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Volume 50 - Issue 2 - April 1980

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Reviews of Books

There was a Certain Man: Spoken art of the Fipa. By Roy Willis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. (The Oxford Library of African Literature) Pp. ix, 150. 1 fig., bibl. £6.50.
Alison Redmayne
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07 December 2011, pp. 220-221
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Contraintes Insulaires et Fait Colonial aux Mascareignes et aux Seychelles. By Jean-François Dupon. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion1977. 4 vols. 1620 p., plates, figs, maps, bibl.
Gill Shepherd
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07 December 2011, pp. 221-222
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Hero and Chief: Epic Literature from the Banyanga, Zaïre Republic. By Daniel Biebuyck. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 320, glossary, bibl. $20.00.
Jan Knappert
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07 December 2011, p. 222
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The Children of Woot. A History of the Kuba Peoples. By Jan Vansina. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 394, maps, appendixes, notes, reference list, glossary, index. £17.50.
Daniel P. Biebuyck
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07 December 2011, pp. 222-223
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Les guerres grises: Résistance et révoltes en Angola, 1845-1941 et La Colonie du Minotaure: Nationalismes et révoltes en Angola, 1926-1961. Par René Pélissier: Editions Pélissier, Orgeval, France: 1977 et 1978. Pp. 630 et 727.
Hubert Deschamps
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07 December 2011, pp. 223-224
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Migrant Kingdom: Mzilikazi's Ndebele in South Africa. By R. Kent Rasmussen. London: Rex Collings; Cape Town: David Philip, 1978. Pp. xii, 262, maps, bibl. £6.50.
Alan Barnard
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07 December 2011, p. 224
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L'enfant du lignage: Du sewage à la classe d'âge chez les Wolof du Sénégal. By Jacqueline Rabain, with a preface by Edmond Ortigues. Paris: Payot, 1979. Pp. 237, bibl.
Adrian Adams
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07 December 2011, p. 225
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Togo under Imperial Germany 1884-1914: A Case Study in Colonial Rule. By Arthur J. Knoll. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1978. Pp. xi, 224, tables, ill., map, bibl. $8.95.
Robert Cornevin
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07 December 2011, p. 226
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Bierbrouwers in de Bergen: de Kapsiki en Higi van Noord-Kameroen en Noord-Oost Nigeria. By W. E. A. van Beek. Utrecht: Inst. voor Culturele Anthrop. 1978. 461 p., ill., figures, maps, bibl.
Pierre Van Leynseele
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07 December 2011, p. 227
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Formen und Funktionen wirtschaftlicher Kooperation in traditionalen Gesellschaften Westafrikas. By Birgit Brinkschulte. Meisenheim/Glan: Verlag Anton Hain1976, vii, 344p., figs., bibl. (Kultreller Wandel, 3).
Albert Wirz
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07 December 2011, p. 228
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Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa. By Josef Gugler and William G. Flanagan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 235, tables, maps, bibl. £10.00 cloth; £3.95 paper.
Valdo Pons
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07 December 2011, pp. 228-229
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The City is our Farm: Seven Migrant Ijebu Yoruba Families. By Dan. R. Aronson. Boston: G. K. Hall/Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1978. Pp. xiv, 208, maps, plates, tables, bibl. $10.00, $5.95 paper.
Jerry Eades
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07 December 2011, p. 229
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Press and Politics in Nigeria, 1880-1937. By Fred I. A. Omu. London: Longman, 1978. (Ibadan History Series). Pp. xi, 290, tables, bibl. £7.95.
A. H. M. Kirk-Greene
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07 December 2011, pp. 229-230
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Class, Power and Ideology in Ghana: The Railwaymen of Sekondi. By Richard Jeffries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. £10.00.
Jim Silver
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07 December 2011, pp. 230-232
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Campagnes et villes au sud de la Republique Populaire du Bénin. By Alfred Comlan Mondjannagni. Paris and the Hague: Mouton1977, 615 p., ill., maps, tables, bibl.
Remi Clignet
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07 December 2011, pp. 232-233
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Dictionnaire Sango-Français. By Luc Bouquiaux Paris: Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France1978. 663 p. (Langues et civilisations a tradition oral, 29).
William J. Samarin
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07 December 2011, pp. 233-234
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Interpreters for Nigeria: the Third World and International Public Relations. By Morris Davis. Urbana, Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press1977, viii, 197 p., tables, bibl.
P. F. Wilmot
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07 December 2011, pp. 234-235
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Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa. By Donald Rothchild and Robert L. CurryJr., Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 357, figs. £11.00.
Siyanga Malumo
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07 December 2011, pp. 235-236
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To Feed this World: The Challenge and the Strategy. By Sterling Wortman and Ralph W. CummingsJr., Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 440, map, tables, bibl.
Erica F. Wheeler
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07 December 2011, p. 236
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Landuse and Development. African Environmental Special Reports, 5. Edited by Phil O'Keefe and Ben Wisner. London: International African Institute1977, 232p, maps, bibl. £5.50 paper.
C. Frantz
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07 December 2011, pp. 236-238
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Volume 50 - Issue 2 - April 1980

