African Studies Quarterly articles from March 2004

African Studies Quarterly archives from March 2004

Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Africa and the West: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence. William H. Worger, Nancy L. Clark and Edward A Alpers, eds. Phoenix, Arizona: Oryx Press, 2001. 429 pp. This hefty book really is a documentary history, rather...

Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Paul Landau and Deborah Kaspin, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 380 pp. Instructors teaching about African history and society have long wrestled with...

Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory. Kevin C. Dunn & Timothy M. Shaw (eds). New York: Palgrave Publishers Ltd, 2001, 242 pp. Editors Kevin C. Dunn and Timothy M. Shaw boldly step forward to challenge established...

The Last Emerging Market: From Asian Tigers to African Lions? The Ghana File.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Last Emerging Market: From Asian Tigers to African Lions? The Ghana File. Nathaniel H. Bowditch. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 1999. 201 pp. Nathaniel H. Bowditch, a self-described "public entrepreneur", went to Thailand...

The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War. Mark Huband. Boulder, CO.: Westview Press. 2001. 408 pp. Mark Huband, a British journalist, offers a detailed, if tendentious, account of Western contributions to the current African...

Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau. Adekeye Adebajo. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002. 192 pp. In this occasional paper for the International Peace Academy, Adekeye Adebajo takes a look at...

Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier. Paul Nugent. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2002. 302 pp. Scholars interested in the economic, political, and social consequences of contemporary Africa's...

Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries. Edward C. Green, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 374 pp. In Rethinking AIDS Prevention, Edward Green controversially calls for a paradigm shift away from donor myopia...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook. Isidore Okpewho,ed. Oxford: University Press, 2003. 275 pp. The novel, Things Fall Apart, is central not only in African literature, but also in postcolonial literary and cultural discourses....

The African State: Reconsiderations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... The African State: Reconsiderations. Abdi Ismail Samatar and Ahmed I. Samatar, eds. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. 286 pp. This collection of essays on the state in Africa is an important contribution to political science on Africa,...

Performing Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Performing Africa. Paulla Ebron. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. 272 pp. Performing Africa is an intriguing ethnography that explores jali performers and performances within the small West African nation of the Gambia and...

Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The Dynamics of Struggle and Resistance. Graham Harrison. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. 208 pp. In this book, Harrison grapples with the tendency of analysts to homogenize...

Transforming African and African-American sociopolitical and educational realities: possibilities or pipe dreams?(Apartheid No More, When Race Becomes Real, Education in a Globalized World: The Connectivity of Economic Power, Technology, and Knowledge)(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Apartheid No More. Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Kimberly Lenease King, eds. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 2001. 173 pp. When Race Becomes Real. Bernestine Singley, ed. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2002. 335 pp. Education...

The cultural identity of Africa and the global tasks of Africana studies.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT This essay is concerned with the cultural identity of Africa and the appropriate study of Africa(ns). It is a direct response to the notion of conceptually and pragmatically situating Africa, in all its scope and dimensions, back...

The languages of childhood: the discursive construction of childhood and colonial policy in French West Africa.
March 22, 2004... In spite of the deceptive familiarity of the terrain, childhood, that stage of life that we are all supposed to experience, resists easy definition. (1) Our fascination with childhood experiences has created an international boom in...

Women's movements, customary law, and land rights in Africa: the case of Uganda.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT Much of the literature on women and land tenure in Africa has viewed the introduction of land titling, registration, and the privatization of land under colonialism and after independence as a setback for women, leaving women in a...