ASA Review of Books, Volume 4 - 1978
- This volume was published under a former title. See this journal's title history.
Empire to Revolution
Ethiopia
Allan Hoben. Land Tenure Among the Amhara of Ethiopia: The Dynamics of Cognatic Descent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. xiv + 273 pp. Tables, maps, figures, glossary, appendix, bibliography, index. $9.50
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Sven Rubenson. The Survival of Ethiopian Independence. London: Heinemann, 1976. 437 pp. Illustrations, maps, documents, bibliography, index. £15.00
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Jack Shepherd. The Politics of Starvation. With an afterword by Stephen J. Green. New York and Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1975. xiii + 101 pp. Bibliography. $3.00 paper
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The Critics and African Literature
Writers and Critics
Christopher Heywood, ed. Aspects of South African Literature. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1976. xv + 192 pp. Index. $15.50 - Eldred Durosimi Jones, ed. African Literature Today. No. 8: Drama in Africa. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1976. viii + 150 pp. Index. $10.50 - Wole Soyinka. Myth, Literature and the African World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. xii + 168 pp. Appendix, index. $11.95 - Edgar Wright, ed. The Critical Evaluation of African Literature. Washington, D.C.: Inscape Corporation, 1976. xi + 179 pp. Index. $16.50
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Critical Perspectives: Local, Regional, Universal?
Writers and Critics
Eldred D. Jones, ed. African Literature Today. No. 7: Focus on Criticism. New York: Africana Publishing Company; London: Heinemann, 1975. 169 pp. Index. $10.50 - Oladele Taiwo. Culture and the Nigerian Novel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976. 235 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $15.95
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Dorothy S. Blair. African Literature in French: A History of Creative Writing in French from West and Equatorial Africa. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1976. xix + 348 pp. Frontispiece photo, map, table, appendix, bibliography, index. $28.50
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G.A. Heron. The Poetry of Okot p'Bitek. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1976. 163 pp. Bibliography, index. $14.00
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Bruce King and Kolawole Ogungbesan, eds. A Celebration of Black and African Writing. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press; Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1975. xx + 259 pp. $25.75
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Bernth Lindfors, ed. Critical Perspectives on Nigerian Literatures. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents, 1976. xiv + 286 pp. Bibliography. $15.00 paper
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Adrian Roscoe. Uhuru's Fire. London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1977. xi + 281 pp. Notes, index. $18.50 hardcover; $6.95 paper
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Rowland Smith, ed. Exile and Tradition: Studies in African and Caribbean Literature. New York: African Publishing Co., 1976. xiv + 190 pp. $18.00 hardcover; $7.00 paper
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Review Articles and Reviews
Rene Bravmann. Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974. xii + 190 pp. Maps, plates, bibliography, index. $14.95 - Phillip J.C. Dark. An Introduction to Benin Art and Technology. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1973. vi +144 pp. [+ 80 pp. plates]. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $27.25 - Dennis Duerden. African Art. An Introduction. New York: Hamlyn, 1974. 51 pp. Illustrations, map. $3.95 paper - Daniel F. McCall and Edna G. Bay, eds. African Images. Essays in African Iconology. New York: Africana Publishing Co., 1975. xiii + 326 pp. [+ 64 pp. plates] . Illustrations, bibliography, notes. $35.00 - Simon Ottenberg. Masked Rituals of Afikpo. The Context of An African Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1975. 229 pp. [+ 8 pp. plates]. Maps, illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $25.00
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Bjorn Beckman. Organizing the Farmers: Cocoa Politics and National Development in Ghana. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1976. Distributed by Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., New York. 299 pp. Maps, tables, appendices, notes, bibliography. $14.00 paper - Martin Igbozurike. Problem-Generating Structures in Nigeria's Rural Development. Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1976. Distributed by Holmes and Meier Publishers Inc., New York. 140 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography. $11.00 paper
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William I. Jones. Planning and Economic Policy: Socialist Mali and Her Neighbors. Washington, D.C.: Three Continents Press, 1976. xiii + 422 pp. Bibliography. $18.00 hardcover; $10.00 paper - Klaus Ernst. Tradition and Progress in the African Village: Noncapitalist Transformation of Rural Communities in Mali. New York: St. Martins Press, 1976. First published in German in 1973 by Akademie-Verlag, Berlin. 262 pp. Appendix, glossary, bibliography. $25.00
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Marc Ross. The Integration of Urban Squatters. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1973. 228 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. $8.50 - Richard Stren. Urban Inequality and Housing Policy in Tanzania: The Problem of Squatting. Berkeley, California: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1975. 112 pp. Tables, bibliography. $2.50 paper
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 78-81
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Mahmood Mamdani. Politics and Class Formation in Uganda. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1976. viii + 339 pp. Bibliography, index. $5.95 paper - Issa G. Shivji. Class Struggles in Tanzania. New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1976. 182 pp. Tables, charts, index. $4.95 paper.
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 82-84
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Janet Abu-Lughod and Richard HayJr. , eds. Third World Urbanization. Chicago: Maaroufa Press Inc., 1977. 395 pp. $14.95 hardcover; $6.95 paper
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African Book Publishing Record, Hans M. Zell, ed. The African Book World and Press; Repertoire du livre et du la Presse en Afrique. Oxford: Hans Zell Publishers; Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1977. xxvi, (4) leaves + 296 pp. Appendices. $40.00
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 85-86
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Samir Amin. Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism. Translated by Brian Pierce. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976. 440 pp. Bibliography, index. $17.50
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 87-88
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A.I. Asiwaju. Western Yorubaland under European Rule, 1889-1945, A Comparative Analysis of French and British Colonialism. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1976. xvi + 303 pp. Maps, plates, appendices, bibliography, index. $ 13.00
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- 24 July 2017, pp. 88-90
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