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Volume 59 - October 1989

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Veit Erlmann and Habou Magagi, Girkaa: une cérémonie d'initiation au culte de possession bòorii des Hausa de la région de Maradi (Niger). Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, vol. 2. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1989, 173 pp., DM 59 (£12.50), ISBN 3 496 00937 8.

J. Gus Liebenow, Liberia: the quest for democracy. Bloomington, In.: Indiana University Press, 1987, 336 pp., $35.00 hardback; $12.95 paperback.

Jean-Pierre Warnier, Echanges, développement et hiérarchies dans le Bamenda pré-colonial (Caméroun). Studien zur Kulturkunde Bd. 76. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GMBH, 1985, xiv + 323 pp., DM 60, ISBN 3 515 04281 4.

Graham Furniss and Philip J. Jaggar (eds.), Studies in Hausa Language and Linguistics.London: Kegan Paul International with the International African Institute, 1988, xxx + 282 pp., £30, ISBN 07103 0282 7.

Robert Harms, Games against Nature. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 276 pp., £30.00/$42.50, ISBN 0 521 34373 1.

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Sven Rubenson, Correspondence and Treaties, 1800–1854. Acta Aethiopica, vol. I. Evanston, Ill., & Addis Ababa: Northwestern University Press and Addis Ababa University Press, 1987, xxxi + 255 pp., ISBN 0 8101 0752 X.

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Donald I. Ray, Ghana Politics, Economics and Society. London: Frances Pinter; Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner.

Eboe Hutchful (ed.), The IMF and Ghana: the confidential record. London: Zed Books and the Institute for African Alternatives, 1987, 298 pp., ISBN 0 86232 614 1 hardback; ISBN 0 86232 615 X paperback.

Albert de Surgy, Le Système religieux des Evhe.Paris: L'Harmattan, 1988, 329 pp. - Albert de Surgy, De l'universalité d'une forme africaine de sacrifice. Paris: Editions du CNRS, 285 pp.

Hubert van Roy, Les Byaambvu du Moyen-Kwango: histoire du royaume Luwa-Yaka, Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, vol. 37. Berlin: Reimer, 1988, 219 pp., ISBN 3 496 009217.

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T. M. Bah, Architecture Militaire traditionelle et poliorcétique dans le Soudan Occidental du XVIIe à la fin du XIXe siècle. Yaoundé: Editions Clé, 1985, 310 pp., 4500 CFA.

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D. Elwood Dunn and S. Byron Tarr, Liberia: a national polity in transition.London: Scarecrow Press, 1988, xii + 201 pp., £24.40, ISBN 0 8108 2088 9.

Tawia Adamafio, By Nkrumah's Side: the labour and the wounds. Accra: West Coast Publishing House, 1982, 144 pp., £7.50, ISBN 0 86036 176 4.

Paul Howell, Michael Lock and Stephen Cobb (eds.), The Jonglei Canal: impact and opportunity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, xxx + 537 pp., £39.50/$75.0O, ISBN 0 521 302862.

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M. Tymowski, L'Armée et la formation des états en Afrique Occidentale au XIXe siècle—essai de comparaison: l'état de Samori et le Kenedougou. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1987, 361 pp., Zł. 210.

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Marcel d'Hertefelt and Danielle de Lame, Société, culture et histoire du Rwanda: encyclopédie bibliographique 1863–1980/1987. Tervuren: Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika/Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, 1987, 2 vols. 1849 pp.

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Mark W. Delancey , Somalia, World Bibliographical Series, 92. Santa Barbara & Oxford: Clio Press, 1988, xxviii + 191 pp., ISBN 1 85109 038 X.

K. A. Ninsin and F. K. Drah (eds.), The Search for Democracy in Ghana: a case study of political instability in Africa. Accra: Asempa Publishers for the Christian Council of Ghana, 1987, 176 pp., $6.00.

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