Critical Arts articles from July 2002

Critical Arts archives from July 2002

Editorial: notes on the (im)possibility of articulating continental African identity.
July 1, 2002... Esu, do not undo me, Do not falsify the words of my mouth, Do not misguide the movements of my feet, You who translates yesterday's words Into novel utterances, Do not undo me, I bear you sacrifice. (Traditional Oriki Esu,...

Youth culture and rebellion: understanding Sierra Leone's wasted decade.
July 1, 2002... Abstract This paper deals with the centrality of rebellious youth culture in understanding Sierra Leone's wasted decade, 1991-2000. The paper discusses the fusion between the mainstream and the unacceptable youth cultures, the emergence of...

Problematising the making of good and evil: gangs and PAGAD.(People Against Gangsterism and Drugs)
July 1, 2002... Abstract In late 1995 a movement emerged from the Cape Flats called the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD). It emerged from neighbourhood watch groups and although it claimed a diverse support base, it had an overwhelmingly...

Cultural production in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 1984-1991.
July 1, 2002... Abstract Using a naturalistic paradigm my research explores influences on cultural policies and production in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe during the decade after Independence. The work is based on published documents, unpublished archives and the...

Environment and identity: Douglas Livingstone's A Littoral Zone.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2002... Abstract In this article I argue that in 'A Littoral Zone" Douglas Livingstone undertakes a remarkable project of mapping his identity and work-as poet, scientist, human being-onto the landscape in which he lived, worked and moved: that he...

They Lie, We Lie: getting on with anthropology.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2002... Peter Metcalf London & New York: Routledge, 2002 Introduction "This is an essay about lies: white lies and ones as black as night, evasions, exaggerations, delusions, half-truths and credible denials" (Metcalf, 2002, p. 1). ...

Cry Zimbabwe: Independence--Twenty Years on.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Cry Zimbabwe: Independence--Twenty years on Peter Stiff Alberton, South Africa: Galago Publishing, 2000, pp496. Cry Zimbabwe: Independence--Twenty years on, is a book which touches many raw nerves of a critical period in the...