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Alao, Abiodun. 2007. Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa: The Tragedy of Endowment. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 353 pp.

Allen, Tim. 2006. Trial Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Lord’s Resistance Army. New York, NY: Zed Books. 230pp.

Assefa, Hizkias and Wahrhaftig, Paul. 1990. The MOVE Crisis in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. 160pp.

Ballington, Julie. (ed). 2004. The Implementation of Quotas: African Experiences. Stockholm, Sweden: International IDEA Publications. 133pp.

Barry, Miariama. 2010. The Little Peul. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 200pp.

Beebe, Shannon D. and Kaldor, Mary. 2010. The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace. New York, NY: Perseus Book Group. 288pp.

Bentley, Kristina A. and Southall, Roger. 2005. An African Peace Process: Mandela, South Africa and Burundi. Cape Town, South Africa: HRSC Press. 220pp.

Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer, Dongala, Pauline, Jolaosho, Omotayo and Serafin, Anne. 2010. African Women Writing Resistance: Contemporary Voices. University of Wisconsin Press. 337pp.

Buss, Terry, Joseph Adjaye, Donald Goldstein and Louis A. Picard (eds.). 2011. African Security and the African Command: Viewpoints on the US Role in Africa. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press. 277 pp.

Buur, Lars, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat (eds). 2007. The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: HRSC Press. 284pp.

Chabal, Patrick. 2009. Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling. Scottsville, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Press.212pp.

Chait, Sandra M. 2011. Seeking Salaam: Ethiopians, Eritreans and Somalis in the Pacific Northwest Seattle. University of Washington Press. 304pp.

Collins, Robert O. and Burns, James. 2007. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 406pp.

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. 2004. Nervous Conditions. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press. 204pp.

Daniel, Donald C.F., Taft, Patricia and Wiharta, Sharon. (eds). 2008. Peace Operations. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 271pp.

Daye, Russell. 2004. Political Forgiveness: Lessons from South Africa. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 210pp.

Desch Obi, T.J. 2008. Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art Tradition in the Atlantic World. Colombia, SC: University of South Carolina. 346pp.

Diptee, Audra, A. 2010. From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society 1775-1807. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 188pp.

Dowden, Richard. 2009. Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles. New York, NY: PublicAffairs. 576pp.

Dunson, Donald H. 2008. Child, Victim, Solider: The Loss of Innocence in Uganda. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 143pp.

Fake, Steven, and Funk, Kevin. 2009. The Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA. Tonawanda, NY: Black Rose Books. 301pp.

Falola, Toyin. 2009. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 231pp

Falola, Toyin and Aderinto, Saheed. 2010. Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 333 pp.

Flint, J. & De Waal, A. 2008. Darfur: A new history of a long war (rev.). Zed Books: London. 320pp

Francis, David J. (ed). 2008. Peace and Conflict in Africa. London, UK: Zed Books. 242pp.

Freund, Bill. 2007. The African City: A History. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 214pp.

Gallab, Abdullahi A. 2011. A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 239 pp.

Ginsburg, Rebecca. 2011. At Home with Apartheid. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 229pp.

Glennie, Jonathan. 2008. The Trouble with Aid: Why Less Could Mean More for Africa. London, UK: Zed Books. 175pp.

Grantham, Tosha. 2009. Darkroom Photography and New Media in South Africa. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. 150pp.

Grawert, Elke. 2010. After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan. Rochester, NY: James Curry. 293 pp.

Grzyb, Amanda F. (ed).2009. The World and Darfur: International Response to Crimes Against Humanity in Western Sudan. Quebec, Canada:McGill-Queen’s University Press.349pp.

Hailu, Solomon. 2012. Promoting Collective Security in Africa. Lanham: University Press of America. 158 pp.

Hunter, Mark. 2010. Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 303 pp.

Huyse, Luc and Salter, Mark. (eds). 2008. Traditional Justice and Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: Learning from African Experiences. Stockholm, Sweden: International IDEA Publications.203pp.

Iliffe, John.2007. Africans: The History of a Continent. New York, NY. Cambridge University Press. 365pp.

Iliffe, John. 2011. Obasanjo: Nigeria and the World. Rochester: James Currey. 326 pp.

Jansen, Jonathan D. 2009. Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 337pp.

Johnson, Douglas H. 2011. The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars: Peace or Truce. Rochester, NY: James Currey. 236 pp.

Johnson Osirim, Mary. 2009. Enterprising Women in Urban Zimbabwe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 248pp.

Kodesh, Neil. 2010. Beyond the Roal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. 264pp.

Lamothe, Ronald. 2011. Slaves of Fortune: Sudanese Soldiers and the River War 1896-1898 Rochester, NY: Boydell and Brewer. 227 pp.

Mahajan, Vijay. 2008. Africa Rising: How 900 Million African Consumers Offer More Than You Think. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc. 260pp.

Maxon, Robert M. 2011. Kenya's Independence Constitution. Lanham, Maryland: Farleigh Dickinson University Press. 358 pp.

