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A scholarly journal devoted to the study of African societies and cultures. Editorial emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach to African studies by the inclusion of topics in social sciences, history, the environment, and life sciences. Each i
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The blacksmiths of Tamale: the dynamics of space and time in a Ghanaian industry.(Report)
March 22, 2009... ABSTRACT
In the last twenty years the number of smiths and the range of their activity have greatly increased in Tamale, the principal city of northern Ghana. The evolution of the national economy and the particular situation of Tamale in the geography of Ghana explain this development...
The re(public) of salsa: Afro-Cuban music in fin-de-siecle Dakar.(Report)
March 22, 2009... ABSTRACT
This article explores why, despite its diminished popularity, Afro-Cuban music remains among the most performed musics in Senegalese music clubs. Since the Second World War, many Senegalese have associated Afro-Cuban music with cosmopolitanism and modernity. In particular,...
Fast food in Ibadan: an emerging consumption pattern.(Report)
March 22, 2009... ABSTRACT
In its modernization garb, development has come to mean the inculcation of foreign values resulting in the fundamental transformation of modernizing nations. Ironically, little attention is being drawn to the consequences of modernizing influences. This is the cote of the...
Burial sites, informal rights and lost kingdoms: contesting land claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa.(Report)
March 22, 2009... ABSTRACT
In the new South Africa, the promise of land restitution raised millennial-style expectations amongst dispossessed and dispersed former landholders. Partly prompted by emerging policy discourses, iconic tropes of localized cultural experience such as grave sites, initiation...
Mimesis and mimicry in dynamics of state and identity formation in northern Somalia.(Report)
March 22, 2009... ABSTRACT
In this article, mimesis and mimicry are used as analytical concepts to explore dynamics of state and identity formation in Somaliland and Puntland since the early 1990s. Mimesis captures endeavours to imitate well-established models of social and political organization. Mimicry...