Africa Today articles from June 2008

Africa Today archives from June 2008

Khadiagala, Gilbert M. 2006. Security Dynamics in Africa's Great Lakes Region.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Khadiagala, Gilbert M. 2006. SECURITY DYNAMICS IN AFRICA'S GREAT LAKES REGION. Boulder, Colo., and London: Lynne Rienner. 231 pp. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper). This is the latest of a series of edited volumes that grew out of four...

Kugle, Scott. 2006. Rebel between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq, Sainthood, and Authority in Islam.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Kugle, Scott. 2006. REBEL BETWEEN SPIRIT AND LAW: AHMAD ZARRUQ, SAINTHOOD, AND AUTHORITY IN ISLAM. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 344 pp. $49.95 (cloth). In Rebel between Spirit and Law, Scott Kugle provides an...

Lawrence, Benjamin, Emily Osborn, and Richard Roberts, eds. 2006. Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Lawrence, Benjamin, Emily Osborn, and Richard Roberts, eds. 2006. INTERMEDIARIES, INTERPRETERS, AND CLERKS: AFRICAN EMPLOYEES IN THE MAKING OF COLONIAL AFRICA. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. viii, 332. $45.00 (cloth). African...

Maurice, Amutabi N. 2006. The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Maurice, Amutabi N. 2006. The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya. New York: Routledge. Pp. vii, 238. $84.90 (cloth). The contribution of The NGO Factor in Africa lies in its ordinariness and the simple but...

Rubongoya, Joshua B. 2007. Regime Hegemony in Museveni's Uganda: Pax Musevenica.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Rubongoya, Joshua B. 2007. REGIME HEGEMONY IN MUSEVENI'S UGANDA: PAX MUSEVENICA. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 283 pp. $69.95 (cloth). As Professor Joshua Rubongoya masterfully articulates, few states illustrate the challenge of...

Smith, Daniel Jordan. 2007. A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Smith, Daniel Jordan. 2007. A CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: EVERYDAY DECEPTION AND POPULAR DISCONTENT IN NIGERIA. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 263 pp. $27.99 (cloth). Daniel Smith offers an easy-to-read, engaging, and personal account...

Straus, Scott. 2006. The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Straus, Scott. 2006. THE ORDER OF GENOCIDE: RACE, POWER, AND WAR IN RWANDA. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 288 pp. $27.95 (cloth). Much has been made about the "mass participation" of average citizens in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda....

The Wahubiri wa Kislamu (Preachers of Islam) in East Africa (1).
June 22, 2008... Unlike Islamic missionary groups that focus on education as a means of conversion, the Wahubiri wa Kislamu (Preachers of Islam) specialize in giving sermons and preaching on the streets, at markets, or in football stadiums. They refer to these...

(Re)turning to proper Muslim practice: Islamic moral renewal and women's conflicting assertions of Sunni identity in Urban Mali.
June 22, 2008... This article explores competing discourses and understandings of proper Muslim practice as they are reflected in controversies among female supporters of Islamic moral renewal, and between them and Muslims who do not consider themselves part of...

Conversion on screen: a glimpse at popular Islamic imaginations in Northern Nigeria.
June 22, 2008... This article discusses several northern Nigerian video feature films that depict stories about conversion to Islam. Based on three months of fieldwork in 2003 and a close reading of Hausa videos and video magazines, it suggests reading these...

Conversion to Islam and modernity in Nigeria: a view from the underworld.
June 22, 2008... Since September 11, conversions to Islam have worried strategic analysts, as neophytes are usually considered to be more extremist than traditional Muslims. From Asia to Africa, the issue is now a question that deserves commentary. We have to...

Bond, Patrick. 2006. LOOTING AFRICA: The Economics of Exploitation.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Bond, Patrick. 2006. LOOTING AFRICA: THE ECONOMICS OF EXPLOITATION. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 172 pp. $25.00 (paper). A surprising development in the debate over the cause and the solution of Africa's underdevelopment...

Broadman, Harry G. 2007. Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Broadman, Harry G. 2007. AFRICA'S SILK ROAD: CHINA AND INDIA'S NEW ECONOMIC FRONTIER. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. 391 pp. $20.00 (paper). World trade dynamics are shifting: actors are changing, as new centers of trade and finance are...

Falola, Toyin and Matthew M. Heaton, eds. 2007. HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Falola, Toyin and Matthew M. Heaton, eds. 2007. HIV/AIDS, ILLNESS, AND AFRICAN WELL-BEING. Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press. 414 pp. $75.00 (cloth). HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being, edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M....

Harris, Hermione. 2006. Yoruba in Diaspora: an African Church in London.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Harris, Hermione. 2006. YORUBA IN DIASPORA: AN AFRICAN CHURCH IN LONDON. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 294 pp. $69.95 (cloth). Using the Cherubim and Seraphim Church (C&S), part of what is generally called the Aladuura churches, Hermione...

Jennings, Eric T. 2006. Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Jennings, Eric T. 2006. CURING THE COLONIZERS: HYDROTHERAPY, CLIMATOLOGY, AND FRENCH COLONIAL SPAS. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 271 pp. $21.95 (paper). French colonialism has recently seen major fascinating developments and...

Kaarsholm, Preben, ed. 2006. Violence, Political Culture and Development in Africa.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Kaarsholm, Preben, ed. 2006. VIOLENCE, POLITICAL CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA. Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 208 pp. $24.00 (paper). So many essay collections...

Introduction to special issue: performing Islamic revival in Africa.
June 22, 2008... This special issue offers different case studies that pursue a set of common propositions in the analysis of the Islamic revival in Africa. Topics covered include activities of Muslim Bible preachers in public spaces in East Africa (Ahmed),...