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Volume 66 - October 1996

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Reviews of Books

Percy Turner Wilde, Bwana Polisi. Under three flags. Braunton, Devon: Merlin Books, 1993, 141 pp., £10.95, ISBN 0 86303 645 7.
David M. Anderson
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07 December 2011, pp. 625-626
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Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea, second edition. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1994, 642 pp., US$69.50, ISBN 0 8108 2663 1.
Sally Healy
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07 December 2011, pp. 479-480
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Robert Serpell, The Significance of Schooling: life-journeys in an African society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 345 pp., £45.00 (US$ 59.95), ISBN 0 521 39478 3.
Mwizenge S. Tembo
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07 December 2011, pp. 315-317
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Ngwabi Bhebe and Terence Ranger (eds.), Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. London: James Currey, 1995, 211 pp., £35.00 hardback, ISBN 0 85255 659 4; £12.95 paperback, ISBN 0 85255 609 8.
Eric T. Young
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07 December 2011, pp. 626-628
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Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk, Arid Ways: cultural understandings of insecurity in Fulbe society, central Mali. Amsterdam: Thela, 1995, 547 pp., 59.90 florins, ISBN 9 055380 13 X.
Kate Hampshire
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07 December 2011, pp. 480-481
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Veronica Berry (ed.), The Culwick Papers, 1934–44: population, food and health in colonial Tanganyika. London: Academy Books, 1994, 288 pp., £20.00, ISBN 1 873361 20 3.
Katherine Homewood
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07 December 2011, pp. 317-318
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P. Gibbon (ed.), Liberalised Development in Tanzania: studies on accumulation processes and local institutions. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1995, £12.95, ISBN 91 7106 370 6.
Tim Kelsall
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07 December 2011, pp. 628-630
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James L. A. Webb Jr, Desert Frontier: ecological and economic change along the western Sahel, 1600–1850. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, 253 pp., US$45.50, ISBN 0 299 14330 9 (hard covers), US$19.95, ISBN 0 299 14334 1 (paperback).
Tony Binns
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Tony Hodges, Angola to 2000: prospects for recovery. London: Economist Intelligence Unit, 1993, 170 pp., £245.00. - Shawn McCormick, The Angolan Economy: prospects for growth in a postwar environment. Washington, DC.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994, 78 pp., $25.00. - David Sogge, Sustainable Peace: Angola's recovery. Harare: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre, 1992, 152 pp., £15.00. - Elaine Windrich, The Cold War Guerrilla: Jonas Savimbi, the US media, and the Angolan war. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992, 183 pp., £35.95.
Alex Vines
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07 December 2011, pp. 318-320
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Petr Zima, Lexique dendi (Songhay) (Djougou, Bénin), avec un index français–dendi. Westafrikanische Studien, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte 4, Cologne: Köppe, 1994, 321 pp., ISBN 3 9227620 45 9.
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal
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07 December 2011, pp. 630-631
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A. J. G. M. Sanders, Speaking for the Bushmen. Gaborone: the Botswana Society, 1995, 137 pp., 30 pula (southern Africa, 35 pula; US$12.00; £6.00), ISBN 99912 60 30 7.
Alan Barnard
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John O. Kokwaro, Flowering Plant Families of East Africa: an introduction to plant taxonomy. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1994, 292 pp., £14.95, ISBN 9966 46 4905 (distributed in the UK by African Books Collective, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU).
Bernard W. Riley, David Brokensha
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AFR volume 66 issue 3 Front matter
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Philip Baker (compiler) International Directory of African Studies Research/Répertoire International des Etudes Africaines, third revised and expanded edition. London: Hans Zell, for the International African Institute, 1994, 342 pp., £95.00, ISBN 0 905450 24 8.
Graham Furniss
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General Index to Volume 66
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Dennis D. Cordell and Joel W. Gregory (eds.), African Population and Capitalism: historical perspectives, second edition. Madison, Wi., and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994, 304 pp., £36.50, ISBN 0 299 14270 1 hard covers, £16.50, ISBN 0 299 14274 4 paperback.
Bruce Fetter
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F. J. S. Wijsen, There is only one God: a social-scientific and theological study of popular religion and evangelization in Sukumaland, northwest Tanzania. Church and Theology in Context series, No. 22, Kampen: Uitgeverij Kok, 1993, 341 pp.
Malcolm Ruel
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07 December 2011, p. 322
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Ian Christoplos, Decentralisation and Transformation: alternative approaches for decentralising assessment. Research Report No. 3, Uppsala: Research Programme on Environmental Policy and Society, 1994, 40 pp., ISBN 91 506 1058 9.
David Williams
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Reviews of Books

