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Charles Van Onselen, The Seed is Mine: the life of Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper, 1894-1985. Cape Town: David Philip, 1996; New York: Farrar Strauss & Giroux; Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 668 pp., £16.95, ISBN 0 85255 740 X paperback.
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Irma Taddia, Autobiografie africane: il colonialismo nelle memorie orali. Milan: Angeli, 1996, 157 pp., L28,000, ISBN 88 204 9839 1. - Uoldelul Chelati Ghirar, Alessandro Gori and Irma Taddia (eds), Lettere tigrine: i documenti etiopici del Fondo Ellero I, II Politico e la Memoria series, Turin: Harmattan Italia, 1997, 207 pp., L29,000, ISBN 88 86664 49 4.
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Neil Parsons, King Khama, Emperor Joe and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britain through African eyes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 333 pp., £39.95, ISBN 0 226 647447 hard covers, £15.25, ISBN 0 226 64745 5 paperback.
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Anne Cornet, Histoire d'une famine, Rwanda, 1927-30: crise alimentaire entre tradition et modernité. Enquêues et documents d'histoire africain 13, Louvain-la-Neuve: Centre d'histoire de l'Afrique, Université catholique de Louvain, 1996, 156 pp., ISSN 0772 6112.
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Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace and Wolfram Hartmann (eds), Namibia under South African Rule: mobility and containment, 1915-46. Windhoek: Out of Africa; Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 1998, 350 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 85255 748 5, £15.95, ISBN 0 85255 747 7.
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M. and A. Roberts, A Sense of Wonder: African art from the Faletti family collection. Phoenix AZ: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997, 143 pp., ISBN 0 910407 33 9.
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- 07 December 2011, pp. 650-651
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Alain Ricard, Littératures d'Afrique noire: des langues aux livres. Paris: Karthala, 1995, 304 pp., FF150, ISBN 2 86537 531 5.
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E. Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim (eds), The Scramble for Art in Central Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 257 pp., £40.00 (US$59.95), ISBN 0 521 58349 7 hard covers, £14.95 (US$19.95), ISBN 0 521 58678 X paperback.
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Pamela Reynolds, Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1996, 184 pp., US$43.50, ISBN 0 8214 1121 7, $19.95, ISBN 0 8214 1122 5 paperback.
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Peter R. Schmidt and Roderick J. McIntosh (eds), Plundering Africa's Past. Oxford: James Currey, 1996, 296 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 739 6 hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 85255 738 8 paperback.
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Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Writers in Politics: a re-engagement with issues of literature and society. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 167 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 85255 542 3 hard covers, £11.95, ISBN 0 85255 541 5 paperback. - David Cook and Michael Okenimkpe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o: an exploration of his writings. Second edition, Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 284 pp., £12.00, ISBN 0 85255 539 3 paperback.
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Benedict Schubert, Der Krieg und die Kirchen. Angola 1961-1991. Theologie in Geschichte und Gesellschaft 3, Lucerne: Exodus, 1997, 344 pp., ISBN 3 905577 10 0.
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M. Keith Booker, The African Novel in English: an introduction. Studies in African Literature, Oxford: James Currey, 1998, 227 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 552 0 paperback. - Ato Quayson, Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: orality and history in the work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 180 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 85255 544 X hard covers, £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 543 1 paperback.
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Tsegaye Tegenu, The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism: the genesis and the making of the fiscal military state, 1696-1913. Studia Historica Upsaliensa 180, Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996, 281 pp., 198.00 kroner, ISBN 91 554 3856 3.
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Karin Barber (ed.), Readings in African Popular Culture. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press; Oxford: James Currey, in association with the International African Institute, 1997, 192 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 236 X paperback.
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Roland Oliver, In the Realms of Gold: pioneering in African history. London: Frank Cass, 1997, 464 pp., £39.50, ISBN 0 7146 4847 7 hard covers, £19.50, ISBN 0 7146 4405 6 paperback.
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Kenneth W. Harrow (ed.), The Marabout and the Muse: new approaches to Islam in African literature. Studies in African Literature, Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1996, 262 pp., £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 540 7 paperback (Currey), 0 453 08983 8 (Heinemann).
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Bernhard Mensen, svd (ed.), Afrika zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Akademie Völker und Kulturen St Augustin 19, Nettetal: Steyler, 1996, 120 pp., DM 28.00, ISBN 3 8050 0382 X.
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