Book reviews

I. Chiefs, Churches, Texts and Actors: New Histories Paul Stuart Landau, The Realm of the Word. Language, Gender and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom (James Currey, London; Heinemann, Portsmouth; David Philip, Claremont, 1995), xxix + 249 pp., £14.95 pbk, ISBN 0–85255–620–9; £35.00 hbk, ISBN 0–85255–670–5. I. Hofmeyr, ’We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told’: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom (Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1993; James Currey, London; Heinemann, Portsmouth, 1994), 352 pp., £14.95 pbk, ISBN 0–85255–611‐X; £35.00 hbk, ISBN 0–85255–661–6. Daphna Golan, Inventing Shaka: Using History in the Construction of Zulu Nationalism (Lynne Rienner, Boulder and London, 1994), x + 171 pp., £34.50 hbk, ISBN 1–55587–349–9. Terence Ranger, Are We Not Also Men? The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe 1920–64 (James Currey, London; Baobab, Harare; David Philip, Cape Town; Heinemann, Portsmouth, 1995), iv + 211 pp., £35.00 hbk, ISBN 0–85255–618–7; £12.95 pbk, ISBN 0–85255–688–3. II. Human Rights, National and International Claude E. Welch, Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Non‐governmental Organizations (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1995), xiii + 356 pp., £37.95 hbk, ISBN 0–8122–3330–1. Siegfried Groth, Namibia — The Wall of Silence. The Dark Days of the Liberation Struggle (David Philip, Cape Town, 1995), 206 pp., N$/R78.00, ISBN 3–87294–708–8. III. South African Soldiers and Defence G. R. Berridge, South Africa, the Colonial Powers and ‘African Defence’: The Rise and Fall of the White Entente, 1948–60 (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1992), xiii + 234 pp., hbk, ISBN 0–312–08592–3.