Africa Today articles from September 2002

Africa Today archives from September 2002

Reclaiming old heritage for proclaiming future history: the knowledge-for-development debate in African contexts.
September 22, 2002... In the context of the overarching processes of globalization, a model including two intersecting dialectics is offered: one between education and development, and another between indigenous and modern knowledge. It is argued that globalization,...

Educating an African leadership: Achimota and the teaching of African culture in the Gold Coast.
September 22, 2002... Founded by the British colonial government in the Gold Coast in the 1920s, Achimota was an elite school that signaled the colonial government's commitment to the provision of education and the concomitant belief in the role of education in...

Rites of passage, routes of redemption: emancipation tourism and the wealth of culture.
September 22, 2002... This paper examines how the Ghanaian government has appropriated, crafted, and "repatriated" a Caribbean holiday, "Emancipation Day," for celebration as a tourist holiday. Commemorating the abolition of slavery in the British colonies,...

Madness, money, and movies: watching a Nigerian popular video with the guidance of a native doctor.
September 22, 2002... The emergence of a popular video movie industry in Nigeria reveals a need for critical reevaluation of the field of African cinema. Video movies are now viewed in the homes of millions of Africans who never had access to, or perhaps even...

A gender analysis of forest product markets in Cameroon.
September 22, 2002... Gender roles and the potential to tap women's experiences are keys for African economic development. The paper illustrates this potential with a gender analysis of forest product markets in the Humid Forest Zone of Cameroon by describing the...

Bodunde, Charles. 2001. Oral Traditions and Aesthetic Transfer: Creativity and Social Vision in Contemporary Black Poetry.
September 22, 2002... Bayreuth African Studies, 58. Bayreuth: Bayreuth University. 142 pp. Charles Bodunde's monograph provides a useful, if flawed, addition to the relatively small corpus of books that trace influences of orature in the poetry of contemporary...

Bujo, Benezet. 2001. Foundations of an African Ethic: Beyond the Universal Claims of Western Morality.
September 22, 2002... Translated from German by Brian McNeil. New York: Crossroad Publishing. 214 pp. The question of ethics is often addressed within African research, but almost always in an anthropological manner. In this study, we have an ethical discussion...

Mupedziswa, Rodreck, and Perpetua Gumbo. 2001. Women Informal Traders in Harare and the Struggle for Survival in an Environment of Economic Reforms.
September 22, 2002... Research Report 117. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 118 pp. This book, by two academic social workers at the University of Zimbabwe, is the fourth and final report on a longitudinal study sponsored by the Nordic Africa Institute. The...

Huband, Mark. 2001. The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa After the Cold War.
September 22, 2002... Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. 376 pp. Mark Huband is a British journalist who has reported on Africa for some of his country's leading newspapers. His book centers on various countries--Angola, Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria,...

Okpewho, Isidore, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali A. Mazrui. 1999. The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities.
September 22, 2002... Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 566 pp. A collection of thirty-three papers presented at a conference whose subject is as vast and complex as the African diaspora is bound to be uneven. Comprising a selection of the presentations...

Schumaker, Lyn. 2001. Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa.
September 22, 2002... Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 376 pp. "The story of marginality has taken a long time to be untold," Trinh Minhha (1990:332) tells us, and in Africanizing Anthropology, Lyn Schumaker makes an important contribution toward just such...

Suberu, Rotimi T. 2001. Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria.
September 22, 2002... Washington, D.C: United States Institute of Peace Press. xxvi +247 pp. Less than four years after the reestablishment of a democratically elected civilian government ("Fourth Republic") in Nigeria in May 1999, the country's federal...

Books received.
September 22, 2002... Akhahenda, Elijah F. 2002. When Blood and Tears United a Country: The Bombing of the American Embassy in Kenya. Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: University Press of America. Stubbs, Aelred, C. R. 2002. I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by...