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Hassan Mwakimako
Mosques in Kenya. Muslim Opinions on Religion, Politics and Development
Klaus Schwarz Verlag Berlin, 2007, 84 S.
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Peter Wien
Iraqi
Arab Nationalism. Authoritarian, Totalitarian and Pro-Fascist
Inclinations,
1932-1941 
Peter Wien presents a provocative discussion on the history of
Iraq and the growth of nationalism during the 1930s and early
1940s. He deconstructs the established view that a large proportion
of the nationalist movement in Iraq during this period was heavily
influenced by Nazi Germany, arguing that the admiration for Germany
was highly nuanced, and only rarely translated into admiration
for Nazism. National unity and patriotism were important, but
models of leadership were overwhelmingly based on Iraqis and leaders
of neighboring states, and not Hitler.
Analyzing the activities of the Iraqi youth and Jewish Iraqis,
Iraqi Arab Nationalism gives an understanding of Iraqis from diverse
backgrounds. It incorporates source material not previously used
in discussions of Iraq and nationalism and contains autobiographical
and biographical material from officers, intellectuals and politicians,
along with contemporary journalistic writings, which sheds new
light on Iraqi nationalism.
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Egodi Uchendo, Ph.D.
Women and Conflict
in the Nigerian Civil War 
Africa World Press, 2007
This book, for the first time, provides a detailed analysis of
Anioma women war-time roles during the Nigerian civil war,
also called the Biafran war. Anioma, the Igbo homeland west of
the River Niger, was for long absent in the accounts on the civil
war; yet, the Anioma like their Igbo kith and kin east of the
River Niger (who led the Biafran revolution and fought the
Nigerian federal government from 1967 to 1970) were as
involved militarily and otherwise as Biafrans in the confrontation
with the federal government all through that period of
crisis. In analyzing Anioma women war-time roles, the book
draws largely on interviews with women who survived the war,
some of whom were adults during the crisis and others who
were children at the time. Mens re-collections of womens
activities during the war and after were also reflected just as
much as relevant information from archival materials from the
federal, Anioma, and Biafran sides, both civilian and military.
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