Reviews of Books

There was a Certain Man: Spoken art of the Fipa. By Roy Willis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. (The Oxford Library of African Literature) Pp. ix, 150. 1 fig., bibl. £6.50.

Contraintes Insulaires et Fait Colonial aux Mascareignes et aux Seychelles. By Jean-François Dupon. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion1977. 4 vols. 1620 p., plates, figs, maps, bibl.

Hero and Chief: Epic Literature from the Banyanga, Zaïre Republic. By Daniel Biebuyck. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 320, glossary, bibl. $20.00.

The Children of Woot. A History of the Kuba Peoples. By Jan Vansina. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Pp. xi, 394, maps, appendixes, notes, reference list, glossary, index. £17.50.

Les guerres grises: Résistance et révoltes en Angola, 1845-1941 et La Colonie du Minotaure: Nationalismes et révoltes en Angola, 1926-1961. Par René Pélissier: Editions Pélissier, Orgeval, France: 1977 et 1978. Pp. 630 et 727.

Migrant Kingdom: Mzilikazi's Ndebele in South Africa. By R. Kent Rasmussen. London: Rex Collings; Cape Town: David Philip, 1978. Pp. xii, 262, maps, bibl. £6.50.

L'enfant du lignage: Du sewage à la classe d'âge chez les Wolof du Sénégal. By Jacqueline Rabain, with a preface by Edmond Ortigues. Paris: Payot, 1979. Pp. 237, bibl.

Togo under Imperial Germany 1884-1914: A Case Study in Colonial Rule. By Arthur J. Knoll. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1978. Pp. xi, 224, tables, ill., map, bibl. $8.95.

Bierbrouwers in de Bergen: de Kapsiki en Higi van Noord-Kameroen en Noord-Oost Nigeria. By W. E. A. van Beek. Utrecht: Inst. voor Culturele Anthrop. 1978. 461 p., ill., figures, maps, bibl.

Formen und Funktionen wirtschaftlicher Kooperation in traditionalen Gesellschaften Westafrikas. By Birgit Brinkschulte. Meisenheim/Glan: Verlag Anton Hain1976, vii, 344p., figs., bibl. (Kultreller Wandel, 3).

Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa. By Josef Gugler and William G. Flanagan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 235, tables, maps, bibl. £10.00 cloth; £3.95 paper.

The City is our Farm: Seven Migrant Ijebu Yoruba Families. By Dan. R. Aronson. Boston: G. K. Hall/Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1978. Pp. xiv, 208, maps, plates, tables, bibl. $10.00, $5.95 paper.

Press and Politics in Nigeria, 1880-1937. By Fred I. A. Omu. London: Longman, 1978. (Ibadan History Series). Pp. xi, 290, tables, bibl. £7.95.

Class, Power and Ideology in Ghana: The Railwaymen of Sekondi. By Richard Jeffries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. £10.00.

Campagnes et villes au sud de la Republique Populaire du Bénin. By Alfred Comlan Mondjannagni. Paris and the Hague: Mouton1977, 615 p., ill., maps, tables, bibl.

Dictionnaire Sango-Français. By Luc Bouquiaux Paris: Société d'Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France1978. 663 p. (Langues et civilisations a tradition oral, 29).

Interpreters for Nigeria: the Third World and International Public Relations. By Morris Davis. Urbana, Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press1977, viii, 197 p., tables, bibl.

Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa. By Donald Rothchild and Robert L. CurryJr., Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 357, figs. £11.00.

To Feed this World: The Challenge and the Strategy. By Sterling Wortman and Ralph W. CummingsJr., Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. Pp. xiv, 440, map, tables, bibl.

Landuse and Development. African Environmental Special Reports, 5. Edited by Phil O'Keefe and Ben Wisner. London: International African Institute1977, 232p, maps, bibl. £5.50 paper.

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