Book reviews

Black Patients, White Psyches Jock McCulloch, Colonial Psychiatry and ‘The African Mind’ (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995), x + 185 pp., £35/$54:95 hbk, ISBN 0–521–453305. Wulf Sachs, Black Hamlet (John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1996), ix + 340 pp., $45 hbk, ISBN 0–8018–5429–6, $15.95 pbk, ISBN 0–8018–5286–2. Peasants and Migrants Colin Baker, Seeds of Trouble: Government Policy and Land Rights in Nyasaland 1946–1964 (British Academic Press, London, New York, 1993), viii + 215 pp., £39.50 hbk, ISBN 1–85043–615–0. Jonathan Crush and Wilmot James (eds), Crossing Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa (IDASA:IDRC, Cape Town, Ottawa, 1995), xvii + 233 pp., ISBN 1–874864–12–8. Lusophone Africa Isabelle Verdier (ed), Mozambique: 100 Men in Power (Indigo Publications, Paris, 1996), 193 pp., index, map, pbk, ISBN 2–905760–10–9. Patrick Chabal et al. (eds), The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa (Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 1996), vi + 314 pp.; $14.95 pbk, ISBN 0–8101–1423–2, $35 hbk, ISBN 1–85065–250–3. South African questions Iain R. Smith, The Origins of the South African War 1899–1902 (Longman, Harlow and New York, 1996), xix + 455 pp., £44 hbk, ISBN 0–582–27777–9, £15.99 pbk, 0–582–49520–2. Yvonne Muthien, State and Resistance in South Africa, 1939–1965 (Avebury, Aldershot, 1994), x + 237 pp., ISBN 1–85628–501–4. Michael Lobban, White Man's Justice: South African Political Trials in the Black Consciousness Era (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996), 288 pp., ISBN 0–19–826023–7. Dramas of Contestation David Kerr, African Popular Theatre: From Pre‐Colonial Yimes to the Present Day (James Currey, London; Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH; East African Educational Publishers, Nairobi; David Philip, Cape Town; Baobab Books, Harare, 1995), x + 278 pp., £35.00 hbk, ISBN 0–85255–534–2 hbk; £11.95 pbk, ISBN 0–85255–533–4.