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CHIEFS ON PARADE. King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African Eyes. By NEIL PARSONS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xviii+322. £39.95 (ISBN 0-226-64744-7); £15.25, paperback (ISBN 0-226-64745-5).

SHIFTING MANDE IDENTITIES. Family, Identity and the State in the Bamako Kafu, c. 1800–c. 1900. By B. MARIE PERINBAM. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. ix+341. £44.50. (ISBN 0-8133-3080-7).

DECONSTRUCTING AFRICAN HISTORY. Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture. By IFI AMADIUME. London and New York: Zed Books, 1997. Pp. x+214. $55 (ISBN 1-85649-533-7); $19.95, paperback (ISBN 1-85649-534-5).

RETHINKING COLONIAL HISTORY IN CAMEROON. La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920–1960): Histoire des usages de la raison en colonie. Par ACHILLE MBEMBE. Paris: Karthala, 1996. Pp. 438. FF 180, paperback (ISBN 2-86537-600-1).

POLITICAL SATIRE IN THE PRESS. Straatpraatjes: Language, Politics and Popular Culture in Cape Town, 1909–1922. Edited by MOHAMED ADHIKARI. Pretoria: JL van Schaik, and Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1996. Pp. xii+193. R75, paperback (ISBN 0-627-02131-X).

MEANING IN MATERIAL CULTURE. African Material Culture. Edited by MARY JO ARNOLDI, CHRISTRAUD M. GEARY and KRIS L. HARDEN. (African Systems of Thought.) Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996. Pp. xii+369. $49.95 (ISBN 0-253-33000-9); $24.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-21037-2).

WAR AND THEOLOGY. On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. By JANICE MCLAUGHLIN. Harare: Baobab Books, 1996. Pp. xvi+352. £21.50, paperback (ISBN 0-908311-79-6).

DOCUMENTING THE LIBERATION MOVEMENT. South Africa's Radical Tradition: A Documentary History, Volume 2: 1943–1964. Edited by ALLISON DREW. Cape Town: Buchu Books/Mayibuye Books/University of Cape Town Press, 1997. Pp. 402. £20.95, paperback (ISBN 0-7992-1614-3).

‘NUBIOLOGY’. Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500–1500 B.C.: The Archaeological Discovery of an Ancient Nubian Empire. By TIMOTHY KENDALL. Washington: University of Washington Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+142. $29.95, paperback (ISBN 0-9656001-0-6).

MITTEL AFRIKA YESTERDAY. History of Central Africa: The Contemporary Years since 1960. Edited by DAVID BIRMINGHAM and PHYLLIS MARTIN. London and New York: Longman, 1998. Pp. 317. £44 (ISBN 0-582-27608-x); £17.99, paperback (ISBN 0-582-27607-1).

APARTHEID, THE LAW AND URBAN SPACE. L'aménagement urbain en Afrique du Sud entre apartheid et pauvreté (1948–95). Par JEAN-BAPTISTE ONANA. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1996. Pp. 352. FF 195, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-4145-9).

MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY. Museums and Archaeology in West Africa. Edited by CLAUDE DANIEL ARDOUIN. Oxford: James Currey, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. Pp. xiv+178. £35.00 (ISBN 0-85255-238-6); £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-237-8).

MUSLIM POLITICS. Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria. By ROMAN LOIMEIER. (Series in Islam and Society in Africa). Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii+415. $69.95 (ISBN 0-8101-1346-5).

INTERPRETING AFRICAN SPACE. Drawn from African Dwellings. By JEAN-PAUL BOURDIER and TRINH T. MINH-HA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii+308. $50.50, paperback (ISBN 0-253-330-432).

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