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Empress of Ethiopia - Empress Taytu and Menilek II. Ethiopia 1883–1910. By Chris Prouty. London: Ravens Educational and Development Services; Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 1986. Pp. xix + 409. £9.95 (paperback).

Holy Men and Hagiography - The Monastic Holy Man and the Christianization of Early Solomonic Ethiopia. By Steven Kaplan. Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1984. Pp. xiv + 150. DM 40.

Warfare at Work - Warriors, Merchants, and Slaves: the State and the Economy in the Middle Niger Valley, 1700–1914. By Richard L. Roberts. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii + 293. $39.50.

Colonial Natal - Enterprise and Exploitation in a Victorian Colony: Aspects of the Economic and Social History of Colonial Natal. Edited By Bill Guest and John M. Sellers. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1985. Pp. xiv + 362. R.28.50 (paperback).

Loosely Assembled States - State Formation in Eastern Africa. Edited by Ahmed Idha Salim. Nairobi, London: in Heinemann Educational Books, 1985. Pp. vi + 266. £22.50

Papers from an Exhibition - The Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante Center and Periphery. Edited by Enid Schildkrout. Anthropological Papers: American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 65 (1987), pt. 1, pp. 1–331, illus. $25.00.

All that Glimmers is not … Salt? - Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 351. £27.50.

Way of the Village - Magomero: Portrait of an African Village. By Landeg White. Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 271. £19.50.

Fashoda: the Galvanic Moment - The Race to Fashoda European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa. By David Levering Lewis. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Pp. xiv + 305: plates. $24.95.

Italian Archives - Fonti comboniane per la storia dell'Africa nord-orientale, vol. I. By Silvia Luciani and Irma Taddia. Bologna: Università degli studi di Bologna (Dipartimento di Politica, Istituzioni, Storia), 1986. Pp. 311. No price indicated.

Slaves to Brazil - World of Sorrow, The African Slave Trade to Brazil. By Robert Edgar Conrad. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. xv + 215. £25.

Lowdown on the Highveld - Rural Transformations in Industrializing South Africa. The Southern Highveld to 1914. By Timothy J. Keegan. Houndmills: Macmillan1987. Pp. xviii + 302. £29.50.

The Eritrean Adventure - Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882–1941: Policies, Praxis and Impact. By Tekeste Negash. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksell International, 1987. Pp. xi + 217. Maps, graphs, and tables. SEK 136 (paperback).

New Theories for old Zanzibar - Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873. By Abdul Sheriff. London: James Currey, 1987. Pp. xx + 297. £25.00 (paperback £9.95).

Colonialism Appraised - African Perspectives on Colonialism. By A. Adu Boahen. Baltimore and London:Johns Hopkins Press, 1987. Pp. viii + 133. £13.85.

Diplomatic Documents on Ethiopia - Acta Æthiopica, vol. 1. Correspondence and Treaties, 1800–1854. Edited by Sven Rubenson, with Getatchew Haile and John Hunwick. Evanston and Addis Ababa: Northwestern University Press and Addis Ababa University Press, 1987. Pp xxxi + 263. No price stated.

Club Countries - Islands of White: Settler Society and Culture in Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1890–1939. By Dane Kennedy. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1987. Pp. xii + 271. $30.00.

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