Book notes

The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, resistance, nationalism 1941 ‐ 1993 by Ruth Iyob; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi + 198.Reviewed by John Markakis

From Colonisation to Democracy: A New Historical Geography of South Africaby Alan Lester (1996), London: I B Tauris.

The Political Economy of South Africa: From Minerals‐Energy Complex to Industrialisation by Ben Fine and Zavareh Rustomjee (1996), London: Hurst & Co.

Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalisation and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania by Alli Mari Tripp (1997), University of California Press.

The Poverty of Nations: The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa by James Morton (1996), London: I B Tauris.

Crisis Response: Humanitarian Band‐Aids in Sudan and Somalia by John Prendergast (1997), London: Pluto Press.

Eritrea and Ethiopia: The Federal Experience by Tekeste Negash (1997), Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.

The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment edited by Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns (1996), London: James Currey/Heine‐mann.

Political Economy and Identities in Kwazulu‐Natal: Historical and Social Perspectives edited by Robert Morrell (1996), University of Natal: Indicator Press.