Rethinking in African Studies

Book reviewed in this article:
Living under Contract: Contract Farming and Agrarian Transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa . Peter D. Little and Michael J. Watts, eds.
African Pastoralist Systems: An Integrated Approach . Elliot Fratkin, Kathleen A. Galvin, and Eric Abella Roth, eds.
Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa . Roy Richard Grinker.     

Studies in African Cyperaceae 33. A new species of Fuirena from Somalia

A new very rare species, Fuirena somaliensis, is described from the lowlands of South Somalia below 150 m. The new species belongs to the F. ciliaris complex and has bulliform inner perianth‐segments and thus a similar adaptation to buoyancy and dispersal by water as four other African species.     

African Hepatics: VIII. Diplasiolejeunea albifolia (Taylor) E. W. Jones comb.nov.

Abstract

The new combination Tetralophozia filiformis (Steph.) E. Urmi is proposed for Chandonanthus filiformis Steph. So far this species has been known only from Asia and N. America. Recent collections show it to occur also in Europe, in the Cantabrian Mts., Spain. Here it grows in sheltered places on siliceous rocks in oceanic conditions. From Tetralophozia setiformis (Ehrh.) Schljak. (=Chandonanthus setiformis) it is distinguished by its smaller size, the leaf lobes are always more than twice as long as wide and their margins are not inflexed towards the stem.     

Trends in African Historical Studies

Ivory and Slaves: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century. Edward A. Alpers .
The Traditional History of the Jie of Uganda. John Lamphear . Oxford Studies in African Affairs, John D. Hargreaves and George Shepperson, eds.
Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Joseph C. Miller . Oxford Studies in African Affairs, John D. Hargreaves and George Shepperson, eds.
Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order. Ivor Wilks .