Book Debate

Derek R. Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xx + 344 pp. 344. Maps, Bibliography. Index.The View of Mark A. NollDerek Peterson’s meticulously researched account of intra-African cultural struggle moves its focal point away from what the best historians of modern African Christianity have usually featured in their books. Exemplary works by the likes of Adrian Hastings, Elizabeth Isichei, Ogbu Kalu, Lamin Sanneh, and Andrew Walls have greatly assisted outsiders like myself who, without serious background in African studies, still desire resources for classroom purposes and

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