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‘A THOROUGHLY PUGNACIOUS SETTLER’. Koloniale Konflikte im Alltag: Eine rechtshistoriche Untersuchung der Auseinandersetzungen des Siedlers Heinrich Langkopp mit der Kolonialverwaltung in Deutsch-Ostafrika und dem Reichsentschadigungsamt. By NORBERT AAS and HARALD SIPPEL. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series, 1997. Pp. 179. DM 29.90, paperback (ISBN 3-927510-50-5) (ISSN 0178-0034).
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CHIEFS ON PARADE. King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes. By NEIL PARSONS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xviii+322. £39.95 (ISBN 0-226-64744-7); £15.25, paperback (ISBN 0-226-64745-5).
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SHIFTING MANDE IDENTITIES. Family, Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800–c. 1900. By B. MARIE PERINBAM. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. ix+341. £44.50. (ISBN 0-8133-3080-7).
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DECONSTRUCTING AFRICAN HISTORY. Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture. By IFI AMADIUME. London and New York: Zed Books, 1997. Pp. x+214. $55 (ISBN 1-85649-533-7); $19.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85649-534-5).
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SAMPLING THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE. Imperial Policy and Colonial Practice, 1925–1945. Edited by A. R. ASHTON and S. E. STOCKWELL. (British Documents on the End of Empire. Series A, Vol. 1.) London: HMSO for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the University of London, 1996. Part 1: Metropolitan Reorganisation, Defence and International Relations, Political Change and Constitutional Reform. Pp. cviii+403. £70 (ISBN 0-11-290544-7). Part 2: Economic Policy, Social Policies and Colonial Research. Pp. xxi+403. £70 (ISBN 0-11-290551-x).
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RETHINKING COLONIAL HISTORY IN CAMEROON. La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920–1960): Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie. Par ACHILLE MBEMBE. Paris: Karthala, 1996. Pp. 438. FF 180, paperback (ISBN 2-86537-600-1).
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POLITICAL SATIRE IN THE PRESS. Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909–1922. Edited by MOHAMED ADHIKARI. Pretoria: JL van Schaik, and Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1996. Pp. xii+193. R75, paperback (ISBN 0-627-02131-X).
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SUDANESE SOLDIERS IN MEXICO. A Black Corps d'Élite: An Egyptian Sudanese Conscript Battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863–1867, and its Survivors in Subsequent African History. By RICHARD HILL and PETER HOGG. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1995. Pp. xxii+214. No price given. (ISBN 0-87013-339-X).
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MEANING IN MATERIAL CULTURE. African Material Culture. Edited by MARY JO ARNOLDI, CHRISTRAUD M. GEARY and KRIS L. HARDEN. (African Systems of Thought.) Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+369. $49.95 (ISBN 0-253-33000-9); $24.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21037-2).
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WAR AND THEOLOGY. On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. By JANICE MCLAUGHLIN. Harare: Baobab Books, 1996. Pp. xvi+352. £21.50, paperback (ISBN 0-908311-79-6).
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DOCUMENTING THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT. South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, Volume 2: 1943–1964. Edited by ALLISON DREW. Cape Town: Buchu Books/Mayibuye Books/University of Cape Town Press, 1997. Pp. 402. £20.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7992-1614-3).
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‘NUBIOLOGY’. Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500–1500 B.C.: The Archaeological Discovery of an Ancient Nubian Empire. By TIMOTHY KENDALL. Washington: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+142. $29.95, paperback (ISBN 0-9656001-0-6).
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MITTEL AFRIKA YESTERDAY. History of Central Africa: The Contemporary Years since 1960. Edited by DAVID BIRMINGHAM and PHYLLIS MARTIN. London and New York: Longman, 1998. Pp. 317. £44 (ISBN 0-582-27608-x); £17.99, paperback (ISBN 0-582-27607-1).
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APARTHEID, THE LAW AND URBAN SPACE. L'aménagement urbain en Afrique du Sud entre apartheid et pauvreté (1948–95). Par JEAN-BAPTISTE ONANA. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996. Pp. 352. FF 195, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-4145-9).
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MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY. Museums and Archaeology in West Africa. Edited by CLAUDE DANIEL ARDOUIN. Oxford: James Currey, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xiv+178. £35.00 (ISBN 0-85255-238-6); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-237-8).
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AFRICAN CULTURES IN COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South. By MICHAEL A. GOMEZ. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xiv+370. £35.95. ISBN 0-8078-2387-2; £14.50, paperback (ISBN 0-8078-4694-5).
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MUSLIM POLITICS. Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. By ROMAN LOIMEIER. (Series in Islam and Society in Africa). Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii+415. $69.95 (ISBN 0-8101-1346-5).
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INTERPRETING AFRICAN SPACE. Drawn from African Dwellings. By JEAN-PAUL BOURDIER and TRINH T. MINH-HA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii+308. $50.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-330-432).
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