Africa Today articles from March 2004

Africa Today archives from March 2004

The changing face of authoritarianism in Africa: the case of Uganda.
March 22, 2004... As African countries moved toward electoral democratization in the 1990s, many countries remained basically authoritarian, but incorporated some democratic innovations to one degree or another. Thus, the rules for authoritarian regimes changed...

"New-breed" leadership, conflict, and reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa" a sociopolitical biography of Uganda's Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
March 22, 2004... Although now a largely discredited idea, the notion that the period from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s generated a new breed of African leadership captured popular imagination, official discourse, and academic writing. Leaders like Meles...

Language and multiparty democracy in a multiethnic Kenya.
March 22, 2004... In the late 1980s and early 1990s, following the breakup of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the United States as the sole superpower, many developing nations experienced intense pressure, internally and externally, to switch from...

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Belgian Lumumba Commission: a comparison.
March 22, 2004... One way a country can deal with a traumatic part of its history is by establishing an investigating commission. In South Africa in 1995, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to deal with the terrible truth of the apartheid...

Africa, African Americans, and the Avuncular Sam.
March 22, 2004... This essay investigates U.S. policy toward Africa and highlights the role that African Americans have played in influencing this policy. It is inspired by the need for an urgent dialogue between Africans and African Americans on U.S. policy...

"Woman palava no be small, woman wahala no be small": linguistic gendering and patriarchal ideology in West African fiction.
March 22, 2004... This paper provides a linguistic analysis of depictions of female characters in selected West African fiction with a view to illustrating the role language plays in overtly and covertly conveying sexist language and ideology. Unequal...

Askew, Kelly M. 2002. Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania.
March 22, 2004... Askew, Kelly M. 2002. PERFORMING THE NATION: SWAHILI MUSIC AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN TANZANIA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 417 pp. $72.00 (cloth). $34.00 (paper). Kelly Askew's book on the subject of music and nationalism in...

Baaz, Maria Eriksson, and Mai Palmberg, eds. 2001. Same and Other: Negotiating African Identity in Cultural Production.
March 22, 2004... Baaz, Maria Eriksson, and Mai Palmberg, eds. 2001. SAME AND OTHER: NEGOTIATING AFRICAN IDENTITY IN CULTURAL PRODUCTION. Stockholm: Elanders Gotab for the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 210 pp. $29.95 (paper). Maria Eriksson Baaz introduces Same...

Berry, Sara, S. 2001. Chiefs Know Their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power, and the Past in Asante, 1896-1996.
March 22, 2004... Berry, Sara, S. 2001. CHIEFS KNOW THEIR BOUNDARIES: ESSAYS ON PROPERTY, POWER, AND THE PAST IN ASANTE, 1896-1996. Portsmouth, Oxford, Cape Town: Heinemann, James Currey, David Philip. 226 pp. $24.95. The success of development in any...

Hitchcock, Robert K., and Alan J. Osborn, eds. 2002. Endangered Peoples of Africa and the Middle East: Struggles to Survive and Thrive.
March 22, 2004... Hitchcock, Robert K., and Alan J. Osborn, eds. 2002. ENDANGERED PEOPLES OF AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE AND THRIVE. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 299 pp. $44.95 (cloth). This is a collection of fourteen chapters,...

Ifan Ch. A. Diop. 2001. Dialogue Avec Abdoulaye Ly: Historien et Homme Politique Senegalais.
March 22, 2004... IFAN Ch. A. Diop. 2001. DIALOGUE AVEC ABDOULAYE LY: HISTORIEN ET HOMME POLITIQUE SENEGALAIS. Dakar: IFAN Ch. A. Diop, Ecole Normale Superieure, and Sud FM. 182 pp. IFAN Ch. A. Diop has released a book in interview format that focuses on...

Okafor, Dubem, ed. 2001. Meditations on African Literature.
March 22, 2004... Okafor, Dubem, ed. 2001. MEDITATIONS ON AFRICAN LITERATURE. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 193 pp. $65.95. Essentially a festschrift to honor Emmanuel Obiechina, a great scholar of African literature, Meditations on African Literature is...

West, Michael O. 2002. The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965.
March 22, 2004... West, Michael O. 2002. THE RISE OF AN AFRICAN MIDDLE CLASS: COLONIAL ZIMBABWE, 1898-1965. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 324 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). The "rise" of the African middle class portrayed in this book was not...

White, Luise, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen, eds. 2001. African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History.
March 22, 2004... White, Luise, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen, eds. 2001. AFRICAN WORDS, AFRICAN VOICES: CRITICAL PRACTICES IN ORAL HISTORY. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 322 pp. $22.95 (paper). In a work prepared for Nigerian...

Books received list.
March 22, 2004... Campbell, Catherine. 2003. "Letting them Die": Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Oxford: James Currey. Cohen, William B. 2003. The French Encounter with Africans: White Response to Blacks,...