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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

Volume 28 1995 Number2

Edited by Norman R. Bennett

African Studies Center Boston University

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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

EDITOR Norman R. Bennett

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THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

Volume 28 1995 Number 2

Copyright 1995 by the Board of Trustees of Boston University

ARTICLES

GENDER RELATIONS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE NORTHERN SOMALI PASTORAL TRADITION, by Lidwien Kapteijns 241

COMPETING MARKETS FOR MALE AND FEMALE SLAVES: PRICES IN THE INTERIOR OF WEST AFRICA, 1780-1850, by Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson 261

MULTIPLE NARRATIVES, GENDERED VOICES: REMEMBERING THE PAST IN HIGHLAND CENTRAL MADAGASCAR, by Pier M. Larson 295

ASAFO AND DESTOOLMENT IN COLONIAL SOUTHERN GHANA, 19001953, by Anshan Li 327

COMMUNICATIONS

CONTEXT AND FURTHER QUESTIONS: RESPONSE AND THANKS TO HEIDI GENGENBACH, by Kirk Hoppe 359

BOOK REVIEWS

Lovejoy and Hogendom, Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936. by PRISCILLA E. STARRATT 364

Baron, The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society and the Press, by LIDWIEN KAPTEUNS 366

Gifford, Christianity and Politics in Doe's Liberia, by JO SULLIVAN 368

Barron, Edwards, and Storey, eds., Constitutions and National Identity, by CALVIN A. WOODWARD 371

Davidson, The Search for Africa: History, Culture, Politics, by JAY SPAULDING 373

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Gibbon, ed., Social Change and Economic Reform in Africa, by MARSHALL S. CLOUGH 374

Hardin, The Aesthetics of Action: Continuity and Change in a West African Town, by PAUL RICHARDS 376

McDonald, The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana, by PATRICK MANNING 379

Switzer, Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa, by PAMELA SCULLY 381

Augi and Lawal, eds., Studies in the History of the People of Zuru Emirate, by A.G. ADEBAYO 382

HORTON, Liberia's Underdevelopment-In Spite of the Struggle, A Personal Analysis of the Underlying Reasons for Liberia's Underdevelopment, by YEKUTIEL GERSHONI 385

Dauber, ed., Nicht als Abentheurer bin ich hierhergekommen...: 100 Jahre Entwicklungs-"Hilfe"; Bindseil, Ruanda im lebensbild des Offiziers, Afrikaforschers und Kaiserlichen Gouverneurs Gustav Adolf Graf von Gotzen, by THADDEUS SUNSERI

387

James, ed., Environmental and Economic Dilemmas of Developing Countries: Africa in the Twenty-First Century, by STEVEN C. RUBERT 389

De Latour, Les Temps du Pouvoir, by MARTIN A. KLEIN 391

Heino, Politics on Paper: Finland's South Africa Policy 1945- 1991, by KENNETH W. GRUNDY 392

Baker, Seeds of Trouble: Government Policy and Land Rights in Nyasaland, 1946-1964, by DERRICK NAULT 394

Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa, by PATRICK FURLONG 396

Callaghy and Ravenhill, eds., Hemmed in: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline, by LINA M. FRUZZET1I 399

Gerbeau and Saugera, La Dernihre traite: Fragments d'histoire en hommage a serge Daget, by NAJIA AARIM 400

Watkins, Wouse: Jomo's Jailor, The Life of Leslie Whitehouse, by ANTHONY CLAYTON 402

Weiss, Zimbabwe and the New Elite, by ELIZABETH SCHMIDIT 403

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Moore and Vaughan, Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990, by PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA 404

Brandon, Santaria from Africa to the New World: The Dead Sell Memories, by MISTY L. BASTIAN 406

Devish, Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco- Logical Healing Cult Among the Yaka, by JULIE LIVINGSTON 408

Schoffeleers, River of Blood: The Genesis of a Martyr Cult in Southern Malawi, c. AD. 1600, by NANCY NORTHRUP 410

Summers, From Civilization to Segregation: Social Ideals and Social Control, by TIM SCARNECCHIA 412

Gibbal, Genii of the River Niger, by DAVID C. CONRAD 414

Sahn, ed., Adjusting to Policy Failure in African Economies, by PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA 416

Anderson, Mozambique: A War Against the People, by RENE PELISSIER 418

Grosh and Mukandala, eds., State-Owned Enterprises in Africa, by PAUL HESP 419

Haberland, Hierarchie und Kaste. Zur Geschichte und Politischen Struktur der Dizi, by HAROLD C. FLEMING 421

Perrot, Le Passe de l'Afrique par l'oralite, by DAVID HENIGE 426

Mullin, Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831, by PAUL E. LOVEJOY 428

Richards, The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire, by DAVID HENIGE 429

Seekings, Heroes or Villains? Youth Politics in the 1980s; Friedman, ed., The Long Journey: South Africa's Quest for a Negotiated Settlement, by NORMA KRIGER 431

Bagnall, Egypt in Late Antiquity, by MICHAEL H. ZACH 434

Van Rooyen, Hard Right: The New White Power in South Africa, by PATRICK FURLONG 436

Deffontaine, Guerre et societe au royaume de Fetu (Efutu), by ADAM JONES 438

Adam and Geshekter, Proceedings of the First International Conference of Somali Studies, by HERBERT S. LEWIS 440

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Inikori and Engernan, eds., The Atlantic Slave Trade, by RICHARD H. STECKEL 443

Godwin and Hancock, Rhodesians Never Die, by CINDY COURVILLE 445

O'Regan, From Empire to Commonwealth, by ADEBAYO A. LAWAL 447

Falola, ed., Yoruba Historiography, by SARA BERRY 449

Mann and Sanders, eds., A Bibliography of African Language Texts, by GRETCHEN WALSH 450

Poewe, The Namibian Herero, by DAG HENRICHSEN 453

Johnson, Nuer Prophets: A History of Prophecy from the Upper Nile, by JAY SPAULDING 455

Callaway and Creevey, The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion and Politics in West Africa, by PENELOPE ROBERTS 456

Taylor, Milk, Honey, and Money: Changing Concepts in Rwandan Healing, by NANCY ROSE HUNT 458

Grinker, Houses in the Rainforest, by JAMES ANTHONY PRITCHETT 461

Steiner, African Art in Transit, by JONATHAN ZILBERG 464

Ambrose, Maseru: An Illustrated History, by JAMES COBBE 466

Vansina, Living with Africa, by DANIEL F. MCCALL 468

King, Fiedler, and White, eds., Robin Lamburn-From A Missionary's Notebook, by MAT1HEW SCHOFFELEERS 472

Hiskett, The Sword of Truth: The Life and Times of the Shehu Usuman Dan Fodio, by HAMIDOU DIALLO 474

Fukui and Markakis, eds., Ethnicity and Conflict in the Horn of Africa, by JAY O'BRIEN 476

Stengers, ed., Recueil d'Etudes Congo 1955-1960, by JACQUES DEPELCHIN 478

Notes on Contributors 480

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