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Book Reviews

Bruce Chatwin: The Viceroy of Ouidah**
- a short but powerful novel of West Africa
Graham Connah: African Civilizations*
An Archaeological Perspective
Ian Cunnison: Baggara Arabs
Power and the Lineage in a Sudanese Nomad Tribe
E.E. Evans-Pritchard: The Nuer
A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
Tahar ben Jelloun: This Blinding Absence of Light*
- surviving incarceration in a secret Moroccan prison
Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Emperor
- the end of Haile Selassie and his court
Niels Kastfelt: Religion and African Civil Wars
- papers on Southern Sudan, West Africa, and Southern Africa
Ahmadou Kourouma: Allah is Not Obliged
- the story of a child soldier in West Africa
Ahmadou Kourouma: The Suns of Independence*
- a tale of Malinke tradition in an independent Africa
Ahmadou Kourouma: Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote**
- the life story of an African dictator
John Le Carré: The Constant Gardener
- a thriller about the drug industry in Africa
Phyllis M. Martin: The External Trade of the Loango Coast 1576-1870
The Effects of Changing Commercial Relations on the Vili Kingdom of Loango
Colin McEvedy: Penguin Atlas of African History
Martin Meredith: The Fate of Africa
A History of 50 Years of Independence
Brian Morris: Insects and Human Life
- insects in the social and cultural life of Malawi
Tekeste Negash: Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941
Policies, Praxis and Impact
David Northrup: Africa's Discovery of Europe: 1450-1850
- African perspectives on encounters with Europeans
Roland Oliver, Brian M. Fagan: Africa in the Iron Age
c. 500 B.C. to A.D. 1400
Richard Pankhurst: The Ethiopians
A History
Karim Sadr: The Development of Nomadism in Ancient Northeast Africa
- a deft and suggestive combination of theory and evidence
Tayeb Salih: Season of Migration to the North
- a story of sexual obsession in Britain and Sudan
Marjorie Shostak: Nisa*
The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
- Botswana's only female private investigator at work
Wole Soyinka: Aké*
- an enchanting childhood in a West Nigerian town
Hew Strachan: The First World War in Africa
- Togoland, the Cameroons, South-West Africa, East Africa
Gebru Tareke: Ethiopia: Power and Protest
Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century
Owen White: Children of the French Empire
Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa 1895-1960