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Alanagh Raikes, Pregnancy, Birthing and Family Planning in Kenya: changing patterns of behaviour. Copenhagen: Centre for Development Research, 1990, 193 pp., ISBN 87 88467 171 paperback.

Kumar Rupesinghe (ed.), Conflict Resolution in Uganda. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute (in association with James Currey, London, and Ohio University Press, Athens, O.), 1989, 316 pp., £25, ISBN 0 85255 334 X hard covers, £9–95, ISBN 0 85255 333 1 paperback.

Michael Crowder, The Flogging of Phinehas McIntosh: a tale of colonial folly and injustice, Bechuanaland, 1933, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988, 260 pp., £20 ($30), ISBN 0 300 04098 9.

Charles Bloomberg, Christian Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa, (ed. Saul Dubow). London: Macmillan, 1990, 278 pp., £35, ISBN 0 333 48706 0.

Ingrid De Kok and Karen Press (eds.), Spring is Rebellious: arguments about cultural freedom by Albie Sachs and respondents. Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1990, 150 pp.

Angela P. Cheater, Social Anthropology: an alternative introduction. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989, 326 pp., £40.50, ISBN 0 04 445358 2 hard covers, £11.95, ISBN 0 04 445359 0 paperback.

Elisabeth Rabut (ed.), Brazza Commissaire Général: le Congo français, 1886–97, preface by Henri Brunschwig. Paris: Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1989, 490 pp., FF 330, ISBN 2 7132 0928 5 paperback.

Johan Pottier, Migrants no More: settlement and survival in Mambwe villages, Zambia. Manchester: Manchester University Press and Bloomington: Indiana University Press for the International African Institute, 1988, 223 pp., £32.50, ISBN 0 7190 2810 8.

S. I. G. Mudenge, A Political History of Munhumutapa, c. 1400–1902. London: James Currey, 1990, 449 pp., £11.95 (paperback), Z. $32.79, ISBN 0 85255 059 6 (Zimbabwe ISBN 0 949932 39 2, USA ISBN 0 435 08038 5).

R. N. Currey, Vinnicombe's Trek: a family chronicle of the time of the Zulu and Boer Wars. London: James Currey, 1987, 240 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0 85255 038 3 hardback, and Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, R12.00, ISBN 0 86980 655 6 paperback.

Michael Jackson, Paths toward a Clearing: radical empiricism and ethnographic inquiry. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989, 250 pp., $35, ISBN 0 253 33190 0 hardback, $12.95, ISBN 0 253 20534 4 paperback.

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Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, vol. XXXI, 1987, Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino, and Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1988, 298 pp., no price given.

Bertrand Hirsch and Michel Perret, Ethiopie, année 30. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1989, 189 pp., no price given, ISBN 2 7384 0388 4 paperback.

Susan Hoben, School, Work, and Equity: educational reform in Rwanda. African Research Studies No. 16, Boston, Mass.: African Studies Center, Boston University, 1989, 150 pp.

B. Oden and H. Othman, Regional Cooperation in Southern Africa: a post-apartheid perspective. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1989, 243 pp., SEK 170, ISBN 91 7106 298 X.

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