McInrosu, MARJjORIE KENISTON, see KYOMUHENDO, GRACE BENTEBYA
McKirrrick, Merepiru, review of How Kings are Made—How Kingship
Changes: A Study of Rituals and Ritual Change in Pre-colonial and Colonial
Ovamboland, Namibia, by Marta Salokoski, 506
Mappox, Grecory H. with KoNGoLA, Ernest M., Practicing History in Central
Tanzania: Writing, Memory, and Performance, reviewed by Leander
Schneider, 164
MAGNAVITA, SONJA, see BREUNIG, PETER
MAHONE, SLOAN, review of Never Be Silent: Publishing and Imperialism in
Kenya, 1884-1963, by Shiraz Durrani, 510
Mann, Grecory, Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the
Twentieth Century, reviewed by Martin A. Klein, 322
MARTSCHUKAT, JUERGEN, review of Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race,
and Murder in the 1920s, by Peter Benson, 347
Marx, Curisropnu, review of A Commonwealth of Knowledge. Science, Sensibility,
and White South Africa, 1820-2000, by Saul Dubow, 330
Meparpb, HENRI, review of The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in
Eastern Africa, by Paul V. Kollman, 162
Mevpser, HENNING, review of Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and Myth. The
Biography of a Barefoot Soldier, by Ellen Ndeshi Namhila, 161
Memmi, AvsBert, Decolonization and the Decolonized, reviewed by Richard
Rathbone, 152
MENDELSOHN, RICHARD, see BICKFORD-SMITH, VIVIAN
Merareria, GETACHEW, see MILKIAS, PAULOS
MiescHEer, STEPHAN F., Making Men in Ghana, reviewed by Veit Arlt, 159
MiLkiaAs, PAuLOs and Merareria, Geracuew (eds.), The Battle of Adwa:
Reflections on Ethiopia's Historic Victory against European Colonialism, re-
viewed by James Quirin, 344
Mircue._, Perer, review of West African Early Towns: Archaeology of
Households in Urban Landscapes (Anthropological papers no. 95) by
Augustin F. C. Holl, 318
AUTHOR INDEX vii
Monroe, J. CAMERON, ‘Continuity, Revolution or Evolution on the Slave Coast
of West Africa? Royal Architecture and Political Order in Precolonial
Dahomey’, 349
Monson, Jamie, review of Maize and Grace: Africa’s Encounter with a New
World Crop 1500-2000, by James C. McCann, 150
Mouser, Bruce, ‘ Rebellion, Marronage and Jihad: Strategies to Slavery on the
Sierra Leone Coast, c. 1783-1796’, 27
Ms inpbo, ENOcENT, ‘Ethnicity and Nationalism in Urban Colonial Zimbabwe:
Bulawayo, 1950 to 1963’, 267
NAMHILA, ELLEN Npoesui, Kaxumba kaNdola: Man and Myth. The Biography of
a Barefoot Soldier, reviewed by Henning Melber, 161
NuGent, Paut, ‘Cyclical History in the Gambia/Casamance Borderlands:
Refuge, Settlement and Islam from c. 1880 to the Present’, 221
—, review of A Political History of the Gambia 1816-1994, by Arnold Hughes
and David Perfect, 494
OpuiaMBo, E. S. ATIENO, see COHEN, DAVID WILLIAM
OFrcaANsKY, THOMAS P., see SHINN, Davin H.
PARKER, JOHN and Ratrupone, RicHarp, African History: A Very Short
Introduction, reviewed by Tom Spear, 487
—, see also ALLMAN, JEAN
Parsons, Timoruy, review of The Dar Mutiny of 1964, by Tony Laurence, 511
Perrecr, Davin, see HUGHES, ARNOLD
Puimistrer, IAN, review of The Unsettled Land. State-making & the Politics of
Land in Zimbabwe 1893-2003, by Jocelyn Alexander, 328
PorTEeR, ANDREW, review of Cross and Flag in Africa: The ‘White Fathers’
during the Colonial Scramble (1892-1914), by Aylward Shorter, 320
PuLrorp, Cepric, Casualty of Empire: Britain’s Unpaid Debt to an African
Kingdom, reviewed by Richard Reid, 346
QuINN, Frepnerick, In Search of Salt. Changes in Beti (Cameroon) Society
1880-1960, reviewed by Jane I. Guyer, 503
Quirin, JAMEs, review of The Battle of Adwa: Reflections on Ethiopia’s Historic
Victory against European Colonialism, edited by Paulos Milkias and
Getachew Metaferia, 344
RANGER, TERENCE, review of Surfacing Up. Psychiatry and Social Order in
Colonial Zimbabwe, 1908-1968, by Lynette A. Jackson, 327
RATHBONE, RICHARD, review of Decolonization and the Decolonized, by Albert
Memmi, 152
RATHBONE, RICHARD, see also PARKER, JOHN
Rep, RicHarp, review of Casualty of Empire: Britain’s Unpaid Debt to an
African Kingdom, by Cedric Pulford, 346
REYNOLDS, GLENN, review of Black and White in Colour. African History
