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ASA Review of Books, Volume 6 - 1980

African Societies and Imperialism

L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan. The Rulers of Belgian Africa, 1884-1914. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xv + 265 pp. Bibliography, index. $17.50.

Robert S. Smith. The Lagos Consulate, 1851-1861. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979. xii + 188 pp. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95.

Contemporary Politics

Henry Bienen. Armies and Parties in Africa. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1978. x + 278 pp. Tables, notes, index. $22.00 hardcover; $8.75 paper.

John Dunn, ed. West African States: Failure and Promise. A Study in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. viii + 259 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. $27.50 hardcover; $7.95 paper.

Monday U. Ekpo, ed. Bureaucratic Corruption in Sub Saharan Africa: Toward a Search for Causes and Consequences. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979. xvi + 449 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography. $14.25 paper.

Isaac James Mowoe. The Performance of Soldiers as Governors: African Politics and the African Military. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1980. $23.00 hardcover; $16.00 paper.

Mai Palmberg, ed. Problems of Socialist Orientation in Africa. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1978. 243 pp. Bibliography, index. $15.50 paper.

Crawford Young. The Politics of Cultural Pluralism. Madison and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1976. xii + 560 pp. Bibliography, index. $27.50 hardcover; $5.95 paper.

Oyeleye Oyediran, ed. Nigerian Government and Politics Under Military Rule 1966-1979. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980. xii + 319 pp. Table, notes, bibliography, appendix. $25.00.

Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe: Documenting and Interpreting the Recent Past

Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons, eds. The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xviii + 430 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. $18.00 hardcover; $6.50 paper.

Robert I. Rotberg. Black Heart: Gore-Browne and the Politics of Multi-Racial Zambia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xviii + 335 pp. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index. $15.00.

Andrew A. Beveridge and Anthony R. Oberschall. African Businessmen and Development in Zambia. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. 382 pp. Map, tables, bibliography, appendix, index. $22.50.

Denis Hills. Rebel People: Rhodesia in Crisis. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1978. xiii + 248 pp. Maps, notes, appendix. $14.75.

Wilson Katiyo. A Son of the Soil. London: Rex Collings, 1976. 147 pp. £3.50.

Christopher Nyangoni and Gideon Nyandoro, eds. Zimbabwe Independence Movements: Selected Documents. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1979. xviii + 456 pp. Biographical notes, Main Political Movements, appendix, index. $30.00.

Michael Raeburn. We Are Everywhere: Narratives from Rhodesian Guerrillas. New York: Random House, 1979. xiv + 209 pp. Maps, notes, tables, afterword. $8.95.

Oliver B. Pollak, Karen Pollak, with the technical assistance of Michael F. Garris and Jimmy D. Conner. Rhodesia/Zimbabwe: An International Bibliography. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co., 1977. xxxv + 621 pp. Author index. $50.00.

T. David Williams. Malawi: The Politics of Despair. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978. 339 pp. Map, bibliographic essay, index. $19.50.

Multinational Corporations: Some Pitfalls to Analysis

Africa, the MNCs, and International Politics

The Horn of Africa in Contemporary Perspective

Africa, the MNCs, and International Politics

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ASA Review of Books, Volume 6 - 1980

African Societies and Imperialism

Contemporary Politics

Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe: Documenting and Interpreting the Recent Past

Multinational Corporations: Some Pitfalls to Analysis

Africa, the MNCs, and International Politics

The Horn of Africa in Contemporary Perspective

Africa, the MNCs, and International Politics