Africa Today articles from December 2005

Africa Today archives from December 2005

Introduction to special issue: African electronic publishing.
December 22, 2005... Most African-studies scholars are aware that electronic publishing plays an increasingly important role in our field. When we at Africa Today decided to publish a special issue on electronic publishing, several ideas about the topic connected....

The digitization of Africa.
December 22, 2005... Globalization and technological change are driving new developments in electronic publishing and learning developments that ore dominating the transmission of educational information. African studies in the North are harnessing these...

"Internet in a box": augmenting bandwidth with the eGranary Digital Library.
December 22, 2005... In terms of information access, the internet and the World Wide Web hold fort h a historically unique chance for African universities to gain a more equal footing with their sister institutions in the West, yet most African universities are...

Increasing the visibility of published research: African journals online.
December 22, 2005... The rise of the internet has increased expectations about how research information can and should be disseminated globally, and this change has had an impact on journals published within Africa--journals that have previously been unable to take...

Digitization, history, and the making of a postcolonial archive of Southern African liberation struggles: the Aluka Project (1).
December 22, 2005... This paper describes the history of an initiative to digitize a postcolonial archive on the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa. The authors outline the intellectual architecture of the project and the complex epistemological, political,...

Conteh-Morgan, John, and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds. 2004. African Drama and Performance.
December 22, 2005... Conteh-Morgan, John, and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds. 2004. AFRICAN DRAMA AND PERFORMANCE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 274 pp. $ 21.95 (paper). In 1999, Indiana University Press published a special number of Research in African...

Diouf, Sylviane A. 2003. Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.
December 22, 2005... Diouf, Sylviane A. 2003. FIGHTING THE SLAVE TRADE: WEST AFRICAN STRATEGIES. Athens: Ohio University Press. 242 pp. $ 26.95 (paper), $ 59.95 (cloth). Although scholarly literature on slavery and the slave trade in Africa has grown with...

Gugler, Joseph. 2004. African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent.
December 22, 2005... Gugler, Joseph. 2004. AFRICAN FILM: RE-IMAGINING A CONTINENT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 200pp. $24.95 (paper), $59.95 (cloth). Joseph Gugler's African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent examines how contemporary motion pictures...

Kalu, Anthonia C. 2003. Broken Lives and Other Stories.
December 22, 2005... Kalu, Anthonia C. 2003. BROKEN LIVES AND OTHER STORIES. Athens: Ohio University Press. 183 pp. $19.95 (paper). As indicated in the foreword, by noted critic Emmanuel Obiechina, the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970, has been a subject for...

Michael, Sarah. 2004. Undermining Development: the Absence of Power Among Local NGOs in Africa.
December 22, 2005... Michael, Sarah. 2004. UNDERMINING DEVELOPMENT: THE ABSENCE OF POWER AMONG LOCAL NGOs IN AFRICA. Oxford: James Currey and Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 206 pp. $22.95 (paper). Sarah Michael has turned her doctoral thesis into a fine...

Ratsimbaharison, Adrien. 2003. the Failure of the United Nations Development Programs for Africa.
December 22, 2005... Ratsimbaharison, Adrien. 2003. THE FAILURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR AFRICA. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 196 pp. $29.00 (paper) My favorite aspect of this book was the author's discussion of the United...

Reed, Daniel. 2003. Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Cote d'Ivoire.
December 22, 2005... Reed, Daniel. 2003. DAN GE PERFORMANCE: MASKS AND MUSIC IN CONTEMPORARY COTE D'IVOIRE. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 212 pp. $ 24.95 (paper), $ 59.95 (cloth). In Dan Ge Performance: Masks and Music in Contemporary Cote d'Ivoire,...

Richards, Paul, ed. 2005. No Peace No War: An Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts.
December 22, 2005... Richards, Paul, ed. 2005. NO PEACE NO WAR: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ARMED CONFLICTS. Athens, Ga.: Ohio University Press and James Currey Ltd. 214 pp. $24.95 (paper), $49.95 (cloth). Scholars associated with Uppsala University's...

Sicherman, Carol. 2005. Becoming an African University: Makerere 1922-2000.
December 22, 2005... Sicherman, Carol. 2005. BECOMING AN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY: MAKERERE 1922-2000. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. 416 pp., $34.95 (paper). Makerere University today is central both to Uganda's efforts to rebuild after the bad years of...

Snyder, Katherine A. 2005. The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development.
December 22, 2005... Snyder, Katherine A. 2005. THE IRAQW OF TANZANIA: NEGOTIATING RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Cambridge: Westview Press. 196 pp. $ 20.00 (paper). Schoolteachers and government officials eat meat and drink bottled beer inside, while other wedding guests...

Tcheuyap, Alexie, ed. 2005. Cinema and Social Discourse in Cameroon.
December 22, 2005... Tcheuyap, Alexie, ed. 2005. CINEMA AND SOCIAL DISCOURSE IN CAMEROON. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth African Studies. 342pp. Indigenous sub-Saharan African filmmaking began some fifty years ago. Initially studied within historical,...

Widgren, Mats, and John E. G. Sutton, eds. 2004. Islands of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern Africa.
December 22, 2005... Widgren, Mats, and John E. G. Sutton, eds. 2004. ISLANDS OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE IN EASTERN AFRICA. Oxford and Athens, Ohio: James Currey and Ohio University Press. 160 pp., $44.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). This book pursues issues...

Books received.(Bibliography)
December 22, 2005... Batibo, Herman M. 2005. Language Death and Decline in Africa. Toronto: Cromwell Press Ltd. Buur, Lars, and Kyed, Maria Helene. 2005. State Recognition of Traditional Authority in Mozambique. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. ...