Africa articles from June 1999

Africa archives from June 1999

SECOND-HAND CLOTHING ENCOUNTERS IN ZAMBIA: GLOBAL DISCOURSES, WESTERN COMMODITIES, AND LOCAL HISTORIES.
June 22, 1999... This is the second in a series of New Directions papers commissioned by the US Social Science Research Council In common parlance in Zambia since the mid-1980s, the term salaula has referred to second-hand clothing imported from the West....

`WITH A LITTLE BIT OF LUCK ...' COPING WITH ADJUSTMENT IN URBAN GHANA, 1975-90.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... Since the late 1970s the majority of the countries of the so-called `South' have adopted, with varying degrees of desperation, enthusiasm or success, the policy prescriptions of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in return for...

MAKING A PROFIT, MAKING A LIVING: COMMERCIAL FOOD FARMING AND URBAN HINTERLANDS IN NORTH-WEST NIGERIA.(Statistical Data Included)
June 22, 1999... Each day at dawn hundreds of men begin to gather by the gates of the old city of Sokoto, hoping to be hired as farm labourers, and accosting likely employers with the shout of `Kana son yan aiki?' `Are you looking for workers?' Others wait...

TRADING ON INEQUALITY: GENDER AND THE DRINKS TRADE IN SOUTHERN TANZANIA.
June 22, 1999... Throughout sub-Saharan Africa the consumption of alcoholic beverages is a valued accompaniment to leisure time. The range of drinks consumed is varied, as are their origins. In urban settings prestigious imported and manufactured brews are...

THE DYNAMICS OF WITCHCRAFT AND INDIGENOUS SHRINES AMONG THE AKAN.
June 22, 1999... Conspicuous consumption of Western goods is one way in which contradictory ideas associated with modern identities are constructed and are expressive of rupture and reflexivity in modern Ghana. It is a way in which local Akan consumers express...

DAVID NORMAN BEACH, 1943-99.(Transcript)
June 22, 1999... Professor David Beach died of a brain tumour on Monday 15 February 1999. The following is the text of the tribute spoken by Dr M. Z. Malaba at the funeral service in Christchurch, the Anglican parish church in Borrowdale (Harare), before the...

Nigeria: renewal from the roots? The struggle for democratic development.(Review)
June 22, 1999... ADEBAYO ADEDEJI, ONIGU OTITE et al., Nigeria: renewal from the roots? The struggle for democratic development. London and Atlantic Highlands NJ: Zed Books, in association with the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDSS),...

Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria.(Review)
June 22, 1999... PAUL BECKETT and CRAWFORD YOUNG (eds), Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria. Rochester NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 1997, 450 pp., 35.50 [pounds sterling] ($65.00), ISBN 1 878 822 98 5. After a lull of several...

Educating the Middlemen: a political and economic history of statutory cocoa marketing in Nigeria, 1936-47.(Review)
June 22, 1999... JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH, Educating the Middlemen: a political and economic history of statutory cocoa marketing in Nigeria, 1936-47, Berlin: Verlag das Arabische Buch, 1995, 327 pp., ISBN 3 86093 095 8 paperback. The statutory Marketing Boards...

When Men and Women Mattered: a history of gender relations among the Owan of Nigeria.(Review)
June 22, 1999... ONAIWU W. OGBOMO, When Men and Women Mattered: a history of gender relations among the Owan of Nigeria. Rochester NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 1997, 220 pp., 37.00 [pounds sterling] ($39.50), ISBN 1 878822 78 0....

Status and Identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande.(Review)
June 22, 1999... D. C. CONRAD and B. E. FRANK (eds), Status and Identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande. African Systems of Thought series, Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1995, 214 pp., 11.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 253 20929 3. This...

The Chiga of Uganda.(Review)
June 22, 1999... MAY M. EDEL, The Chiga of Uganda. Second edition, New Brunswick NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 1996, 304 pp., $39.95, ISBN 1 56000 248 4. Franz Boas was the major influence on May Mandelbaum Edel's intellectual formation, though...

Kibiro: the salt of Bunyoro, past and present.(Review)
June 22, 1999... GRAHAM CONNAH, Kibiro: the salt of Bunyoro, past and present. British Institute of Eastern Africa Memoirs 13, London: British Institute of Eastern Africa, 1996, 224 pp., 37.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 872566 08 1. As a memoir of an...

TANU Women: gender and culture in the making of Tanganyikan nationalism, 1955-65.(Review)
June 22, 1999... SUSAN GEIGER, TANU Women: gender and culture in the making of Tanganyikan nationalism, 1955-65. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1997, 217 pp., $23.95, ISBN 0 435 07421 0. The study of women's political participation in Africa remains relatively...

Gender, Family and Household in Tanzania.(Review)
June 22, 1999... COLIN CREIGHTON and C. K. OMARI (eds), Gender, Family and Household in Tanzania. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1995, 327 pp., 39.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85628 651 7. This volume, the product of a link between the sociology departments of the...

My Warriors and I: among the Samburu of northern Kenya.(Review)
June 22, 1999... PETER STOAKLEY, My Warriors and I: among the Samburu of northern Kenya. London: Scriptmate, 1998, 208 pp., 13.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 9513766 9 1. This work was inspired by the author's involvement with a Samburu family, at first as a...

Autobiografie africane: il colonialismo nelle memorie orali.(Review)
June 22, 1999... IRMA TADDIA, Autobiografie africane: il colonialismo nelle memorie orali. Milan: Angeli, 1996, 157 pp., L28,000, ISBN 88 204 9839 1. These two volumes present some interesting source materials for East Africa under Italian colonial rule, an...

Lettere tigrine: i documenti etiopici del Fondo Ellero I.(Review)
June 22, 1999... UOLDELUL CHELATI GHIRAR, ALESSANDRO GORI and IRMA TADDIA (eds), Lettere tigrine: i documenti etiopici del Fondo Ellero I, Il Politico e la Memoria series, Turin: Harmattan Italia, 1997, 207 pp., L29,000, ISBN 88 86664 49 4. These two...

Histoire d'une famine, Rwanda, 1927-30: crise alimentaire entre tradition et modernite.(Review)
June 22, 1999... ANNE CORNET, Histoire d'une famine, Rwanda, 1927-30: crise alimentaire entre tradition et modernite. Enquetes et documents d'histoire africain 13, Louvain-la-Neuve: Centre d'histoire de l'Afrique, Universite catholique de Louvain, 1996, 156...

Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe.(Review)
June 22, 1999... PAMELA REYNOLDS, Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe. Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 1996, 184 pp., US$43.50, ISBN 0 8214 1121 7, $19.95, ISBN 0 8214 1122 5 paperback. In Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe, Professor...

Der Krieg und die Kirchen. Angola 1961-1991.(Review)
June 22, 1999... BENEDICT SCHUBERT, Der Krieg und die Kirchen. Angola 1961-1991. Theologie in Geschichte und Gesellschaft 3, Lucerne: Exodus, 1997, 344 pp., ISBN 3 905577 10 0. The contribution of Christian missions and Churches to the making of modern...

The African Novel in English: an introduction.(Review)
June 22, 1999... M. KEITH BOOKER, The African Novel in English: an introduction. Studies in African Literature, Oxford: James Currey, 1998, 227 pp., 12.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 552 0 paperback. Both these books are about African fiction in English...

Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: orality and history in the work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri.(Review)
June 22, 1999... ATO QUAYSON, Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: orality and history in the work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola, Wole Soyinka and Ben Okri. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 180 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 544 X hard...

The Marabout and the Muse: new approaches to Islam in African literature.(Review)
June 22, 1999... KENNETH W. HARROW (ed.), The Marabout and the Muse: new approaches to Islam in African literature. Studies in African Literature, Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1996, 262 pp., 12.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 540 7...

Black Paris: the African writers' landscape.(Review)
June 22, 1999... BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE, Black Paris: the African writers' landscape. Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998, 350 pp., US$34.95, ISBN 0 252 02066 9. In the foreword to Black Paris the novelist Simon Njami comments on how much he...

Kush, the Jewel of Nubia: reconnecting the root system of African civilization.(Review)
June 22, 1999... MIRIAM MA'AT-KA-RE MONGES, Kush, the Jewel of Nubia: reconnecting the root system of African civilization. London: Africa World Press, 1998, 212 pp., 14.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 86543 529 4. In Chapter II of her book Miriam Monges...

Culture and the Commonplace: anthropological essays in honour of David Hammond-Tooke.(Review)
June 22, 1999... PATRICK McALLISTER (ed.), Culture and the Commonplace: anthropological essays in honour of David Hammond-Tooke. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1997, 400 pp., ISBN 0 521 591370 0. David Hammond-Tooke was a beleagured figure...

Whose Reality Counts? Putting the first last.(Review)
June 22, 1999... ROBERT CHAMBERS, Whose Reality Counts? Putting the first last. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1997, 317 pp., 3.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85339 386 X. Robert Chambers's book, which integrates and elaborates his numerous...

The Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography III, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland.(Review)
June 22, 1999... The Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography III, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland. Algonac MI: Encyclopaedia Africana Project, Reference Publications, 1995, 304 pp. The Encyclopaedia Africana's Dictionary of African...

SHORTER NOTICES.(Bibliography)
June 22, 1999... MONIQUE BERTRAND, Les gilles secondaires d'Afrique noire, 1970-97: bibliographie analytique et commentee. Bordeaux: Centre d'etudes d'Afrique noire, 1997, 133 pp, ISBN 2 908065 42 8 paperback. Monique Bertrand and Alain Dubresson edited an...

BOOKS RECEIVED.(Bibliography)
June 22, 1999... Abwunza, Judith M., Women's Voices, Women's Power: dialogues of resistance from East Africa. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1997, 224 pp., 8.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 155111 132 2. Ajayi, J. F. Ade (ed.), UNESCO General History of...