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Volume 40 - Issue 3 - November 1999

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WARFARE IN PORTUGUESE AFRICA Counterinsurgency in Africa: The Portuguese Way of War, 1961–1974. By John P. Cann (Contributions in Military Studies Number 167). Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+216. £46.50 (ISBN 0-313-30189-1).

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius. By William K. Storey. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997. Pp. viii+238. £40.00 (ISBN 1-58046-015-1).

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Historical Dictionary of Zambia. Second edition. By John J. Grotpeter, Brian V. Siegel and James R. Pletcher. Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1998. Pp. xxxv+571. £85.50 (ISBN 0-8108-3345-X).

Missionary Encounters: Sources and Issues. Edited by Robert A. Bickers and Rosemary Seton. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996. Pp. vi+255. £37.50/$68.50 (ISBN 0-7007-0369-1); £14.99/$29.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7007-0370-5).

Jimmy La Guma: A Biography. By Alex La Guma. Cape Town: Friends of the South African Library, 1997. Pp. 87. ZAR 55 (ISBN 0-86968-121-4).

Djibouti 1888–1967: Héritage ou Frustration? By Colette Dubois. Paris: Editions L'Harmattan 1997. Pp. 431. FFr 230 (ISBN 2-7384-5860-2).

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ECOLOGICAL HISTORY Reframing Deforestation: Global Analysis and Local Realities: Studies in West Africa. By James Fairhead and Melissa Leach. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xxv+238. £50 (ISBN 0-415-18590-4); £17.99, paperback (ISBN 0-415-18591-2).

A HISTORY OF PLANTAIN CULTIVATION Taxonomic–Linguistic Study of Plantain in Africa. By Gerda Rossel. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 1998. Pp. xvi+361. DFl 50/$25 (ISBN 90-5789-004-6).

SOMALI CRISIS Mending Rips in the Sky: Options for Somali Communities in the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Hussein M. Adam and Richard Ford. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997. Pp. xxvi+673. £17.99, paperback (ISBN 1-56902-074-4).

GHANAIAN MEDICAL HISTORY The Evolution of Modern Medicine in a Developing Country: Ghana, 1880–1960. By Stephen Addae. Edinburgh, Cambridge and Durham, NC: Durham Academic Press. 1996. Pp. xii+523. £32.50 (ISBN 1-900838-05-2).

POLITICAL CAREER OF A DICTATOR Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa. By Brian Titley. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii+258. £22.95 (ISBN 0-85323-712-3).

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SHORTER NOTICES Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Edited by David Eltis and David Richardson. London: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp. 248. £29.50 (ISBN 0-7146-4807-8); £15, paperback (ISBN 0-7146-4360-2).

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IDENTITY AND HISTORY Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries. Edited by P. T. W. Baxter, J. Hultin and A. Triulzi. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1996. Pp. 310. £18.95, paperback (ISBN 91-7106-379-X).

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Historical Dictionary of Chad. Third edition. By Samuel Decalo. (African Historical Dictionaries, no. 13.) London and Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 1997. Pp. xlvii+601. £85.50 (ISBN 0-8108-3253-4).

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AFRICAN PASTORS WRITE HISTORY The Recovery of the West African Past: African Pastors and African History in the Nineteenth Century: C. C. Reindorf and Samuel Johnson. Edited by Paul Jenkins. Basel: Basel Mission Bookshop, for Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1998. Pp. 212. DM45 (ISBN 3-905141-70-1).

HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF CASTES Les Castes de l'Afrique Occidentale: Artisans et Musiciens Endogames. By Tal Tamari. (Sociétés africaines). Nanterre: Société d'Ethnologie, 1997. Pp. 464. FF270 (ISBN 2-901161-50-2; ISSN 0293-9118).

SLAVERY IN CAMEROON Slave Settlements in the Banyang Country, 1800–1950. By E. D. S. Fomin and Victor Julius Ngoh. Limbe: University of Buea Publications, 1998. Pp. vii+115. No price or ISBN given.

REGIONAL HISTORY Histoire du Pays Gouin et de Ses Environs (Burkina Faso). Par Michèle Dacher. (Découvertes du Burkina). Paris and Ouagadougou: SÉPIA-A.D.D.B., 1997. Pp. 188. FFr 113.74. (ISBN 2-84280-013-3).

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