Written during the 1930s, this travelogue is a critique of colonial rule and the devastating impact of missionaries in West Africa. 291pp, UK. ELAND.

A survey of the society, history, ritual and civilisation of the Dogon of Mali and Burkina Faso. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A collection of Paul E. Lovejoy's key works on the economic and social history of West Africa, exploring the organisation of trade and production in the interior of West Africa, specifically the regions of modern Nigeria, Niger, Benin, and Ghana in their pre-colonial eras, when Muslim merchants and entrepreneurs dominated economy and society. The essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the functioning of the internal social and economic structures of African countries during the time of the trans-Atlantic and trans-Saharan slave trades. Index, bib, gloss, 407pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

A survey of the society, history, politics and daily life of the Ejagham south-western Cameroon and south-eastern Nigeria. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A survey of the society, religion and history of the Ewe of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1998 0823919803 Hardback

A survey of the society, history, art and recent political history of the Fang Kuba of Equitorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A survey of the people and the land, social life and customs and worldview of the Fulani of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

Takes the masks of West Africa's Upper Benue River region out of the museums and private collections, where many accumulated in the twentieth century, and restores their cultural and social contexts. The book argues that Benue masquerades deserve appreciation as the materialized forms taken by the thought styles of their original creators and users. Masquerades are 'theranthropic': they fuse characteristics of animals with those of living and dead human beings to create entities to perform the powers and dangers inherent in people's lives. The subtle variety of the ways that different masquerades, and other performances, achieve this, reveals facets of an understanding of the human condition: of relations between the genders, the living and the dead, animals and people, kings and commoners, colours, seasons and so forth, shared by the peoples of the Benue. Index, bib, 208pp, UK. SAFFRON BOOKS.

A survey of the society, worldview, religion and philosophy of the Gbaya of the Central African Republic and Cameroon. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A survey of the politics, economics and customs of the Hausa of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A survey of the people, the land, society and customs of the Malinke of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1996 082391979X Hardback

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Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed in West Africa either in absence of, or alongside, formal schools, to prepare children for the wide range of economic and political roles now available to them in adult society. Drawing on her work in West Africa and with West Africans in London, she shows that among many groups it is common practice to send children to grow up away from home. 350pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

French language ethnography which describes the kinship systems, the rites surrounding birth, marriage and death, and the power structures of the Peul people of West Africa. The author is himself a Peul and writes about the daily customs of this important African group without the screen of theoretical language. Glossary, index, 188pp, French text. FRANCE. SEPIA, 2907888218

Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programmes build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, more troubling memories preserved by local communities markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity, Yet, as the contributors to this volume note, questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled. In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthro-pologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. Settings range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana. Index, 272pp, USA. LEFT COAST PRESS.

A survey of the history, religion, economy and society of the Songhay of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

A survey of the society, the land, history, traditions and customs of the Soninke of West Africa. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.

1996 0823919781 Hardback

Money, or wari as it is commonly known across the Mande region, matters and it matters in complex and important ways. The chapters draw on extensive field research in the region to offer theoretically compelling and ethnographically nuanced perspectives on the practical and conceptual integration of currency into the lives of contemporary West African people. 218pp, GERMANY. LIT VERLAG.

A survey of the origins, history and religion as well as the literature and the arts of the Wolof of Senegal and the Gambia. Richly illustrated with colour photographs. Includes a guide to further reading and a glossary. Index, map, 64pp, USA. ROSEN PUBLISHING COMPANY.