Africa Today articles from December 2008

Africa Today archives from December 2008

Kyomuhendo, Grace Bantebya, and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. 2006. Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003.
December 22, 2008... Kyomuhendo, Grace Bantebya, and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh. 2006. WOMEN, WORK AND DOMESTIC VIRTUE IN UGANDA, 1900-2003. Oxford: James Currey. 308 pp., $55.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). In this richly detailed historical study, Grace Bantebya...

Dubin, Steven C. 2006. Transforming Museums: Mounting Queen Victoria in a Democratic South Africa.
December 22, 2008... Dubin, Steven C. 2006. TRANSFORMING MUSEUMS: MOUNTING QUEEN VICTORIA IN A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 360pp. $75.00 (Hardcover) This is an engaging account of the major political and social changes that museums...

Mann, Gregory. 2006. Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century.
December 22, 2008... Mann, Gregory. 2006. NATIVE SONS: WEST AFRICAN VETERANS AND FRANCE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 344 pp. $23.95 (paper) During the first six decades of the twentieth century, France recruited from its West...

Malaquias, Assis. 2007. Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Postcolonial Angola.
December 22, 2008... Malaquias, Assis. 2007. REBELS AND ROBBERS: VIOLENCE IN POSTCOLONIAL ANGOLA. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute. 264 pp. $39.95 (paper). Rebels and Robbers is a study of Angola's civil war and its peace since 2003. Unlike other authors who...

Eldredge, Elizabeth A. 2007. Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960.
December 22, 2008... Eldredge, Elizabeth A. 2007. POWER IN COLONIAL AFRICA: CONFLICT AND DISCOURSE IN LESOTHO, 1870-1960. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 275 pp. $65.00 (cloth). Using Michel Foucault's conceptualization of power as a "multiplicity of...

Patterson, Amy S. 2006. The Politics of AIDS in Africa.
December 22, 2008... Patterson, Amy S. 2006. THE POLITICS OF AIDS IN AFRICA. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner. 226 pp. $52.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Patterson's book is published in the series "Challenge and Change in African Politics." Patterson claims that the...

Books received.(Bibliography)
December 22, 2008... Armes, Roy. 2008. Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Besteman, Catherine. 2008. Transforming Cape Town. Berkeley: University of California Press. Carbone, Giovanni. 2008. No Party Democracy?...

Migration and cultural change: money, "caste," gender, and social status among Senegalese female hair braiders in the United States.
December 22, 2008... This research uses the business of hair braiding among Senegalese immigrants in the United States as a lens to explore the shifting foundations of social hierarchies and gender roles in Wolof-Muslim Society. The article is based on multisited...

Political dilemmas of indigenous capitalist development in Africa: Ghana under the Provisional National Defence Council.
December 22, 2008... The neoliberal capitalist project in Africa was supposed to foster a state-capital alliance, in which indigenous capitalists would play a vital role, but this result has not materialized. As in the past, political considerations hinder the...

Between aspirations and realities: northern Ghanaian migrant women and the dilemma of household (re)production in southern Ghana.
December 22, 2008... A major outcome of the decline of African agriculture and economy in the 1980s was the sustained interest in the studies of agrarian change and the special effort scholars have put into exploring the ways in which domestic and gender relations...

Between history and the gods: reason, morality, and politics in today's Africa.
December 22, 2008... What relationships can we discern, in the abstract, among philosophy, morality, and politics? What could such relationships across the abstract categories tell us about the forms of everyday political experiences in today's Africa? My goal is...

Comments on E. C. Eze's "Between History and the Gods: Reason, Morality, and Politics in Today's Africa".
December 22, 2008... There is no better way to start this piece than by acknowledging E. C. Eze's invaluable contribution to philosophy in general, and to African philosophy in particular. His transition to, and membership in, the other world has created a void and...

Beyond reason to interdisciplinary dialogue on morality and politics in Africa: comments on E. C. Eze's "Between History and the Gods: Reason, Morality, and Politics in Today's Africa".
December 22, 2008... At the time that Professor E. C. Eze submitted his essay "Between History and the Gods: Reason, Morality, and Politics in Today's Africa" to Africa Today, it was part of a larger project, titled On Reason: Rationality in a World of Cultural...