Africa Today articles from September 2004

Africa Today archives from September 2004

Converging networks and clashing stories: South Africa's agricultural biotechnology debate.
September 22, 2004... The debate over agricultural biotechnology in South Africa is not only polarized, but also complicated by the increasingly blurry boundaries of food governance. This was particularly apparent during the World Summit on Sustainable Development...

Rethinking the Akan household: acknowledging the importance of culturally and linguistically meaningful images.
September 22, 2004... Conceptualizing the household, especially in non-Western cultures, has never been easy. Studies undertaken in sub-Saharan Africa indicate that what we consider the household is a fluid, open-ended interaction of diverse dynamics, which are...

Reimaging gender and African tradition? Ousmane Sembene's Xala revisited.
September 22, 2004... Introduction Ousmane Sembene's films often present problems of interpretation, not so much because he usually employs polysemous symbols and interrogates controversial issues in postindependence Africa (which he often does), but because of...

Reformed rebels? Democratization, global norms, and the Sudan People's Liberation Army.
September 22, 2004... After years of using terror as a strategic tool against its ostensible supporters in southern Sudan, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) claims to be moving in a democratic direction. If true, this change would stand as a case of an...

The feedback phenomenon in the Cameroonian press, 1990-1993.
September 22, 2004... Because communication plays a predominant role in the world today, media and information networks attempt to condition our lifestyle by modeling our thoughts and influencing our behaviors. Feedback is a determining element, both for senders of...

What's tourism got to do with it?: the Yaa Asantewa legacy and development in Asanteman.
September 22, 2004... The commemoration of the centenary of the anticolonial war led by Yaa Asantewa in 1900 was launched both to honor her memory and to boost the tourist industry in the Ashanti Region. Though the events and initiatives of the commemoration may...

Anderson, David. 2002. Eroding the Commons: the Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890-1963.
September 22, 2004... Anderson, David. 2002. ERODING THE COMMONS: THE POLITICS OF ECOLOGY IN BARINGO, KENYA 1890-1963. Athens: Ohio University Press. 336 pp. $49.95 (cloth). David Anderson's Eroding the Commons: The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya...

Beissinger, Mark R., and Crawford Young, eds. 2002. Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective.
September 22, 2004... Beissinger, Mark R., and Crawford Young, eds. 2002. BEYOND STATE CRISIS? POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA AND POST-SOVIET EURASIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. 514 pp. $22.21 (paper). The coeditors have taken...

Englund, Harri, ed. 2002. A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi.
September 22, 2004... Englund, Harri, ed. 2002. A DEMOCRACY OF CHAMELEONS: POLITICS AND CULTURE IN THE NEW MALAWI. Blantyre: Christian Literature Association in Malawi. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper). A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi...

Graybill, Lyn S. 2002. Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa.
September 22, 2004... Graybill, Lyn S. 2002. TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 231 pp. $19.95 (paper). This brief volume attempts to provide an overview of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South...

Heuva, William. 2001. Media and Resistance Politics: the Alternative Press in Namibia, 1960-1990.
September 22, 2004... Heuva, William. 2001. MEDIA AND RESISTANCE POLITICS: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS IN NAMIBIA, 1960-1990. Basel Namibia Studies Series, 6. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. 166 pp. Initially submitted as an M.A. thesis in the...

Hodgson, Dorothy L. 2001. Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development.
September 22, 2004... Hodgson, Dorothy L. 2001. ONCE INTREPID WARRIORS: GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF MAASAI DEVELOPMENT. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 351pp. $44.95 (cloth). Dorothy Hodgson explores "the continuities and changes...

Hountondji, Paulin J. 2002. The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa.
September 22, 2004... Hountondji, Paulin J. 2002. THE STRUGGLE FOR MEANING: REFLECTIONS ON PHILOSOPHY, CULTURE, AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA. Athens: Ohio University Press. 305 pp. $28.00 (paper). "I was in San Domingo for a colloquium in November 1992, the 500th...

Leonard, David, and Scott Strauss. 2003. Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures.
September 22, 2004... Leonard, David, and Scott Strauss. 2003. AFRICA'S STALLED DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL CAUSES AND CURES. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 159 pp. $42.00 Moth); $17.95 (paper). By any measure, Africa's development in the four...

Ohaegbulam, F. Ugboaja. 2002. West African Responses to European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
September 22, 2004... Ohaegbulam, F. Ugboaja. 2002. WEST AFRICAN RESPONSES TO EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 386 pp. $61.00 (paper). Here is a book scholars and students will use for its...

Saugestad, Sidsel. 2001. The Inconvenient Indigenious: Remote Area Development, Donor Assistance, and the First People of the Kalahari.
September 22, 2004... Saugestad, Sidsel. 2001. THE INCONVENIENT INDIGENIOUS: REMOTE AREA DEVELOPMENT, DONOR ASSISTANCE, AND THE FIRST PEOPLE OF THE KALAHARI. Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute. 230 pp. $34.95 (paper). This book is about three fundamental issues...

Vale, Peter. 2003. Security and Politics in South Africa: the Regional Dimension.
September 22, 2004... Vale, Peter. 2003. SECURITY AND POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE REGIONAL DIMENSION. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 251 pp. $53.00 (cloth). Since 9-11, security has taken on new meanings with greater emphasis on state action. We have seen...

Walther, Daniel Joseph. 2002. Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identity in Namibia.
September 22, 2004... Walther, Daniel Joseph. 2002. CREATING GERMANS ABROAD: CULTURAL POLICIES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN NAMIBIA. Athens: Ohio University Press. 268 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Around six thousand Germans remained in South West Africa after World War I,...

Zewde, Bahru. 2002. Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia.
September 22, 2004... Zewde, Bahru. 2002. PIONEERS OF CHANGE IN ETHIOPIA. Athens: Ohio University Press. 228 pp. $24.95 (paper). Recent African historiography has witnessed revisions in earlier texts and a growing willingness to admit the shortcomings of...

Books received.
September 22, 2004... Booker, M. Keith, ed. 2003. The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia. Westport, CT:Greenwood Press. Curto, Jose C. and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. 2004. Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slavery. New York:...