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Africa articles from January 2008
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 2008
Introduction the politics of protection: perspectives on vigilantism in Nigeria.
January 1, 2008... Vigilantism has become an endemic feature of the Nigerian social and political landscape. The emergence of night guards and vigilante groups as popular responses to theft and armed robbery has a long and varied history in Nigeria. Since the...
A new name for an old practice: vigilantes in South-Western Nigeria.(Case study)
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
It is often considered probable that the recent rise of vigilante groups in Nigeria means an erosion of the state monopoly of legitimate violence as well as a marked decline in state sovereignty over the national territory....
The search for security in Muslim Northern Nigeria.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
The article puts forwards the argument that there is a pervasive anxiety among Muslims over their security, both physical and spiritual, in today's northern Nigeria. It is an anxiety partly millenarian, partly political, that...
'The thief eats his shame': practice and power in Nigerian vigilantism.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
Contemporary Nigerian vigilantism concerns a range of local and global dynamics beyond informal justice. It is a lens on the politics of post-colonial Africa, on the current political economy of Nigeria, and on its most...
'Without women, nothing can succeed': yoruba women in the oodua people's congress (OPC), Nigeria.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
This article examines the role of women in the politics of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), a militant ethno-nationalist movement of the Yoruba people in south-west Nigeria. Women's inclusion in the organizational structure and...
Social mobilization and collective violence: vigilantes and militias in the lowlands of plateau state, central Nigeria.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
The collective violence in rural areas of southern and central Plateau State between June 2002 and May 2004 was accompanied by widespread social mobilization and heightened ethnic and religious divisions. Vigilantes adapted to the...
Gender, hisba and the enforcement of morality in Northern Nigeria.
January 1, 2008... ABSTRACT
Vigilantism is a term often used to describe any form of policing and ordering that is non-state, and under analysis 'vigilantism' has often emerged as negative, associated with violence and violation of individual rights....