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FREEDOMWAYS   THIRD QUARTER 1972

(cloth); $3.95 (paper). (African folk songs. Miriam Makeba is a famous South African singer.)

Markward, Edris and Leslie Lacy (editors). CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN LITERATURE. (An anthology of various forms of African writing.)

Maquet, Jacques. CIVILIZATIONS OF BLACK AFRICA. Translated and revised by Joan Rayfield. New York: Oxford University Press. $7.95 (cloth); $2.95 (paper). (An introduction to the art, culture and history of traditional African societies from antiquity to the present.)

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. ON COLONIALISM. New York: International Publishers. 382 pages. $7.50 (cloth); $2.65 (paper). (Articles from the New York Tribute newspaper and the other writings.)

Mazrui, Ali A. ANCIENT GREECE IN AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press.

Mbiti, J. S. AFRICAN RELIGIONS AND PHILOSOPHY. New York: Praeger Publishers. xii, 290 pages. $8.00. (Other books by Dr. Mbiti of Kenya are Concepts of God in Africa [Praeger, 1970] and Akamba Stories [Oxford University Press].)

Mezu, S. O. and Ram Desai (editors). MODERN BLACK LITERATURE. Buffalo, N.Y.: Black Academy Press. 200 pages. $8.50 (cloth); $4.00 (paper). (This book was originally a special number of Black Academy Review. Here 13 professors examine African, Afro-American and West Indian literature and folklore, etc.)

Mitchison, Naomi. AFRICAN HEROES. New York: Farrar, Staus &Giroux. $3.95. (Here are eleven early African heroes: Sundiata, king of ancient Mali, Cetshwayo, last great warrior king of the Zulus, Lobengula, Shaka, Khama and others. Modern African heroes such as Chilembwe, Luthuli, Mandela and others are not here. A similar book is Carter G. Woodson's African Heroes and Heroines.)

Moore, Gerald (editor). WOLE SOYINKA. New York: Africana Publishing Corp. xii, 114 pages. $6.00 (cloth); $2.50 (paper). (A volume in the Modern African Writers series.)

Motley, Marie Penick. AFRICA: ITS EMPIRES, NATIONS AND PEOPLE. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press. 164 pages. $3.95 (paper). (A reader for young adults by a Black woman teacher.)

Mphahlele, Ezekiel. THE WANDERERS. New York: Macmillan: 351 pages. $6.95. (A novel by a Black South African writer and scholar in exile in the U.S. Mphahlele is the author of several books.)

Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni. SOUNDS OF A COWHIDE DRUM. foreword by

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RECENT BOOKS-AFRICA   KAISER

Nadine Gordimer. New York: The Third Press: Viking: $5.95. (A first book of poems by a Black South African.)

Mutiso, Gideon-Cyrus M. MESSAGES: AN ANNOTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN LITERATURE FOR SCHOOLS. Upper Montclair, N.J.: Montclair State College Press. 97 pages. (Book has three sections: juvenile books, literature and a select bibliography of other Africana materials. Almost all entries are fully annotated.)

NAMES FROM AFRICA: THEIR ORIGIN, MEANING AND PRONUNCIATION by Oganna Chucks-orji. Edited and with a commentary by Keith E. Baird Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co. 92 pages. $4.95 (This is an important book that has been published when there is much interest in African names. it consists of lists of female and male names [with their meanings and pronunciations] from many languages of Africa. There are a commentary and a bibliography. The editor and commentator is Keith E. Baird, professor of humanities at Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y., authority on African languages and a contributing editor of Freedomways whose review of Joseph H. Greenberg's The Languages of Africa [Freedomways, Fall 1963] is still remembered. Chief Osuntoki's The Book of African Names, 1970, is another similar book listed in the bibliography by Prof. Baird.)

Nkrumah, Kwame. CLASS STRUGGLE IN AFRICA. New York: International Publishers. 96 pages. $4.95 (cloth); $1.25 (paper). (Nkrumah, the greatest leader produced by Africa in our time, died in Apr. 1972. Other recent books by him are Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution, Africa Must Unite and Axioms of Kame Nkrumah. In Class Struggle in Africa, Nkrumah refutes the idea of no classes in Africa due to communal and trial forms, and the mistaken notion of a special African socialism apart from a scientific socialism.)

Nolen, Barbara (editor). AFRICA IS THUNDER AND WONDER. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $7.95. (An anthology of contemporary African fiction and poetry for young people. Another book by Barbara Nolen for young and adult readers is Ethiopia [Franklin Watts, $3.75].)

Nyerere, Julius K. UJAMAA: ESSAYS ON SOCIALIM. New York: Oxford University Press. 186 pages $1.75 (paper). (This is the English version of Nyerere's Swahili book Ujamaa, first published by Oxford in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Nyerere is the President of Tanzania. Other books by Nyerere are Freedom and Unity: A Selection from Writings and Speeches, 1952-1965 [Oxford University Press, 1967] and Freedom and Socialism [Oxford University Press, 1970].)

Odarty, Bill. A SAFARI OF AFRICAN COOKING. Designed and illustrated by Shirley Woodson. Detroit, Mich.: Broadside Press. 137 pages. $5.95 (cloth); $3.95 (paper). (A book of recipes from 20 African countries collected by a Ghanaian. There are a glossary of African cooking terms, suggested subtitles for African ingredients and information about African countries. Sandy Les-

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