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Khoikhoi and the Founding of White South Africa . By Richard Elphick. Ravan Press: Johannesburg, 1985. Pp. xxii + 266. Distributed in the U.K. by Third World Publications, Stratford Rd, Birmingham. £8.95 (Paperback).

the complicated situation arising when Islamic patrilineal legal systems merged with the underlying matrilineal arrangements of the native Comorians. However, the book leaves something to be desired for the general reader. Although there is a lengthy introduction which provides a synthesis of the traditional history of the island of Angazidja (Grande Comore), students would have some difficulty in finding out the origins of the many traditions related. The text itself is not annotated, and although there is an extensive and useful bibliography and although the authors are well-known for their pioneering work into the history of the islands, there is a curious omission of two major German works the monumental study of the islands by Voltzkow, written at the beginning of this century, which makes use of many traditional sources, and the more recent edition of a Comorian chronicle by Gernot Rotter (Muslimische Inseln von Ostafrika, Beirut/Wiesbaden, 1976).