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The Journal of African History
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Volume 26 - January 1985

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Prehistoric Landscapes - Frontiers: Southern African Archaeology Today. Edited by M. Hall, G. Avery, D. M. Avery, M. L. Wilson and A. J. B. Humphreys. (Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 10). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports S.207, 1984. Pp. 379. £18.00 including postage.

Manda - Manda: Excavations at an Island Port on the Kenya Coast. By Chittick Neville. Nairobi: British Institute in Eastern Africa, memoir no. 9 (distributed by Thames and Hudson, London), 1984. Pp. xvi+258, plates, figures. £25.

Ethiopian Itineraries - The Itinerário of Jerónimo Lobo. Translated by Donald M. Lockhart from the Portuguese text established and edited by M. G. da Costa with an introduction and notes by C. F. Beckingham. London: Hakluyt Society, 1984 (Second Series, Volume 162). Pp. xxxvi + 417. £15.

The Dente Oracle - Priests and Power: The Case of the Dente Shrine in Nineteenth-Century Ghana. By D. J. E. Maier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. Pp. xiii + 258. $22.50; £15.75.

Disease and the Doctor in Tunisia - Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780–1900. By Nancy Elizebeth Gallagher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 145. £19.50; $39.50.

Volta Gold - L'or de la Volta Noire: archéologie et histoire de l'exploitation traditionelle (Région de Poura, Haute-Volta). By Jean-Baptiste Kiéthéga. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1983. Pp. 247. 150 F.

The Ijesha in a Widening World - Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s–1970s. By J. D. Y. Peel. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xiv + 346. £27.50.

Mozambique in the Making - Mozambique, from Colonialism to Revolution, 1900–1982. By Allen and Barbara Isaacman. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1983. Pp. xii + 235.

Islam in West Africa - The Development of Islam in West Africa. By Mervyn Hiskett. London: Longman, 1984. Pp. xiii + 353. £6.95 (paperback). - Histoire de l'Islamisation de l'Afrique de l' Ouest: des origines à la fin du xvie siècle. By Joseph Cuoq. Paris: P. Geuthner. Pp. x + 347. 150 F.

The Swazi State - Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires. The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State. By Philip Bonner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. x + 315. £27.50.

The Pedi Go Down - The Land Belongs to Us. The Pedi Polity, the Boers and the British in the Nineteenth Century Transvaal. By Peter Delius. Johannesburg: Ravan Press; London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983–1984. Pp. xiv + 279. £16.50.

Kano - Studies in the History of Kano. Edited by Bawuro M. Barkindo. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria), 1983. Pp. xiv+214. Naira 6.95

Niger and the French - A History of Niger, 1850–1960. By Finn Fuglestad. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. viii + 275. £20.00.

Transcending the Lineage Mode - Un Ordre et sa destruction. By Georges Dupré Paris: Editions de l'Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (Collection Mémoires no. 93), 1982. Pp. 446. No price stated.

The Spiritual Search of a Sufi - West African Sufi. The Religious Heritage and Spiritual Search of Cerno Bokar Saalif Taal. By Louis Brenner. London: C. Hurst, 1984. Pp. viii + 215. £11.95.

Women as Slaves - Women and Slavery in Africa. Edited by Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein. Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983. Pp. x + 380. £19.15.

A Materialist History of Africa - The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society since 1800. By Bill Freund. London: Macmillan, 1984, Pp. xv + 357, $18. (paperback, £6.95).

A Textbook on Southern Africa - A New History of Southern Africa. By Neil Parsons. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan Education Limited, 1982. Pp. vi + 330. £3.95 (paperback).

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