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Lost in Ethiopia - The Historical Geography of Ethiopia: From the First Century A.D. to 1704. By the late G. W. B. Huntingford, edited by Richard Pankhurst (and with Ethiopic spellings revised by David Appleyard). (Fontes Historiae Africanae: Series Varia iv.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, 1989. Pp. xlix+331. £60.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 135-137
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Nomads and States - The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa. By Karim Sadr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 180. £25.60; $26.95.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 483-484
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Advances at Soba - Soba: Archaeological Research at a Medieval Capital on the Blue Nile. By D. A. Welsby and C. M. Daniels. (Memoirs of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, 12.) London: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1991. Pp. xviii+363, with 55 plates, 348 figures, and maps in endpiece. £40.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 321-322
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Deep in Wala - Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana. By Ivor Wilks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xvi+256. £27.50; $42.50.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 137-138
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Roots of Sūfīsm - Sūfī Mystics of the Niger Desert: Sīdī Maḥmūd and the Hermits of Aïr. By H. T. Norris. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xxxi+180. £27.50.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 322-323
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Mandara Revealed - The Sultanate of Mandara to 1902: History of the Evolution, Development and Collapse of a Central Sudanese Kingdom. By Bawuro Mubi Barkindo. (Studien zur Kulturkunde, Band 91.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1989. Pp. 252. DM 74.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 138-139
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Atlantic System - Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. Edited by Barbara L. Solow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 355. £35; $39.50.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 484-485
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Balugani Restored - Luigi Balugani's Drawings of African Plants: From the Collection made by James Bruce of Kinnaird on his Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1767–73. Edited by Paul Hulton, F. Nigel Hepper and I. B. Friis. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art; Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1991. Pp. viii+140, with 330 plates (48 in colour). £89.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 323-324
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History in Maps - The New Atlas of African History. By G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville. London and Basingstoke: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1991. Pp. 144. £35.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 485-487
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Meta' Politics - Ranking and Resistance: A Precolonial Cameroonian Polity in Regional Perspective. By Richard G. Dillon. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. Pp. ix+310. $39.50.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 140-141
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Letters from the Slave Coast - Correspondence from the Royal African Company's Factories at Offra and Whydah on the Slave Coast of West Africa in the Public Record Office, London, 1678–93. Edited by Robin Law. (Occasional Papers no. 24). Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 1990. Pp. 82. £3. - Correspondence of the Royal African Company's Chief Merchants at Cabo Corso Castle with William's Fort, Whydah, and the Little Popo Factory, 1727–1728. Edited by Robin Law. (African Primary Texts 3). Madison: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991. Pp. 52. $8.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 487-488
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Slavery and Demography - Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental and African Slave Trades. By Patrick Manning. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. xi+236. £30; $49.50 (paperback £9.95; $14.95).
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 324-325
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Bamana Segu: an Annotated Epic - A State of Intrigue: The Epic of Bamana Segu According to Tayiru Banbera. Edited by David Conrad. (Fontes Historiae Africanae; Series Varia vi.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, for the British Academy, 1990. Pp. x+360. £26, paperback.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 141-142
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Slaving from Minor Ports - The Forgotten Trade, Comprising the Log of the Daniel and Henry of 1700 and Accounts of the Slave Trade from the Minor Ports of England, 1698–1725. By Nigel Tattersfield, with a Foreword by John Fowles. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Pp. xix + 460. £20.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 488-489
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Quantification - Figuring African Trade. Edited by G. Liesegang, H. Pasch and A. Jones. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1986. Pp. 685. No price given.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 142-143
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Maroons of Suriname - Alabi's World. By Richard Price. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Pp. xx+445. £42.50 (paperback £13.50; $18.95).
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 325-326
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Elminas in the Eighteenth Century - Africans and Europeans in West Africa: Eliminas and Dutchmen on the Gold Coast during the Eighteenth Century. By Harvey M. Feinberg. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 79, pt. 7.) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1989. Pp. xiv+186. $15.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 326-328
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Shaping South Africa - The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840. Edited by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee. (Second edition). Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1989. Pp. xix+623. Rand 39.95, paperback. - The Angry Divide: Social and Economic History of the Western Cape. Edited by Wilmot G. James and Mary Simons. Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1989. Pp. xiv+258. Rand 29.95, paperback.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 143-145
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Isert in English - Letters on West Africa and the Slave Trade: Paul Erdmann Isert's Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Columbia (1788). Translated and edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes. (Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Varia, VII). Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1992. Pp. x + 278, maps and illus. £30.
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 489-491
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The Colonization of Consciousness - Of Revelation and Revolution: Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa, Volume I. By Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Pp. xx+414. £47.95; $68.95 (paperback £15.25; $21.75).
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- 22 January 2009, pp. 328-329
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