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"Cover"--"Half Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Contributors" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "1 The Boundaries of the State: Africa and Modernity" -- "2 Colonial Communities in Africa and Asia: Toward a Comparative History of European Identity in 19th Century Java and the Cape" -- "3 Between Modernism and Memory: The Art of the!Xu and Khwe of Schmidtsdrift" -- "4 Women, Resistance and the Armed Struggle in Southern Africa" -- "5 The Tragedy of Sierre Leone: Diamonds, Warlords and the Failure of the United Nations" -- "6 Democratic Revival in Africa: is it Sustainable?" -- "7 Crisis in the Union and Multi-Party Democracy in Tanzania" -- "8 Ethnic Clashes in Kenya and the Politics of the 'Ethnic Enclave': the Ruling Party, the Opposition, and the Post-Moi Succession" -- "9 Uganda: No-Party State or One-Party State?" -- "10 Collective Co-operatives in Zimbabwe 1980-1998" -- "11 Labor and Beer in Africa: Xhosa Work Parties