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Josef Hofmann(†) und Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Novum Testamentum aethiopice: die katholischen Briefs. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 29.) 264 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 168. - Siegbert Uhlig und Helge Maehlum (ed.): Novum Testamentum aethiopice: die Gefangenschaftsbriefe. (Äthiopistische Forschungen, Bd. 33.) 186 pp. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993. DM 124.
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Penelope Graham: Iban shamanism: an analysis of the ethnographic literature. (Occasional Paper of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU.) x, 174 pp. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Australian National University, 1994. A$20.
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Dymitr Ibriszimow and Alhaji Maina Gimba (ed.): Bole language and documentation Unit (BOLDU), Report I. (Westafrikanische Studien. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprachund Kulturgeschichte, Bd. 7.) 137 pp. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1994. DM 32.
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Ronald R. Atkinson: The roots of ethnicity: the origins of the Acholi of Uganda before 1800. xviii, 320 pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. $34.95.
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Getatchew Haile: A catalogue of Ethiopian manuscripts microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville. Vol. x. Project numbers 4001–5000; xi, 511 pp. 4 plates. Collegeville, MN: Hill Monastic Library, 1993. $75.
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Crawford Young: The African colonial state in comparative perspective. xii, 356 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. £28.50.
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Charles Gurdon (ed.) The Horn of Africa. (SOAS/GRC Geopolitics Series, no. 3.) x, 123 pp. London: UCL Press, 1994. £12.95 (paper).
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Michael Mann and Valerie Sanders (comp.): A bibliography of African language texts in the collections of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, to 1963. (Documentary Research in African Literatures, 3.) xviii, 429 pp. London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1994. £65.
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Manga Bekombo Priso (ed.): Défis et Prodiges: la fantastique histoire de Djéki-la-Njambé. (Classiques Africains, no. 25.) 286 pp. Paris: Belles Lettres, 1994.
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Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Dymitr Ibriszimow: Chadic lexical roots. Vol. I: Tentative reconstruction, grading, distribution and comments; Vol. II: Documentation. (Sprache und Oralität in Afrika, 20. Bd.) xli, 193 pp., foldout map; xx, 347 pp., foldout map. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 1994. DM 130.
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Roland Hallgren: The vital force: a study of àṣẹ in the traditional and neo-traditional culture of the Yoruba people. (Lund Studies in African and Asian Religions, Vol. 10.) 112 pp. Lund, Department of History of Religions, University of Lund, 1995.
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Niels Kastfelt: Religion and politics in Nigeria: a study in Middle Belt Christianity, xii, 204 pp. London: British Academic Press, 1994. £35.
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Barbara Turfan, Kathleen Ladizesky and Inese A. Smith (ed.): Emerging democracies and freedom of information. 174 pp. London: Library Association Publishing, 1995. £25.95.
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Jacques Arends, Pieter Muysken and Norval Smith (ed.): Pidgins and creoles: an introduction. (Creole Language Library, Vol. 15.) xv, 412 pp. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. Guilders 140, $79 (paper Guilders 60, $29.95).
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Nazif Hoca (ed.): ՙAbdalqādir ibn ՙUmar al-Baġdādī, Glossen zu Ibn Hišāms Kommentar zu dem Gedicht Bānat Suՙād. Überarbeitet und mit Indices versehen von Muḥammad al-ḤuǦain. Teil 2, 1, II. (Bibliotheca Islamica, 27b). 743 pp.; 444 pp. Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner, 1990. DM 128, 52.
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W. Beinart and S. Dubow (ed.): Segregation and Apartheid in twentieth-century South Africa: (Rewriting Histories.) 288 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. £40 (paper £12.99).
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Richard Rathbone: Murder and politics in Colonial Ghana, xiv, 209 pp. New Haven and London: Yale University Press1993. £30.
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Jan Vansina: Living with Africa, xv, 312 pp. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994, £36, $40 (paper £18, $19.95).
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Massoud Karshenas: Industrialisation and agricultural surplus: a comparative study of economic development. xii, 225 pp. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. £27.50.
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Julius Guttmann (ed.) and Chaim Rabin (tr.): Maimonides, The guide of the perplexed. 250 pp. Indiana: Hackett, 1995. £27.95 (paper £5.95).
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