Books of African Studies by Landeg White

Bridging the Zambesi

By Landeg White
Macmillan Press 1993

“It is a pleasure to read Landeg White’s tolerant and wise account of the colonial follies epitomised by a great Zambesi railway project” . . . Read More

London Review of Books

Power &
The Praise Poem

By Landeg White and Leroy Vail
James Curry Publishers 1992

“Power & the Praise Poem is an academic watershed… It has liberated studies of sub-continental oral literature from the thrall of Proppian structuralism and performance studies”. . . Read More

Journal of African History

Magomero: A Portrait of an African Village

By Landeg White
Cambridge University Press 1987

“Landeg White’s elegant book is something of a minor masterpiece and may well influence writing about Africa more than its size, or the importance of its subject, would at first suggest”. . . . Read More

American Historical Review

Oral Poetry from Africa

Compiled by Jack Mapanje and Landeg White
Longman 1984

“This anthology, freshly bathed, towelled and wrapped in new linen, is a delight to explore. The student and the discerning general reader will find this amazing collection informative, pleasing and startling”. . . . Read More

Dambudzo Marechera

Capitalism & Colonialism in Mozambique

By Landeg White and Leroy Vail
Heinemann 1980

“This is the best book to have been published to date on the history of Mozambique in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it is of far greater significance than its sub-title might suggest”. . . . Read More

Journal of African History