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Un Ancien Royaume Bandia du Haut-Oubangui. Par Eric de Dampierre. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1967. Recherches en Sciences Humaines No. 24. Pp. 601, appendices, maps, and index. No price.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 88-89
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Population Growth and Family Change in Africa: The New Urban Elite in Ghana. By John C. Caldwell. Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968. Pp. xv+222, maps, tables, appendix. [London: Hurst, 75s.]
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 428-429
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The Niger Explored. By E. W. Bovill. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. Pp. xii + 263. 45s.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 314-315
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‘Les Juments des dieux’: rites de possession et condition féminine en pays hausa. Par Jacqueline Nicolas. Niger: IFAN-CNRS, Études nigériennes, no. 21, 1967. Pp. 142. - Bibliography on Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship. By Irving I. Zaretsky. Northwestern University Press, 1966. Pp. xvi+106. $3.75.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 189-190
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Population of Kenya: Density and Distribution. By W. T. Morgan and N. Manfred Shaffer. Nairobi: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. 36, maps. 52s. 6d.
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Economic Development and Export Growth: A Study of Northern Rhodesia, 1920–1960. By Robert E. Baldwin. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1966. Pp. xviii+254. $6; 48s.
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Die Erde in Vorstellungswelt und Kultpraktiken der sudanischen Völker. By Jürgen Zwernemann. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer1968. Pp. ix+545, map. DM80.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 190-191
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Some Problems of Transitivity in Swahili. By W. H. Whiteley. London: School of Oriental and African Studies (sole agents: Luzac & Co. Ltd.), 1968. Pp. 110. 50s.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 315-317
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Contemporary Art in Africa. By Ulli Beier. London: Pall Mall Press, 1968. Pp. 169, plates 110 (11 in colour). 55s. - Art nègre: recherche de ses fonctions et dimensions. Par Jean Gabus. Neuchâtel: La Baconnière, 1967. Pp. viii + 229, plates 68 (1 in colour). No price. - Crafts and Culture in the Ivory Coast. By B. Holas. Abidjan: Centre des sciences humaines; Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968. Pp. 130, plates 40, map. No price. - Images africaines de la mère et l'enfant. Par E. Roosens. Louvain et Paris: Nauwelaerts, 1967. (Publications de l'Université Lovanium de Kinshasa, 21.) Pp. 264, plates 269. FB 770.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 191-193
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African Native Literature. By S. W. Koelle. Reprinted with an introduction by David Dalby [1st edition 1854]. Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt in association with Afr. Language Rev., 1968. Pp. xii, xv + 434.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 317-318
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The Gurage: A People of the Ensete Culture. By William A. Shack. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1966. Pp. xiii+222, appendices, ill., maps. 50s.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 90-91
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Urbanization of an African Community: Voluntary Associations in Bamako. By Claude Meillassoux. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1968. Pp. xii+165, ill., maps. $6.95, 66s.
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Urbanization in Nigeria. By Akin L. Mabogunje. London: University of London Press, 1968. Pp. 353, ill., maps. 50s.
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Hausa Ba Dabo Ba Ne: a Collection of 500 Proverbs. By A. H. M. Kirk-Greene. Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1966. Pp. xv+84. 5s. 3d. (U.K.).
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- 23 January 2012, p. 318
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The Drums of Affliction: A Study of Religious Processes among the Ndembu of Zambia. By V. W. Turner. Oxford: Clarendon Press and International African Institute, 1968. Pp. xiii+326, ill. 65s.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 91-93
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Izibongo: Zulu Praise-Poems, collected by James Stuart, translated by Daniel Malcolm. Edited with introduction and annotations by Trevor Cope. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Pp. x + 229. 55s.
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Flux et reflux de la traite des nègres entre le golfe du Bénin et Bahia de todos os Santos, du dix-septième au dix-neuvième siècle. Par Pierre Verger. Paris et La Haye: Mouton, 1968. Pp. 720, 52 photos.
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- 23 January 2012, p. 194
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With a Prehistoric People: the Akikuyu of British East Africa: Being Some Account of the Method of Life and Mode of Thought Found Existent Amongst a Nation on its First Contact with European Civilisation. By W. Scoresby Routledge and Katherine Routledge. New impr. [1st ed. 1910]. London: Frank Cass, 1968. Pp. xxxii+393. 126s.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 93-94
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Hausa and Fulani Proverbs. By C. E. J. Whitting. Reprint [1st ed. Lagos Govt. Printer, 1940]. Farnborough: Gregg Press, 1967. Pp. 192. £10. - Stories of Old Adamawa. By Rupert M. East. Reprint [1st ed. Zarina Translation Bureau, 1935]. Farnborough: Gregg Press, 1967. Pp. 143, maps. £7. 10s.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 319-320
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Les unions entre cousins croisés: une comparaison des systèmes du Rwanda-Burundi avec ceux du Bas-Congo. Par Léon de Sousberghe. Bruges: Desclée De Brouwer, 1968. Pp. 120. F 99.
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- 23 January 2012, pp. 431-432
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