Percy Turner Wilde, Bwana Polisi. Under three flags. Braunton, Devon: Merlin Books, 1993, 141 pp., £10.95, ISBN 0 86303 645 7.

Chris Prouty and Eugene Rosenfeld, Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia and Eritrea, second edition. Metuchen, N.J., and London: Scarecrow Press, 1994, 642 pp., US$69.50, ISBN 0 8108 2663 1.

Robert Serpell, The Significance of Schooling: life-journeys in an African society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 345 pp., £45.00 (US$ 59.95), ISBN 0 521 39478 3.

Ngwabi Bhebe and Terence Ranger (eds.), Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. London: James Currey, 1995, 211 pp., £35.00 hardback, ISBN 0 85255 659 4; £12.95 paperback, ISBN 0 85255 609 8.

Mirjam de Bruijn and Han van Dijk, Arid Ways: cultural understandings of insecurity in Fulbe society, central Mali. Amsterdam: Thela, 1995, 547 pp., 59.90 florins, ISBN 9 055380 13 X.

Veronica Berry (ed.), The Culwick Papers, 1934–44: population, food and health in colonial Tanganyika. London: Academy Books, 1994, 288 pp., £20.00, ISBN 1 873361 20 3.

P. Gibbon (ed.), Liberalised Development in Tanzania: studies on accumulation processes and local institutions. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1995, £12.95, ISBN 91 7106 370 6.

James L. A. Webb Jr, Desert Frontier: ecological and economic change along the western Sahel, 1600–1850. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, 253 pp., US$45.50, ISBN 0 299 14330 9 (hard covers), US$19.95, ISBN 0 299 14334 1 (paperback).

Petr Zima, Lexique dendi (Songhay) (Djougou, Bénin), avec un index français–dendi. Westafrikanische Studien, Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte 4, Cologne: Köppe, 1994, 321 pp., ISBN 3 9227620 45 9.

A. J. G. M. Sanders, Speaking for the Bushmen. Gaborone: the Botswana Society, 1995, 137 pp., 30 pula (southern Africa, 35 pula; US$12.00; £6.00), ISBN 99912 60 30 7.

Shorter Notices

John O. Kokwaro, Flowering Plant Families of East Africa: an introduction to plant taxonomy. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 1994, 292 pp., £14.95, ISBN 9966 46 4905 (distributed in the UK by African Books Collective, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU).

Front matter

AFR volume 66 issue 3 Front matter

Reviews of Books

Philip Baker (compiler) International Directory of African Studies Research/Répertoire International des Etudes Africaines, third revised and expanded edition. London: Hans Zell, for the International African Institute, 1994, 342 pp., £95.00, ISBN 0 905450 24 8.

Index

General Index to Volume 66

Shorter Notices

Dennis D. Cordell and Joel W. Gregory (eds.), African Population and Capitalism: historical perspectives, second edition. Madison, Wi., and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994, 304 pp., £36.50, ISBN 0 299 14270 1 hard covers, £16.50, ISBN 0 299 14274 4 paperback.

Back matter

AFR volume 66 issue 3 Back matter

Front matter

AFR volume 66 issue 4 Front matter

Shorter Notices

F. J. S. Wijsen, There is only one God: a social-scientific and theological study of popular religion and evangelization in Sukumaland, northwest Tanzania. Church and Theology in Context series, No. 22, Kampen: Uitgeverij Kok, 1993, 341 pp.

Ian Christoplos, Decentralisation and Transformation: alternative approaches for decentralising assessment. Research Report No. 3, Uppsala: Research Programme on Environmental Policy and Society, 1994, 40 pp., ISBN 91 506 1058 9.

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