Mayson, Cedric. 2010. Why Africa Matters. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 217pp.

Mazrui, Ali A. 1990. Cultural Forces in World Politics. Oxford: James Currey, Ltd. 262pp.

Melady, Patrick Thomas and Melady, Margaret Badum. 2011. Ten African Heroes: The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 205 pp

McCandless, Erin. 2011. Polarization and Transformation in Zimbabwe: Social Movements, Strategy Dilemmas and Change. Baltimore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. 270pp.

McDonald, David A. (ed). 2009. Electric Capitalism: Recolonising Africa on the Power Grid. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press. 504pp.

McLaughlin, Janice. 2009. Ostriches, Dung Beetles and Other Spiritual Masters. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 148pp.

Mehler, Andreas, Henning Melber and Klaas van Walraven (eds). 2008. Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2007. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill. 534pp.

Mercer, Claire, Ben Page and Martin Evans. 2008. Development and the African Diaspora: Place and the Politics of Home. London, UK: Zed Books.258pp.

Moseley, William G. 2012. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues. 4th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. 426 pp.

Myers, Ched and Enns, Elaine. 2009. Ambassadors of Reconciliation: New Testament Reflections on Restorative Justice and Peacemaking. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 174pp.

Nolan, Albert. 2009. Hope in an Age of Despair. Maryknoll, NY: Obis Books. 178pp.

Obi,Cyril and Rustad, Siri Aas. 2011. Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petroviolence. London: Zed Books. 255 pp.

Ojakarotu, Victor and von Feigenblatt, Otto (eds.). 2009. Contending Issues in the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria. Houston, TX: JAPSS Press. 300pp.

O'Kane, David and Redeker Hepner, Tricia (eds.) 2009. Biopolitics, Militarism,and Development: Eritrea in the Twenty-first Century. Oxford, U.K.: Berghahn Books. 236 pp.

Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne. 2011. Shaken Wisdom: Irony and Meaning in Postcolonial African Fiction. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 192pp.

Orabator, Agbonkhianmeghe (ed.). 2011. Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. 259 pp.

Ottaway, Marina. 1993. South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institute. 250pp

Pouligny, Beatrice. 2006. Peace Operations Seen from Below: UN Missions and Local People Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press. 295 pp..

Power, Joey. 2010. Political Culture and Nationalism in Malawi: Building Kwacha. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 332 pp.

Reyntjens, Filip. 2009. The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996-2006. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.327pp.

Ryle, John, Willis, Justin, Baldo, Suliman and Madut Jok, Jok (ed). 2011. The Sudan Handbook. Rochester, NY: James Currey. 220 pp.

Salih, Mohamed and Nordlund, Per.2008. Political Parties in Africa: Challenges for Sustained Multiparty Democracy. Stockholm, Sweden: International IDEA Publications. 142pp.

Sankara, Edgard. 2011. Postcolonial Francophone Autobiographies: From Africa to the Antilles. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 218pp.

Sarkin, Jeremy (ed). 2008. Human Rights in African Prisons. Cape Town, South Africa: HRSC Press. 254pp.

Scarnecchia, Timothy. 2008. The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 220 pp.

Shapiro, Ian and Kathleen Tebeau (eds). 2011. After Apartheid: Reinventing South Africa? Charlottesville: University of Virgina Press. 376 pp.

Sisk, Timothy D. (Ed.) 2011. Between Terror and Tolerance: Religious Leaders, Conflict and Peacemaking. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. 280 pp.

Southall, Roger (ed). 2006. South Africa’s Role in Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking in Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: HRSC Press. 266pp.

Southall, Roger and Melber, Henning (eds). 2006. Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics. Cape Town, South Africa: HRSC Press. 350pp.

Stearns, Jason. 2011. Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa. New york: PublicAffairs. 380pp.

Tiesler, Vera, Zubala, Pilar and Cucina, Andrea. 2010. Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche: History and Archaeology. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 255pp.

Uvin, P. 2009. Life after violence: A people's story of Burundi. Zed Books: London. 211pp

Voss, Charli. 2010. Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Madison, WN: University of Wisconsin Press. 189pp.

Yerxa, Donald (ed).2008. Recent Themes in The History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 128pp.

Zelizer , Craig and Rubenstein, Robert (eds). 2009. Building Peace: Practical Reflections from the Field. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press. 322pp.

Zvakanyorwa, Wilbert Sadomba. 2011. War Veterans in Zimbabwe’s Revolution. Rochester: James Currey. 247 pp.

Books Available for Electronic Download and Review

Ojakorotu, V. (Ed.). 2009. Fresh Dimensions on the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria (First ed.). Delray Beach: Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences. 270pp.

Ojakorotu, V. (Ed.). 2009. Contending Issues in the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria. Delray Beach: Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences. 301pp.

Film Titles Available for Review

Le Conflit au Congo: La Vérité Dévoilée (Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth) Available at:
http://congojustice.org/le-conflit-au-congo-la-verite-devoilee/
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