Africa Today articles from September 2006

Africa Today archives from September 2006

Solving transportation problems in African cities: innovative responses by the youth in Douala, Cameroon.
September 22, 2006... The youth of New Bell, one of the largest and poorest immigrant quarters in Douala, have devised two innovative activities: one, commonly known as "bendskin," is the use of motorbikes as taxis; the other, "pousse-pousse," is the use of...

Bauer, Gretchen, and Scott D. Taylor. 2005 Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition.
September 22, 2006... Bauer, Gretchen, and Scott D. Taylor. 2005 POLITICS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: STATE AND SOCIETY IN TRANSITION. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 403 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $26.50 (paper). Gretchen Bauer and Scott D. Taylor, rising young political...

Gebissa, Ezekiel. 2004. Leaf of Allah: Khat and Agricultural Transformation in Harerge Ethiopia.
September 22, 2006... Gebissa, Ezekiel. 2004. LEAF OF ALLAH: KHAT AND AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN HARERGE ETHIOPIA, 1875-1991. Oxford: James Currey. 210 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Thriving in climates well-suited to coffee cultivation, [qat.sup.1]...

Gifford, Paul. 2004. Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy.
September 22, 2006... Gifford, Paul. 2004. GHANA'S NEW CHRISTIANITY: PENTECOSTALISM IN A GLOBALIZING AFRICAN ECONOMY. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. xiv + 216 p. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Who cares about Africa? This seems to be...

Hasty, Jennifer. 2005. The Press and Political Culture in Ghana.
September 22, 2006... Hasty, Jennifer. 2005. THE PRESS AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN GHANA. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2005. 189 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). In the early 1990s, a handful of privately funded newsmagazines emerged in...

Hitchcock, Robert, and Diana Vinding, eds. 2004. Indigenous Peoples' Rights In Southern Africa.
September 22, 2006... Hitchcock, Robert, and Diana Vinding, eds. 2004. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 278 pp. $25.00 (paper). This book examines systematic patterns of social exclusion...

Ilahiane, Hsain. 2004. Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology Of A Moroccan Oasis.
September 22, 2006... Ilahiane, Hsain. 2004. ETHNICITIES, COMMUNITY MAKING, AND AGRARIAN CHANGE: THE POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF A MOROCCAN OASIS. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 248 pp. $35.00 (cloth). In this work, Hsain Ilahiane explores the...

Jensen, Erik. 2005. Western Sahara: Anatomy of A Stalemate.
September 22, 2006... Jensen, Erik. 2005. WESTERN SAHARA: ANATOMY OF A STALEMATE. International Peace Academy Occasional Paper Series. Boulder and London: Lynne Riener. 180 pp. One of Africa's oldest conflicts, that between Morocco and the POLISARIO front,...

Nast, Heidi J. 2005. Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace.
September 22, 2006... Nast, Heidi J. 2005. CONCUBINES AND POWER: FIVE HUNDRED YEARS IN A NORTHERN NIGERIAN PALACE. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 244 pp. $68.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). Geographer Heidi Nast has written a refreshing study of the...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2006... Ansu-Kyeremeh, Kwasi. 2005. Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects. Accra, Ghana: Ghana Universities Press. Birmingham, David. 2006. Empire in Africa: Angola and its Neighbors. Athens, OH: Ohio University...

HIV/AIDS and the military in sub-Saharan Africa: impact on military organizational effectiveness.
September 22, 2006... HIV/AIDS has wreaked havoc on all productive sectors in sub-Saharan Africa, and has emerged as a new threat to military organizational effectiveness. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the HIV prevalence rates in several African armed forces are...

Islam and west African anthropology.
September 22, 2006... West African anthropology carries the burden of a chasm between what is considered traditional or authentically African and Islamic. This reveals itself in ignoring Islam, misrecognizing the cultural legacy of Islam in today's lives beyond...

The Maasai's new clothes: a developmentalist modernity and its exclusions.
September 22, 2006... "Operation Dress-Up," a late 1960s campaign initiated by the Tanzanian state to induce the Maasai to abandon their traditional mode of dress, opens a window on a specific articulation in its historical context of "development." The analysis...

Mothers on the March: Iraqw women negotiating the public sphere in Tanzania.
September 22, 2006... This article explores the role of women's marches among the Iraqw in rural Tanzania. It focuses on the role of mothers in gender identity and how this role gives women the moral authority to act collectively. It shows how gender roles have been...