Africa Today articles from December 2004

Africa Today archives from December 2004

City work in a time of AIDS: Maasai labor migration in Tanzania.
December 22, 2004... Around 1997, Tanzanian Maasai began seeking city jobs in noticeable numbers, due to intensifying poverty. Having limited knowledge of cities, elders were ill-equipped to advise their brothers, wives, and sons about migration, which has...

Turning her back on the moon: virginity, sexuality, and mothering in the works of Yvonne Vera.
December 22, 2004... Acclaimed Zimbabwean novelist Yvonne Veto writes the history of colonialism, the liberation struggle, and postcolonial holocaust through the eyes and bodies of women, depicting how they suffered and survived in rural areas and urban townships....

Structural adjustment in Ghana: assessing the impacts of mining-sector reform.
December 22, 2004... This paper examines the impacts of mining-sector reform in Ghana at both the macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. Since the inception of the national Economic Recovery Program (ERP) in 1983, the Ghanaian government, under the guidance of the...

User-initiated extensions in government-built Estates in Ghana and Zimbabwe: unconventional but effective housing supply.
December 22, 2004... Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have large stocks of government-built housing, which, for various reasons, is in poor physical condition and/or does not conform to occupants' expectations. In many countries, occupants of such housing make...

The politics of AIDS policy development and implementation in postapartheid South Africa.
December 22, 2004... By outlining the political context that shaped the development of AIDS policy in South Africa and highlighting the deeply political aspects of the AIDS crisis, this paper shows why the South African government has not effectively responded to...

Alexander, Peter. 2000. Workers, War & the Origins of Apartheid: Labour & Politics in South Africa.
December 22, 2004... Alexander, Peter. 2000. WORKERS, WAR & THE ORIGINS OF APARTHEID: LABOUR & POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1939-48. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Cape Town: David Philip. 214 pp. $84.87 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Labor and...

Angula, Nahas and Bankie F. Bankie. 2000. The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa.
December 22, 2004... Angula, Nahas and Bankie F. Bankie. 2000. THE AFRICAN ORIGIN OF CIVILISATION AND THE DESTINY OF AFRICA. Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmillan. 208 pp. This worthwhile book is a collection of essays presented at a conference sponsored by...

Baregu, Mwesiga, and Christopher Landsberg, eds. 2003. From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa's Evolving Security Challenges.
December 22, 2004... Baregu, Mwesiga, and Christopher Landsberg, eds. 2003. FROM CAPE TO CONGO: SOUTHERN AFRICA'S EVOLVING SECURITY CHALLENGES. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 401 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Most collections of papers presented at...

Crais, Clifton. 2002. The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa.
December 22, 2004... Crais, Clifton. 2002. THE POLITICS OF EVIL: MAGIC, STATE POWER AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 297 pp. $60.00 (cloth); 10 [pounds sterling] paperback African edition (limited markets). ...

Crush, Jonathan, and David A. McDonald, eds. 2002. Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa.
December 22, 2004... Crush, Jonathan, and David A. McDonald, eds. 2002. TRANSNATIONALISM AND NEW AFRICAN IMMIGRATION TO SOUTH AFRICA. Toronto: Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) and the Canadian Association of African Studies. 184 + iv pp. The collapse...

Dugga, Victor Samson. 2002. Creolisations in Nigerian Theatre.
December 22, 2004... Dugga, Victor Samson. 2002. CREOLISATIONS IN NIGERIAN THEATRE. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth African Studies. 61pp. This book is an attempt by a promising new theater academic to elaborate his understandings of theater in Nigeria today. It is...

Geary, Christraud M. 2002. In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa.
December 22, 2004... Geary, Christraud M. 2002. IN AND OUT OF FOCUS: IMAGES FROM CENTRAL AFRICA, 1885-1960. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution. $30.00 (paper). Western visual representations of Africans and their continent...

Lindfors, Bernth. 2000. Black African Literature in English.
December 22, 2004... Lindfors, Bernth. 2000. BLACK AFRICAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, 1992-1996. Oxford: Hans Zell (James Currey). 654 pp. 90 [pounds sterling] (cloth) The first question that comes to mind when looking at the latest volume in Bernth Lindfors'...

Newell, Stephanie. 2002. Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: "How to Play the Game of Life.".
December 22, 2004... Newell, Stephanie. 2002. LITERARY CULTURE IN COLONIAL GHANA: "HOW TO PLAY THE GAME OF LIFE." Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 242 pp. $54.95, (cloth); $22.95 (paper) What did a mission-educated African read in early twentieth-century...

Books received.
December 22, 2004... Adebajo, Adekeye and Ismail Rashid, eds. 2004. West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. African Women and Peace Support Group. 2004. Liberian Women Peacemakers: Fighting for the Right...