Submitted: Wed., 17 Jul 1996 Valery Subbotin Doctor of Science in History Institute for African Studies Russian Academy of Sciences 30/1 Spiridonovka str. 103001 Moscow Russia phone: 095-290-2752 fax: 095-202-0786 e-mail: all@inafr.msk.su telex: 411099 INAFR SU Senior research worker. Association of Russian Orientalists, Moscow, member. -- History of Africa and Europe. -- Britain and Tropical Africa. Moscow, 1992 (in Russian)