African Studies Quarterly articles from March 2008

African Studies Quarterly archives from March 2008

A question of intervention: American policymaking in Sierra Leone and the power of institutional agenda setting.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract: This article is an examination of American foreign policy towards Sierra Leone in 1999 and 2000. Hopefully it will contribute to the literature of Sierra Leone while shedding theoretical light on types of humanitarian intervention. It...

Official representations of the nation: comparing the postage stamps of Sudan and Burkina Faso.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract: An analysis of the imagery on postage stamps suggests that regimes in Sudan and Burkina Faso have pursued very different strategies in representing the nation. Sudan's stamps focus on the political center and dominant elite (current...

Comparative perspectives on the rehabilitation of ex-slaves and former child soldiers with special reference to Sudan.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... Abstract: Despite the January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, reconstruction of southern Sudan remains a daunting task, which limited resources and unlimited suspicions may derail or delay. Among myriad issues facing agencies and their...

An interest in intervention: a moral argument for Darfur.(Darfur, Sudan)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The United States government has consistently failed to act when faced with governments committing mass atrocities against their own citizens. Yet U.S. leaders acknowledge that the United States is capable of and responsible...

Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. Gerard Prunier. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2007. 236 pp. Gerard Prunier is a research professor at the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques at the University of Paris and Director of...

Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Sylviane A. Diouf, ed. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. 242 pp. Sylviane A. Diouf has assembled a collection of provocative essays by scholars of African history that challenges...

Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past. Paul Stoller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 176 pp. The Peace Corps, I was once told, has a matrimonial agency quality to it. It is about helping, and occasionally, espousing...

Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions. Polycarp Ikuenobe. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 329 pp. The text is "a logical, systematic, and normative interpretation or analysis of the idea of...

Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana. Michael Amoah. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. 248 pp. In Reconstructing the Nation in Africa, author Michael Amoah examines the extent to which theories and...

Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies. Tristan Anne Borer, ed. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 328 pp. Telling the Truths is a collection of essays developed out of a...

History Making and Present Day Politics: The Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... History Making and Present Day Politics: The Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa. Hans Erik Stolten, ed. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 2007. 376 pp. This work is an important contribution both to the recent historiography of...

Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid. Belinda Bozzoli. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2004. 208 pp. Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid depicts the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986 as analyzed through various themes from...

West African Literatures: Ways of Reading.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... West African Literatures: Ways of Reading. Stephanie Newell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 288 pp. In West African literatures, Stephanie Newell examines, in thirteen chapters, crucial questions and debates, which are central in...