Book reviews

Land and Natural Resources Management Richard Hasler, Agriculture, Foraging and Wildlife Resource Use in Africa. Cultural and Political Dynamics in the Zambezi Valley (Kegan Paul International, London and New York, 1996), xiv + 208 pp., ISBN 0–7103–0515X. Donna Pankhurst, A Resolvable Conflict? The Politics of Land in Namibia (Peace Research Report 36, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 1996), ii + 164 pp., ISBN 1–85143–146–2. Ian Scoones et al, Hazards and Opportunities. Farming Livelihoods in Dryland Africa. Lessons from Zimbabwe (Zed Press, London, 1996), xviii + 267 pp., £12.95 pbk, ISBN 1–85649–354–7. War in Zimbabwe Janice McLaughlin, On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's Liberation War (Baobab Books, Harare, 1996), xvi + 352 pp., $38 paperback, ISBN 0–908311. Peter Godwin, Mukiwa. A White Boy in Africa (Picador, London, 1996), 418 pp., £16.99 hbk, ISBN 0–330–33983–4. Mafuranhunzi Gumbo, Guerrilla Snuff (Baobab Books, Harare, 1995), xiv + 210 pp., $15.00 pbk, ISBN 0–908311–73–7. Literature Rosemary Jane Jolly, Colonization, Violence, and Narration in White South African Writing: Andre Brink, Breyten Breytenbach, and J. M. Coetzee (Ohio University Press, Athens and Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1996), xvii+ 179 pp., US$39.95/£43.50 hbk, ISBN 0–8214–1130–6; US$18.95/£20.95 pbk, ISBN 0–8214–1131–4. Emmanuel Ngara (ed), New Writing From Southern Africa (James Currey, London; David Philip, Cape Town; Baobab Books, Harare; E.A.E.P., Nairobi; Heinemann, Portsmouth (N.H.)), xiii + 172 pp., £12.95 pbk, ISBN 0–435–08971–4, £35.00 hbk, ISBN 0–85255–538–5. M. J. Daymond (ed), South African Feminisms: Writing, Theory, and Criticism, 1990–1994 (Gender and Genre in Literature, Vol. 5, Garland, New York and London, 1996), xliii + 343 pp., ISBN 0–8153–1626–7. John Thieme (ed), The Arnold Anthology of Post‐Colonial Literatures in English (Arnold, London, 1996) xvii + 936 pp., pbk, ISBN 0–340–64620–9. Political Biography Neil Parsons, Willie Henderson and Thomas Tlou, Seretse Khama 1921–1980 (Macmillan and The Botswana Society, 1995), xxiii + 467 pp., Pula 95 hbk, Pula 65 pbk, ISBN 99912–60–31–5.