ASA PUBLICATIONS

Below you will find information about the publications currently offered by the African Studies Association. Membership publications are listed under periodicals. For back issue prices for African Issues, African Studies Review, ASA News and History in Africa, and to order ASA Press publications, please use the order form. If you are an individual or institution and have not received publications as per your membership benefits, please use the publications claim form. For general publication questions, please contact asapub@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-8173 x16.

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PUBLICATIONS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

African Issues,[ISSN:1548-4505], formerly Issues: A Journal of Opinion, is a multi-disciplinary biannual journal that publishes short articles analyzing contemporary policies toward Africa, in Africa and involving the Africanist community. All editorial correspondence should be sent to the ASA Executive Director, Carol L. Martin, PhD. Published two times per year in September and December.

The ASA regrets to inform the membership that financial constraints and organizational obstacles have forced the Board to suspend the publication of African Issues indefinitely. Given its standing commitment to bringing the ASA's collective expertise to bear on effectively illuminating contemporary world issues affecting Africa, the ASA Board expects to re-launch the journal pending more favorable circumstances.

African Studies Association
Rutgers University
Douglass Campus
132 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400
T: 732-932-8173
F: 732-932-3394

African Studies Review,[ISSN: 0002-0206], a multi-disciplinary scholarly journal, publishes original research and analyses of Africa and book reviews three times annually. It encourages scholarly debates across disciplines. The editing of the African Studies Review is supported by Five Colleges, Inc., a consortium representing Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. The African Studies Review is edited by Ralph Faulkingham of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mitzi Goheen of Amherst College. Catharine Newbury and David Newbury of Smith College serve as book review editors. Patrick Mensah of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the film review editor. Manuscripts & correspondence concerning manuscripts should be sent to: African Studies Review, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003. Email: asr@anthro.umass.edu. The African Studies Review web site is http://www.umass.edu/anthro/asr/. Published three times per year in April, September and December.

Editor
Ralph Faulkingham
African Studies Review
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 USA
T: 413-545-2065
F: 413-545-9494
asr@anthro.umass.edu

Co-Editor
Mitzi Goheen
African Studies Review
Department of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003 USA
T: 413-545-2065
F: 413-545-9494
asr@anthro.umass.edu

Book Reviews
Catharine Newbury and David Newbury
Smith College 48 Green Street Northampton MA 01063

T: 413-585-3563
F: 413-585-3389
asrbook@smith.edu

Film Reviews
Patrick Mensah
French & Italian Studies Program 312 Herter Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst MA 01003 USA

T: 413-545-6548
F: 413-545-4778
asr-filmedit@frital.umass.edu

ASA News,[ISSN: 0278-2219], reports current and future events of interest to Africanists, including notices and reviews of conferences, news notes, employment and research opportunities, bibliographical aids, opinion editorials, and significant correspondence. The African Studies Association Executive Director, Carol L. Martin, PhD, edits ASA News. Published three times per year in January, April and July.

Editor
Carol L. Martin, PhD
African Studies Association
Rutgers University
Douglass Campus
132 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400
T: 732-932-8173
F: 732-932-3394
asaed@rci.rutgers.edu

Associate Editor
Kristina L. Carle

African Studies Association
Rutgers University
Douglass Campus
132 George St.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400
T: 732-932-8173
F: 732-932-3394

asapub@rci.rutgers.edu

History In Africa: A Journal of Method,[ISSN:0361-5413], focuses on historiographical and methodological concerns and publishes textual analysis and criticism, historiographical essays, bibliographical essays, archival reports and articles on the role of theory and non-historical data in historical investigation. David Henige of the University of Wisconsin edits History In Africa. Published annually in September.

Editor
David Henige
Memorial Library
728 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
T: 608-262-6397
F: 608-265-2754
dhenige@library.wisc.edu

NOTE: African Issues, and African Studies Review are membership publications. History in Africa can be purchased at a discounted rate with membership.

HISTORICAL AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

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

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

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

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.)
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.
pap. 495pp
ISBN 0-918456-72-X

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

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

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

Ethnic Conflict and Democratization in Africa
Harvey Glickman (ed)
pap. 484pp
ISBN 0-918456-74-6

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

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

ARTS OF AFRICA

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

African Musicology: Current Trends Vol. 2
J.C. DjeDje (ed)
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, language, history and methodology and bibliography.
pap. 316pp
ISBN 0-918456-64-9

The Arts in Africa: An Annotated Bibliography. Vols 1-6 (Limited Copies Available)
1987 and Volume 2 1988
J.L. Stanley (comp)
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."
ISBN 1044-8640

HEALTH AND MEDICINE

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

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

PUBLICATIONS NO LONGER AVAILABLE
Unfortunately these titles are no longer being offered through the Association.

African Studies in the United States: A Perspective
ISBN 0-918456-76-2

Directory of African and African-American Studies in the United States
ISBN 0-918456-69-X

Index to the African Studies Review/Bulletin and the ASA
ISBN 0002-0206

Women as Food Producers in Developing Countries
ISBN 0-918456-56-8

Walter Rodney, Revolutionary and Scholar: A Tribute
ISBN 0-918456-56-8

American and Canadian Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses on Africa, 1974-1987
ISBN 0-918456-63-0

African Studies Association Membership Directory
Order No. MD-1992

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