Becoming a healer, revealing a witch
Initiation into the ugao: rethinking the structure of Tharaka symbolism
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Cosmologies in turmoil: witchfinding and AIDS in Chiawa, Zambia
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Colonial Zanzibar
Kickin' it: leisure, politics and football in colonial Zanzibar, 1900s–1950s
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Sticks and stones: colonialism and Zanzibari housing
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A language contrived, a concept dropped
Creating ‘Union Ibo’: Missionaries and the Igbo language
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Fathering, mothering and making sense of ntamoba: reflections on the economy of child-rearing in colonial Asante
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Reviews of Books
Oyekan Owomoyela (ed.), A History of Twentieth Century African Literatures. Lincoln, Nebr., and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1993, 411 pp., £52.50, ISBN 0 8032 3552 6 (hard covers), £21.00, ISBN 0 8032 8604 X (paperback).
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Laila Ibnlfassi and Nicki Hitchcott (eds.), African Francophone Writing. Oxford: Berg, 1996, 215 pp., £29.95, ISBN 1 85973 009 4 (hard covers), £12.95, ISBN 1 85973 014 0 (paperback).
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Graham Furniss, Poetry, Prose and Popular Culture in Hausa. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 1996, 349 pp., £16.95, ISBN 0 7486 0786 2 (paperback).
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- 07 December 2011, pp. 324-326
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Mathias E. Mnyampala, The Gogo: history, customs, and traditions, translated, introduced and edited by Gregory H. Maddox. New York: Sharpe, 1995, 163 pp., $40.00, ISBN 1 56324 405 5 (hard covers), $17.95, ISBN 1 56324 406 3 (paperback).
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P. T. W. Baxter, J. Hultin and A. Triulzi (eds.), Being and Becoming Oromo: historical and anthropological enquiries. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1996, 310 pp., £19.95, ISBN 91 7106 379 X (available in the UK only from the Africa Book Centre, 38 King Street, Covent Garden, London WC2 8JT).
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Marco Bassi, I Borana: una società assembleare dell'Etiopia. Milan: Angeli, 1996, 349 pp., 45,000 lire, ISBN 88 204 9404 3.
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M. Anne Pitcher, Politics in the Portuguese Empire: the state, industry, and cotton, 1926-74. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, 338 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 19 827373 8.
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Malyn Newitt, A History of Mozambique. London: Hurst, 1995, 701 pp., £35.00, ISBN 1 85065 171 X (hard covers), £16.50, ISBN 1 85065 172 8 (paperback).
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Colin Leys, The Rise and Fall of Development Theory. London: Currey, 1996, 205 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 253 21016 X (hard covers), £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 350 1 (paperback).
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Eghosa E. Osaghae, Structural Adjustment and Ethnicity in Nigeria. Research Report No. 98, Uppsala; Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1995, 66 pp., £5.95, ISBN 91 7106 373 0.
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Stephen Devereux, Theories of Famine. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, 221 pp., £14.94, ISBN 0 7450 1417 8 (paperback).
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John Shaw and Edward Clay (eds.), World Food Aid: experiences of recipients and donors. London: Currey, 1993, 256 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 85255 146 0 (hard covers), £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 145 2 (paperback).
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James Douglas Pearson (ed.), A Guide to Manuscripts and Documents in the British Isles relating to Africa: a new edition of Matthews and Wainwright 1 London, 2 British Isles (excluding London). London: Mansell, vol. 1, 1993, 382 pp., £100, ISBN 0 7201 2088 8; vol. 2, 1994, 576 pp., £150, ISBN 0 7201 2090 X; or both volumes, 1995, £225, ISBN 07201 2167 1.
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Shorter Notices
Pierre Fatumbi Verger, Ewé: the use of plants in Yoruba society. Rio de Janeiro: Odebrecht, 1995, 744 pp., ISBN 85 7164 514 0.
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