Landeg White

“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 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

“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

“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

“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