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RECENT BOOKS                                      KAISER
                                                  AFRICA
                (The West Indies, South America, Europe)
  Abir, Modchai. ETHIOPIA-THE ERA OF THE PRINCES: THE CHALLENGE OF ISLAM AND THE RE-UNIFICATION OF THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE, 1769-1855. New York: F. A. Praeger. $7.50.
  Addo, Peter Eric Adotey (translator-editor). GHANA FOLK TALEA: ANANSE STORIES FROM AFRICA. New York: Exposition Press. 52 pages. $3.00. (These are tales, rendered in English for the first time, selected from the rich folklore of the Ga people of Ghana. THey date back to ancient Ghanaian culture. "Ananse" means spider in the Akan language. Peter Addo, a Ghanaian biologist and minister, teaches at Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C.)
  AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICANS STUDIES. New York: Oxford University Press. (This is a series of books mostly about the history of the various regions of Africa with some African geography, anthropology [tribes, religions], culture [plays] plus books about Afro-Americans thrown in.)
  AFRICANA CATALOGUE N0.1. NEW BOOKS PUBLISED Jan. 1967-Oct. 1968. Compiled and edited by Hans M. Zell. International University Book sellers, 101 Fifth Ave., New York. x + 161 pages. (This is the first catalogue published by the Africana Center in its reprinting and publishing program. Three other catalogues dealing with African scholarly-periodicals, African government publications in print and create writing by African authors have been published.)
  Armah, Ayi Kwei. THE BEATIFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 215 pages. $4.95. (A novel by a young Ghanaian writer. Called by one critic a novel in the first rank of African novels and perhaps in the first rank of recent novels anywhere. But the novel is bitterly against Nkrumah, his government and his program. Armah, a Harvard graduate, has written for The New Africa, Drum magazine, Atlantic Monthly and The New York Review of Books. He is now a translator-editor on the staff of Jeune Afrique in Paris.)
  THE ART OF CENTRAL AFRICA: SCULTURE AND TRIBAL MASKS. Introduction by William Fagg. New York: New American Library by arrangement with UNESCO. 36 pages. $1.25 (paper). (About one-third text and two-thirds beautiful color reproductions of African art. Another volume. The Art of Western Africa introduced by Fagg, is also in the series of small art books.)
  ben-Jochannan, Yousef; Brooks, Hugh; and Webb, Kempton. AFRICA: THE LAND, THE PEOPLE, THE CULTURE. Wm. H. Sadlier, Inc., 11 Park Place, New York. 183 pages. $3.50 (paper). (Dr. ben-Jochannan,, an Ethiopian, is director of the Harlem Preparatory School for black high school dropouts. This book is a beautiful school textbook profusely illustrated in color.)
  Beshir, Mohamed Omer. THE SOUTHERN SUDAN: BACKGROUND TO CONFLICT. New York: F.A. Prager. xiii + 192 pages. Maps. $7.50.
  Biebuyek, Daniel and Mateene, Kahombo C. (editors). THE MWINDO EPIC. Berkely: University of California Press. $7.00. (Translated by the editors, this epic of Shemwindo, and African culture hero, narrated the story of his adventures in the Kingdom of Byango in the Congo Republic. This is an example of the classic tradition of oral folk literature.)

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