African Affairs

Safiyya and Adamah: Punishing adultery with sharia stones in twenty-first-century Nigeria
pp. 389-408(20)
Author: O.U. Kalu

A wondrous God: Miracles in contemporary Africa
pp. 409-428(20)
Author: G. ter Haar

A reconfiguration of political order? The state of the state in North Kivu (DR Congo)
pp. 429-446(18)
Author: D.M. Tull

Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa
pp. 447-467(21)
Authors: D. Bräutigam

Learning about economic development from Africa
pp. 469-491(23)
Author: Douglas Rimmer

Briefing: Islam, democracy and public opinion in Africa
pp. 493-501(9)
Author: M. Bratton

Notes and News
pp. 503-506(4)

Sovereignty, identity and modernity — understanding Ethiopia
pp. 507-514(8)
Author: C. Barnes

Le Rwanda ancien: Le royaume Nyiginya [Ancient Rwanda: The Nyiginya kingdom], by Jan Vansina. Paris: Karthala, 2001. 294 pp. Euro24.40, £17.95 paperback. ISBN 2845861451 (paperback)
pp. 515-517(3)
Author: R. Lemarchand

République Démocratique du Congo, guerre et politique: Les trente derniers mois de L.D. Kabila (août 1998–janvier 2001) [DRC War and Politics: The last thirty months of L.D. Kabila (August 1998–January 2001)], edited by Gauthier de Villers, Jean Omasombo and Erik Kennes. Tervuren and Paris: Institut Africain CEDAF and L'Harmattan, 2001. 346 pp. ISBN 2-7475-1630-X (paperback), and Chasse au diamant au Congo/Zaire [The Hunt for Diamonds in Congo/Zaire], edited by Laurent Monnier, Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Gauthier de Villers. Tervuren and Paris: Institut Africain CEDAF and L'Harmattan, 2001. 240 pp. ISBN 2-7475-0972-9 (paperback)
pp. 517-520(4)
Author: A. Maindo

A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, by Patrick Chabal with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert and Elisa Silva Andrade. London: Hurst & Co., 2002. xx + 339 pp. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 1-85065-589-8 (paperback)
pp. 520-522(3)
Author: P. Meyns

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The reformist intellectuals of the early twentieth century, by Bahru Zewde. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xii + 228 pp. £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-452-4 (paperback)
pp. 522-524(3)
Author: Richard Pankhurst

Asbestos Blues: Labour, capital, physicians & the state in South Africa, by Jock McCulloch. Oxford: James Currey and Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. xx + 223 pp. £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-8662 (paperback)
pp. 524-525(2)
Author: N. Dlamini

Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner. Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia [German rule over Africans. State claims to power and reality in colonial Namibia] by Jürgen Zimmerer. Münster and Hamburg: LIT, 2001, 329 pp., Euro35.90 (hardback), ISBN 3-8258-5047-1 (hardback)
pp. 525-526(2)
Author: A. Eckert

Restless Identities: Signatures of nationalism, Zulu ethnicity and history in the lives of Petros Lamula (c.1881–1948) and Lymon Maling (1889–c.1936), by Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000. 317 pp. R195 £18.95. ISBN 1-85065-589-8 (paperback)
pp. 526-528(3)
Author: D. James

Hero of the Nation: Chipembere of Malawi. An autobiography, by Masauko Chipembere, edited by Robert Rotberg. Blantyre: Kachere Series, Christian Literature Association of Malawi, 2002. Distributed by the African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford, UK. 464 pp. £23.95 paperback, ISBN 9990816250 (paperback)
pp. 528-530(3)
Author: J. McCracken

Gathering Seaweed: African prison writing, edited by Jack Mapanje. Oxford, Portsmouth NH, and Johannesburg: Heinemann African Writers Series, 2002. xxii + 328 pp. £9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 435 91211 9 (paperback)
pp. 530-531(2)
Author: R. Palmer

The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa, edited by Camilla Toulmin, Philippe Lavigne Delville and Samba Traoré. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xiii + 244 pp. £15.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-419-2 (paperback)
pp. 532-533(2)
Author: L.C. Gray

Bibliography
pp. 535-544(10)
Author: T.A. Barringer

Africana in non-Africanist Periodicals
pp. 545-557(13)
Author: R.J. Townsend