Africa Today articles from March 2005

Africa Today archives from March 2005

Introduction to youth and citizenship in East Africa.
March 22, 2005... Generation in Africa has recently attracted considerable and perhaps unprecedented scholarly interest. In the last four years four major institutions have hosted international conferences on youth in Africa (Social Science Research Council,...

The Young Pioneers and the rituals of citizenship in revolutionary Zanzibar.
March 22, 2005... Inspired by Eastern European precedents, Zanzibar's revolutionary regime in the 1960s and 1970s established the Young Pioneers as an institution through which to inculcate the sort of discipline perceived as necessary for nation building. I...

Street-corner justice in the name of Jah: imperatives for peace among Dar es Salaam street youth.
March 22, 2005... Young men throughout the world seem fascinated with Bob Marley. Especially fascinated with him are poor, disenfranchised youths, like those living and working in the streets of Dares Salaam, Tanzania, who are the subjects this article. What is...

No more English than the postal system: the Kenya Boy Scout Movement and the transfer of power.
March 22, 2005... Decolonization in Kenya meant more than the transfer of political power: the end of colonial rule was part of a larger social transformation, where Africans struggled to master and adapt the political and social institutions they inherited from...

Of students, "'nizers," and a struggle over youth: Tanzania's 1966 National Service crisis.
March 22, 2005... In October 1966, student protest erupted at the University College of Dar es Salaam over the announcement of a new, mandatory National Service requirement for graduates--protest that dominated Tanzania's political scene at the time and...

Young Buganda and old boys: youth, generational transition, and ideas of leadership in Buganda, 1920-1949.
March 22, 2005... From the 1920s through the 1940s, Britons and Baganda saw youth and generational transition as both disruptive to public order, and essential for Buganda's future. This article explores how--across the political and social spectrum--Britons and...

Burns, J. M. 2002. Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe.
March 22, 2005... Burns, J. M. 2002. FLICKERING SHADOWS: CINEMA AND IDENTITY IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE. Athens: Ohio University Press. 278 pp. $28.00 (paper). This impressive study analyzes seventy years of public discussion regarding the appropriate role of...

Elder, Glen S. 2003. Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: Malevolent Geographies.
March 22, 2005... Elder, Glen S. 2003. HOSTELS, SEXUALITY, AND THE APARTHEID LEGACY: MALEVOLENT GEOGRAPHIES. Athens: Ohio University Press. 188 pp. $24.95 (paper). The geographic legacy of apartheid bequeathed to democratic South Africa is replete with...

Larson, Pier. 2000. History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822.
March 22, 2005... Larson, Pier. 2000. HISTORY AND MEMORY IN THE AGE OF ENSLAVEMENT: BECOMING MERINA IN HIGHLAND MADAGASCAR, 1770 1822. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann. 414 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). How do the processes of slavery affect the people who...

Mda, Zakes. 2002. The Heart of Redness: A Novel.
March 22, 2005... Mda, Zakes. 2002. THE HEART OF REDNESS: A NOVEL. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 277 pp. $24.00 (cloth). Zakes Mda, playwright, poet, educator, and author of the award-winning novel Ways of Dying (1995), is an important member of the...

Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji. 2003. Historical Dictionary of Somalia.
March 22, 2005... Mukhtar, Mohamed Haji. 2003. HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF SOMALIA. African Historical Dictionary Series, 87. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. xlv, 353 pp. $80.00. This new edition of the Historical Dictionary of Somalia is almost completely based...

Olowu, Dele, and James S. Wunsch. 2004. Local Governance in Africa: The Challenges of Democratic Decentralization.
March 22, 2005... Olowu, Dele, and James S. Wunsch. 2004. LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA: THE CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRATIC DECENTRALIZATION. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 310 pp. $58.00. This book offers a refreshing change from analyses of contemporary Africa...

Reid, Richard. 2002. Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society & Warfare in the Nineteenth Century.
March 22, 2005... Reid, Richard. 2002. POLITICAL POWER IN PRE-COLONIAL BUGANDA: ECONOMY, SOCIETY & WARFARE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Oxford: James Currey Publishers. 274 pp. $49.95. In this book, Richard Reid details a coherent and illuminating study of...

Sample, Maxine, ed. 2003. Critical Essays on Bessie Head.
March 22, 2005... Sample, Maxine, ed. 2003. CRITICAL ESSAYS ON BESSIE HEAD. Westport, CT: Praeger. xii, 150 pp. $ 61.00 (cloth). Bessie Head [1937-1986) was a South African writer who lived in exile in Botswana from 1964 onward. This book features six...

Singhal, Arvind, and W. Stephen Howard. 2003. The Children of Africa Confront Aids.
March 22, 2005... Singhal, Arvind, and W. Stephen Howard. 2003. THE CHILDREN OF AFRICA CONFRONT AIDS. Athens: Ohio University Press. 265 pp. $20.00. This collection results from a conference at the Institute for the African Child at Ohio University. The...

Sweetman, Caroline, ed. 2002. Gender, Development and Poverty.
March 22, 2005... Sweetman, Caroline, ed. 2002. GENDER, DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY. Oxford: Oxfam. 102 pp. $16.50. Apart from the addition of the word poverty to its title, Gender, Development and Poverty is a republication of the essays in the November 2002...

Books received.
March 22, 2005... Allman, Jean, ed. 2004. Fashioning Africa: Power and the Politics of Dress. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Arnfred, Signe, ed. 2004. Re-Thinking Sexualities in Africo. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. Bailey, Anne C....