African Studies Quarterly articles from March 2003

African Studies Quarterly archives from March 2003

Trop de soleil tue l'amour et en attendant le vote des betes sauvages: deux extremes, un bilan des transitions democratiques en Afrique.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... "Au bout de la patience, il y a le ciel. La nuit dure longtemps, mais le jour finit par arriver." --Ahmadou Kourouma "Ce n'est pas parce que l'on a rendu l'ame qu'on est vraiment mort. On entame au contraire un long periple au cours...

Delimitation of the elastic Ilemi Triangle: pastoral conflicts and official indifference in the horn of Africa.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT This article observes that although scholars have addressed the problem of the inherited colonial boundaries in Africa, there are lacunae in our knowledge of the complexity of demarcating the Kenya-Sudan-Ethiopia tri-junctional...

Morocco in transition: overcoming the democratic and human rights legacy of King Hassan II.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT Morocco's King Hassan II died on 23 July 1999 and was succeeded by his son Muhammad VI. Much of the media coverage of Hassan II following his death portrayed him as a champion of democracy and human rights in the region. Was this...

On the subject of Kings and Queens: "traditional" African leadership and the Diasporal imagination.
March 22, 2003... Then you will die indeed, Chila Kintasi! Your own mouth pronounced judgment. Die and deliver the land from the abominations of drunkenness and gluttony. (She used a bunch of soft feather [sic] attached on a bamboo stick on the Fon [King]. The...

Ethnicity and Burundi's Refugees.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... LeMarchand, Rene (1995). Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide. Wilson/Cambridge University Press. Malkki, Liisa (1995). Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology anmong Hutu Refugees in Tanzania. Chicago: University of...

South Africa's Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... edited by Les Switzer and Mohamed Adhikari, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2000. 472 pp. The dissident voices are dead. Dozens of newspapers and magazines were vitally important in bringing about change in apartheid South Africa, but...

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Miracle or Model?(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Lyn S. Graybill. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc., 2002, 231 pp. Since coming into existence in 1995, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has given rise to a large number of publications. Consequently, it...

Apartheid No More: Case Studies of Southern African Universities in the Process of Transformation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Kimberley Lenease King. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001, 173 pp. Apartheid No More brings together eight in-depth case studies of various institutions of higher learning in South Africa and Namibia....

Can We Talk.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Shimmer Chinodya. Heinemann, 2000. 154 pp. Shimmer Chinodya like so many African writers is a person of many talents and professions. Aside from writing five novels, winning the Commonwealth Prize for Harvest of Thorns (1990), receiving...

Alice Lakwena and the Holy Spirits: War in Northern Uganda, 1986-97.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Heike Behrend. Oxford: James Curry, 1999. 210 pp. The aim of Heike Behrend's work is to present a history of the Ugandan rebel movement and its organization under its charismatic leader Alice Auma. Translated from German, Behrend...

Zones of Conflict in Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... edited by George Klay Kieh, Jr. and Ida Rousseau Mukenge. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. 174 pp. The editors seemed to have struggled to produce this modest volume, which grew out of a conference at Morehouse College several years ago. They...

Ethnicity in Africa: Towards a Positive Approach.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... by Hameso Y. Seyoum London: TSC Publications. 1997. 120 pp. Despite its resilient reality, ethnicity and "tribalism" have not received adequate scholarly commentary in academic discourses in Africa. Nonetheless, Africa still remains a...