Africa Today articles from January 1999

Africa Today archives from January 1999

The Dynamic Nature of Citizenship and Participation: Lessons from Three Rural Senegalese Case Studies.
January 1, 1999... This article uses three case studies from rural Senegalese communal organizations to examine the dynamic nature of citizenship and participation. Citizenship reflects a set of expectations about rights and responsibilities that a particular...

Power, Sovereignty, and International Election Observers: The Case of Zanzibar.
January 1, 1999... In the international election observer process, the degree to which invasive observation rules Of engagement are negotiated depends on host country dependence on the donor community, the willingness of the donors to exploit this relationship,...

Monuments, Holidays, and Remembering Moshoeshoe: The Emergence of National Identity in Lesotho, 1902-1966.
January 1, 1999... In response to the threat posed by the Union of South Africa, citizens and politicians in Lesotho have constructed a national identity using symbols of Moshoeshoe such as monuments and holidays. One such monument is Moshoeshoe's mountain...

Gender and Agricultural Extension in Burkina Faso.
January 1, 1999... A national survey of 2,406 agricultural households in Burkina Faso revealed that only five percent of the households were "headed" by women, but that nineteen percent of the plots farmed by these households were actively managed by women. Both...

The State and Schooling in Kenya: Historical Developments and Current Challenges.
January 1, 1999... This paper examines the role of the Kenyan state in regards to the historical development and expansion of the educational system and the current educational challenges facing the country. Like other post-colonial states, the "fragile" Kenyan...

The World Bank and African Primary Education: Policies, Practices, and Recommendations.
January 1, 1999... This paper argues that the World Bank's economic cost-benefit methodology used in assessing primary education projects in Africa is largely ineffective in determining the likely success and impact of these projects on their host countries....

THE STRUCTURE OF DAGARRE.
January 1, 1999... Bodomo, Adams. 1997. THE STRUCTURE OF DAGARRE. Stanford Monographs in African Languages. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information. This book is the first descriptive work, by a native speaker, on most aspects of...

ORAL EPICS FROM AFRICA: VIBRANT VOICES FROM A VAST CONTINENT.
January 1, 1999... Johnson, John William, Thomas A. Hale, and Stephen Belcher, eds. 1997. ORAL EPICS FROM AFRICA: VIBRANT VOICES FROM A VAST CONTINENT. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1997 has been a great year for the study of the African epic, since...

LES EPOPEES D'AFRIQUE NOIRE.
January 1, 1999... Kesteloot, Lilyan and Bassirou Dieng, eds. 1997. LES EPOPEES D'AFRIQUE NOIRE. Paris: Karthala, Editions UNESCO. 1997 has been a great year for the study of the African epic, since it brought the publication of two sizable anthologies on the...

WILLING MIGRANTS: SONINKE LABOR DIASPORAS, 1848-1960.
January 1, 1999... Manchuelle, Francois. 1997. WILLING MIGRANTS: SONINKE LABOR DIASPORAS, 1848-1960. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. Francois Manchuelle, who died tragically in the crash of TWA flight 800 to Paris in 1996, published on a variety of...

LES AFRICAINES DANS LA POLITIQUE: FEMMES BAOULE DE COTE D'IVOIRE.
January 1, 1999... N'Dri, Therese Assie-Lumumba. 1996. LES AFRICAINES DANS LA POLITIQUE: FEMMES BAOULE DE COTE D'IVOIRE. Paris: Editions l'Harmattan. This rather compact book provides illuminating analysis of the diminished political roles, power positions,...

LIBERALS AGAINST APARTHEID: A HISTORY OF THE LIBERAL PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1953-1968.
January 1, 1999... Vigne, Randolph. 1997. LIBERALS AGAINST APARTHEID: A HISTORY OF THE LIBERAL PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA, 1953-1968. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press and New York: St. Martin's Press. Vigne has written a comprehensive account of the Liberal Party (LP)...

BOOKS RECEIVED.
January 1, 1999... Adi, Ha kim. 1998. West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism. London: Lawrence & Wishart. Ajayi, J.F. Ade, ed. 1998. General History of Africa, VI: Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s....

Books Received.
January 1, 1999... Qualified reviewers are invited to inform us of titles in which they are interested. (Compiled by Nicholas A. Jackson and Gail S. Kasun.) Anthropology Claude Daniel Ardouin, ed., MUSEUMS AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN WEST AFRICA (Washington,...