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Volume 69 - October 1999

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Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Black Paris: the African writers' landscape. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998, 350 pp., US$34.95, ISBN 0 252 02066 9.

Jos Sijm, Food Security and Policy Interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the past two decades. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers, 1997, 729 pp., £19.95, ISBN 90 5538 025 3.

Albert de Surgy, Nature et fonction des fétiches en Afrique noire. Paris: Harmattan, 1994, 446 pp., ISBN 2 7384 2508 9.

Mario I. Aguilar, Dios en África: elementos para una antropología de la religión. Mision sin Fronteras, Estella: Verbo Divino, 1997, 143 pp., ISBN 84 816 9163 1.

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Samuel Decalo, Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff, Historical Dictionary of Congo. African Historical Dictionaries 69, Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 1996, 448 pp., US$79.50, ISBN 0 8108 3116 3.

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Miriam Ma'At-Ka-Re Monges, Kush, the Jewel of Nubia: reconnecting the root system of African civilization. London: Africa World Press, 1998, 212 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 86543 529 4.

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Boubacar Barry, Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. African Studies 92, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 358 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 521 59226 7 hard covers, £15.95, ISBN 0 521 59760 9 paperback.

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Patrick McAllister (ed.), Culture and the Commonplace: anthropological essays in honour of David Hammond-Tooke. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1997, 400 pp., ISBN 0 521 59370 0.

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Robin Palmer, Contested Lands in Southern and Eastern Africa: a literature survey. Oxfam Working Paper, Oxford: Oxfam, 1997, 306 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0 85598 391 4 paperback.

Commission Des Musees De La Societe Suisse D'ethnologie (ed.), L'Objectif subjectif: collections de photographies ethno-historiques en Suisse. Ethnologica Helvetica 20, Berne: Société suisse d'ethnologie, 1997, 438 pp., ISBN 3 908111 07 2.

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Robert Chambers, Whose Reality Counts? Putting the first last. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1997, 317 pp., £3.95, ISBN 1 85339 386 X.

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Kenneth J. Perkins, Historical Dictionary of Tunisia, second edition. African Historical Dictionaries 45, Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 1997, 448 pp., US$64.50, ISBN 0 8108 3286 0.

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The Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography III, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland. Algonac MI: Encyclopaedia Africana Project, Reference Publications, 1995, 304 pp.

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Wilhelm Östberg, Land is Coming up: the Burunge of central Tanzania and their environments. Stockholm Studies in Social Anthropology 34, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1995, 282.00 kroner, 258 pp., ISBN 91 7153 404 0 paperback.

Monique Bertrand, Les Villes secondaires d'Afrique noire, 1970-97: bibliographie analytique et commentée. Bordeaux: Centre d'études d'Afrique noire, 1997, 133 pp, ISBN 2 908065 42 8 paperback.

Adolphe Linder, The Swiss at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1971. Basle: Basler Afrika Bibliogaphien, 1997, 527 pp., ISBN 3 905141 66 3.

Carlos Lopes (ed.), Balancing Rocks: environment and development in Zimbabwe. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute; Harare: SAPES Trust, 1996, 208 pp., £12.95, ISBN 1 77905 044 5 (Zimbabwe), ISSB 91 7106 394 3 (Sweden).

Ebenezer Obiri Addo, Kwame Nkrumah: a case study of religion and politics in Ghana. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1997, 235 pp., US$42.00, ISBN 0 7618 0785 3.

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