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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES Volume 22 1989 Number 1

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Edited by Norman R. Bennett

African Studies Center Boston University

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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

Volume 22 1989 Number 1

Copyright 1989 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University

ARTICLES

THE EAST AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, 1861-1895: THE "SOUTHERN" COMPLEX, by Gwyn Campbell 1

SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION IN SENEGAL'S PEANUT BASIN: THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES, by Bernard Moitt 27

TWIN BIRTHS: AFRICAN NATIONALISM AND GOVERNMENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT IN THE BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE, 1957-1966, by James J. Zaffiro 51

FERTILITY, MORTALITY, AND MIGRATION IN THE CAPE COLONY, 1891-1904, by Charles Simkins and Elizabeth van Heyningen 79

BOOK REVIEWS

Guyer, ed., Feeding African Cities: Studies in Regional Social

History, by JAY O'BRIEN 113

Geary, Images from Bamum: German Colonial Photography at the Court of King Njoya, Cameroon, West Africa, 1902-1915, by RAYMOND A. SILVERMAN 115

Schatzberg, ed., The Political Economy of Kenya, by GAVIN KITCHING 117

Covell, Madagascar: Politics, Economics and Society, by PAUL OTTINO 119

Anderson and Grove, eds., Conservation in Africa: Peoples, Policies and

Practice, by EDWARD I. STEINHART 120

Crush, The Struggle for Swazi Labour, 1890-1920, by ALAN R. BOOTH 122

Schildkrout, ed., The Golden Stool: Studies of the Asante Center and

Periphery, by PAUL S. GRAY 124

Riff, ed., The Dictionary of Modern Political Ideologies, by LLOYD N. BEECHER, JR. 125

Bright, The Miniature Epic in Vandal Africa, by B. H. WARMINGTON 126

Negash, Italian Colonialism in Eritrea, 1882-1941: Policies, Praxis and

Impact, by TOM KILLION 128

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Sieber and Walker, African Art in the Cycle of Life; and Freyer, Royal Benin Art, by MONNI ADAMS 130

Johnston, Of God and Maxim Guns: Presbyterianism in Nigeria, 1846-1966, by A. H. M. KIRK-GREENE 132

Deng and Gifford, eds., The Search for Peace and Unity in the Sudan, by JOHN O. VOLL 133

Beinin and Lockman, Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954, by ARTHUR GOLDSCHMIDT, JR. 134

Kellner, Kwame Nkrumah, by ADELAIDE M. CROMWELL 136

Gilfoy, Patterns of Life: West African Strip-Weaving Traditions; and Schaedler, Weaving in Africa South of the Sahara, by MARGARET JEAN HAY 137

McDermott, Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak: A Flawed Revolution, by JAMES JANKOWSKI 138

Cole, Crossroads: The Politics of Reform and Repression 1976-1986, by COLIN MURRAY 139

Akinrinade and Barling, eds., Economic Development in Africa: International Efforts, Issues, and Prospects, by THOMAS R. DE GREGORI 141

Kitchen, ed., Angola, Mozambique and the West, by WILLIAM MINTER 142

Diamond, Linz and Lipset, eds., Democracy in Developing Countries, Volume II: Africa, by ROBERT MELSON 143

UNESCO, Distinctive Characteristics and Common Features of African Cultural Areas South of the Sahara, by BENJAMIN NIMER 145

Falola, Britain and Nigeria: Exploitation or Development?, by TUNDE BABAWALE 147

Creel, "A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs, by R. L. WATSON 149

Legum, The Battlefronts of Southern Africa, by ROBERT I. ROTBERG 151

Baker, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, by GERALD HORNE 152

Fortes, Religion, Morality and the Person, by DARRELL REECK 154

Heggoy, The French Conquest of Algiers, 1830: An Algerian Oral Tradition, by JAMES J. COOKE 155

MacGaffey, Religion and Society in Central Africa: The Bakongo of Lower Zaire, by ALLEN F. ROBERTS 156

Shelemay, Music, Ritual and Falasha History, by STEVEN KAPLAN 158

Goerg, Commerce et colonisation en Guinee (1850-1913), by MARTIN A. KLEIN 160

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Haberland, Recherches Allemandes au Burkina Faso; and Frobenius, Histoire et Contes de Mossi, by SUSAN DRUCKER-BROWN 161

Agbeti, West African Church History: Christian Missions and Church Foundations 1482-1919, by SEAN MORROW 162

Ate, Decolonization and Dependence: The Development of Nigerian - U.S. Relations, 1960-1984, by EDWARD BAUM 163

Connelly, Arab Folk Epic and Identity, by BYRON D. CANNON 165

Marotti, Black Characters in the Brazilian Novel, by ROY ARTHUR GLASGOW 166

Stead, Egyptian Life, by KENT R. WEEKS 168

Appleyard, Irvine, Pankhurst, eds., Letters from Ethiopian Rulers

(Early and Mid-Nineteenth Century), by ALESSANDRO TRIULZI 169

Omer-Cooper, History of Southern Africa; and Shillington, History of Southern Africa, by R. HUNT DAVIS, JR. 171

Mayer, The Changing Past: Egyptian Historiography of the Urabi Revolt, 1882-1983, by DONALD MALCOLM REID 173

Cromwell, An African Victorian Feminist: The Life and Times of Adelaide Smith Casely Hayford 1868-1960, by KAREN E. FIELDS 174

Hodd, ed.,Tanzania After Nyerere, by JOEL SAMOFF 177

Lewis, A Modern History of Somalia: Nation and State in the Horn of Africa, by PETER T. DALLEO 180

Massey, Subsistence and Change: Lessons of Agropastoralism in Somalia, by PETER T. DALLEO 181

Anderson, The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980, by KENNETH J. PERKINS 182

Anthony, Mechanization and Maize: Agriculture and the Politics of Technology Transfer in East Africa, by DEBORAH BRYCESON 183

D'Hertefelt and De Lame, Societe, Culture, et Histoire du Rwanda:

Encyclopedie Bibliographique, 1863-1980/87 by DAVID NEWBURY 186

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 189

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Disputing the Machines: Scientific Management and the Transformation of the Work Routine at the Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, by John Higginson; The Business of Slavery in the Central Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1910-1930, by Jay Spaulding; Farmers, Hunters, and Gold-Washers: A Reevaluation of Women's Roles in Precolonial and Colonial Zimbabwe, by Elizabeth Schmidt; The Political Economy of Livestock Marketing in Northern Somalia, by Abdi Samatar, Lance Salisbury, and Jonathan Bascom; Gold Mining and the French Takeover of Madagascar, 1883-1914, by Gwyn Campbell; Continuity in West African Monetary History? An Outline of Monetary Development, by J. S. Hogendorn and H. A. Gemery; as well as numerous book reviews!

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Ethnohistory The Official Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory

A Special Issue

Africa and Ethnohistory 36:1 (Winter 1989)

Edward I. Steinhart, special issue editor

Articles that appeared in Contents the 1988 volume

The Undefining of Oral

Tradition, David William Cohen

The Evolution of Ethnicity among the Acholi of Uganda:

The Precolonial Phase, Ronald R. Atkinson

West African Coastal Slavery in the Nineteenth Century: The

Case of the Afro-European Slaveowners of Elmina,

Larry W. Yarak

Eyewitness Accounts of

Buganda History: The Memoirs of Ham Mukasa and His

Generation, John A. Rowe

The Structure of a Legacy: Military Slavery in Northeast

Africa, Douglas H. Johnson

The United States Constitution and the Iroquois League, Elisabeth Tooker

The Solar Christ in Nahuatl Doctrinal Texts of Early Colonial Mexico, Louise M. Burkhart

How Inca Decimal Administra- tion Worked, Catherine J. Julien

Culture Theory in Contempo- rary Ethnohistory, William S. Simmons

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A Note from the Editor of

THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL

OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

Would you like to review books for IJAHS?

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