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Ahanotu, Austin Metumara, ed. Religion, State and Society in Contemporary Africa: Nigeria, Sudan, South Africa, Zaire, and Mozambique. New York: Peter Lang, 1992.

——. "Religion and the Problem of Power: South Africa." In The Terrible Meek: Essays on Religion and Revolution in Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by Lonnie O. Kliever, 217–250. New York: Paragon Publishers, 1987.

Borer, Tristan Ann. Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980–1994. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998.

El-Affendi, Abelwahab. Turabi's Revolution: Islam and Power in Sudan. London: Grey Seal, 1991.

Falola, Toyin. Violence in Nigeria: The Crises of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies. New York: University of Rochester, 1998.

Gifford, Paul. African Christianity: Its Public Role. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

Levtzion, Nehemia, and Randall L. Pouwell, eds. The History of Islam in Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

Ludwig, Frieder. Church and State in Tanzania: Aspects of Changing Relationships, 1961–1994. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1999.

Okulu, Henry. Church and Politics in East Africa. Nairobi: Uzima Press, 1982.

——. Challenge to the Church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa: The Kairos Document. Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa: Kairos Theologans, 1985.

Shahin, Emad Eldin. Political Ascent: Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997.

Usman, Yusufu Bala. The Manipulation of Religion in Nigeria 1977–1987. Kaduna, Nigeria: Vanguard, 1987.

Word, Kevin. "'The Arrival of the Lord': Christianity, Rebels and the state in Northern Uganda 1986–1999." Journal of Religion in Africa 31, no. 2 (2001): 187–221.

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