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Africa articles from January 1999
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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Africa archives from January 1999
COMMUNITY, FORESTRY AND CONDITIONALITY IN THE GAMBIA.
January 1, 1999... The environmentalism of the late 1980s and early 1990s was distinguished by massive `global' undertakings such as the Rio Earth Summit, the proliferation of `global change' studies in the academy, and development interventions carried out under...
DECENTRALISATION, PARTICIPATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN SAHELIAN FORESTRY: LEGAL INSTRUMENTS OF POLITICAL-ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL.
January 1, 1999...
As a form of rule, apartheid is what Smuts [1936] called institutional
segregation, the British termed indirect rule, and the French association.
It is this common State form that I call decentralised despotism. [Mamdani,
1996:...
NEGOTIATING ASANTE FAMILY SURVIVAL IN KUMASI, GHANA.
January 1, 1999... Remarkable flexibility in the residential and financial arrangements attached to marriage, parenthood and matrilineal kinship has remained a consistent characteristic of the Asante family system throughout this century. Asante cultural norms...
DOGLIENTIRI: AN INSTITUTIONALISED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WOMEN AMONG THE BULSA OF NORTHERN GHANA.
January 1, 1999... This article presents a specific social relationship among women among the Bulsa of northern Ghana. This relation is known by the term doglientiri or doglieni, composed of the words dok, `room', and lie, `daughter'. The partners of this...
MCHAPE '95, OR, THE SUDDEN FAME OF BILLY GOODSON CHISUPE: HEALING, SOCIAL MEMORY AND THE ENIGMA OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN POST-BANDA MALAWI.
January 1, 1999... In April 1995 I received a letter from a Malawian friend informing me that thousands of people were travelling down to the south of Malawi to `drink mchape'. It was a reference in passing. No particular explanation, no further elaboration was...
THE SELF IN SELF-INTEREST: LAND, LABOUR AND TEMPORALITIES IN MALAWI'S AGRARIAN CHANGE.
January 1, 1999... In the southern margin of Dedza District in Malawi's Central Region (see map opposite), the site of over two years of fieldwork in 1992-93 and 1996-97, communal work parties appear to be on the decline. In contrast, smaller-scale labour...
Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914.(Review)
January 1, 1999... BRUCE VANDERVORT, Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830-1914. London: UCL Press, 1998, 274 pp., 45.00[pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85728 486 0 hard covers, 13.95[pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85728 487 9 paperback.
Published in the `Warfare and...
Decolonization and African Society: the labour question in French and British Africa.(Review)
January 1, 1999... FREDERICK COOPER, Decolonization and African Society: the labour question in French and British Africa. African Studies series 89, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 694 pp., 55.00[pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 56251 1 hard covers,...
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: peasants, work and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique.(Review)
January 1, 1999... ALLEN ISAACMAN, Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: peasants, work and rural struggle in colonial Mozambique, 1938-61. Social History of Africa series, Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David Philip; London: James Currey, 1996, 272 pp., 35.00...
Gender and Class in the Tea Estates of Cameroon.(Review)
January 1, 1999... PIET KONINGS, Gender and Class in the Tea Estates of Cameroon. African Studies Center, Leiden, Research Series 5/1995, Aldershot: Avebury, 1996, 173 pp., 22.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85972 355 1.
Gender and Class in the Tea Estates of...
Between Five Lines: the development of ethnicity in Tanzania with special reference to the western Bagamoyo District.(Review)
January 1, 1999... HELENA JERMAN, Between Five Lines: the development of ethnicity in Tanzania with special reference to the western Bagamoyo District. Development and Culture Research 8/1997, Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute, 1997, 361 pp., 18.95 [pounds...
Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: a history of the Anlo-Ewe.(Review)
January 1, 1999... SANDRA E. GREENE, Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: a history of the Anlo-Ewe. Social History of Africa series, London: James Currey, 1996, 209 pp., 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 622 5 paperback.
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Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius.(Review)
January 1, 1999... WILLIAM KELLEHER STOREY, Science and Power in Colonial Mauritius. Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora 3, New York: University of Rochester Press, 1997, 238 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 53046 015 1.
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Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature.(Review)
January 1, 1999... GRAHAM FURNISS and ELIZABETH GUNNER (eds), Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 273 pp., 35.00 [pounds sterling] (US$59.95), ISBN 0 521 48061 2.
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West African Popular Theatre.(Review)
January 1, 1999... KARIN BARBER, JOHN COLLINS and ALAIN RICARD, West African Popular Theatre.
Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 285 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 245 9 hard covers, 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 244 0 paperback.
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