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Obudho provides unannotated citations for slightly more than 3,200 publications, nearly all of which broadly focus on the social science aspects of demography, urbanization, and planning in Kenya. The main body of the work is divided into six sections, which organize the literature cited by types: bibliographies, monographs, journal articles and chapters in edited works, government documents, dissertations, and a miscellaneous ``unpublished papers'' section (including conference papers, occasional papers and working papers of a number of research institutes). This is preceded by a brief introduction and helpful lists of abbreviations and acronyms and journal sources used in compilation. There is an author index, but no finely tuned subject index to the citations providing quick access to a specific aspect of the work's focus. Although it contains citations to materials published as early as the late 19th century, the bulk of the citations date from the mid-1960s to the present. Many libraries will have acquired Robert L. Collison's ``World Bibliographical Series'' Kenya (CH, Dec '82), Ole Norgaard's Kenya in the Social Sciences (Nairobi, 1980), and Anthony O'Conner's Urbanization in Tropical Africa (CH, Sep '81). Undergraduate collections with a particular emphasis on the study of Kenya may want Obudho's bibliography since it greatly expands upon these works. It is recommended for most graduate collections.-D.L. Easterbrook, University of Illinois at Chicago
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