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Barrett, Nathan. BARS OF ADAMANT: A TROPICAL NOVEL. New York: Fleet Publishing Corp. 288 pp. $5.95. (Barrett, a New York Negro playwright who lived for years in Jamaica, has written a significant, folklorish first novel about that Caribbean island.)

Bridgman, Jon and Clarke, David E. GERMAN AFRICA: A SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Hoover Institution Bibliographical Series: XIX. The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 120 pp. $3.00.

Cohen, Mark I. and Hahn, Lorna. MOROCCO: OLD LAND, NEW NATION. New York: F. A. Praeger. 302 pp. $6.50.

Cortazar, Julio. HOPSCOTCH. New York: Pantheon Books. 564 pp. $6.95. (By the author of the novel The Winners.)

Davidson, Basil (in collaboration with F. K. Buah and the advice of Prof. J.F.A. Ajayi). THE GROWTH OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION: A HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA, 1000-1800. London: Longmans, Green. 307 pp. 10s. (paper). (A tracing of West Africa's own indigenous civilization during the eight tremendous centuries which form the heart of the story of West Africa. The author uses the oral traditions of the people and illustrates copiously with questions, summaries and world time charts for students and teachers.)

Davies, Ioan. AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS. Baltimore, Md.: Penguin Books. 250 pp. $1.25 (paper). (In the Penguin Africa Library series.)

Davis, John A. and Baker, James K. (editors). SOUTHERN AFRICA IN TRANSITION. Published for the American Society of African Culture. New York: F. A. Praeger. 427 pp. $8.50 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (These are the papers read at one of the annual AMSAC conferences and edited by Dr. Davis of the City University of New York and Atty. Baker, both AMSAC officials.)

El Mahdi, Mandour. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SUDAN.  New York: Oxford University Press. 151 pp. $1.20 (paper).

Fagan, Brian M. SOUTHER AFRICA DURING THE IRON AGE. New York: F. A. Praeger. 222 pp. 56 plates. $7.50. (This book shows that the Bantu were in the South Africa of today by the ninth century if not earlier and were smelting iron by the eleventh century nearly 1000 years before the first Boer farmer arrived there.)

Fanon, Frantz. STUDIES IN A DYING COLONIALISM. Translated from the French. Introduction by Adolfo Gilly. New York: Monthly Review Press. 181 pp. $4.95. (A second book about the Algerian revolution by the late West Indian Negro psychiatrist. The first book, also translated into English, was The Wretched of the Earth.)

Flint, John E. NIGERIA AND GHANA. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall. 167 pp. $4.95 (cloth); $1.95 (paper).

Foster, Philip. EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN GHANA. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. 313 pp. $7.50. (The first thorough historical and current survey of Ghanaian education, the most highly developed school 

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