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The Year in Books

November 2006    Each month (except for a summertime hiatus in June and July) a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Nicolas van de Walle gives his picks for the best books about Africa.

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Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass
Yale University Press, 2005
Read May/June 2006 review
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The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda
Scott Straus
Cornell University Press, 2006
Read November/December 2006 review
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Democracy and Elections in Africa
Staffan I. Lindberg
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
Review coming in the January/February 2007 issue.
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African Politics in Comparative Perspective
Goran Hyden
Cambridge University Press, 2006
Read September/October 2006 review
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Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
Marie Béatrice Umutesi. Translated by Julia Emerson.
University of Wisconsin Press, 2004
Read May/June 2006 review

The Year in Books Index

2008: May | April | March | February

2007: November | October | September | August | April | March | February | January

2006: December | November | October | September | August | May | April | March | February | January

2005: December | November | October | September | August | May | April | March | February | January

2004: December | November | October | September | June | May | April | March | February | January

2003: December | November | October | August | July | June | May

 

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