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Marika - please can I review the Carol Polsgrove book, if still available? Thanks, Julia -----Original Message----- From: The Black and Asian Studies Association on behalf of Marika Sherwood Sent: Thu 17/09/2009 10:50 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Books for Review If you would like to review one of these books for the BASA newsletter, please let me know. We do not pay reviewers, but you get to kept the book! Please contact me: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] I should perhaps explain that some publishers send us books without my requesting them. If you know of books we should review, please let me know. With my thanks, Marika Sherwood, book reviews editor History/sociology Ada Uzoamaka Azodo (ed), Emerging Perspectives of Ken Bogul: from alternative choices to oppositional practices, re the work of the novelist Bogul, 371pp O.R. Dathorne, On the Margins: race, gender, and empire, 'focuses on the role which 'minority' writers adopt', 268pp Francis Mading Deng, The Man Called Deng majok: a biography of power, polygyny and change (Paramount Chief of the Ngok Dinka of southern Sudan), 320pp Ron Howard, Len Johnson and the Colour Bar: the life and times of Len Johnson, 2009. 86pp P.L.E. Idahosa, The Populist Dimension to African Political Thought: Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Julius Nyerere, 305pp Beant Kaur, The Namdhari Sikhs, Namdharis Sikhs Museum 1999, 65pp A4 Melanie Otto, A Creole Experiment: utopian space in Kamau Braithwaite's "video-style" works, Africa World Press 2009, 308pp Carol Polsgrove, Ending British Rule in Africa: writers in a common cause, Manchester Universty Press 2009, 186 pp Ziauddin Sardar, Balti Britain: a provocative journey through Asian Britain, Granta 2008, 390pp (I've read this - well worth the time) Diery Seck & Dipo T. Busari (eds), Growth and Development in Africa, Africa World Press 2009, 500pp Leslie Thompson with Jeffrey Green, Swing from a Small Island: the story of Leslie Thompson, Northway Publications 2009, 200pp (originally published in 1985; Jamaica bandleader and trumpeter, who had served in the West India Regiment) Kasahun Woldemariam, The Rise of Elective Dictatorship and the Erosion of Social Capital: peace, development and democracy in Africa, Africa World Press 2009, 298pp DVD "We forgot about Germany". The blurb says: 'This collection of morale boosting films gives a snapshot of how the services and civilians stood up to the threat of Germany. Included are.... Ashley Howard enjoys a beer with servicemen from the Commonwealth.... "West Indies Calling" (1944) covering the role of Caribbeans in World War II...' Novels/poetry: Jose Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons, ''fierce originality, vindicating the power of creativity to transofmr the most sinister acts', 180pp Imtiaz Dharker, Leaving Fingerprints - poems with illustrations, Bloodaxe Books 2009, i142pp Manzu Islam, Burrow - novel about Bangladeshi student who stays on illegally, 294pp Anita Nair, Mistress - 'a searing novel of love and adultery' - 428pp Qaisra Shahraz, Typhoon - 'riveting family saga of deceit' set in Pakistan, 342 pp Yasmina Traboulsi, Bahia Blues, 113pp This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this e-mail or any information contained in it. We virus scan all E-mails leaving The University of Northampton but no warranty is given that this E-mail and any attachments are virus free. You should undertake your own virus checking. The right to monitor E-mail communications through our networks is reserved by us.