Africa Today articles from September 2005

Africa Today archives from September 2005

The geography of landmines and implications for health and disease in Africa: a political ecology approach.
September 22, 2005... With more than 37 million landmines in at least nineteen countries, no region suffers more than Africa from the presence of landmines. Angola alone has an estimated 15 million landmines and an amputee population of 70,000, the highest rate in...

Marching to the tune: colonization, globalization, immigration, and the Ghanaian diaspora.
September 22, 2005... This paper examines the ideological basis for colonization and globalization as essential props for an unequal global political economy, and links this idea to the impetus for formerly colonized people to turn to migration as an option to...

The United States and Africa: shifting geopolitics in an "Age of Terror".
September 22, 2005... Africa is a region of renewed interest for American foreign-policy elites, both in and out of government. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to explore American foreign-policy elites' assessments of Africa before and after 11 September 2001,...

Socio-moralist vocationalism and public aspirations: secondary education policies in colonial and present-day Ghana.
September 22, 2005... This paper examines the socio-moralistic justification of vocational education in colonial and contemporary Ghana. In the international arena, vocational education has been justified in various ways (mostly in economic terms), but in Ghana, the...

Transforming globalization and security: Africa and America post-9/11.
September 22, 2005... Africa has traditionally had a marginal and decreasing role in international affairs. Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, however, the continent has taken center stage in the emerging security discourse, and access to African oil is now a...

Bailey, Anne C. 2005. African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame.
September 22, 2005... Bailey, Anne C. 2005. AFRICAN VOICES OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: BEYOND THE SILENCE AND THE SHAME. Boston: Beacon Press. 289 pp. $26.00 (cloth). African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade attempts to break through centuries of silence and...

David Birmingham. 2004. Portugal in Africa.
September 22, 2005... David Birmingham. 2004. PORTUGAL IN AFRICA. Athens: Ohio University Press. 203 pp. $20.00 (paper) $90.00 (cloth). This collection of essays, papers, and reviews covers more than four decades of the author's research into the history of...

Boone, Catherine. 2003. Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice.
September 22, 2005... Boone, Catherine. 2003. POLITICAL TOPOGRAPHIES OF THE AFRICAN STATE: TERRITORIAL AUTHORITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHOICE. New York: Cambridge University Press. xii+405pp. $75.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). This is almost a brilliant book. This is...

Clarke, Kamari Maxine. 2004. Mapping Yoruba Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities.
September 22, 2005... Clarke, Kamari Maxine. 2004. MAPPING YORUBA NETWORKS: POWER AND AGENCY IN THE MAKING OF TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES. Durham: Duke University Press. 345 pp. $79.95 (cloth) $22.95 (paper). Mapping Yoruba Networks is an ethnographic and...

Crais, Clifton C., ed. 2003. The Culture of Power in Southern Africa: Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination.
September 22, 2005... Crais, Clifton C., ed. 2003. THE CULTURE OF POWER IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: ESSAYS ON STATE FORMATION AND THE POLITICAL IMAGINATION. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann. Illustrations. Selected bibliography. Index. 216 pp. $63.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). ...

Eltringham, Nigel. 2004. Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda.
September 22, 2005... Eltringham, Nigel. 2004. ACCOUNTING FOR HORROR: POST-GENOCIDE DEBATES IN RWANDA. London: Pluto Press. 232 pp. $79.95 (cloth) $24.95 (paper). Umutesi, Marie Beatrice. 2004. SURVIVING THE SLAUGHTER: THE ORDEAL OF A RWANDAN REFUGEE IN ZAIRE....

Gilbert, Erik. 2004. Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970.
September 22, 2005... Gilbert, Erik. 2004. DHOWS AND THE COLONIAL ECONOMY OF ZANZIBAR, 1860-1970. Athens: Ohio University Press. 192 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper). Erik Gilbert seeks to set the record straight about dhows. According to him, dhows and the...

Rakner, Lise. 2003. Political and Economic Liberalisation in Zambia 1991-2001.
September 22, 2005... Rakner, Lise. 2003. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC LIBERALISATION IN ZAMBIA 1991-2001. Uppsala, Transaction. The political and economic reforms attempted by developing countries have led in different directions, often unexpected. Zambia is such a...

Rotberg, Robert, editor. 2004. Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges.
September 22, 2005... Rotberg, Robert, editor. 2004. CRAFTING THE NEW NIGERIA: CONFRONTING THE CHALLENGES. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 272 pp., $55 (hardcover). After spending much of its independent existence under military rule, Nigeria's return...

Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2004. For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities.
September 22, 2005... Simone, AbdouMaliq. 2004. FOR THE CITY YET TO COME: CHANGING AFRICAN LIFE IN FOUR CITIES. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 297 pp., $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). According to a recent report on global urbanization by the United...

Wright, Derek. 2004. The Novels of Nuruddin Farah.
September 22, 2005... Wright, Derek. 2004. THE NOVELS OF NURUDDIN FARAH, rev. and enlarged ed. Bayreuth African studies series, 32. Bayreuth: Bayreuth University. 215 pp., $26.99 (cloth): $17.99 (paper). Since 1994, when this book first appeared, its subject has...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2005... Apter, Andrew. 2005. The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Armes, Roy. 2005. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ...