Africa Today articles from June 2004

Africa Today archives from June 2004

Introduction to special issue: security, socioecology, polity: Mande Hunters, Civil Society, and Nation-States in Contemporary West Africa.
June 22, 2004... The public prominence of hunters and their organizations is a striking phenomenon in West Africa. Whether on the streets or rural byways of the countries stretching from Sierra Leone to Cote d'Ivoire, or in media, internet, or policy debate,...

Encompassing the state: sacrifice and security in the hunters' movement of Cote d'Ivoire.
June 22, 2004... In the absence of adequate police protection in Cote d'Ivoire during the 1990s, hunters began patrolling communities against crime. Worried government ministers portrayed hunters as traditionalists out of place in the modern world and capable...

Containing the donzow: the politics of scale in Cote d'Ivoire.
June 22, 2004... Initiated hunters (donzow) rose to national prominence in Cote d'Ivoire during the 1990s as crimefighters and succeeded in restoring public order throughout the country. Politicians sought to ride the wave of donzo popularity to boost their...

Political decentralization and traditional leadership in the Benkadi hunters' association in western Burkina Faso.
June 22, 2004... This paper is about the hunters' association Benkadi, which, since the mid-1990s, has mainly organized traditional hunters and "new" hunters (young male farmers) in western Burkina Faso. I focus on the links between the hunters' association and...

Hunter militias and the international human rights discourse in Sierra Leone and beyond.
June 22, 2004... In this article, we examine how irregular combatants in the "hunter" militias in Sierra Leone defined themselves and their objectives in dialogue with the human-rights discourse of international humanitarian organizations that intervened in the...

The intellectuals and the hunters: reflections on the conference "La Rencontre des Chasseurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest".
June 22, 2004... This contribution examines an international conference on West African hunters to analyze the role of intellectuals who actively work at scholarly and political functions. In the current sociopolitical context of West African states, there...

Adebajo, Adekeye. 2002. Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau.
June 22, 2004... Adebajo, Adekeye. 2002. BUILDING PEACE IN WEST AFRICA: LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE, AND GUINEA-BISSAU. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner. 192 pp. $14.95 (paper). In recent decades, there has been widespread literature on conflict and crises...

Desai, Ashwin. 2002. We are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
June 22, 2004... Desai, Ashwin. 2002. WE ARE THE POORS: COMMUNITY STRUGGLES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. New York: Monthly Review Press. 153 pp. $19 (paper). Ashwin Desai is an organic intellectual who consolidates the experiences of local social...

Donham, Donald L., and Wendy James, eds. 2002. The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology.
June 22, 2004... Donham, Donald L., and Wendy James, eds. 2002. THE SOUTHERN MARCHES OF IMPERIAL ETHIOPIA: ESSAYS IN HISTORY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press. 308 pp. $24.95...

Keulder, C., ed. 2000. State, Society and Democracy. A Reader in Namibian Politics.
June 22, 2004... Keulder, C., ed. 2000. STATE, SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY. A READER IN NAMIBIAN POLITICS. Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers. 321 pp. The eleven essays collected here evaluate the consolidation of democracy in Namibia after nearly ten years...

Kheralla, Mylene, Christopher Delgado, Eleni Gabre-Mahdin, Nicholas Minot, and Michael Johnson. 2002. Reforming Agricultural Markets in Africa.
June 22, 2004... Kheralla, Mylene, Christopher Delgado, Eleni Gabre-Mahdin, Nicholas Minor, and Michael Johnson. 2002. REFORMING AGRICULTURAL MARKETS IN AFRICA. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 201 pp. $40.00 (cloth). $22.95 (paper). If you were...

Pogrund, Benjamin. 2000. War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist.
June 22, 2004... Pogrund, Benjamin. 2000. WAR OF WORDS: MEMOIR OF A SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNALIST. New York: Seven Stories Press. 381 pp. $26.95 (paper). Benjamin Pogrund relates the story of the Rand Daily Mail from the time he began as a reporter in 1958 until...

Pool, David. 2001. From Guerrillas to Government: the Eritrean People's Liberation Front.
June 22, 2004... Pool, David. 2001. FROM GUERRILLAS TO GOVERNMENT: THE ERITREAN PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT. Oxford: James Currey; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 206 pp. $22.95 (paper). The Eritrean People's Liberation Movement (EPLF) capped the...

Saasa, Oliver. 2002. Aid and Poverty Reduction in Zambia: Mission Unaccomplished.
June 22, 2004... Saasa, Oliver. 2002. AID AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN ZAMBIA: MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Africainstitutet. 141 pp. Using Zambia as a case study, this compact but lucid and perceptive book attempts to answer an important...

Tamara Giles-Vernick. 2002. Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest.
June 22, 2004... Tamara Giles-Vernick. 2002. CUTTING THE VINES OF THE PAST: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES OF THE CENTRAL AFRICAN RAIN FOREST. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. 320 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper). Over the twentieth century,...

Vera, Yvonne. 2003. The Stone Virgins.
June 22, 2004... Vera, Yvonne. 2003. THE STONE VIRGINS. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 184 pp., $18.00 (cloth). The little-known "Gukurahundi Massacres" took place in Zimbabwe between 1980 and 1986, when rivalry between Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and...

Books received.
June 22, 2004... Abani, Chris. 2004. GraceLand. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Agozino, Biko. 2003. Counter-Colonial Criminology: A Critique of Imperialist Reason. London: Pluto Press. Agyeman, Opoku. 2003. The Failure of grassroots Pan...