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Board of Trustees, Boston University
Front MatterSource: The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3 (1998), pp. i-626Published by: Boston University African Studies CenterStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/221473 .
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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES
Volume 31 1998 Number 3
Copyright 1998 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University
ARTICLES
BLACK AMERICANS AND AFRICA: A CRITIQUE OF THE PAN-AFRICAN AND IDENTITY PARADIGMS, by Tunde Adeleke 505
THE WAR HOUSES OF THE WATARA IN WEST AFRICA, by Mahir Saul 537
LANDLORDS, THE STATE, AND CHILD LABOR IN COLONIAL SWAZILAND, 1914-1947, by Hamilton Sipho Simelane 571
"I STUDIED WITH THE NUNS, LEARNING TO MAKE BLOUSES": GENDER IDEOLOGY AND COLONIAL EDUCATION IN MOZAMBIQUE, by Kathleen Sheldon 595
BOOK REVIEWS
Schoenbrun, A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the Fifteenth Century, by DAVID NEWBURY 627
Spear and Kimambo, East African Expressions of Christianity, by ROBERT STRAYER 628
Dumett, El Dorado in West Africa. The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875-1900, by PAUL S. GRAY 629
Hale, Griots and Griottes: Masters of Words and Music, by JAN JANSEN 631
Tayob, Islanm in South Africa: Mosques, Itnams, and Sermons, by SURENDRA BHANA 632
Wrigley, Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty, by JOHN A. ROWE 633
Hansen and Twaddle, eds., Developing Uganda, by TIMOTHY M. SHAW 635
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Rubert, A Most Promising Weed: A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1945, by WILLIAM A. MUNRO 637
Austen and Derrick, Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and the Hinterland, c. 1600-c. 1960, by JOSEPH TAKOUGANG 638
Kuba, Wasangari und Wangara: Borgu und seine Nachbarn in historischer Perspektive, by ANDERS BJ0RKELO 640
Falola, Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies, by FUNSO AFOLAYAN 641
Thornton, The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kinmpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706, by ANTONIO CUSTODIO GON4ALVES and MACIEL MORAIS SANTOS 642
Dobell, SWAPO's Strugglefor Namibia, 1960-1991: War by Other Means, by WAZHA G. MORAPEDI 644
Werner, "No One Will Be Rich": Economy and Society in the Herero Reserves in Namibia, 1915-1946, by WAZHA G. MORAPEDI 646
Peoples of Africa, Vols. 1-6, by JOHN M. CINNAMON 647
Strickrodt, "Those Wild Scenes": Africa in the Travel Writings of Sarah Lee (1791-1856), by T.J. BOISSEAU 649
Neumann, Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa; and Smith, Anmboseli: Nothing Short of a Miracle, by JOHN CARTWRIGHT 650
Cornaton, Les Camps de regroupement de la guerre d'Algerie, by JOHN P. ENTELIS 651
Matibag, Afro-Cuban Religious Experience: Cultural Reflections in Narrative, by JEAN HAY 652
Hountondji, African Philosophy: Myth And Reality, by MARY NOOTER ROBERTS 653
Motoji, The Everyday Life of Maragoli Migrants in Nairobi, by CHARLES AMBLER 657
Davison, Voices from Mutira: Change in the Lives of Rural Gikuyu Women, by BESSIE HOUSE-MIDAMBA 658
Lumumba-Kasongo, The Rise of Multipartyisnm and Denmocracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa, by CHRISTOPHER GRAY 660
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Green, Black Edwardians: Black People in Britain 1901-1914, by HAKIM ADI 661
Rakodi, ed., The Urban Challenge in Africa: GC-owthl and Management of Its Large Cities, by SUSAN PARNELL 662
Schaffer, Democracy in Translation. Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture, by JOHN CLARK 663
Hall, Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Incdian Ocean and Its Invaders; Storey, Science and Power iti Coloniial Mauritius, by LARRY W. BOWMAN 665
Ehret, An African Classical Age: Eastern an(d Southlern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400, by ANDRZEJ ZABORSKI 667
Vasili, The First Black Footballer: Arthur Wharton, An Absence of Memory, by RICHARD A. VOELTZ 669
Olukoshi, ed., The Politics of Opposition in Contemporar.y Africa, by FUNSO AFOLAYAN 671
Ajayi, ed., Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s. General History of Africa VI, by ROBERT 0. COLLINS 672
Iliffe, East African Doctors: A History of the Modern Profession, by DAVID GORDON 674
Seligmann, Rivalry in Southern Africa, 1893-99: The Transformation of German Colonial Policy, by TILMAN DED`ERING 676
Piriou and Sibeud, eds., L'Africani.sme en questions, by ALICE L. CONKLIN 677
Behrend and Geider, eds., Afrikaner Schreiben Zuruck. Texte und Bilder Afrikanischer Ethnographen, by AXEL HARNEIT-SIEVERS 680
Forkl, Politik Zwischen den Zeilen: Arabische Handschriften der Wandala in Nordkamnerun, by THADDEUS SUNSERI 683
Rouget, Un Roi africain et sa mnusique de cour: Chants et danses du palais a' Porto-Novo sous le regne de Gbefa (1948-1 976), by HARRIET JOSEPH OTTENHEIMER 684
Ojo-Ade, ed., Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African -Amnet-ican Writers, by JANIS A. MAYES 686
Connah, Kibiro: The Salt of Bunyoro Past and Present, by BRIAN FAGAN 688
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Mungazi, The Last Defenders of the Laager: Iain D. Smith and F. W. de Klerk, by JOHN NAURIGHT 719
Spencer, The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa, by MARIA ARIOTI 721
Bauer, Labor and Democracy in Namnibia, 1971-1996, by LAURENT C. W. KAELA 724
Loriaux and Morimont, Bibliographie historiquie dii Zaire a' l'epoque coloniale (1880-1996); Chidester, Tobler, and Wratten, Christianity in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliography; Chi- dester, Kwenda, Petty, Tobler, and Wratten, African Traditional Religion in South Africa: An Annotated Bibliographly; Chidester, Tobler, and Wratten, Islam, Hindiuismi, and Judaismi in Soluth Africa: An Annotated Bibliography; Pfister, Bibliography of Swiss Doctoral Dissertations on Sub-Saharan Africa, 1897- 1996; Middleton, ed., Encyclopedia of Africa South ofjthe Sa- hara, 4 vols.; Finkelman and J. Miller, eds., Macnmillanz EnIcyclo- pedia of World Slavery, vol. 1; Miller, ed., Slavery anid SlCIving in World History: A Bibliography, 2 vols., by NORMAN R. BENNETT 725
Buthelezi, ed., Souith Africa: The Dynamics and Prospects of Transformation (1900-1994), by R. L. WATSON 728
Oosthuizen and others, eds., Afro-Christian Religiotn an d Healing in Southern Africa, by DANA L. ROBERT 728
Blanc-Pamard and Cambrezy, eds., Terre, Terroire, Territoire: Les Tension.s Foncieres, by K.P. MOSELEY 729
Notes on Contributors 731
Index for Volume 31 (1998) 732
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