on Screen, edited by Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelsohn,
321
Rizzo, Lorena, ‘The Elephant Shooting: Colonial Law and Indirect Rule in
Kaoko, Northwestern Namibia, in the 1920s and 1930s’, 245
ROSCHENTHALER, Ute, review of Lela in Bali. History through Ceremony in
Cameroon, by Richard Fardon, 501
Vili AUTHOR INDEX
SALoKOsk!, MArta, How Kings are Made-How Kingship Changes: A Study of
Rituals and Ritual Change in Pre-colonial and Colonial Ovamboland,
Namibia, reviewed by Meredith McKittrick, 506
Satre, Lowe.t J., Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the Ethics of
Business, reviewed by Ayowa Afrifa Taylor, 154
ScHECK, RAFFAEL, review of Des victimes oubliées du nazisme. Les Noirs et
l’Allemagne dans la premiére moitié du XX e siécle, by Catherine Coquery-
Vidrovitch, 493
Scumiptr, EuizaserH, ‘Cold War in Guinea: The Rassemblement
Démocratique Africain and the Struggle over Communism, 1950-1958’, 95
ScuMipT, Heike, review of Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in
South Africa, by Marc Eprecht, 332
SCHNEIDER, LEANDER, review of Practicing History in Central Tanzania:
Writing, Memory, and Performance, by Gregory H. Maddox with Ernest
M. Kongola, 164
SEEKINGS, JEREMY, ‘‘‘ Not a Single White Person Should be Allowed to Go
Under’”’: Swartgevaar and the Origins of South Africa’s Welfare State,
1924-1929’, 375
SEESEMANN, RUDIGER, see LOIMEIER, ROMAN
SEIBERT, GERHARD, review of Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Revisionism
in Postcolonial Africa. The Case of Mozambique, 1975-1994, by Alice
Dinerman, 325
SHADLE, Brerr L., ‘Girl Cases’: Marriage and Colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya,
1890-1970, reviewed by Richard Waller, 335
—, review of Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1g00-2003, by
Grace Bentebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. 333
SHANKAR, SHOBANA, ‘ Medical Missionaries and Modernizing Emirs in Colonial
Hausaland: Leprosy Control and Native Authority in the 1930s’, 45
Sunn, Davip H. and Orcansky, THOMAS P., Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia,
new ed., reviewed by Bahru Zewde, 169
SHORTER, AYLWARD, Cross and Flag in Africa: The ‘White Fathers’ during the
Colonial Scramble (1892-1914), reviewed by Andrew Porter, 320
Sievers, AXEL HARNEIT-, see HARNEIT-SIEVERS, AXEL
SKINNER, Kare, ‘Reading, Writing and Rallies: the Politics of ‘‘Freedom”’ in
Southern British Togoland, 1953-1956", 123
SMITH, VIVIAN BickrorD-, see BICKFORD-SMITH, VIVIAN
Spear, Tom, review of African History: A Very Short Introduction, by John
Parker and Richard Rathbone, 487
STOLTEN, Hans Erik, History Making and Present Day Politics : The Meaning of
Collective Memory in South Africa, reviewed by Teresa Barnes, 508
SunserI, THAppEus, ‘The Political Ecology of the Copal Trade in the
Tanzanian Coastal Hinterland, c. 1820-1905’, 201
—, review of Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa c.
1884-1914, by Jan-Georg Deutsch, 342
TayLor, Ayowa Arrira, review of Chocolate on Trial: Slavery, Politics, and the
Ethics of Business, by Lowell J. Satre, 154
ToLepano, Enup R., ‘Enslavement and Abolition in Muslim Societies’, 481
AUTHOR INDEX
VAN DEN BersseLAAR, Dairri, see BERSSELAAR, DMITRI VAN DEN
Viprovircu, CATHERINE CoQuery-, see COQUERY-VIDROVITCH, CATHERINE
WaLter, RicHarp, review of ‘Girl Cases’: Marriage and Colonialism in
Gustiland, Kenya, 1890-1970, by Brett L. Shadle, 335
WALLERSTEIN, IMMANUEL, Africa: The Politics of Independence and Unity, re-
viewed by Michael Jennings, 153
Watson, Rutu, review of Warri City & British Colonial Rule in Western Niger
Delta, edited by Peter P. Ekeh, 496
WERTHMANN, Katya, ‘Gold Mining and Jula Influence in Precolonial Southern
Burkina Faso’, 395
WILDENTHAL, Lora, see AMes, Eric
Wricut, Joun, The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade, reviewed by Dennis
D. Cordell, 490
Yates, DouGas A., see GARDINIER, Davip E.
Zewve, Bauru, review of Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia, new ed., by Sonja
Magnavita and Thomas P. Ofcansky, 169