Volume 38 - September 1995
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History
Book Reviews
Kenneth J. Perkins. Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City. State, Culture, and Society in Arab North Africa Series. Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, 1993. xvi + 264 pp. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $49.00. Cloth.
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Development Studies
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Francis M. Deng and Larry Minear. The Challenge of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 1992. xviii + 165 pp. Price not reported. Cloth. - John Osgood Field, ed. The Challenge of Famine: Recent Experience, Lessons Learned. West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1993. xiv + 281 pp. $24.95. Paper.
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Robert M. Maxon. Struggle for Kenya: The Loss and Reassertion of Imperial Initiative, 1912-1923. Cranbury, Pennsylvania. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1993. 351 pp. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Maps. Tables. $47.50. Cloth.
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Robert McC. Netting. Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1993. xxii + 389 pp. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Photographs. Tables. $49.50. Cloth. $16.95. Paper.
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Lissi Rasmussen. Christian-Muslim Relations in Africa: The Cases of Northern Nigeria and Tanzania Compared. London: British Academic Press, 1993. xii + 132 pp. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Maps. $59.50. Cloth.
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J.F. Mbwiliza. A History of Commodity Production in Makuani, 1600-1900: Mercantilist Accumulation to Imperialist Domination. Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam Press, 1991. xxii + 163 pp. Bibliography. Notes. Tables. $15.00. Paper. (Distributed by African Books Collective, Oxford.)
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Ivor Wilks. Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1993. xvii + 388 pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Tables. $45.00. Cloth.
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Kjell J. Havnevik. Tanzania, The Limits to Development from Above. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitute in cooperation with Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania, 1993. 343 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Figures. Index. Maps. Photographs. Tables. $29.95. Paper.
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Michael Neocosmos. The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa and “Accumulation from Below”: Economics and Politics in the Struggle for Democracy. Research Report Number 93. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrika Institutet, 1993. 79 pp. Bibliography. Price not reported. Paper.
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Justin Willis. Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda. Oxford Studies in African Affairs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. xiv + 231 pp. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Maps, $62.00. Cloth.
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Literature
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Chidi Ikonne, Emelia Oko, and Peter Onwudinjo, eds. African Literature and African Historical Experiences. Calabar Studies in African Literature Series. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books, Nigeria, 1991. xi + 136 pp. Index. References. Figures. $15.00. Paper. - Ernest N. Emenyonu. Studies on the Nigerian Novel. Ibadan: Heinemann Books, Nigeria, 1992. ix + 142 pp. Index. Notes. $15.00. Paper. - Umelo Ojinmah. Chinua Achebe: New Perspectives. Ibadan: Spectrum Books, 1991. viii + 128 pp. Bibliography. Notes. $11.50. Paper. - Chris Dunton. Make Man Talk True: Nigerian Drama in English Since 1970. New Perspectives on African Literature Series, no. 5. London: Hans Zell, 1992. 215 pp. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $85.00. Cloth.
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Anthropology and Linguistics
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Jonathan E. Arensen. Mice are Men, Language and Society among the Murle of Sudan. International Museum of Cultures No. 27. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, xvii + 298 pp. Appendices. References. $27.00. Paper.
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John Cullen Gruesser. White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiii + 181 pp. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $29.95. Cloth. - Jan Nederveen Pieterse. White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1992. 259 pp. Illustrations. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Cloth.
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Janos Riesz and Joachim Schultz, eds. Tirailleurs Sénégalais. Bayreuther Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Peter Lang, 1989. 280 pp. Illustrations. Photographs. $48.00. Cloth.
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Patrick Harries. Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c. 1860-1910. Social History of Africa. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994; London: James Currey, 1994; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994. x22 + 305 pp. Bibliography. Figures. Glossary. Index. Maps. Photographs. $50.00. Cloth. $22.95. Paper.
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Gerald Moser and Manuel Ferreira. A New Bibliography of the Lusophone Literature of Africa/Nova Bibliografia das Literatus Africanas de Expressao Portuguesa, 2nd edition. London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1993. Indices. 432 pp. $90.00. Cloth.
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John and Jean Comaroff. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992. xiv + 337 pp. Bibliography. Index. Notes. $55.00. Cloth. $18.95. Paper.
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Oyekan Owomoyela, ed. A History of Twentieth-Century African Literatures. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. vii + 411 pp. Bibliography. Notes. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $25.00. Paper.
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James F. Searing. West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce. The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiv + 252 pp. $49.95. Cloth.
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Segun Gbadegesin. African Philosophy. Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities. New York: Peter Lang, 1991. xii + 298 pp. Bibliography. Index. $27.95. Paper.
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