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Volume 41 - Issue 1 - March 2000

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‘FRIEND OF THE PEOPLE’ Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings. Edited by BRIAN WILLAN. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi + 483. £17.82 (ISBN 0-8214-1186-1).

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The Maghreb. Edited by ANTHONY D. PAZZANITA. (World Bibliographic Series, 208). Oxford: Clio Press, 1998. Pp. xxxiv + 328. £57 (ISBN 1-85109-310-9).

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PIONEER In the Realms of Gold: Pioneering in African History. By ROLAND OLIVER. London: Frank Cass; Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 425. £39.50 (ISBN 0-7146-4847-7); £19.50 paperback (ISBN 0-7146-4405-6).

A MONUMENTAL WORK The Peoples of the Middle Niger: The Island of Gold. By RODERICK JAMES MCINTOSH. (The Peoples of Africa Series). Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. xxviii + 346. £45/$59.95 (ISBN 0-631-17361-7).

THE ECONOMICS OF DECOLONIZATION Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and Business in Decolonising Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya, 1945–1963. By ROBERT L. TIGNOR. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 419. $55/£35 (ISBN 0-691-01584-8).

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THE AFRICAN PAST AND THE PRESENT West Africa Before the Colonial Era: A History to 1850. By BASIL DAVIDSON. London and New York: Longman, 1998. Pp. xiii + 257. £44.00 (ISBN 0-582-31852-1); £15.99, paperback (ISBN 0-582-31853-X).

ERITREA: AN ETHIOPIAN VIEW Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience. By TEKESTE NEGASH. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997. Pp. 234. 105 Finnish Kr., paperback (ISBN 91-7106-406-0).

GHANA-FEST The Cloth of Many Colored Silks: Papers on History and Society, Ghanaian and Islamic, in Honor of Ivor Wilks. Edited by JOHN HUNWICK and NANCY LAWLER. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996. Pp. vi + 404. £53 (ISBN 0-8101-1299-X).

NAMIBIAN POLITICAL HISTORY Swapo's Struggle for Namibia, 1960–1991: War by Other Means. By LAUREN DOBELL (Basel Namibia Studies Series 3). Basel: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 1998. Pp. 175. CHF. 48, paperback (ISBN 3-908193-02-8).

FROM MATRIARCHY TO PATRIARCHY When Men and Women Mattered: A History of Gender Relations Among the Owan of Nigeria. By ONAIWU W. OGBOMO. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp. 220. £37/$49.50 (ISBN 1-878822-78-0).

CASE STUDY OF A PEASANT COMMUNITY The Agrarian Question in Kenya. By STEPHEN ORVIS. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1997. Pp. xiv + 209. $49.95. (ISBN 0-8130-1498-0).

RELIGION AND VIOLENCE Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies. By TOYIN FALOLA. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 386. £42.00 (ISBN 1-58046-018-6).

THE FOUNDING IDEAS OF ZULU IDENTITY Terrific Majesty: The Powers of Shaka Zulu and the Limits of Historical Invention. By CAROLYN HAMILTON. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 278. £24.95 (ISBN 0-674-87445-5); £11.95, paperback (ISBN 0-674-87446-3).

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