Africa Today articles from September 2009

Africa Today archives from September 2009

Mueni wa Muiu. The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa.(Book review)
September 22, 2009... Mueni wa Muiu. THE PITFALLS OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND LATE NATIONALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 239 pp. $44.00, (cloth). This book consists of an introduction, seven substantive chapters, a conclusion, a...

Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974.(Book review)
September 22, 2009... Messay Kebede. RADICALISM AND CULTURAL DISLOCATION IN ETHIOPIA, 1960-1974. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2008. 235 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 was authored by Professor...

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa.(Book review)
September 22, 2009... Dambisa Moyo. DEAD AID: WHY AID IS NOT WORKING AND HOW THERE IS ANOTHER WAY FOR AFRICA. London: Allen Lane, 2009. 188 pp. 14.99. [pounds sterling]. For some people, arguments and positions represented in the book by Dambisa Moyo may be...

Books received.
September 22, 2009... Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa. 2009. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Achebe, Chinua.2008. When Things Came Together. Lisbon: Universidade de Lisboa. ...

Faith and the intersubjectivity of care in Botswana.(Report)
September 22, 2009... Introduction In discussing the language employed by Christian churches in reference to the spread of HIV/AIDS, scholars have tended to emphasize the role of formal preaching about premarital or extramarital sexuality. Robert Garner (2000),...

The "failures of culture": Christianity, kinship, and moral discourses about orphans during Botswana's AIDS crisis.(Report)
September 22, 2009... Introduction Botswana has long had a reputation for fierce national pride and a pervasive commitment to what its people call the preservation of their culture, (1) even--and in some ways especially--in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. The last...

"Keep holy distance and abstain till he comes": interrogating a Pentecostal church's engagements with HIV/AIDS and the youth in Kenya.(Report)
September 22, 2009... Introduction As the HIV/AIDS pandemic enters its third decade in Kenya, Christian churches, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), faith-based organizations (FBOs), governments, civil society, and other stakeholders are attempting to provide...

HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal churches, and the "Joseph Generation" in Uganda.(Report)
September 22, 2009... Introduction Uganda has been at the center of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. This fact has shaped the role that Christianity, and especially the growing Pentecostal movement, have assumed in influencing HIV and AIDS politics and...

Doing better? Religion, the virtue-ethics of development, and the fragmentation of health politics in Tanzania.
September 22, 2009... Introduction In recent years, there has been a proliferation of interest in the role that faith-based organizations (FBOs) play in the context of internationally driven development (Bornstein 2005; Stambach 2004; Ter Haar and Ellis 2006)....

Introduction to special issue: engaging Christianities: negotiating HIV/AIDS, health, and social relations in East and Southern Africa.
September 22, 2009... The purpose of this special issue (1) is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of...