Africa articles from January 1997

Africa archives from January 1997

The local state in post-war Mozambique: political practice and ideas about authority.
January 1, 1997... In recent years, Mozambican intellectuals and officials (as well as international donors) have increasingly looked to decentralisation as a means of making the state more efficient and responsive to local needs. Mozambican debates over rural...

A chief by the people: nation versus state in Lesotho.
January 1, 1997... PROLOGUE To make narrative generalisations on the substance of citizenship and national identity for members of another nation is undeniably rash. We do so under the presumption that enquiring into the meaning of Basotho identity in the...

Colonial rule and the 'legal factor' in Ghana and Lesotho.
January 1, 1997... To British colonial officials, as they contemplated Africa's colonial inheritance in the setting sun of empire, it seemed that the `legal factor' would be `as powerful' as it had been in `the history of the Roman Empire or [in] England in the...

Lords of the fly: colonial visions and revision of African sleeping-sickness environments on Ugandan Lake Victoria, 1906-61.
January 1, 1997... District Commissioner. I believe that their numbers have been much exaggerated, and that no fear need be entertained that the cost of buying flies will amount to a very large sum. We might begin by offering a shell apiece. At that rate... an...

How to sustain a living? Urban households and poverty in the Sahelian town of Mopti.
January 1, 1997... During the last ten to fifteen years Africa's urban population has had to deal with diminishing incomes and the increasing cost of living. Even the real wages of urban workers in the formal sector fell, sometimes so dramatically that a growing...

Property reckoning and methods of accumulating wealth among the Ogoni of the Eastern Niger Delta.
January 1, 1997... The Ogoni occupy the easternmost section of the fertile plateau bordering the eastern Niger Delta, between the river Imo on the east and north, the city of Port Harcourt on the west, and Andoni and Bonny on the south. The oral tradition states...

Before the Wind Changed: People, Places and Education in the Sudan.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Cultivating Workers.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Prelude to the Mahdiyya: Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Imperial Sudan: The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Soldiers, Traders and Slaves: State Formation and Economic Transformation in the Greater Nile valley.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Historical Dictionary of the Sudan, 2nd ed.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

The Call for Democracy in Sudan.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Short Cut to Decay: The Case of the Sudan.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

The Government They Deserve: The Role of the Elite in Sudan's Political Evolution.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Ethnicity: The Beja as Representation.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

The Western Bahr al-Ghazal under British Rule: 1898-1965.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

In Whose Image? Political Islam and Urban Practices in Sudan.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

Sudan, 1898-1989: The Unstable State.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...

The Politics of the Two Sudans.
January 1, 1997... In Sudan, as elsewhere, state-builders have tended to be centralisers, seeking to exert control over outlying regions and drawing their varied populations into an unequal encounter with the increasingly elaborate state apparatus. Inevitably, this...