African Studies Quarterly articles from March 22 2005

African Studies Quarterly archives from March 22 2005

Neither peace nor justice: political violence and the peasantry in Northern Uganda, 1986-1998.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: Uncertainty abounds concerning the 19-year conflict in Northern Uganda between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government. Two questions have received the most attention and could have the most bearing on efforts to...

Determinants of rural labor market participation in Tanzania.(economic development)
March 22, 2005... Abstract: Participation in rural off-farm activities (outside a household's own farm) is one of the livelihood strategies among poor rural households in many developing countries. One component of off-farm activities accessible to the very poor...

Small towns in Ghana: justifications for their promotion under Ghana's decentralisation programme.
March 22, 2005... Abstract: A key objective of Ghana's decentralization programme is the promotion of small towns, particularly district capitals, as a means of reducing rural-urban migration and the rapid growth of large towns and cities. While small towns have...

Taking American race relations on the road ... to Africa.(experiences of African Americans in Kenya)
March 22, 2005... Author's Note: I originally wrote this article in the summer of 2001, after returning from Kenya where I had spent the month of May with eighteen Illinois Wesleyan students enrolled in my travel course. Inspired by a series of articles devoted...

Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa. Lisa A. Lindsay and Stephan F. Miescher, eds. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. 262 pp. This book is the first collection of its kind to focus on the practices of masculinities especially in West...

We are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ashwin Desai.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... We are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ashwin Desai. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002. 156 pp. As South Africa rides yet another wave of "Madiba Magic" in the wake of its celebration of ten years of...

Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals. Anthony Bogues, ed. Routledge: New York, 2003. 260pp. Black Heretics, Black Prophets offers the Southern African reader a fascinating insight into the historical...

West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War. Mahir Saul and Patrick Royer. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2001. 404 pp. According to the authors, the Volta-Bani uprising of 1915-16 was the...

African Theatre Women.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... African Theatre Women. Martin Banham, James Gibbs, Femi Osofisan, and Jane Plastow, eds. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. 178 pp. The guest editor Jane Plastow's stated aim in this volume is "to contribute to the discussion...

Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787. Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. 203 pp. This book has an ambitious agenda in covering over two hundred years of...

Broken Lives and Other Stories.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Broken Lives and Other Stories. Anthonia C. Kalu. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003. 183 pp. If literature has the power to touch and, in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke in his poem, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," teach us to change our...

Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. Christopher A. Conte. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. 215 pp. Highland Sanctuary situates the Usambara Mountains of northeastern Tanzania within the...

Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Paradigm lost?(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Education Reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Paradigm lost? Jeanne Moulton, Karen Mundy, Michel Welmond, and James Williams. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 248 pp. Using research on policy implementation, Moulton and her co-authors...

Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, & Global Order.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Collective Insecurity: The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, & Global Order. Ikechi Mgbeoji. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003. 186 pp. At the end of World War II, the founders of the United Nations had hoped that this...

Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa: Cameroon.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa: Cameroon. Festus Eribo and Enoh Tanjong, eds. New York: Lexington Books, 2002. 168 pp. Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa edited by Festus Eribo and Enoh Tanjong, locates its analysis of...

Imagining the Congo: The International Relations of Identity.(ww)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Imagining the Congo: The International Relations of Identity. Kevin C. Dunn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 236 pp. Kevin Dunn's path-breaking book offers an illuminating look into the imaginings and re-imaginings of the Congo from the...

Oral Traditions as Philosophy: Okot p'Bitek's Legacy for African Philosophy.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Oral Traditions as Philosophy: Okot p'Bitek's Legacy for African Philosophy. Samuel Oluoch Imbo. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. 181 pp. Okot p'Bitek is among Africa's best known authors, although as Samuel Oluoch Imbo...

Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture. Joseph Adjaye. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 195 pp. With Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture (2004), Joseph Adjaye offers us an inspiring ethnography of several...

A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. Patrick Chabal (with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, and Elisa Silva Andrade). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. 339 pp. Patrick Chabal's new...

African Renaissance: Roadmaps to the Challenge of Globalization Fantu Cheru.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... African Renaissance: Roadmaps to the Challenge of Globalization Fantu Cheru. London: Zed Books, 2002. 253 pp. In African Renaissance, Fantu Cheru offers new insights into the crisis of Africa's development. His goal is to set a different...

Economic Change, Governance and Natural Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Change in Southern Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Economic Change, Governance and Natural Resource Wealth: The Political Economy of Change in Southern Africa. David Reed. London: Earthscan, 2001. 168 pp. The author of this book is the director of the WWF Macroeconomics Program Office...

Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Lords of the Fly: Sleeping Sickness Control in British East Africa, 1900-1960. Kirk Arden Hoppe. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. 203 pp. As Hoppe notes, the statistics of sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) epidemics in colonial East...