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GENDER AND COMMERCE Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890–1990. By CLAIRE C. ROBERTSON. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 341. £40.50 (ISBN 0-253-33360-1); £20.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21151-4).
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MUSLIM DIVERSITY African Islam and Islam in Africa: Encounters between Sufis and Islamists. Edited by EVA EVERS ROSANDER and DAVID WESTERLUND. London: Hurst and Company, 1997. (In co-operation with the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala). Pp. x + 347. £35 (ISBN 1-85065-282-1); £16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-281-3).
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THE COLONIAL SERVICE On Crown Service: A History of HM Colonial and Overseas Civil Services, 1837–1997. By ANTHONY KIRK-GREENE. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1999. Pp. xxviii + 276. £25 (ISBN 1-86064-260-8).
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IMAGES AND HISTORY The Colonialising Camera: Photographs in the Making of Namibian History. Edited by WOLFRAM HARTMANN, JEREMY SILVESTER and PATRICIA HAYES. Cape Town: Cape Town University Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 220. R175, paperback (ISBN 1-919713-22-0).
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WARTIME COLONIAL POLITICS L'AOF et la second guerre mondiale: La vie politique (septembre 1939–octobre 1945). By CATHERINE AKPO-VACHE. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1997. Pp. 330. FF. 160 (ISBN 2-86537-640-0).
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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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UNRAVELLING A ‘FLAWED’ HISTORY Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence and the Legacy of Slavery. By CATHERINE BESTEMAN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 275. $42.50/£32 (ISBN 0-8122-3488-X); $19.95/£15 (ISBN 0-8122-1688-1).
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SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND IDENTITIES Regard sur le Borgou: Pouvoir et altérité dans une région ouest-africaine. Sous la direction de ELISABETH BOESEN, CHRISTINE HARDUNG et RICHARD KUBA. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. Pp. 366. FF. 210, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-7138-2).
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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).
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AFRICAN MUSLIM DIASPORAS Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By SYLVIANE A. DIOUF. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 254. $55 (ISBN 0-8147-1904-X); $18.50, paperback (ISBN 0-8147-1905-8).
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FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN RESEARCH Des historiens africains en Afrique. L'histoire d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: Logiques du passé et dynamiques actuelles. Sous la direction de CATHERINE COQUERY- VIDROVITCH, ODILE GEORG et HERVÉ TENOUX. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. Pp. 360. FF. 190, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-6908-6).
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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).
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ON THE ETHIOPIAN PERIPHERY The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By RICHARD PANKHURST. Lawrenceville: The Red Sea Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 489. $24.95/£12.99, paperback (ISBN 0-932415-19-9).
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THE SWAHILI COAST The Rise and Fall of Swahili States. By CHAPURUKHA M. KUSIMBA. Walnut Creek (CA), London, New Delhi: Alta Mira Press, 1999. Pp. 236. £33 (ISBN 0-7619-9051-8); £16.99, paperback (ISBN 0-7619-9052-6).
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Central African Republic. By PIERRE KALCK. World Bibliographical Series, 152. Oxford, Santa Barbara, Denver: Clio Press, 1993. Pp. liv + 153. £38 (ISBN 1-85109-172-6).
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SONGHAY HISTORY Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa‘di's Ta'rikh al-Sudan down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents. By JOHN O. HUNWICK. Leiden: Brill, 1999. Pp. lxv + 412. $140.75 (ISBN 90-04-11207-3).
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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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CAPITAL OF ANCIENT GHANA Recherches archéologiques sur la capitale de l'empire de Ghana: Etude d'un secteur d'habitat à Koumbi Saleh, Mauritanie. Campagnes II–III–IV–V, 1975–76 – 1980–81. By SOPHIE BERTHIER. (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, 41). Oxford: Archaeopress, 1997. Pp. 143. £33 (ISBN 0-86054-868-6).
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REVOLUTION ON THE LOCAL LEVEL Marxist Modern: An Ethnographic History of the Ethiopian Revolution. By DONALD L. DONHAM. Berkeley. University of California Press: Oxford: James Currey, 1999. Pp. xvi + 236. £40.00 (ISBN 0-85255-269-6); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-264-5).
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