"Lindfors, one of the world's leading Africanists, has assembled an outstanding collection of essays. Many of the works discussed can be found only in exceedingly rare publications, while some, until Lindfors's indefatigable researches, were not known to exist at all.... Essential for any African collection."—Library Journal

"Useful to both the beginner and to all specialists.... The essays convey strongly a sense of the excitement of the period."—G.D. Killam