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Issue 1

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Highlights: ECOMOG Intervention in Liberia, Genocide and International Order in Central Africa, African Culture and Personality

Editor’s Note

Articles

“Every Car Or Moving Object Gone” The ECOMOG Intervention in Liberia.
Christopher Tuck  |  Abstract  |  PDF (1-16)


From Genocide to Regional War: The Breakdown of International Order in Central Africa
Christian R. Manahl  |  Excerpt  |  PDF (17-28)


Response

African Culture and Personality: A Reply to D. A. Masolo
James E. Lassiter  |  Response Letter  |  PDF (29-35)


Book Reviews

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The Criminalization of the State in Africa. Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis, and Béatrice Hibou. Oxford, Bloomington & Indianapolis: James Currey & Indiana University Press. 1999. 
Fuabeh P. Fonge  |  PDF (37-38)


Agencies in Foreign Aid: Comparing China, Sweden, and the United States in Tanzania. Goran Hyden and Rwekaza Mukandala (eds.) New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Steven Hook  |  PDF (38-40)


Globalisation, Human Security and the African Experience. Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin (eds.) Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publications, 1999.
Seyoum Hameso  |  PDF (40-43)


People Are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali. Eric Silla. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1998. 
Timothy Cleaveland  |  PDF (43-45)


UNESCO General History of Africa Vol. IV: Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century (abridged). Joseph Ki-Zerbo and Djibril Tamsir Niane (eds.). Paris, Oxford and Berkeley: UNESCO, James Currey, & University of California Press, 1997.
Martin A. Klein  |  PDF (45-46)


White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives. Paul Baepler, (ed). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 
Samantha Manchester Earley  |  PDF (46-48)


Juan Maria Schuver’s Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883. Wendy James, Gerd Baumann, and Douglas H. Johnson (eds.). London: The Hakluyt Society, 1996.
Dennis D. Cordell  |  PDF (48-51)


The Rise and Fall of Swahili States. Chapurukha M. Kusimba. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999. 
David S. Fick  |  PDF (51-52)


Religious Ethics in Africa. Peter Kasanene. Kampala: Fountain Publishers (distributed by ABC Ltd. Oxford, UK), 1998.
Nimi Wariboko  |  PDF (52-54)


Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music. Thomas A. Hale. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Ramenga Mtaali Osotsi  |  PDF (54-55)


Guinea: Malinke Rythms and Songs. Famoudou Konate. Budamusique, 1998.
Lilian Friedberg  |  PDF (56-57)