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Volume 38 - Issue 2 - July 1997

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ARCHAEOLOGIES OF AFRICA Archaeology Africa. By Martin Hall. London: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 1996. Pp. ix+277. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-735-3).

TSHUAPA REGION UNDER COLONIALISM Colonialism in the Congo Basin, 1880–1940. By Samuel H. Nelson. (Monographs in International Studies, Africa Series, no. 64). Athens OH: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1994. Pp. xii+279. £22.50, paperback (ISBN 0-89680-180-2).

POT BOUND Studien zur Archäologie des zentralafrikanischen Regenwalds: Die Keramik des inneren Zaïre-Beckens und ihre Stellung im Kontext der Bantu-Expansion. By Hans-Peter Wotzka. Cologne: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 1995. Pp. 582. DM 196 (ISBN 3-927688-07-X).

ANGLO-SAXON CONSPIRACY? The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide. By Gerard Prunier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. Pp. xiii+389. £35 (ISBN 1-85065-243-0).

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Elspeth Huxley: A Bibliography. By Robert Cross and Michael Perkin, with Foreword by Elspeth Huxley. Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St Paul's Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press, 1996. Pp. xix+187. £40. (No ISBN).

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IMPERIAL LABOUR Indentured Labour in the Age of Imperialism, 1834–1922. By David Northrup. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi+186. £30 (ISBN 0-521-48047-7); £10.95, paperback (ISBN 0-521-487519-3).

PERFORMANCE IN THE PRESENTATION OF THE PAST Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature. Edited by Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xiv+285. £35; $59.95 (ISBN 0-521-48061-2).

BOVINE BONES Kings, Commoners and Cattle at Great Zimbabwe Tradition Sites. By Carolyn Thorp. (Museum Memoir, NS, no. 1). Harare: National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, 1995. Pp. x+129. Zim $54; US$10, paperback (ISSN 1024-9397).

THEORIES OF COLONIAL RULE Koloniale Herrschaft: Zur Soziologischen Theorie der Staatsentstehung am Beispiel des Schutzgebietes Togo. By Trutz von Trotha. Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1994. Pp. xvii+516. DM178 (ISBN 3-16-146201-7).

COLONIAL COTTON Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; London: James Currey, 1995. Pp. xi+314. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-619-5).

ON THE ROAD TO MECCA Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan. By C. Bawa Yamba. London: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 1995. Pp. ix+237. £39.50 (ISBN 0-7486-0592-4).

MINING IN NAMIBIA, 1885–1914 Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft. Die großen Land- und Minengesellschaften (1885–1914). By Horst Drechsler. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Pp. 360. DM96 (ISBN 3-515-06689-6).

JENNÉ-JENO Excavations at Jenné-jeno, Hambarketolo, and Kaniana (Inland Niger Delta, Mali), the 1981 Season. Edited by Susan Keech McIntosh. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xxvi+605. No price given (ISBN 0-520-09785-8).

NYAMAKALAW OF MANDE Status and Identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande. Edited by David C. Conrad and Barbara E. Frank. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. 204. No price given, paperback (ISBN 0-253-20929-3).

RACE IN CAPE TOWN Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice in Victorian Cape Town: Group Identity and Social Practice, 1875–1902. By Vivian Bickford-Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii+281. £40; $59.95 (ISBN 0-521-47203-2).

HOUSEHOLD OF THE FAITHFUL The Church in Africa, 1450–1950. By Adrian Hastings. (The Oxford History of the Christian Church). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. xiv+706. £25, paperback (ISBN 0-19-826399-6).

A HISTORY OF COCOA DISEASES Cocoa Diseases and Politics in Ghana, 1909–1966. By Francis Danquah. New York: Peter Lang, 1995. Pp. xiii+186. £25 (ISBN 0-8204-2190-1).

SCIENCE AND RACE IN SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa. By Saul Dubow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xii+320. £40; $64.95 (ISBN 0-521-47343-8); £15.95; $21.95, paperback (ISBN 0-521-47907-X).

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