The current issue of the Africa Bibliography–listing works published in 1990–is the last to be edited by Dr Hector Blackhurst, of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. It is the seventh volume in the series, a series whose format and production he created. I should like to thank him here on behalf of subscribers, members of the Institute and users of the bibliography who like myself have found it each year an invaluable, reliable work of reference. I wish to thank too the John Rylands University Library and the university authorities at Manchester for their help in the making of Dr Blackhurst's bibliography.