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Volume 49 - Issue 2 - April 1979

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Ethnic Minority Problems in Nigerian Politics, 1960–1965. By Ugbana Okpu. Uppsala: University; distributed by Almqvist and Wiksell International, Stockholm, 1977. Pp. x, 191, tables, maps, bibl. Sw. kr. 57.
Ronald Cohen
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Political Leadership in Sierra Leone. By John R. Cartwright. London: Croom Helm, 1978. Pp. 308, tables, maps, index. £12.95.
C. P. MacCormack
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Working Papers in Southern African Studies: Papers Presented at the ASI African Studies Seminar. Edited by P. L. Bonner. Johannesburg: African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 1977. Pp. ii, 343, figs, bibl. n.p. - A Trade Union Aristocracy: A History of White Workers in the Transvaal and the General Strike of 1913. By Elaine N. Katz. Johannesburg: African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 1976. Pp. xii, 601, ill., bibl., index, n.p.
R. D. Grillo
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The African University in Development. By Asavia Wandira. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1977. Pp. 136.
J. H. Sislian
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African Kingdoms. By Lucy Mair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Pp. 151, bibl., map. £3.95 cloth; £1.95 paper.
Robin Law
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Africans of Two Worlds: The Dinka in Afro-Arab Sudan. By Francis Mading Deng. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 244. £15.00.
John W. Burton
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The Tuareg: People of Ahaggar. By Jeremy Keenan. London: Allen Lane, 1978. Pp. xiii, 385, bibl., ill., tables, map. £12.95.
André Bourgeot
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The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania. By Sally Falk Moore and Paul Puritt, edited with an introduction by William M. O'Barr. London: International African Institute, 1977. (Ethnographic Survey of Africa, East Central Africa, Part 18.) Pp. xii, 140. £4.60.
Alison Redmayne
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Kraal and Castle: Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa. By Richard Elphick. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xxii, 266, figs, maps, bibl., index. £12.60.
Alan Barnard
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Decorated Gourds in North-Eastern Nigeria. By T. J. H. Chappel. London: Ethnographica in association with the Federal Department of Antiquities, Lagos, 1977. Pp. viii, 222, ill., map, bibl., index. £20.
René Dognin
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Tshokwe-Zaïre. Recordings and notes by Barbara Schmidt-Wrenger. Tervuren, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika. (African music recordings series no. 11; series editor Jos Gansemans.) Record: 6803 073; 12 in. stereo 33⅓ rpm. Booklet: pp. 81 (German, Flemish, French, English), ill.
Paul Richards
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Fang Architectonics. By James W. Fernandez. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1977. Pp.41, ill., bibl., $2.95.
Pierre Alexandre
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Hausa Tales and Traditions: An English Translation of Tatsuniyoyi na Hausa. Volumes II and III. Translatedand edited by Neil Skinner. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 502; xvi, 368. $33.25 and $27.25.
Murray Last
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Nigeria: Its Archaeology and Early History. By Thurstan Shaw. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. Pp. 216, ill., figs., maps, bibl. £8.
P. S. Garlake
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Un culte de possession à Madagascar: le tromba. Par Jean-Marie Estrade. Paris: Editions Anthropos, 1977. Pp. 390, ill., carte, n.p.
Marcelle Urbain-Faublée
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Regional Cults. Edited by Richard P. Werbner. New York, London: Academic Press, 1977. (ASA Monograph 16.) Pp. xxxviii, 257, maps, tables, bibl., index. $14; £7.20.
W. de Mahieu
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Body and Mind in Zulu Medicine: An Ethnography of Healthand Disease in Nyuswa-Zulu Thought and Practice. By Harriet Ngubane. New York, London: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 184, bibl., tables. $13.25; £6.80.
Murray Last
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Ethnic Minority Problems in Nigerian Politics, 1960–1965. By Ugbana Okpu. Uppsala: University; distributed by Almqvist and Wiksell International, Stockholm, 1977. Pp. x, 191, tables, maps, bibl. Sw. kr. 57.

Political Leadership in Sierra Leone. By John R. Cartwright. London: Croom Helm, 1978. Pp. 308, tables, maps, index. £12.95.

The African University in Development. By Asavia Wandira. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1977. Pp. 136.

African Kingdoms. By Lucy Mair. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. Pp. 151, bibl., map. £3.95 cloth; £1.95 paper.

Africans of Two Worlds: The Dinka in Afro-Arab Sudan. By Francis Mading Deng. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. Pp. xviii, 244. £15.00.

The Tuareg: People of Ahaggar. By Jeremy Keenan. London: Allen Lane, 1978. Pp. xiii, 385, bibl., ill., tables, map. £12.95.

The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania. By Sally Falk Moore and Paul Puritt, edited with an introduction by William M. O'Barr. London: International African Institute, 1977. (Ethnographic Survey of Africa, East Central Africa, Part 18.) Pp. xii, 140. £4.60.

Kraal and Castle: Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa. By Richard Elphick. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1977. Pp. xxii, 266, figs, maps, bibl., index. £12.60.

Decorated Gourds in North-Eastern Nigeria. By T. J. H. Chappel. London: Ethnographica in association with the Federal Department of Antiquities, Lagos, 1977. Pp. viii, 222, ill., map, bibl., index. £20.

Tshokwe-Zaïre. Recordings and notes by Barbara Schmidt-Wrenger. Tervuren, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika. (African music recordings series no. 11; series editor Jos Gansemans.) Record: 6803 073; 12 in. stereo 33⅓ rpm. Booklet: pp. 81 (German, Flemish, French, English), ill.

Fang Architectonics. By James W. Fernandez. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1977. Pp.41, ill., bibl., $2.95.

Hausa Tales and Traditions: An English Translation of Tatsuniyoyi na Hausa. Volumes II and III. Translatedand edited by Neil Skinner. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 502; xvi, 368. $33.25 and $27.25.

Nigeria: Its Archaeology and Early History. By Thurstan Shaw. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978. Pp. 216, ill., figs., maps, bibl. £8.

Un culte de possession à Madagascar: le tromba. Par Jean-Marie Estrade. Paris: Editions Anthropos, 1977. Pp. 390, ill., carte, n.p.

Regional Cults. Edited by Richard P. Werbner. New York, London: Academic Press, 1977. (ASA Monograph 16.) Pp. xxxviii, 257, maps, tables, bibl., index. $14; £7.20.

Body and Mind in Zulu Medicine: An Ethnography of Healthand Disease in Nyuswa-Zulu Thought and Practice. By Harriet Ngubane. New York, London: Academic Press, 1977. Pp. xvi, 184, bibl., tables. $13.25; £6.80.

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