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Volume 42 - July 2001

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SUDAN White Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala. Edited by JAY SPAULDING and STEPHANIE BESWICK (eds.). Lawrenceville, NJ, and Asmara: Red Sea Press, 2000. Pp. xxviii+336. £14.99, paperback (ISBN 1-56902-099-X).

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WARFARE AMONG THE YORUBA: War and Peace in Yorubaland, 1793–1893. Edited by ADEAGBO AKINJOGBIN. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), 1998. Pp. xi + 526. No price given (ISBN 978-129-497-3).

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REVIEWS: Wall Sculptures of Abomey. By FRANCESCA PIQUÉ and LESLIE H. RAINER. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Pp. 116. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-500-28180-7).

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GANDHI Gandhi Arrives in South Africa. By BURNETT BRITTON. Canton, ME: Greenleaf Books, 1999. Pp. lx+652. $30 (ISBN 0-934676-96-8).

NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORAL NARRATIVE FROM MALI La Geste de Nankoman: Textes sur la fondation de Naréna (Mali). Edited by SEYDOU CAMARA and JAN JANSEN. Leiden: CNWS, 1999. Pp. 135. DFL 35/$18, paperback (ISBN 90-5789-023-2).

COMPARING SOUTH AFRICA AND THE UNITED STATES The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism and Social Movements. By GEORGE M. FREDERICKSON. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. 259. $27.50 (ISBN 0-520-20996-6).

POSSESSION HEALING IN ZANZIBAR Everyday Spirits and Medical Interventions: Ethnographic and Historical Notes on Therapeutic Conventions in Zanzibar Town. By TAPIO NISULA. Saarijärvi: Finnish Anthropological Society, 1999. Pp. 319. No price given, paperback (ISBN 952-9573-21-9).

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SENEGAMBIA: From Frontier to Backwater: Economy and Society in the Upper Senegal Valley (West Africa), 1850–1920. By ANDREW F. CLARK. Lanham, MD and Oxford: University Press of America, 1999. Pp. xiii + 278. $47 (ISBN 0-7618-1438-8).

RETHINKING CHIEFTAINCY IN AFRICA: African Chieftaincy in a New Socio-Political Landscape. Edited by E. ADRIAAN B. VAN ROUVEROY VAN NIEUWAAL and RIJK VAN DIJK. Hamburg, Lit Verlag, 1999. Pp. iii + 251. DM39.80, paperback (ISBN 3-8258-3549-9).

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Sultan to Sultan: Adventures among the Masai and other Tribes of East Africa. By M. FRENCH-SHELDON. Introduced by TRACEY JEAN BOISSEAU. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. x+275. £45.00 (ISBN 0-7190-5133-4); £15.99, paperback (ISBN 0-7190-5114-2).

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CAPE VERDE Cape Verde: Crioulo Colony to Independent Nation. By RICHARD A. LOBBAN, JR. Boulder and Oxford: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. xiii+186. £13.95, paperback (ISBN 0-8133-3562-0).

PEULE WORLDS Figures Peules. By ROGER BOTTE, JEAN BOUTRAIS and JEAN SCHMITZ. Paris: Karthala, 1999. Pp. 524. No price given (ISBN 2-86537-983-3).

CONTINUITY IN RHODESIA ZIMBABWE The Moral Economy of the State: Conservation, Community Development, and State Making in Zimbabwe. By WILLIAM A. MUNRO. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1998. Pp. xxxix+461. (ISBN 0-299-14614-6); £28.50, paperback (ISBN 0-289680-202-7).

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ITALY AND SOMALIA: The Colonial Legacy in Somalia: Rome and Mogadishu from Colonial Administration to Operation Restore Hope. By PAOLO TRIPODI. London: Macmillan Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 219. £45 (ISBN 0-333-76351-3).

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THE SLAVE-FREE PARADOX The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. By DAVID ELTIS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii+353. £37.50 (ISBN 0-521-65231-6); £13.95, paperback (ISBN 0-521-65548-X).

MANDATES MATTERED Mandates and Empire: The League of Nations and Africa, 1914–1931. By MICHAEL D. CALLAHAN. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 1999. Pp. x+297. £55 (ISBN 1-902210-23-9).

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ZIMBABWE: Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe. By TERENCE RANGER. Oxford: James Currey. Harare: Baobab; Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 305. £14.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-654-3).

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DECOLONISATION Decolonisation and the British Empire,1775–1997. By D. GEORGE BOYCE. London and New York: Macmillan Press; and St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. ix+317. £15.99, paperback (ISBN 0-312-22325-0).

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NILE VALLEY STUDIES: The Nile: Histories, Cultures, Myths. Edited by HAGGAI ERLICH and ISRAEL GERSHONI. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner, 2000. Pp. xii + 305. £40.95 (ISBN 1-55587-672-2).

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POLITICS AND URBAN ART A Congo Chronicle: Patrice Lumumba in Urban Art. Edited by BOGUMIL JEWSIEWICKI. New York: Museum of African Art, 1999. Pp. 110 including 55 full-colour paintings, 30 black-and-white illustrations. No price given, paperback (ISBN 0-945802-25-0).

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