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T H E J O U R N A L O F A F R I C A N H I S T O R Y

E D I T O R S

D . M . A N D E R S O N School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London WCIH OXG, England

L . B R E N N E R School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London WCIH OXG, England

P . M . M A R T I N Indiana University, Bloomington, IN47405, U.S.A. J. C . M I L L E R University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.

Books for rev iew should be sent to D . M . A n d e r s o n at S.O.A.S.

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P . B o n n e r University of the Witwatersrand

J. C l a n c y - S m i t h University of Arizona J. D e n b o w University of Texas, Austin J. D . Fage University of Birmingham T . Falola University of Texas, Austin A . Jones Institut fiir Afrikanistik, Leipzig R. L a w York University, Ontario K . M a n n Emory University, Atlanta,

Georgia

M . M b o d j Universite de Dakar, Senegal W . Nasson University of Cape Town W . R. O c h i e n g ' Maseno University

College, Kenya R . A . O l i v e r S.O.A.S., London J. Parpart Dalhousie University D . Rob inson Michigan State University

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SlU-tDWARDSVILLE, ILI Women, Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the

British Cape Colony and its Frontier Zones, c. 1806-70HELEN BRADFORD University of Cape Town 351

II The Will of Abraham and Elizabeth September: the Struggle forLand in Gordonia, 1898-1995MARTIN LEGASSICK University of the Western Cape 371

Biographies and Life Histories

III Joao dos Santos Albasini (1876-1922): the Contradictions ofPolitics and Identity in Colonial MozambiqueJEANNE MARIE PENVENNE Tufts University 419

IV Tanganyikan Nationalism as 'Women's Work': Life Histories,Collective Biography and Changing HistoriographySUSAN GEIGER University of Minnesota 465

Review Article

V Africa's Population HistoryTHOMAS SPEAR University of Wisconsin-Madison 479

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

Jan Vansina, Living with Africa. j . D. FAGE 487Marilyn E. Heldman, The Marian Icons of the Painter Fre Seyon : A Study in

Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Art, Patronage, and Spirituality. JAMES QUIRIN 489W. G. F. Lacroix, Beschrijving van het Koninkrijk Kongo; Het binnenland van

Afrika in de zestiende eenw; and Afrika in de oudheid. MICHEL R. DOORTMONT 490David Beach, A Zimbabwean Past: Shona Dynastic Histories and Oral

Traditions. DAVID HEDGES 492

Deng D. Akol Ruay, The Politics of Two Sudans: The South and the Northi8zi-ig6g. ROBERT O. COLLINS 493

Trewhella Cameron, Jan Smuts : An Illustrated Biography. IAIN R. SMITH 494Ian Phimister, Wangi Kolia : Coal, Capital and Labour in Colonial Zimbabwe,

i8g4-ig54. DIANA JEATER 495

Rugano J. Zvobgo, Colonialism and Education in Zimbabwe. SYBILLE KUSTER 497Kenneth J. Perkins, Port Sudan: The Evolution of a Colonial City.

ENDRE STIANSEN 499

Christophe Bonneuil, Des savants pour Vempire: la structuration des recherchesscientifiques coloniales, igij-ig45- MONICA M. VAN BEUSEKOM 501

David Hedges (ed.), Historia de Mozambique: Mozambique no auge docolonialismo, i()30-ig6i. Vol. 3. M. NEWITT 502

A.T. and G. M. Culwick, The Culwick Papers igj4-ig44, edited by VeronicaBerry. GREGORY H. MADDOX 503

Yvonne Muthien, State and Resistance in South Africa, igjg-ig6§.TSHIDISO MALOKA 505

William Minter, Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War inAngola and Mozambique. ROBIN PALMER 506

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Daphna Golan, Inventing Shaka: Using History in the Construction of Zulu

Nationalism. PAUL LA HAUSSE 507

Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack (eds.), Hausa Women in the Twentieth

Century. MAUREEN MALOWANY : 509

Tom Forrest, The Advance of African Capital: The Growth of Nigerian Private

Enterprise. S. E. STOCKWELL 510

Thomas D. Blakely, Walter E. A. van Beek and Dennis L. Thomson, (eds.)Religion in Africa. RICHARD GRAY 512

Hugo Slim and Paul Thompson, Listening -for a Change: Oral Testimony and

Development. ELIZABETH TONKIN 513

Linda F. Zamponi, Niger; R. M. Dilley and J. S. Eades, Senegal; Samuel

Decalo, Burkina Faso. JAMES L. A. WEBB, JR. 515

SHORTER NOTICES

Peter and Ama Shinnie, Early Asante. TIMOTHY INSOLL 516John D. Fage, Original Sources for Precolonial Western Africa Published in

European Languages. BEATRIX HEINTZE 517

Voyages en Afrique Noire d'Alvise Ca' da Mosto (1455 et 1456), Frederique

Verrier (trans, and ed.). GERARD CHOUIN 517

Erik Tilleman, A Short and Simple Account of the Country of Guinea and its

Nature {i6gy), Selena Axelrod Winsnes (trans, and ed.). LARRY W. YARAK 518

David Northrup (ed.), The Atlantic Slave Trade. DAVID RICHARDSON 519

Bolanle Awe (ed.), Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective. ANN O'HEAR 520

Gracia Clark, Onions Are My Husband: Survival and Accumulation by West

African Market Women. CLAIRE ROBERTSON 520

Edward Kanu Uku, as told to Mary Easterfield, Seeds in the Palm of Your

Hand. SUSAN MARTIN 521

Roberto Morozzo della Rocca, Mozambico dalla guerra alia pace. Storia de una

mediazione insolita. ANNA MARIA GENTILI 522

Bernard de Bunsen, Adventures in Education. A. D. ROBERTS 522

A. H. M. Kirk-Greene (ed.), The Emergence of African History at British

Universities. MARTIN LYNN 523

Learthen Dorsey, Historical Dictionary of Rwanda. TIMOTHY P. LONGMAN 524

D. Elwood Dunn, Liberia. CHRISTOPHER FYFE 525

George Joffe and Valery Day-Viaud, Chad. MARIO j . AZEVEDO 525

John J. Grotpeter, Historical Dictionary of Namibia. PATRICIA HAYES 526

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