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T H E J O U R N A L O F A F R I C A N H I S T O R Y
E D I T O R S
D . M . A N D E R S O N School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London WCIH OXG, England
L . B R E N N E R School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London WCIH OXG, England
P . M . M A R T I N Indiana University, Bloomington, IN47405, U.S.A. J. C . M I L L E R University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.
Books for rev iew should be sent to D . M . A n d e r s o n at S.O.A.S.
A D V I S O R Y E D I T O R I A L BOARD
P . B o n n e r University of the Witwatersrand
J. C l a n c y - S m i t h University of Arizona J. D e n b o w University of Texas, Austin J. D . Fage University of Birmingham T . Falola University of Texas, Austin A . Jones Institut fiir Afrikanistik, Leipzig R. L a w York University, Ontario K . M a n n Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia
M . M b o d j Universite de Dakar, Senegal W . Nasson University of Cape Town W . R. O c h i e n g ' Maseno University
College, Kenya R . A . O l i v e r S.O.A.S., London J. Parpart Dalhousie University D . Rob inson Michigan State University
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SlU-tDWARDSVILLE, ILI Women, Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the
British Cape Colony and its Frontier Zones, c. 1806-70HELEN BRADFORD University of Cape Town 351
II The Will of Abraham and Elizabeth September: the Struggle forLand in Gordonia, 1898-1995MARTIN LEGASSICK University of the Western Cape 371
Biographies and Life Histories
III Joao dos Santos Albasini (1876-1922): the Contradictions ofPolitics and Identity in Colonial MozambiqueJEANNE MARIE PENVENNE Tufts University 419
IV Tanganyikan Nationalism as 'Women's Work': Life Histories,Collective Biography and Changing HistoriographySUSAN GEIGER University of Minnesota 465
Review Article
V Africa's Population HistoryTHOMAS SPEAR University of Wisconsin-Madison 479
REVIEWS OF BOOKS
Jan Vansina, Living with Africa. j . D. FAGE 487Marilyn E. Heldman, The Marian Icons of the Painter Fre Seyon : A Study in
Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Art, Patronage, and Spirituality. JAMES QUIRIN 489W. G. F. Lacroix, Beschrijving van het Koninkrijk Kongo; Het binnenland van
Afrika in de zestiende eenw; and Afrika in de oudheid. MICHEL R. DOORTMONT 490David Beach, A Zimbabwean Past: Shona Dynastic Histories and Oral
Traditions. DAVID HEDGES 492
Deng D. Akol Ruay, The Politics of Two Sudans: The South and the Northi8zi-ig6g. ROBERT O. COLLINS 493
Trewhella Cameron, Jan Smuts : An Illustrated Biography. IAIN R. SMITH 494Ian Phimister, Wangi Kolia : Coal, Capital and Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe,
i8g4-ig54. DIANA JEATER 495
Rugano J. Zvobgo, Colonialism and Education in Zimbabwe. SYBILLE KUSTER 497Kenneth J. Perkins, Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City.
ENDRE STIANSEN 499
Christophe Bonneuil, Des savants pour Vempire: la structuration des recherchesscientifiques coloniales, igij-ig45- MONICA M. VAN BEUSEKOM 501
David Hedges (ed.), Historia de Mozambique: Mozambique no auge docolonialismo, i()30-ig6i. Vol. 3. M. NEWITT 502
A.T. and G. M. Culwick, The Culwick Papers igj4-ig44, edited by VeronicaBerry. GREGORY H. MADDOX 503
Yvonne Muthien, State and Resistance in South Africa, igjg-ig6§.TSHIDISO MALOKA 505
William Minter, Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War inAngola and Mozambique. ROBIN PALMER 506
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Daphna Golan, Inventing Shaka: Using History in the Construction of Zulu
Nationalism. PAUL LA HAUSSE 507
Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack (eds.), Hausa Women in the Twentieth
Century. MAUREEN MALOWANY : 509
Tom Forrest, The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private
Enterprise. S. E. STOCKWELL 510
Thomas D. Blakely, Walter E. A. van Beek and Dennis L. Thomson, (eds.)Religion in Africa. RICHARD GRAY 512
Hugo Slim and Paul Thompson, Listening -for a Change: Oral Testimony and
Development. ELIZABETH TONKIN 513
Linda F. Zamponi, Niger; R. M. Dilley and J. S. Eades, Senegal; Samuel
Decalo, Burkina Faso. JAMES L. A. WEBB, JR. 515
SHORTER NOTICES
Peter and Ama Shinnie, Early Asante. TIMOTHY INSOLL 516John D. Fage, Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in
European Languages. BEATRIX HEINTZE 517
Voyages en Afrique Noire d'Alvise Ca' da Mosto (1455 et 1456), Frederique
Verrier (trans, and ed.). GERARD CHOUIN 517
Erik Tilleman, A Short and Simple Account of the Country of Guinea and its
Nature {i6gy), Selena Axelrod Winsnes (trans, and ed.). LARRY W. YARAK 518
David Northrup (ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade. DAVID RICHARDSON 519
Bolanle Awe (ed.), Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective. ANN O'HEAR 520
Gracia Clark, Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West
African Market Women. CLAIRE ROBERTSON 520
Edward Kanu Uku, as told to Mary Easterfield, Seeds in the Palm of Your
Hand. SUSAN MARTIN 521
Roberto Morozzo della Rocca, Mozambico dalla guerra alia pace. Storia de una
mediazione insolita. ANNA MARIA GENTILI 522
Bernard de Bunsen, Adventures in Education. A. D. ROBERTS 522
A. H. M. Kirk-Greene (ed.), The Emergence of African History at British
Universities. MARTIN LYNN 523
Learthen Dorsey, Historical Dictionary of Rwanda. TIMOTHY P. LONGMAN 524
D. Elwood Dunn, Liberia. CHRISTOPHER FYFE 525
George Joffe and Valery Day-Viaud, Chad. MARIO j . AZEVEDO 525
John J. Grotpeter, Historical Dictionary of Namibia. PATRICIA HAYES 526
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