ASA Review of Books, Volume 5 - 1979
- This volume was published under a former title. See this journal's title history.
Patterns of Rural Change
Polly Hill. Population, Prosperity, and Poverty: Rural Kano 1900 and 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977. xvii + 240 pp. Tables, figures, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $17.95
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Zbigniew Konczacki. The Economics of Pastoralism: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa. London: Frank Cass and Co., Ltd., 1978. xi + 185 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, index. $22.50
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David K. Leonard. Reaching the Peasant Farmer: Organization Theory and Practice in Kenya. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1977. xxi + 297 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, index. $10.00
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Philip Mbithi and Rasmus Rasmusson. Self-Reliance in Kenya: The Case of Harambee. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1977. 177 pp. Maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography. $8.95 paper
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Ng'weno Osolo-Nasubo. A Socio-Economic Study of the Kenya Highlands from 1900-1970: A Case Study of the Uhuru Government. Washington: University Press of America, 1977. xii + 356 pp. Bibliography, maps, appendix, tables, notes. $9.95 paper
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Robin Palmer. Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xii + 307 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography, appendices, index. $15.75
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Robert Tignor. The Colonial Transformation of Kenya: The Kamba, Kikuyu and Maasai from 1900 to 1939. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. xi + 372 pp. Tables, bibliography, notes, index. $25.00
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Gary Wasserman. Politics of Decolonization: Kenya Europeans and the Land Issue 1960-1965. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. 225 pp. (Notes, map, bibliography, index) $22.50
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African Historians and Oral History
Oral History: Techniques, New Findings, Critiques
Ronald J. Grele, ed. Envelopes of Sound: Six Practitioners Discuss the Method, Theory, and Practice of Oral History and Oral Testimony. Chicago: Precedent Publishing, Inc., 1975. xii +154 pp. Notes. $7.95 - Paul Thompson. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. xi + 257 pp. Index. - Ramon I. Harris, Joseph H. Cash, Herbert T. Hoover, and Stephen R. Ward. The Practice of Oral History: A Handbook. Glen Rock, New Jersey: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1975. x + 98 pp. Appendix. - Willa K. Baum. Transcribing and Editing Oral History. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1975. 127 pp. Bibliography, photo, record. $6.75 paper
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Joseph C. Miller. Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. xvi + 312 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography, index, glossary. $22.00 - William F. PruittJr. “An Independent People: The Salampasu of Luisa Territory.” Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1974. 535 pp. Maps, appendix, bibliography. (This and the following theses available from University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Mich., at $8.25 microfilm, $16.50 paper.) - Thomas Q. Reefe. “A History of the Luba Empire to c.1885.” Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1975. 280 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, bibliography. - Muzong Wanda Kodi. “A Pre-Colonial History of the Pende People (Republic of Zaire) from 1620 to 1900.” Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1976. 2 vols., 409 pp. Maps, appendix, bibliography. - Robert Schecter. “History and Historiography on a Frontier of Lunda Expansion: The Origins and Early Development of the Kanongesha.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1976. 375 pp. Maps, tables, bibliography. - John C. Yoder. “A People on the Edge of Empires: A History of the Kanyok of Central Zaire.” Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, 1977. 395 pp. Maps, tables, plates, appendix, bibliography. - J. Jeffrey Hoover. “The Seduction of Ruwej: Reconstructing Ruund History (The Nuclear Lunda; Zaire, Angola, Zambia).” Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, New Haven, 1978. 2 vols., 384 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, bibliography.
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David P. Henige, The Chronology of Oral Tradition: Quest for a Chimera. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. xiii + 265 pp. Notes, tables, figures, appendices, bibliography, index. $15.25
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Ruth M. Stone and Frank J. Gillis. African Music and Oral Data: A Catalog of Field Recordings 1902-1975. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. xviii + 412 pp. Figures. $17.50
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Literature
Dennis Brutus. Stubborn Hope, New Poems and Selections from China Poems and Strains. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, Inc., 1978. 98 pp. Paper
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Romanus N. Egudu. Four Modern West African Poets. New York: Nok Publishers, 1977. 138 pp. Bibliography, index. Paper
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Shatto Arthur Gakwandi. The Novel and Contemporary Experience in Africa. New York: Africana Publishing Company. 1977. 130 pp. Bibliography, index. $14.00
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Eddie Iroh. Forty-eight Guns for the General. London: Heinemann, 1976. 218 pp. Glossary. $2.50 paper
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Eldred Jones, ed. African Literature Today: No. 9, Africa, America and the Caribbean. London: Heinemann, New York: Africana, 1978. 118 pp. Index.
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Bernth Lindfors, ed. Research in African Literatures Vol. 8. No. 2. Special Issue on African Folklore. Austin: University of Texas Press, Fall 1977. 121 pp. Notes, figures. Subscription rates: 1 year: $12.00, individual and $15.00, institutions. Single copies and back issues $5.00
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Femi Ojo-Ade. Analytic Index of Presence Africaine (1947-1972). Washington D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1977. xiii + 181 pp. Illustrations. $22.00
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Historical Overviews
Philip Curtin, Steven Feierman, Leonard Thompson and Jan Vansina. African History. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. xv + 612 pp. Maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. $10.95 paper
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- 07 August 2017, pp. 85-86
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