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Book Review:An Introduction to African Politics(2nd ed.), Alex Thomson

Reviewed by: An Introduction to African Politics Robert L. Ostergard Jr. Thomson, Alex . 2004. An Introduction to African Politics (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge. 304 pp. $33.95 (paper). Scholars of African politics face a multitude of problems in approaching the study of social diversity and political complexity. Africa's diversities and complexities constitute what Schraeder (2000) calls a "mosaic in transformation." The continent's problems, of course, carry over to how we approach the teaching of the subject. The second edition of An Introduction to African Politics is a serious attempt to…