Africa articles from January 2002

Africa archives from January 2002

Creolisation in secret the birth of nationalism in late colonial Uluguru, Tanzania.
January 1, 2002... The following reflections on nationalism in late colonial Tanganyika are meant as a contribution to a historical rethinking of African politics, a rethinking that is needed to elaborate alternative languages of power and political communion for...

Patronage, millennialism and the serpent God Mumbo in south-west Kenya, 1912-34.
January 1, 2002... From 1914 to 1934 the creed of Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, extended across south-west Kenya. Mumbo condemned Christianity as rotten and vowed to cleanse the land of white people--colonial officials and missionaries--and their...

Stronger than the Maxim gun: law, human rights and British colonial hegemony in Nigeria.
January 1, 2002... Until relatively recently the dominant paradigm for explaining the paradox of the colonial project in Africa was deemed simple and self evident: European imperialists masked the real motives for acquiring colonies--exploitation of economic...

`The daughter she will eat agousie in the world of the spirits' witchcraft confessions in missionised Onitsha, Nigeria.
January 1, 2002... BACKGROUND TO CONFESSION By 1890 the Church Missionary Society (Anglican) mission in Onitsha--a town in what would soon become the Southern Nigerian Protectorate--was over twenty years old and in deep trouble. Staffed by a group of Sierra...

Matan bariki, `women of the barracks' Muslim Hausa women in an urban neighbourhood in northern Nigeria.
January 1, 2002... Since the 1970s there have been several studies of Hausa women in northern Nigerian cities (e.g. Pittin, 1979; Coles, 1983; Knipp, 1987). Cities were chosen for research because they supposedly contain a wider range of female roles and...

`War is good for thieving!' The symbiosis of crime and warfare among the Kuria of Tanzania.
January 1, 2002... Among the agro-pastoral Kuria people, whose population straddles the border between Tanzania and Kenya, many young men are actively engaged in an illicit livestock trade in which cattle stolen in Tanzania--A mainly from other Kuria, but from...

Aid as autobiography.(six books)
January 1, 2002... JERKER CARLSSON, GLORIA SMOLOKAE and NICHOLAS VAN DE WALLE, Foreign Aid in Africa: learning from country experiences. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997, 224 pp., 24.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 91 7106 414 1 (paperback). CAROL...

Deborah Brautigam, Chinese Aid and African Development: exporting Green revolution.
January 1, 2002... Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, 258 pp., 52.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 333 71280 3. On a continent where the population is overwhelmingly rural the long-term stagnation of agriculture has been a particularly strong fetter on rising living...

Tirfe Mammo, The Paradox of Africa's Poverty: the role of indigenous knowledge, traditional practices and local institutions: the case of Ethiopia.
January 1, 2002... Trenton NJ: Red Sea Press, 1999, 268 pp., 14.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 56902 049 3 (paperback). Tirfe Mammo tells us on page 1 that the central theme of his study is the contribution which the neglect of indigenous knowledge,...

Nathaniel H. Bowditch, The Last Emerging Market: from Asian tigers to African lions? The Ghana file.
January 1, 2002... Westport CT and London: Praeger, 1999, 201 pp., US$55.00, ISBN 0 275 965888 0. Nathaniel Bowditch, an American, arrived in Ghana for the first time in 1990 to work as UN Chief Technical Adviser to the Central Region Integrated Development...

Pierluigi Valsecchi and Fabio Viti (eds), Mondes akan : identite et pouvoir en Afrique occidentale / Akan Worlds: identity and power in West Africa.
January 1, 2002... Paris: Harmattan, 1999, 261 pp., ISBN 2 7384 8513 8 (paperback). It is a much lamented fact that the European partition of the African continent and the subsequent persistence of distinct post-colonial blocs based on the languages of the...

Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, The Political Economy of Housing and Urban Development in Africa: Ghana's experience from colonial times to 1998.
January 1, 2002... Westport CT and London: Praeger, 2001, 246 pp., US$65.00, ISBN 0 275 97003 5. This is a well researched and comprehensive book that looks at a neglected, yet crucial, topic in Africa's political economy: the lack of affordable housing for...

Albert Kwokwo Barume, Heading towards Extinction? Indigenous rights in Africa: the case of the Twa of the Kahuzi Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.
January 1, 2002... IWGIA Document 101. Copenhagen: International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs / Forest Peoples Programme, 2000, 142 pp., US$14.00, ISBN 87 90730 31 3. Twa is a term widely used for `Pygmy' peoples in a number of Central African...

Jocelyn Alexander, Joann McGregor and Terence Ranger, Violence and Memory: one hundred years in the `dark forests' of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe.
January 1, 2002... Oxford: Currey, 2000, 302 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 692 6 (hard covers), 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 642 X (paperback). Exploring the history of Nkayi and Lupane Districts (formerly the Shangani Reserve) in...

Susan Newton-King, Masters and Servants on the Gape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803.
January 1, 2002... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 335 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 48153 8. This book is the result of extensive reworking, over many years, of a doctoral dissertation. Susan Newton-King's first published article on...

Mikael Parkvall, Out of Africa: African influences in Atlantic creoles.
January 1, 2002... London: Battlebridge, 2000, 188 pp., 15.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1903292 050. Around trading forts in West Africa and on plantations in and around the Caribbean new, so-called creole, languages developed among local or transplanted...

Constanze Schmaling, Maganar Hannu, Language of the Hands: a descriptive analysis of Hausa Sign Language.
January 1, 2002... International Studies of Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf 35. Hamburg: Signum, 2000, 315 pp., DM 54.00, ISBN 0 3 927731 70 6 (paperback). It has long been widely accepted among linguists that all languages are equal: whatever...