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RECENT BOOKS-AFRICA

EARNEST KAISER

(See "A Selected Bibliography: Africa and the Caribbean" [pp. 1066-69] in The Negro Almanac [1971] edited by Harry Ploski and Ernest Kaiser for a more comprehensive, slightly earlier listing. See also the bibliographies of John H. Clarke's "Africa: New Approaches to an Old Continent" [Freedomways, 3rd quarter 1971] and of his article in this issue of Freedomways. Books reviewed in this number of Freedomways have been omitted.)

Adeleye, R. A. POWER AND DIPLOMACY IN NORTHERN NIGERIA 1804-1906. New York: Humanities Press. xvi, 387 pages. $10.00. (Dr. Adeleye is in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. This book is a volume in the Ibadan History Series.)

AFRICA '71: A REFERENCE VOLUME ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. By the editorial staff of Jeune Afrique magazine. New York: Africana Publishing Corp. 437 pages. $14.50. (An annual work of reference based on research by a team of 40 specialists in African political, economic and social affairs.)

AFRICAN WRITERS TALKING: A COLLECTION OF INTERVIEWS edited by Dennis Duerden and Cosmo Pieterse. London: Heinemann Educational Books. 195 pages. £2.50. (A volume in the Studies in African Literature Series, now 12 volumes of criticism and comment. The African Writers Series, consisting of creative writing by Africans, started in 1962-also published by Heinemann.)

Ajayi, J.F.A. and Michael Crowder (editors). HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA. Vol. I. New York: Columbia University Press. $20.00 (cloth); $7.50 (paper).

Ajayi, J. Ade and Ian Espie (Editors). A THOUSAND YEARS OF WEST AFRICAN HISTORY. New York: Humanities Press. 549 pages. $7.50.

Akintoye, S. A. REVOLUTION AND POWER POLITICS IN YORUBALAND 1840-1893: IBADAN EXPANSION AND THE RISE OF EKITIPARAPO. New York: Humanities Press. xxii, 278. $10.00 (Akintoye is in the Department of History, University of Ife, Nigeria. This work is a volume in the Ibadan History Series.)

THE ART OF CENTRAL AFRICA: SCULPTURE 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.)

Awoonor, Kofi and Adali-Mortty, G. (editors). MESSAGES: POEMS FROM GHANA. New York: Humanities Press. ix, 190 pages. $1.50 (paper). (Another recent book by Kofi Awoonor is the strong novel This Earth, My Brother, 1972.)

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Ayandele, E.A., A.E. Afigbo, R.J. Gaxin & J.D. Omer-Cooper. THE GROWTH OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION, THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA, Vol. 2: THE LATE 19TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY. New York: Humanities Press. 409 pages. $2.50 (paper).

Balima, Mildred G. (Compiler). BOTSWANA, LESOTHO AND SWAZILAND: A GUIDE TO OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, 1868-1968. Washington: Library of Congress. xvi, 84 pages. $1.00 (paper).

Banfield, Beryle. AFRICA IN THE CURRICULUM: A TEACHER'S GUIDE. Edward W. Blyden Press, P.O. Box 621, Manhattanville Sta., New York 10027. $3.50.

Bates, Robert H. UNIONS, PARTIES, AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF MINEWORKERS IN ZAMBIA. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. xi, 291 pages. $12.50.

Beier, Ulli (editor). POLITICAL SPIDER: STORIES FROM BLACK ORPHEUS. New York: Africana Publishing Corp. 118 pages. $1.50 (paper).

Blyden, Edward Wilmot. BLACK SPOKESMAN: SELECTED PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN edited by Hollis R. Lynch. New York: Humanities Press. xxxvi, 354 pages. $10.00. (Printed originally by Cass and Co., London-No. 13 in the African Modern Library series. Dr. Lynch is head of the Columbia University Institute of African Studies and author of Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832-1912 [Oxford University Press, 1967].)

Boahen, A. Adu. TOPICS IN WEST AFRICAN HISTORY. London: Longmans, Green. 174 pages. $1.50 (paper).

Brooks, Lester. GREAT CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AFRICA. New York: Four Winds Press. xiii, 340 pages. $6.95. (Brooks in assistant public relations director of the National Urban League. He is co-author with Guichard Parris of Blacks in the City: A History of the National Urban League [Little, Brown, 1971].)

Carroll, David. CHINUA ACHEBE. New York: Twayne Publishers. 156 pages. $4.95. (This book about the Nigerian novelist Achebe is only the second Black author in Twayne's very voluminous World Authors Series. The other is Harold R. Collins's Amos Tutuola. James A. Emanuel's Langston Hughes is the only Black author in Twayne's extensive U.S. Authors Series G.D. Hallam's The Novels of Chinua Achebe [Africana Publishing Corp., 1969] is another book about Achebe.)

Cartey, Wilfred (editor). PALAVER: MODERN AFRICAN WRITINGS. New York: Thomas Nelson. vii, 183 pages. $5.95. (An anthology of writings by African poets, novelists and dramatists. Cartey is author of Whispers from a Continent: The Literature of Contemporary Black Africa [Random House, 1969] and editor [with Martin Kilson] of The African Reader: Vol. I-Independent Africa; Vol. II-Colonial Africa [Random House, 1970].)

Clark, John Pepper. CASUALTIES: POEMS 1966/68.New York: Africana

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