Africa articles from January 2000

Africa archives from January 2000

WAYS OF DEATH: ACCOUNTS OF TERROR FROM ANGOLAN REFUGEES IN NAMIBIA.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... There was a person in Kuito [Kuanavale] called Vindindo. When he captures somebody, he cuts him/her up with an axe and drinks the blood. Like when they came and seized Nyavihoma [the mother of Vihoma], he killed her and drank the blood. Then he...

MURDER AND THE POLITICAL BODY IN EARLY COLONIAL IBADAN.
January 1, 2000... On 8 November 1902 Baale Mosaderin and ten Ibadan chiefs passed judgement on three men found guilty of murder. They considered them `worthy of death' but recommended that a fine should `be inflicted' on two of the perpetrators, and the third...

MEDICINE MURDER IN BASUTOLAND: COLONIAL RULE AND MORAL CRISIS.
January 1, 2000... THE LATE 1940s: `A VERY STARTLING INCREASE' Two chiefs were hanged at dawn on Wednesday 3 August 1949 in the gaol at Maseru, the capital of the British colony of Basutoland. One was Bereng Griffith Lerotholi, Principal Chief of the Phamong...

BAAT??NU PERSONAL NAMES FROM BIRTH TO DEATH.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... The Baat??mbu (or Bariba), numbering some 500,000 comprise the largest ethnic group of northern Benin. They occupy most of the historical region known as Borgu, of which a small part is situated in adjacent Nigeria. Their language, Baat??num,...

THE CHI CONCEPT IN IGBO GENDER NAMING.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... GENDER IN IGBO NAMES A substantial number of Igbo females bear names associated with Chi, `the Igbo personal life force', while equally a substantial number of males bear names associated with Chi's compound form, Chukwu (Chi ukwu)...

UJAMAA REVISITED: INDIGENOUS AND EUROPEAN INFLUENCES IN NYERERE'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The debate over the indigenous versus the European roots of `African democracy' has regained importance recently. Using the critical tools of cultural anthropology, the social and political thought of Julius K. Nyerere from...

Mestizo Logics: Anthropology of Identity in Africa and Elsewhere.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JEAN-LOUP AMSELLE, Mestizo Logics: anthropology of identity in Africa and elsewhere, trans. Claudia Royal, Mestizo Spaces/Espaces metisses series, Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1998, 224 pp., ISBN 0 8047 2431 8. When Mestizo...

Entre orientalisme et ethnographie: l'itineraire d'un africaniste, 1870-1926.
January 1, 2000... When Mestizo Logics originally appeared in 1990 (as Logiques metisses) it was welcomed by several historically-minded reviewers working in the anglophone world (Conrad, 1992; Launay, 1989; Robinson, 1992), among them the editor of Stanford's...

Dialogue and the interpretation of illness: conversations in a Cameroon village.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ROBERT POOL, Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness: conversations in a Cameroon village. Explorations in Anthropology series, Oxford: Berg, 1994, 285 pp., 39.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85496 873 3 hard covers, 14.95 [pounds sterling],...

Theories of sickness and misfortune among the Hadandowa Beja of the Sudan: narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge.(Review)
January 1, 2000... FRODE F. JACOBSEN, Theories of Sickness and Misfortune among the Hadandowa Beja of the Sudan: narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge. London: Kegan Paul International, 1998, 366 pp., 55.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7103 0591...

Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries.(Review)
January 1, 2000... M. PIETER VAN DIJK and ROBERTA RABELLOTTI (eds), Enterprise Clusters and Networks in Developing Countries. London: Frank Cass, 1997, 304 pp., 22.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7146 4333 5. For nearly twenty years structural adjustment has...

Regional integration and cooperation in West Africa: a multidimensional perspective.(Review)
January 1, 2000... REAL LAVERGNE (ed.), Regional Integration and Cooperation in West Africa: a multidimensional perspective. Trenton NJ, Asmara and Ottawa: Africa World Press and International Development Research Centre, 1997, 352 pp., 14.99 [pounds sterling],...

The African Economic Dilemma: the case of Cameroon.(Review)
January 1, 2000... EKEMA J. MANGA, The African Economic Dilemma: the case of Cameroon. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1998, 280 pp., $46.00, ISBN 0 7618 0991 0. Ekema J. Manga's book addresses the crucial issue of economic planning in Africa, using...

The political economy of South Africa: from minerals to energy complex to industrialisation.(Review)
January 1, 2000... BEN FINE and ZAVAREH RUSTOMJEE, The Political Economy of South Africa: from minerals--energy complex to industrialisation. London: Hurst, 1997, 278 pp., 35.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85065 258 9 hard covers, 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1...

Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa.(Review)
January 1, 2000... PETER BATCHELOR and SUSAN WILLET, Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Stockholm: International Peace Research Institute, 1998, 249 pp., 30.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 19 829413 1....

`No one will become rich': economy and society in the Herero reserves in Namibia, 1915-46.(Review)
January 1, 2000... WOLFGANG WERNER, `No one will become rich': economy and society in the Herero reserves in Namibia, 1915-46. Basel Namibia Studies 2, Basel: Schlettwein, 1998, 254 pp., CHF 48.00, ISBN 3 908193 01 X. Namibian historiography, so long...

Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa.(Review)
January 1, 2000... M. A. MOHAMED SALIH and JOHN MARKAKIS (eds), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 208 pp., 18.95 [pounds sterling] (SEK 200, US $26.95), ISBN 91 7106 418 4. Edited books tend to be either...

The Nile in Darkness: conquest and exploration, 1504-1862.(Review)
January 1, 2000... JOHN O. UDAL, The Nile in Darkness: conquest and exploration, 1504-1862. Norwich: Michael Russell, 702 pp., 55.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85955 238 1. In spite of its title and the dust jacket depicting Murchison Falls, this book is...

The Ethiopian Borderlands: essays in regional history, from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... RICHARD PANKHURST, The Ethiopian Borderlands: essays in regional history, from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997, 489 pp., 12.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 932415 19 9. Richard...

Mending Rips in the Sky: options for Somali communities in the twenty-first century.(Review)
January 1, 2000... HUSSEIN M. ADAM and RICHARD FORD (eds), Mending Rips in the Sky: options for Somali communities in the twenty-first century. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997, 673 pp., $29.95, ISBN 1 56902 074 4. This book is a compilation of the...

An African Classical Age: eastern and southern Africa in world history, 1000 BC to AD 400.(Review)
January 1, 2000... C. EHRET, An African Classical Age: eastern and southern Africa in world history, 1000 BC to AD 400. Oxford: James Currey, 1998, 341 pp, 35.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 8139 1814 6. Over the last three decades Chris Ehret has been one of...

The Ghost of Equality: the public lives of D.D.T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959.(Review)
January 1, 2000... CATHERINE HIGGS, The Ghost of Equality: the public lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa, 1885-1959. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1997, 276 pp., ISBN 0 8214 1169 1 hard covers, ISBN 0 8214 1171 3. South African historiography is...

Amazons of Black Sparta: the women warriors of Dahomey.(Review)
January 1, 2000... STANLEY B. ALPERN, Amazons of Black Sparta: the women warriors of Dahomey. London: Hurst; New York: New York University Press, 1998, 292 pp., 35.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85065 361 5 hard covers, 12.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85065 363 3...