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Volume 42 - Issue 1 - March 2001

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WARFARE IN AFRICA: Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500–1800. By JOHN K. THORNTON. London: UCL Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 194. £15.99 (ISBN 1-857-28393-7)

MEMOIRS OF A COLONIAL OFFICIAL: Tanzania: Journey to Republic. By RANDAL SADLEIR. London and New York: Radcliffe Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 342. £24.50 (ISBN 1-86064-437-6).

FULA ENTREPRENEURS IN FREETOWN: African Entrepreneurship: Muslim Fula Merchants in Sierra Leone. By ALUSINE JALLOH. (Monographs in International Studies, Africa Series no. 71). Athens, OH: University Center for International Studies, 1999. Pp. xxix + 288. $26, paperback (ISBN 0-89680-207-8).

SOMALI WOMEN: Women's Voices in a Man's World: Women and the Pastoral Tradition in Northern Somali Orature, c. 1899–1980. By LIDWIEN KAPTEIJNS with MARYAN OMAR ALI. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1999. Pp. x + 224. £43.95/$59.95 (ISBN 0-325-00136-7); £19.50/$24, paperback (ISBN 0-325-00133-2).

SENEGALESE SOLDIERS IN WORLD WAR I: Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War. By JOE LUNN. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 1999. Pp. xiv + 264. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-688-8); £16.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-638-1).

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SLAVE-TRADING PORTS OF THE NIGERIAN HINTERLAND: Ports of the Slave Trade (Bights of Benin and Biafra). Edited by ROBIN LAW and SILKE STRICKRODT. Stirling: Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling, 1999. Pp. vi + 189. £10, paperback (ISBN 1-85769-101-6).

MUSLIM SOCIETY IN MARADI: Les voies de l'islam au Niger dans le Katsina indépendant du XIXe au XXe siècle. By OLIVIER MEUNIER. (Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie, 35). Paris: Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, 1998. Pp. 232. FF160, paperback (ISBN 2-85653-521-6).

LEPROSY: People are Not the Same: Leprosy and Identity in Twentieth-Century Mali. By ERIC SILLA. Oxford: James Currey and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. Pp. xi + 220. £40 (ISBN 0-85255-680-2); £15.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-630-6).

THE POPULAR FRONT IN AFRICA AND BEYOND: French Colonial Empire and the Popular Front: Hope and Disillusion. Edited by TONY CHAFER and AMANDA SACKUR. London: Macmillan, 1999. Pp. xv + 264. £45 (ISBN 0-333-72973-0).

FULBE IN SIERRA LEONE: Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone: A Case History of Twentieth-Century Migration and Settlement among the Kissi of Koindu. By M. ALPHA BAH. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. x + 191. £25 (ISBN 0-8204-2180-4).

‘WITCHES’, ‘CANNIBALS’ AND WAR IN LIBERIA: The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War. By STEPHEN ELLIS. London: C. Hurst, 1999. Pp. xix + 350. £35.40 (ISBN 1-85065-401-8); £16.50, paperback (ISBN 1-85065-417-4).

TRANSCENDING THE LIMITS OF MICROHISTORY: Rogues, Rebels and Runaways: Eighteenth-Century Cape Characters. By NIGEL PENN. Hilversum: Verloren, 1999. Pp. viii + 195. F35, paperback (ISBN 90-6550-054-5).

THE SWISS IN GHANA: Afrika macht oder bricht einen Mann: Sozialers Verhalten und politische Einschätzung einer Kolonialgesellschaft am Beispiel der Schweizer in Ghana, 1945–1966. By RENÉ LENZIN. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1999. Pp. 272. S.F. 29.80, paperback (ISBN 3-905141-72-8).

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