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Archaeological Survey - Archéologie africaine. By Marianne Cornevin. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1993. Pp. 268. FF 128, paperback (ISBN 2-7068-1095-5).

Weighing the Probabilities - Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society and Trade in Western Africa, 1000–1630. By George E. Brooks. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. xvi + 360. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8133-1263-9).

South African Revision - The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Segregation and Apartheid. By Nigel Worden. Oxford and Cambridge MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1994. Pp. xv + 166. $25 (ISBN 0-631-18111-3); $6.99, paperback (ISBN 0-631-16286-0).

Suakin Architecture - The Coral Buildings of Suakin: Islamic Architecture, Planning, Design and Domestic Arrangements at a Red Sea Port. By Jean-Pierre Greenlaw. London: Kegan Paul International, 1995. Pp. 132. £45 (ISBN 0-7103-0489).

Transformative Powers - Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies. By Eugenia W. Herbert. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 277 £37.50 (ISBN 0-253-20833-5); £15.99, paperback (ISBN 0-253-32733-4).

War and Society in Fetu - Guerre et société au Royaume de Fetu, Ghana, 1471–1720. Par Yann Deffontaine. Ibadan: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (in association with Editions Karthala, Paris), 1993. Pp. xiii + 280. $15; FF60 (ISBN 978-2015-23-7).

French Economics in Africa - Proceedings of the Sixteenth Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Mackinac Island, 1990. Edited by Patricia Galloway. Lanham, New York and London: University Press of America, 1990. Pp. v + 194. £29.50 (ISBN 0-8191-8505-1).

Pate Chronicles - The Pate Chronicle. Edited and translated by Marina Tolmacheva. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 607. $45 (ISBN 0-87013-336-5).

History of Ethiopia - A History of Ethiopia. By Harold G. Marcus. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 261. $35 (ISBN 0-520-08121-8).

South Africa for Students - History of Southern Africa. By J. D. Omer-Cooper. Second edition. London: James Currey Publishers, 1994. Pp. xiv + 310. £35 (ISBN 0-85255-716-7); £11.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-715-9).

Escaping the Tyranny of Theory - A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume I: The Nineteenth Century. By Tiyambe Zeleza. Dakar: CODESRIA, 1993. Pp. vii + 501. $30; £21.50, paperback (ISBN 2-86978-027-3).

Debt Bondage - Pawnship in Africa: Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective. Edited by Toyin Falola and Paul Lovejoy. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. 341. £37 (ISBN 0-8133-8457-5).

The Comparative Method - The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux. By James O. Gump. Lincoln, NB and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. Pp. 178. £23.95 (ISBN 0-8032-2152-5).

Trans-Saharan Slave Trade - The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. Edited by Elizabeth Savage. London: Frank Cass, 1992. p. 279. £25 (ISBN 0-7146-3469-9).

Mounting Speculation - Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion. By J. Lorand Matory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 295. $19.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8166-2227-2).

Failed Exploration - Journey to Livingstone: Exploration of an Imperial Myth. By Timothy Holmes. Edinburgh: Canongate Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 366. £17.99 (ISBN 0-86241-402-4).

The Beta Israel of Ethiopia - The Evolution of the Ethiopian Jews: A History of the Beta Israel (Falasha) to 1920. By James Quirin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. Pp. xviii + 336. $36.95 (ISBN 0-8122-3116-3).

Sierra Leone Settlers - Black Poor and White Philanthropists: London's Blacks and the Foundation of the Sierra Leone Settlement 1786–1791. By Stephen J. Braidwood. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 324. £16.50, paperback (ISBN 0-85323-377-2).

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