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BOOK REVIEWS

Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk. Mahmood Mamdani (ed.) New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, 173pp. (in Africa Studies Quarterly, http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v5/v5i2.htm.

Election Observation and Democratisation in Africa. Jon Abbink and Gerti Hesseling (eds.) (in Africa Studies Quarterly).

Ethiopia: A New Start? Kjetil Tronvoll, Minority Rights Group International, (in The Sidama Concern, Volume 5, Number 3, 2000, pp.27-31, Co-reviewed with Tilahun Nebo).

Globalisation, Human Security and the African Experience. Caroline Thomas and Peter Wilkin (eds.) Boulder & London: Lynne Reinner Publications, 1999, 211pp (in Africa Studies Quarterly. http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v4/v4i1a6.htm

The rise and fall of development Theory. by Colin Leys, Nairobi, Boloomington, Oxford: EAEP, Indiana University Press, James Currey, 1996. Pp. viii+205, £35.00 [hb], £12.95, paperback.

African Guerrillas, by Christopher Clapham

Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy, editedby by Asafa Jalata

War in the Horn: The Conflict Between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Patrick Gilkes and Martin Plaut, The Royal Institute of International Affairs Discussion Paper, London, 1999, 73pp. (in The Sidama Concern, Volume 4, Number 4, 1999).

African Guerrillas. Christopher Clapham (ed.) Oxford, Kampala and Bloomington: James Currey, Fountain Publishers, Indiana University Press, 1998, 208pp.

Identity Jilted or Re-imagining Identity: The Divergent Paths of the Eritrean and Tigrean Nationalist Struggles. Alemseged Abbay, Lawrencevile, Red Sea Press, 1999, 250pp.

Post-colonial Identities in Africa. Richard Werbner and Terence Ranger (eds.) London and new Jersey: Zed Books (in Nations and Nationalism, Volume 4 Number 4, 1998.)

Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy. Asafa Jalata (ed.) Red Sea Press, New Jersey, 1998. 301pp.

The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. Colin Leys, Nairobi, Bloomington, Oxford: EAEP, Indiana University Press, James Currey, 1996. (in The Sidama Concern, Vol. 2. No.4, 1997).