Africa Today articles from March 2006

Africa Today archives from March 2006

Disagreement: dissent politics and the war in Sierra Leone.
March 22, 2006... Observers often characterize the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of youth. Understanding that crisis in political terms can be quite challenging. Applying the writings of theorist Jacques Ranciere to events in Sierra Leone, I suggest a...

Christian churches and the democratization conundrum in Cameroon.
March 22, 2006... Relations between Christian churches and the state in Cameroon in the past two decades have been marked by intense conflicts. The churches' pronouncements and positions on major national issues--such as reforms aimed at institutionalizing...

"No mercy, no remorse": personal experience narratives about public passenger transportation in Nairobi, Kenya.
March 22, 2006... Personal experience narratives about riding on Kenya's public passenger vehicles, commonly called matatu, form part of Nairobi residents' everyday conversations. These first-person, single-episodic narratives describe experiences of verbal and...

A comparative study of crime and punishment in Ousmane Sembene's Le Docker Noir and Albert Camus's L'Etranger.
March 22, 2006... Both Camus and Sembene wrote to expose a legal system that unjustly punishes the outsider, "the other": in L'Etranger, Meursault deviates from society's norms and must be punished for it; in Le Docker Noir, Diaw Falla is a man of color who...

Ethnomusicology, the music Canon, and African music: positions, tensions, and resolutions in the African academy.
March 22, 2006... African music entered serious scholarship through disciplines such as ethnomusicology. While scholars in African music have contributed significantly to the development of theories and methods of culture, the musics of Africa have been...

Armes, Roy. 2005. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film.
March 22, 2006... Armes, Roy. 2005. POSTCOLONIAL IMAGES: STUDIES IN NORTH AFRICAN FILM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 278 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Readers familiar with Roy Armes's previous books will be on familiar ground as they open...

Bozzoli, Belinda. 2004. Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid.
March 22, 2006... Bozzoli, Belinda. 2004. THEATRES OF STRUGGLE AND THE END OF APARTHEID. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 326 pp. $28.95 (paper). Theatres of Struggle recounts the events and significance of the six-month-long urban rebellion in...

Cohen, David William, and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. 2004. The Risks of Knowledge: Investigations Into the Death of the Hon. Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya.
March 22, 2006... Cohen, David William, and E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. 2004. THE RISKS OF KNOWLEDGE: INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE DEATH OF THE HON. MINISTER JOHN ROBERT OUKO IN KENYA. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 344 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). The...

Curto, Jose C., and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. 2004. Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slavery.
March 22, 2006... Curto, Jose C., and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. 2004. ENSLAVING CONNECTIONS: CHANGING CULTURES OF AFRICA AND BRAZIL DURING THE ERA OF SLAVERY. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books. 323 pp. $33.00 (paper). Latin America generally, and Brazil in...

de Waal, Alex, ed. 2004. Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa.
March 22, 2006... de Waal, Alex, ed. 2004. ISLAMISM AND ITS ENEMIES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. xiv, 279 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The subject of this edited volume is militant Islamism, especially its...

Gausset, Quentin, Michael A. Whyte, and Torben Birch-Thomsen. 2005. Beyond Territory and Scarcity: Exploring Conflict Over Natural Resource Management.
March 22, 2006... Gausset, Quentin, Michael A. Whyte, and Torben Birch-Thomsen. 2005. BEYOND TERRITORY AND SCARCITY: EXPLORING CONFLICT OVER NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 218 pp. $35.00 (paper). This edited volume contains...

Melber, Henning. 2005. Trade, Development, Cooperation: What Future for Africa?
March 22, 2006... Melber, Henning. 2005. TRADE, DEVELOPMENT, COOPERATION: WHAT FUTURE FOR AFRICA? Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitute. 44 pp. $13.95 (paper). Trade, Development, Cooperation: What Future for Africa? is hardly a book, though this...

Thielmann, Pia. 2004. Hotbeds: Black-White Love in Novels from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.
March 22, 2006... Thielmann, Pia. 2004. HOTBEDS: BLACK-WHITE LOVE IN NOVELS FROM THE UNITED STATES, AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN. Zomba, Malawi: Kachere Series. 398 pp. $34.95 (paper). In Hotbeds, Pia Thielmann examines love relationships between black and...

Witz, Leslie. 2003. Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts.
March 22, 2006... Witz, Leslie. 2003. APARTHEID'S FESTIVAL: CONTESTING SOUTH AFRICA'S NATIONAL PASTS. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Cape Town: David Philip. 324 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck, on behalf of the...

Books received.(Bibliography)
March 22, 2006... Abaka, Edmund. 2005. Kola is God's Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry of Asante and the Gold Coast. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. Allen, Philip M., and Maureen Covell. 2005. Historical Dictionary...