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African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe 1923-80 by Timothy Stapleton (review) 蒂莫西·斯台普顿《1923-80年津巴布韦殖民地的非洲警察和士兵》(书评)

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2013-08-21 DOI: 10.1353/afr.2013.0028

D. Killingray

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The Women's War of 1929: a history of anti-colonial resistance in eastern Nigeria by Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock (review) 《1929年的妇女战争:尼日利亚东部反殖民抵抗的历史》作者:托因·法罗拉和亚当·帕多克

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2013-08-21 DOI: 10.1353/afr.2013.0036

C. J. Korieh

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Congo Masquerade: the political culture of aid inefficiency and reform failure by Theodore Trefon (review) 刚果假面舞会:援助无效和改革失败的政治文化西奥多·特雷丰著(书评)

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2013-08-21 DOI: 10.1353/afr.2013.0030

John F. Clark

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Power and State Formation in West Africa: Appolonia from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century by Pierluigi Valsecchi (review) 西非的权力与国家形成:16至18世纪的阿波罗尼亚(作者:Pierluigi Valsecchi)

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2013-05-01 DOI: 10.1017/S0001972013000077

R. Law

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African Sexualities: a reader (review) 非洲性行为:一个读者(评论)

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2012-11-01 DOI: 10.1017/S000197201200054X

M. Epprecht

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The Land Has Changed: history, society and gender in colonial eastern Nigeria (review) 土地已经改变:尼日利亚东部殖民地的历史、社会和性别(回顾)

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2012-08-15 DOI: 10.5860/choice.48-3421

Wale Adebanwi

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African Market Women: seven life stories from Ghana (review) 非洲市场女性:来自加纳的七个生活故事(回顾)

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2011-10-29 DOI: 10.5860/choice.48-2841

D. Zeitlyn

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The Intestines of the State: youth, violence and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (review) 国家的肠子:喀麦隆草原上的青年、暴力和迟来的历史(评论)

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2010-11-14 DOI: 10.3366/E0001972010000823

Filip De Boeck

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Ways of Seeing Africa 看非洲的方式

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2010-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/ABIB.2009.0002

Susan Williams

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Moving Africa away from the global knowledge periphery: a case study of AJOL 将非洲从全球知识边缘移开:AJOL的案例研究

Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Pub Date : 2009-11-01 DOI: 10.3366/ABIB.2008.2

Susan R. Murray

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