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FREEDOMWAYS    FIRST QUARTER 1968

Frederick A. Praeger. 116 pp.; 78 illus. $40.00. (A French archaeologist and art historian gives a comprehensive survey of Ethiopian murals, paintings on wood and canvas and illustations from manuscripts, books and calendars - a sophisticated art reaching back 1,500 years to the court of the Byzantine emperors.

Le Vine, Victor T. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution. 114 pp. $3.50 (paper).

Mulford, David C. ZAMBIA: THE POLITICE OF INDEPENDENCE, 1957-1964. New York: Oxford University Press. $8.80. (How Zambia became an independent black African nation in 1964.)

Mwase, George Simeon. STRIKE A BLOW AND DIE: A NARRATIVE OF RACE RELATIONS IN COLONIAL AFRICA. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 135 pp. $4.95. (A document which contains the only biography by a fellow African of John Chilembwe, Malawi's first revolutionary who led the then Nyasaland rebellion of 1915. Another book about Chilembwe is George Shepperson and Thomas Price's Independent African: John Chilembwe and the Origins, Setting and Significance of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915 [1958].)

Odinga, Oginga. NOT YET UHURU: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. With a foreword by Kwame Nkrumah. New York: Hill and Wang. xiv; 323 pp. $7.50. (This is the American edition of Odinga's book published earlier in England.)

Oliver, Roland and Atmore, Anthony. AFRICA SINCE 1800. New York: Cambridge University Press. vii; 304 pp. $1.95 (paper). (Oliver is the author of several books on Africa: The Dawn of African History [1961], A Short History of Africa, 1963 [with J. D. Fage] and Sir Harry Johnston and the Scramble for Africa, 1957. Oliver is co-editor with J. D. Fage of The Journal of African History.)

Omer, Cooper R. THE ZULU AFTERMATH: A NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVOLUTION IN BANTU AFRICA. London: Longmans, Green. 35s. (An important book of African history written from the African side.)

Plotnicov, Leonard. STRANGERS TO THE CITY: URBAN MAN IN JOS, NIGERIA. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. $6.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (The author finds that the so-called confused behavior of Africans who come to the city is actually a reasonable and pragmatic response to shifting social and cultural conditions.)

Pope-Hennessy, James. SINS OF THE FATHERS: A STUDY OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADERS, 1441-1807. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 286 pp. $7.95. (Two other fairly recent books on the African slave trade are Basil Davidson's Black Mother: Years of the African Slave Trade [1961] and Daniel P. Mannix and Malcolm Cowley's Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1518-1865 [1962].)

Singleton, F. Seth and Shingler, John. AFRICAN IN PERSPECTIVE. New York: Hayden Book Co. 310 pp. $5.46. (This is a textbook in the Hayden Series

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