Africa Today articles from June 2001

Africa Today archives from June 2001

Politics and AIDS in Africa: research agendas in Political Science and international relations.
June 22, 2001... Political Science as an academic discipline has been slow to grapple with the enormous implications of the AIDS crisis for much of the developing world. This article argues that important research agendas link AIDS and politics, and that more...

Africa on camera: television news coverage and aerial imaging of Rwandan refugees.
June 22, 2001... Television news and aerial images were used to monitor refugees' movements in 1996 when Hutu refugees were forced to flee encampments in Eastern Zaire/Congo. Television coverage gave viewers close-up, seemingly personalized accounts of the...

The dynamics of transition governance in South Africa: voices from Mpumalanga Province.
June 22, 2001... The broad premise of the article is that South Africa's national experiences encapsulate the currents and contradictions of the twentieth century across the range of the world's states and societies. Hence, South Africa's transitions and...

South Africa's 1999 election: consolidating a dominant party system.
June 22, 2001... This article examines the degree to which democracy is consolidating in South Africa with a study of the nature of the country's political party system. With particular attention to the behavior of opposition parties during the Mandela...

National service--is it a thirteenth year of education? The rise and fall of an innovation in Botswana.
June 22, 2001... Tirelo Setshaba (TS), a form of national service, served to expose O-level graduates to the realities of their own society--the conditions and lifeways of people in rural and remote areas--by providing a bridging year for matriculating to...

Education and Islamic trends in Northern Nigeria: 1970s-1990s.
June 22, 2001... Recognizably different Islamic trends in contemporary Northern Nigeria can be described in terms of traditionalism, modernism, and fundamentalism, and each trend can be correlated to a different educational background as well as a different...

International Relations in Contemporary Africa.
June 22, 2001... Anda, Michael O. 2000. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA. Lanham: University Press of America. 299 pp. This study focuses on a cross-sectional analysis of intra-West African international relations, using the Economic Community...

Regionalisation in Africa: Integration and Disintegration.
June 22, 2001... Bach, Daniel, ed. 1999. REGIONALISATION IN AFRICA: INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 235 pp. The former director of the Centre d'etude d'Afrique noire (CEAN) in Bordeaux and a recognized authority on...

Trade and Fiscal Adjustment in Africa.
June 22, 2001... Bevan, David, Paul Collier, Norman Gemmell, and David Greenway, eds. 2000. TRADE AND FISCAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICA. New York: St. Martin's Press. 285 pp. This volume of essays addresses the history of trade and fiscal reform in Africa, with...

History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology.
June 22, 2001... Donham, Donald. 1999. HISTORY, POWER, IDEOLOGY: CENTRAL ISSUES IN MARXISM AND ANTHROPOLOGY. Berkeley: University of California Press. 240 pp. In his History, Power, Ideology: Central Issues in Marxism and Anthropology, Donald Donham states...

Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa.
June 22, 2001... Gibson, Clark C. 1999. POLITICIANS AND POACHERS: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WILDLIFE POLICY IN AFRICA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 244 pp. Clark C. Gibson has crafted a superb critical analysis. He captures the complexity of...

Contending Issues in African Development: Advances, Challenges, and the Future.
June 22, 2001... Iheduru, Obioma M., ed. 2001. CONTENDING ISSUES IN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: ADVANCES, CHALLENGES, AND THE FUTURE. Westport: Greenwood Press. 342 pp. It is difficult to review a book comprised of essays written by a number of authors, as these...

Africa and the New World Order.
June 22, 2001... Ihonvbere, Julius O. 2000. AFRICA AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER. New York: Peter Lang. 257 pp. Ihonvbere offers an interesting account of Africa's marginalization in the new world order. The first chapter is refreshing in the clarity of issues...

Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources.
June 22, 2001... Kagan, Alfred, and Yvette Scheven. 1999. REFERENCE GUIDE TO AFRICA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. 263pp. The Reference Guide to Africa is a highly useful resource for anyone undertaking research in the African...

The History of Islam in Africa.
June 22, 2001... Levtzion, Nehemia, and Randall L. Pouwels. 2000. THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN AFRICA. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Curry; Cape Town: David Philip. 591 pp. The editors Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels have assembled an...

Women in African Economies: From Burning Sun to Boardroom.
June 22, 2001... Snyder, Margaret. 2000. WOMEN IN AFRICAN ECONOMIES: FROM BURNING SUN TO BOARDROOM. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers. We have here an analytical account of interviews with 74 Ugandan business women, ranging from roadside marketers to...

Almanac of African Peoples & Nations.
June 22, 2001... Yakan, Mohamad Z. 1999. ALMANAC OF AFRICAN PEOPLES & NATIONS. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. 850 pp. The preparation of any comprehensive reference work must be daunting to its editor and contributors, even more so one...

Books Received 48(2).
June 22, 2001... Amanor, Kojo Sebastian. 2001. Land, Labor, and the Family in Southern Ghana: A Critique of Land Policy under Neoliberalisation. Research Report No. 116. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. Barber, Karin. 2000. The Generation of...