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REVIEWS
NOTES FROM THE MEDIA REVIEW EDITOR
We continue to present readers with a mixed bag of reviews. Leading
of f are a number of short notices from the Scandinavian Institute of kfrican Studies followed by a single short review from the Centre for Development Research in Uppsala. Many thanks to the reviewers, who took time to do these small pieces on potentially overlooked sources.
The next group of reviews are focused mainly on West Africa and offer
a broad spectrum of potential interest for comparative purposes. Two reviewE of Ivory Coast development are especially valuable as are those reviews of three works on Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. We are then warned away from a work on Liberian mass communications. This is followed by reviews of thorough studies on the EEC and Africa, Anglophone West Africa's perspective of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis, colonialism and underdevelopment in Ghana, and a contrasting study of German rule in Africa.
Reviews are welcome, especially of works of pedagogical value, but
reviewers should be warned that editing and time lag in publication are a reality.
Research Reports of the Scandinavian Institute of 'African Studies (numbers 1-41). Uppsala, Sweden: Uppsala Offset Center AB, 1962-1977. No price available, soft cover. Review by James Williamn Jordan, Longwood College.
The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies was organized in 1962 in Uppsala, Sweden as a center for the collection and distribution of information about Africa. One principal task of the Institute is to publish relatively short research reports which are then circulated to educational institutions, private and state agencies, and individual scholars concerned with African issues. Most of the research activities of the Institute are in the fields of the social sciences, modern history and modern biography. For up-to-date information on the travelling scholarships, sponsored research activities, annual international seminars, and publication list of the Institute's Africana Library, scholars may subscribe to the Institute's annual Newsletter which is available free of charge from the Institute at P.O. Box 2126, S-750 02, Uppsala, Sweden.
This review deals only with the Research Reports of the Institute.
Forty-one Research Reports have been published but Numbers 1-6, 9 and 20 are out-of-print and were unavailable for review. Each of the 33 *Reports still in print is bound in booklet form and the average length of the 33 is 59 pages. No attempt is made here to note the contents of each Report but a list of the