July 2003    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, American University (Cairo) political scientist Gail M. Gerhart gives her picks for the best books on Africa.

African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999
Nicholas van de Walle
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Read March/April 2002 review

Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
James H. Meriwether
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002
Read November/December 2002 review

Give and Take: What's the Matter with Foreign Aid?
David Sogge
New York: Palgrave, 2002
Read January/February 2003 review

The African Stakes of the Congo War
John F. Clark
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
Read March/April 2003 review

The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Douglas H. Johnson
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003
Read May/June 2003 review

The Year in Books Index

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