Africa Today articles from September 2001

Africa Today archives from September 2001

Introduction to special issue: evaluating South African immigration policy after apartheid.
September 22, 2001... Apartheid-era immigration laws remain in force in South Africa. The will to change is considerable but the whole transformation process has been constantly bedeviled by the complexity of the issues and political tensions between the ruling ANC...

Imagining immigration: inclusive identities and exclusive policies in post-1994 South Africa.
September 22, 2001... The re-creation of South Africa in 1994 as an inclusive democracy in which the state, for the first time, represents all of the country's citizens has led to a new interest in immigration. This paper documents the development of new state...

Inside illegality: migration policing in South Africa after apartheid.
September 22, 2001... South Africa's migration policing policy has not changed substantially since the demise of apartheid. Tactics used by the police in recent operations are dramatically similar to apartheid policing practices. While some amendments to the...

Contesting migrancy: the foreign labor debate in post-1994 South Africa.
September 22, 2001... In the minds of its victims and critics, South African mine migrancy epitomized everything that was worst about capitalism and apartheid. The system and its associated institutions remain very much intact but do not look particularly...

Discrimination by default? Gender concerns in South African migration policy.
September 22, 2001... This paper presents a gender analysis of the South African government's proposed new policy on international migration, identifying a number of areas of implicit gender discrimination. Such "discrimination by default" is of more than academic...

No easy walk: advancing refugee protection in South Africa.
September 22, 2001... South Africa only began accepting individual applications for political asylum in 1994. A policy designed to recognize former Mozambican refugees for the purposes of a repatriation program became the (awkward) basis of the asylum procedure up...

Writing xenophobia: immigration and the print media in post-apartheid South Africa.
September 22, 2001... This paper discusses the print media's coverage of cross-border migration in South Africa and how it may affect both public opinion and policymaking on the topic. The paper argues that coverage of international migration by the South African...

Contra Free Movement: South Africa and the SADC Migration Protocols.
September 22, 2001... This paper examines the formidable obstacles to the development of a regionally harmonized approach to migration management in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Tracing the origins and development of SADC initiatives on...

Behrend, Heike and Ute Luig, eds. 1999. Spirit Possession: Modernity and Africa.
September 22, 2001... Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 170 pp. Though postmodemism has its critics, it reminds us that the modernist conceit that we have moved beyond enchantment to secular rationality is surely false. Everyday life, whether in Ohio or...

Braathen, Einar, Morten Boas and Gjermund Saether, eds. 2000. Ethnicity Kills? The Politics of War, Peace, and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 2001... London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press. 223 pp. This book originated from an international conference held at the University of Oslo in September 1997. It is a collection of contributions by scholars of such diverse disciplines...

Frankel, Glen. 1999. Rivonia's Children: Three Families and the Cost of Conscience in White South Africa.
September 22, 2001... New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 381 pp. Glen Frankel's Rivonia's Children raises difficult and emotional questions for political activists. To what extent should political, collective choices take precedence over protecting one's own...

Haenger, Peter. 2000. Slaves And Slaveholders on the Gold Coast: Towards an Understanding of Social Bondage in West Africa.
September 22, 2001... Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. 213 pp. Edited by J. J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy. Translated from the German by Christina Handford. One of the most important and contentious themes in African historiography is the nature...

Jonassohn, Kurt with Karin Solveig Bjornson. 1998. Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations.
September 22, 2001... New Brunswick and London: Transactions Publishers. 338 pp. This is a curious book. The authors maintain that the 1948 United Nations Convention on Genocide, which defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in...

Musiker, Naomi and Reuben Musiker. 1999. Historical Dictionary of Greater Johannesburg.
September 22, 2001... Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. 480 pp. This latest volume in a series of historical dictionaries from Scarecrow Press will prove a useful reference guide to both scholars and business people interested in greater Johannesburg. The authors,...

Oyewole, Anthony, and John Lucas. 2000. Historical Dictionary of Nigeria.
September 22, 2001... 2d ed. Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press. 597 pp. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Nigeria is the fortieth in the series of African historical dictionaries edited by Jon Woronoff. Its purpose, as specified in the...

Paulson, Jo Ann, ed. 1999. African Economies in Transition. Vol. 1, The Changing Role of the State, Vol. 2, The Reform Experience.
September 22, 2001... London: MacMillan, and New York: St. Martin's. 342 pp. and 370 pp. The provenance of these two volumes is slightly strange. They result from a research program paid for by Japanese government trust funds and run from the World Bank, the...

Books received.
September 22, 2001... Adesida, Olugbenga and Arunma Oteh, eds. 2001. African Voices, African Visions. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute. Anton, Anatole, ed. 2001. African Diaspora and Autobiographies: Skeins of Self and Skin. New York: Peter Lang. ...