African Studies Quarterly articles from March 2007

African Studies Quarterly archives from March 2007

Competing regionalisms in Africa and the continent's emerging security architecture.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: While the relationship between the United Nations and Africa's various regional and sub-regional organisations has already been the subject of much debate, hardly any attention has been paid to the relationships these African...

U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... U.S. Policy in Postcolonial Africa: Four Case Studies in Conflict Resolution. F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam. New York: Peter Lang, 2004. 280 pp. This book is one of many books that have been directed at the American foreign policy in Third World...

Displacement Risks in Africa: Refugees, Resettlers and Their Host Population.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Displacement Risks in Africa: Refugees, Resettlers and Their Host Population. Itaru Ohta and Yntiso D. Gebre (eds). Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto University Press/Trans Pacific Press, 2005. 394 pp. Displacement Risks in Africa: Refugees, Resettlers...

Comparative assessment of indigenous methods of sweet potato preservation among smallholder farmers: case of grass, ash and soil based approaches in Zimbabwe.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: Lack of suitable storage facilities among smallholder farmers continues to expose farmers to intermittent food shocks. Farmers are thus making use of locally available preservation methods, derived from indigenous knowledge systems...

The persistence of the commons: economic theory and community decision-making on land tenure in Voi, Kenya.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: Projects to secure land rights for the urban poor have been implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa for thirty years. A recurrent issue is providing sustainable land tenure for settlement residents/project beneficiaries. Commonly,...

Getting In: Mediators' Entry Into the Settlement of African Conflicts.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Getting In: Mediators' Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts. Mohammed O. Maundi, I. William Zartman, Gilbert M. Khadiagala, and Kwaku Nuamah. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006. 256 pp. Getting In is a...

Identifying the Limits to Humanitarian Intervention: Echoes from Rwanda--A Review Article.(A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide)(At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention)(Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda)(Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire)(The Limits to Humanitarian Intervention)(White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Romeo Dallaire. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2003. 584 pp. White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. William...

Tradition and educational reconstruction in Africa in postcolonial and global times: the case for Sierra Leone.
March 22, 2007... Abstract: Critique of colonial and postcolonial education in Africa as perpetuating cultural and intellectual servitude and devaluation of traditional African cultures has led some African intellectuals to call for a re-appropriation of...

Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Images of Empire: Photographic Sources for the British in the Sudan. W. Daly and Jane R. Hogan. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2005. 391pp. Everything about the Sudan seems anomalous: A peculiar name (country of the Blacks), an exceptionally...

Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements. Janice Love. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2005. 224 pp. If one wants to understand the Southern African region, one needs to look at the interaction between...

The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwanda Tragedy and the Churches (with foreword by Desmond Tutu).(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Angels Have Left Us: The Rwanda Tragedy and the Churches (with foreword by Desmond Tutu). Hugh McCullum. Geneva: WCC Publications, 2004. 132 pp. The subject of the complicity of everyday citizens in the tragedy of the genocide in...

The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way?(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? Craig N. Murphy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 372 pp. International development agencies suffer no shortage of critics. Fifty plus years removed from the...

Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880-1960.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880-1960. Kathleen R. Smythe. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2006. 202 pp. This eloquent and succinct study skillfully explores intimate relationships between Catholic...