Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden

flicts over power and ownership (Cameroon) or social and political control (Senegal). The contributors are anthropologists and geographers, and chapters focus on small-scale conflicts, not necessarily between rebels and the state. For peace researchers, the focus can be rather too narrow, but for those more sympathetic to the Boserupian approach than the neo-Malthusian, the case studies provide interesting and convincing examples of Africans’ ability to deal with resource challenges in a flexible and creative way. Helga Malmin Binningsbø