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WANDALÁA sources Politik zwischen den Zeilen: Arabische Handschriften der Wandalá in Nordkamerun. By H ERMANN F ORKL , with the co-operation of R EINHARD W EIPERT . Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1995. Pp. 559. No price given ( ISBN 3-87997-245-1).

The Wandalá community of northern Cameroon and adjoining portions of north-eastern Nigeria have a long tradition of state forms of government. In recent centuries, following conversion to Islam, they have composed an historiography in Arabic, an effort entailing the adaptation of alien characters to the names and titles of a language whose sound system differs considerably from the one for which the symbols were originally intended. Some individual examples of this literature have already been published, at least in translation, but with widely varying degrees of formality and precision. The v…