Recollections of a veteran archaeologist. Maps, ib, col & b/w photos, 203pp, NAMIBIA. NAMIBIA SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.

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Examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understanding of the impact of the Cold War environment upon the processes of political change. In the aftermath of European decolonization, the struggle between white minority governments and black liberation movements encouraged both sides to appeal for external support from the two superpower blocs. This collection highlights the importance of the global ideological environment on the perceptions and consequent behaviour of the white minority regimes, the Black Nationalist movements, and the newly independent African nationalist governments. 272pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

A history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a story of 150 years of conflict over the changing landscape of the river, in which the tension between the Zambezi's 'river people' and more powerful others has been centrally important. 320pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Contributors focus on heterogeneous aspects in the field of librarianship, bibliography and archives as well as in the field of research. Col & b/w ill, index, 191pp, SWITZERLAND. BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN, 3905141760

Deals with the Great Trek, the Mfecane and other significant movements of people and their leaders which occurred in South Africa during the early nineteenth century. Maps, notes, index, xxv, 366pp, UK. PEARSON EDUCATION, 0582315670

Second Edition. A general account of the history of southern Africa describing the first human settlements, the creation of the Cape Colony, mass migration of the Mfecane and the Great Trek, the unification of South Africa and the phases of Apartheid. This second edition also describes the histories of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Namibia and the final phase of apartheid. Illustrated with b/w images and maps. Index, bib, 310pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852557159

Africa in 1814: a 36-year-old German missionary exploring what is now southern Namibia marries the 20-year-old Zara, a Nama woman, whom he had baptized a few months previously. She helps him with translations and in transcribing her language into a written form, bears him four children, and dies in 1831. Those are the bare bones of a story that Ursula Trüper has fleshed out with the results of her research into this fascinating account about the African woman and her German husband. The missionary, Johann Hinrich Schmelen, was sent to South Africa in 1811 by the London Missionary Society. He is recognized today as a pioneer in the study of Khoekhoekowab, the Nama language, as well as for his evangelization of southern Namibia. His wife Zara and her contribution to her husband's work, on the other hand, are rarely mentioned, let alone acknowledged. This book rectifies that neglect. It provides insights not only into African social history and British and German mission history but also makes an important contribution to the steadily growing literature on the role of African women in African history. Index, bib, b/w illus, 118pp, SWITZERLAND. BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN.

Combining travel, adventure and scholarship, the author recounts his quest to discover whether the Lemba people of Southern Africa are really Jewish as they claim and if they are one of the lost tribes of Israel, descended from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Parfitt traces the path of the Lemba's ancestors through Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania and Zanzibar recounting the history of the region and bringing to light the origins of the Lemba. Index, notes, maps, 381pp, USA. VINTAGE USA, 0375724540

A study seeking to determine to what extent the culture of early Israel is similar to African cultures, in particular the Lemba of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The author compares the myths, rites, and food taboos of the Lemba, their ancestors and those of early Israel in order to assess whether Lemba claims about their Jewish ancestry is factually sound. Index, bib, notes, maps, xiv, 328pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS, 1868882837

This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the British make of the Xhosa and how did they make sense of their politics and culture? How did the British establish and then explain their dominion, especially when it ran counter to the cultural values they believed themselves to represent? Richard Price answers these questions by looking at the ways in which individual missionaries, officials and politicians interacted with the Xhosa. He describes how those encounters changed and shaped the culture of imperial rule in Southern Africa. He charts how an imperial regime developed both in the minds of the colonizers and in the everyday practice of power and how the British imperial presence was entangled in and shaped by the encounter with the Xhosa from the very moment of their first meeting. 402pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Officially commissioned to explore the Zambesi for mineral deposits and opportunities for trade, David Livingstone left England in 1858. He wrote this travelogue in collaboration with his brother Charles, who had also been part of the expedition. Illus., xvii, 458pp. UK. DUCKWORTH, 0715630873

Using sources such as contemporary court reports, Tswana oral as well as written correspondence and official archives, this study looks at life in Southern Africa, examining in particular the dynamics between religion and society. Illustrated with b/w images. Index, sources, notes, tables, maps, bib, 249pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852556209

Unstable World of South Central Africa, 1750 1920

Slaves in Portuguese East Africa, the Chikunda developed new identities in the struggle to support themselves once freed. A detailed study of the development of ethnic identity from a historical perspective. Part of the Social History of Africa series. Index, bib, glos, notes, b/w illus & photographs, maps, xii, 370pp, USA. GREENWOOD PUBLISHING GROUP.

Surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one succinct volume. Positioning the collapse of Portugal's African Empire in the context of the region's history since 1945, Farley asserts that this collapse set in motion a train of events that eventually led to the transition of power from minority to majority rule in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. Index, notes, bib, 155pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Traces the complex histories and political events of 12 countries in the region. With highly detailed political information, micro-indexing of subject areas and comprehensive index of names, this is a comprehensive reference tool. 912pp, USA.

Gives the background to the first ever maps of Northern Namibia: Charles John Andersson's hand-drawn, and previously unpublished, maps of 1852. Illus, apps, 48pp, NAMIBIA, LIMITED STOCK. GAMSBERG MACMILLAN.

A study of patterns of agrarian development showing how the government policy of nurturing the white farming sector created a heavy burden for black farm workers and their families. Includes case studies, covering regions of South Africa and colonial Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Swaziland. Maps, tables, bib, index, xiv, 344pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852556241

Focuses on British expansionism in southern Africa during the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Emphasises the connection between the birth of the mineral industries in southern Africa and the conquest of virtually every independ-ent African polity in the African sub-continent. Notes, bib, index, 258pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.