21st-Century Africa: Towards a New Vision of Self-Sustainable Development.
Ann Seidman and Frederick Anang (eds.).
ISBN 0-918456-67-3
pap. 330pp

Why do African peoples remain so poor? What kind of an alternative, strategy could enable them to shape their own future, to realize the vast potential of their continental resources? This book, the culmination of the first phase of work of the Task force on Sustainable Development in Africa, aims to provide background materials to stimulate classroom and study group discussions, debates and further research in seven key areas: economy, legal order, environment, education, health, gender and regional integration.

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African Health and Healing Systems: Proceedings of a Symposium
P. Stanley Yoder (ed)
ISBN 0-918456-34-7
pap. 252pp

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African Musicology: Current Trends. Vol. 1: Festschrift
presented to J.H. Kwabena Nketia
ISBN 0-918456-62-2

This volume offers tribute to Africa’s premiere musicologist, J.H. Kwabena Nketia. This volume includes a Biographical portrait, tributes, and essays in honor of J.H. Kwabena Nketia including topics such as theoretical perspectives, aspects of performance practice, music and gender, and musical style and composition.

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African Musicology: Current Trends Vol. 2
J.C. DjeDje (ed)
ISBN 0-918456-64-9
pap. 316pp

This second volume of essays offered in tribute to Africa's premier musicologist explores musical practice and value from the perspectives of transformation and reorientation, music and language, music and history, methodology and bibliography.

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Arts of Africa, The: An Annotated Bibliography. Volumes 1-6
J.L. Stanley (comp)
ISBN 1044-8640

Outstanding resource on African visual arts, architecture and material culture. Includes entries selected for substance, significance and originality. Thoughtful annotations are invaluable for researchers or collection purchasers. Superbly indexed by subject and author, volumes 1 (with 950 entries) and 2 (with 2,174 entries) have been praised by reviewers as "a splendid resource," and "a model for future bibliographies in the field of African Art."

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Beyond Crisis: Development Issues In Uganda
Paul D. Wiebe and Cole P. Dodge (eds.)
ISBN 0-918456-60-6
pap. 158pp

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Colonialism, Health and Illness in French Equatorial Africa, 1885-1935
Rita Headrick, ed, Daniel R. Headrickpap.
ISBN 0-918456-71-1
495pp

Comprehensive study of colonial medical services in the areas Gabon, the Congo, the Central African Republic and Chad. Based on exhaustive archival research, hundreds of interviews and site visits, and a deep mystery of secondary literature, the book traces the changing impact of colonialism on the lives of Africans. Particularly rich in its consideration of individual diseases, most notably sleeping sickness. Both governmental and private practitioners by 94 tables, 11 maps, 15 figures, a bibliography and index.

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Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (ed.)
ISBN 0-918456-65-7
pap. 190pp

A collection of essays from a conference at the University of Alcala in Spain by noted international experts including Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, Ibrahim A. Gambari, Edmond J. Keller, I. M. Lewis, Bona Malwal, Roland Marchal, John Markakis, A.I. Samatar, Bereket Habte Selassie, Zenebeworke Tadesse, Evgeny Tarabin, and M. Crawford Young. Treats six major themes: the roots of conflict, the question of self-determination, Somali nationalism and the Ogaden question, the war in Southern Sudan, the Eritrean question, and conflict resolution. Introduction by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja.

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Continuity and Change in Southern Africa
Gwendolen M. Carter (ed)
ISBN 0-918456-57-6
pap. 117pp

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Elusive Epic, The : Performance, Text and History in the Oral Narrative of Jeki La Njambe (Cameroon Coast)
Ralph A. Austen
ISBN 0-918456-75-4
pap. 156pp

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Pan-African Biography
Robert A. Hill (ed)
ISBN 0-91845659-2
pap. 232pp

Highlights the history of Pan-Africanism through studies of WEB Dubois, Ralph Bunche, Conrad A. Rideout, Constance A. Cummings-John, J. Abayomi Cole, Chief Alfred Sam, Duse Mohammed Ali, Mbiyu Koinage, and Andree Blouin. Contributor, in addition to the editor, include Herbert Aptheker, LaRay Denzer, St. Clair Drake, Allison Drew, Ian Duffield, Robert Harris, Rina Okonkkwo and Carol Page. Introduction by George Shepherdson.

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Paths Toward the Past: African Historical Essays in Honor of Jan Vansina
Robert W. Harms, Joseph C. Miller, David S. Newbury and Michele D. Wagner (eds.)
ISBN 0-918456-72-X
pap. 495pp

Festchrift in honor of the dean of oral historical studies. Twenty-seven scholars trained by Vansina join to probe the evidence of memory, to explore mentalities, to discuss critical uses of written sources and chart methodological frontiers.

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West Africa in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: An Anonymous Dutch Manuscript
Adam Jones (trans. ed)pap. 348pp
ISBN 0-918456-73-8
pap. 348pp

Original Dutch and Annotated English Translation of unpublished records on the West African coast. Based on activities of the Dutch West India Company from circa 1624-55, papers include navigational, commercial, ethnographic, linguistic and other materials of practical utility to sevententh century traders. Includes 3 maps, 2 tables, and 5 photo illustrations.

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Yoruba Popular Theatre: Three Plays by the Oyin Adejobi Company
Karin Baber and Bayo Ogundijo (eds.)
ISBN 0-918456-70-3
pap. 612pp

The question of wealth and individual destiny are considered in three plays created at different moments in the Oyin Adejobi Theater Company's history. Textual analysis by the editor's illustrates how in the context of a single theme, Yoruba popular theater responds with creativity and openness to incorporate changing questions and experiences.

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