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Volume 42 - Issue 2 - July 2001

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Historical Dictionary of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Revised edition of Historical Dictionary of Zaire (1988). By F. SCOTT BOBB. (African Historical Dictionaries, 76). Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 1999. Pp. xxxviii+598. £67.50 (ISBN 0-8108-3571-1).

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SLOW DEATH FOR SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA Ending Slavery. Hierarchy, Dependency and Gender in Central Mauritania. By URS PETER RUF. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 1999. Pp. 436. DM78 (ISBN 3-933127-49-1).

KANO POLITICS OVER THE LONG TERM Government in Kano, 1350–1950. By M. G. SMITH. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii+594. $85 (ISBN 0-8133-3270-2).

A ‘POPULAR' HISTORY OF UGANDA Eating Uganda: from Christianity to Conquest. By CEDRIC PULFORD. Banbury: Ituri, 1999. Pp. 216. £9.99, paperback (ISBN 0-9536430-0-X).

CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA A History of the Church in Africa. By BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix+1232. £85 (ISBN 0-521-58342-x).

SCHOOLING THE NORTHERN NIGERIAN ELITE Education Under Colonial Rule:A History of Katsina College, 1921–1942. By JAMES P. HUBBARD. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000. Pp. 306. $47.50 (ISBN 0-7618-1589-9).

CHRISTIANITY AS ‘ANTI-STRUCTURE' Abolitionists Abroad:American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa. By LAMIN SANNEH. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. xv+291. £18.50 (ISBN 0-674-00060-9).

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Ibn Khaldun and the Medieval Maghreb. By MICHAEL BRETT. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. x+300. £57.50 (ISBN 0-86078-772-9).

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SCHOOLS IN NIGER Bilan d'un siécle de politiques éducatives au Niger. Par OLIVIER MEUNIER. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000. Pp. 314. FF 150.00, paperback (ISBN 2-7384-9036-0).

PALM OIL COMMERCE Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa: The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century. By MARTIN LYNN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+270. £40/$64.95 (ISBN 0-521-59074-4).

RITUAL AND CHIEFTAINCY AMONG THE NYAKYUSA Ritual und Identität: Vorkoloniale Geschichte in Unyakyusa von ca. 1600 bis 1897. By PETER WEBER. (Studien zur Afrikanischen Geschichte 21). Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1997. Pp. x+280. DM44.80, paperback (ISBN 3-8258-3437-9).

TWENTIETH-CENTURY SWAZILAND When the Sleeping Grass Awakens: Land and Power in Swaziland. By RICHARD LEVIN. Johannesburg: University of Witwatersrand Press, 1997. Pp. 290. SA Rand 98.94 (ISBN 1-86814-301-5).

ETHIOPIA The Ethiopians. By RICHARD PANKHURST. (Peoples of Africa series). Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Pp. xx+299. £45/$59.95 (ISBN 0-631-18468-6).

SEEKING POLITICAL SOLUTIONS FOR NIGERIA Inter-Ethnic and Religious Conflict Resolution in Nigeria. Edited by ERNEST E. UWAZIE, ISAAC O. ALBERT and GODFREY N. UZOIGWE. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. Pp. ix+172. $40 (ISBN 0-7391-0033-5).

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