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ASA Review of Books, Volume 6 - 1980

Oral Literature, Music, and Dance

Wande Abimbola. Ifá Divination Poetry. New York: Nok Publishers Ltd., 1977. x + 170 pp. Preface, texts, notes, bibliography. $12.50 hardcover; $4.95 paper.

Paul F. Berliner. The Soul of Mbira. Music and Tradition of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. xx + 280 pp. Figures, tables, orthography, notes, plates, appendices, bibliography, discography, index. $17.00.

Daniel P. Biebuyck. Hero and Chief. Epic Literature from the Banyanga Zaire Republic. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978. xii + 320 pp. Photos, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $20.00.

John Miller Chernoff. African Rhythm and African Sensibility. Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1979. xvii + 261 pp. Plates, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $20.00.

Charles Keil. Tiv Song. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. xix + 301 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, plates, bibliography, index of Tiv terms, subject index. $26.00.

Mabel H. Ross and Barbara K. Walker. “On Another Day. ...” Tales Told Among the Nkundo of Zaïre. Foreword by Daniel J. Crowley. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1979. 596 pp. Illustrations, pronunciation guide, appendices, bibliography, index. $35.00.

Islam and Christianity

Nehemiah Levtzion, ed. Conversion to Islam. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1979. viii + 272 pp. Tables, figures, bibliography, index. $29.50.

John Ralph Willis, ed. Studies in West African Islamic History. Volume 1: The Cultivators of Islam. London and Totowa, N. J.: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1979. 375 pp. Maps, glossaries, index, bibliography. $37.50.

J. S. Birks. Across the Savannas to Mecca; The Overland Pilgrimage Route from West Africa. London: C. Hurst & Co., 1978. 161 pp. Maps, tables, graphs, glossary. No price given.

Lamin O. Sanneh. The Jakhanke: The History of an Islamic Clerical People of Senegambia. London: International African Institute, 1979. xii + 276 pp. Maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. £10.00.

T. G. O. Gbadamosi. The Growth of Islam Among the Yoruba, 1841-1908. Highlands, N. J.: Humanities Press, 1979. 265 pp. Maps, bibliography, index. $23.00.

Gabriel Warburg. Islam, Nationalism and Communism in a Traditional Society. The Case of Sudan. London: Frank Cass and Co., Ltd., 1978. 253 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. $22.50.

Edward Fashole-Luke, Richard Gray, Adrian Hastings, and Godwin Tasie, eds. Christianity in Independent Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. x + 630 pp. Bibliography, index. $27.50.

Geoffrey Z. Kapenzi. The Clash of Cultures: Christian Missionaries and the Shona of Rhodesia. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979. iii + 104 pp. Notes, bibliography. $7.00 paper.

Ethiopia and the European Powers

African Societies and Imperialism

African Societies and Imperialism

Arthur Abraham. Mende Government and Politics Under Colonial Rule. A Historical Study of Political Change in Sierra Leone 1890-1937. Freetown: Sierra Leone University Press and Oxford University Press, 1978. xvii + 330 pp. Maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $22.00.

Gerald J. Bender. Angola Under the Portuguese: The Myth and the Reality. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978. xxvii + 287 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. $15.00.

Clive Dewey and A. G. Hopkins, eds. The Imperial Impact: Studies in the Economic History of Africa and India. London: Athlone Press, 1978. 409 pp. Glossary, index. $25.00 paper.

L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan, eds. African Proconsuls. European Governors in Africa. New York: The Free Press, 1978. x + 548 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $29.95.

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ASA Review of Books, Volume 6 - 1980

Oral Literature, Music, and Dance

Islam and Christianity

Ethiopia and the European Powers

African Societies and Imperialism

African Societies and Imperialism