New edition of a book originally published in 1995 by the Institute of International Education of the University of Stockholm (Sweden). The book contained a collection of papers on mathematics education and African cultures, dating from the period 1986-1992, published in international journals such as ÒFor the Learning of MathematicsÓ, ÒEducational Studies in MathematicsÓ and ÒHistoria Mathematica.Ó Besides the original eleven chapters, the present edition contains two new chapters: ÒConditions and strategies for emancipatory mathematics education in underdeveloped countriesÓ, and ÒAfrican slave and calculating prodigy: Bicentenary of the death of Thomas FullerÓ (284 pp.).