Books reviewed

Peter Duignan and L.H. Gann, The United States and Africa. A History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984). Pp. xiv+450. William Minter, King Solomon's Mines Revisited. Western Interests and the Burdened History of Southern Africa (New York: Basic Books, 1986). Pp. xiii+401. $21.95. Megan Vaughan, The Story of an African Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Pp. ix+181. £22.50. Andrew Ross, John Philip (1775-1851): Missions, Race and Politics in South Africa (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1986). Pp. ix+249. £8.90 paperback. Bill Guest and John Sellars (eds.), Enterprise and Exploitation in a Victorian Colony. Aspects of the Economic and Social History of Colonial Natal (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1985). Pp. xiv+362. R28.50 paperback. G.R. Berridge, The Politics of the South Africa Run: European Shipping and Pretoria (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987). Pp. xiii+254. £25.00. D. Coplan, In Township Tonight! South Africa's Black City Music and Theatre (London and New York: Longman, 1985). Pp. x+278. £17.95 hardback, £8.95 paperback. Robert Kavanagh, Theatre and Cultural Struggle in South Africa (London: Zed Press, 1985). Pp. xv+237. £18.95 hardback, £6.95 paperback. Namibia in the 1980s (London: The Catholic Institute for International Relations and The British Council of Churches, 2nd ed., 1986). Pp. 83. £3.95. South Africa in the 1980s: State of Emergency (London: The Catholic Institute for International Relations, 4th ed., 1987). Pp. 92. £3.95. Brigitte Lau (ed.), The Mbanderu. Their history as told to Theo Sundermeier in 1966. Translated by Annemarie Heywood. Windhoek: Michael Scott Oral Records Project. Pp. 70. Maureen Covell, Madagascar: Politics, Economics and Society (London and New York: Frances Pinter, 1987). Pp. xxii+187. £7.95 paperback, £24.50 hardback.