Africa Today articles from June 2005

Africa Today archives from June 2005

Getting stuck in the compound: some odds against social adulthood in Lusaka, Zambia.
June 22, 2005... The young people on whose everyday experiences in Lusaka this article draws come from three different socioeconomic groupings: very poor, middle income, and rich. They are living in an urban setting where space and opportunity have changed in...

Urban development and social contingency: a case study of urban relocation in the Western Cape, South Africa.
June 22, 2005... One of the axes of social transformation in the postapartheid state has been the provision of private property to low-income households. This paper examines the effects of opportunities for housing as residents of a shantytown in the Western...

Cape colonial architecture, town planning, and the crafting of modern space in South Africa.
June 22, 2005... Architecture and the built environment in Cape Town provide clues and insight into the spatial models that inform continuities and contradictions in the structuring of rules regulating contact and conduct in urban dwellers' daily routines. This...

"Eyes have no curtains": the moral economy of secrecy in managing love affairs among adolescents in Northern Tanzania in the time of AIDS.
June 22, 2005... This article concerns how the Meru in northern Tanzania manage their love affairs. It explores the cultural logic of secrecy in sexual life by focusing on how young people manage multiple and concurrent love affairs in a morally acceptable way,...

Hooligans and heroes: youth identity and hip-hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
June 22, 2005... During the 1990s, the rise in popularity of hip-hop culture in Tanzania brought increased public scrutiny of urban youth due, in part, to preconceived notions of youth culture and rap music. In newspaper articles and public discourses, youth...

Adjaye, Joseph K. 2004. Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture.
June 22, 2005... Adjaye, Joseph K. 2004. BOUNDARIES OF SELF AND OTHER IN GHANAIAN POPULAR CULTURE. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers. 195 pp. $80.00 (cloth). An initial encounter with this book may give the reader a little surprise. Despite its...

Brett, Rachel, and Irma Specht. 2004. Young Soldiers: Why They Choose To Fight.
June 22, 2005... Brett, Rachel, and Irma Specht. 2004. YOUNG SOLDIERS: WHY THEY CHOOSE TO FIGHT. Boulder: Lynne Riener. xvi + 192 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Over the past decades, the number of children actively involved in warfare has steadily risen. Hitherto,...

Gready, Paul. 2003. Writing As Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa.
June 22, 2005... Gready, Paul. 2003. WRITING AS RESISTANCE: LIFE STORIES OF IMPRISONMENT, EXILE, AND HOMECOMING FROM APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. 341 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Sanders, Mark. 2002. COMPLICITIES: THE INTELLECTUAL AND...

Le Vine, Victor T. 2004. Politics in Francophone Africa.
June 22, 2005... Le Vine, Victor T. 2004. POLITICS IN FRANCOPHONE AFRICA. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. 441 pp. $68.00 (cloth). Le Vine provides in this work a masterful examination of much neglected Francophone countries of West Africa--the fourteen countries...

Pausewang, Siegfried, Kjetil Tronvoll, and Lovise Aalen (eds.). 2002. Ethiopia since the Derg: a Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance.
June 22, 2005... Pausewang, Siegfried, Kjetil Tronvoll, and Lovise Aalen (eds.). 2002. ETHIOPIA SINCE THE DERG: A DECADE OF DEMOCRATIC PRETENSION AND PERFORMANCE. London and New York: Zed Books. 254pp. $75.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). In the mid-1990s,...

Pfaff, Francoise, ed. 2004. Focus on African Films.
June 22, 2005... Pfaff, Francoise, ed. 2004. FOCUS ON AFRICAN FILMS. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. $64.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Francoise Pfaff, a pioneering scholar of African cinema, introduces this collection of essays with terms like...

Zell, Hans M., ed. 2003. The African Studies Companion: a Guide to Information Sources.
June 22, 2005... Zell, Hans M., ed. 2003. THE AFRICAN STUDIES COMPANION: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION SOURCES. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishing. 545 pp. The third edition of the African Studies Companion continues Hans M. Zell's tradition of excellence...

Books received.
June 22, 2005... Akinyemi, Akintunde. 2004. Yoruba Royal Poetry: A Socio-historical Exposition and Annotated Translation. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series. Berman, Bruce, Eyoh Dickson and Will Kymlicka, eds. 2004. Ethnicity & Democracy in Africa....