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Africa articles from June 2000
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 June 2000
THE FATHER AS WITCH.
June 22, 2000... Economic and social forces that play upon household and kin dynamics exacerbate tensions and hostilities among associates, who become suspected of both causing and benefiting from the misery of others. How this is conceptualised depends upon...
POWER, HONOUR AND SHAME: THE IDEOLOGY OF ROYAL SLAVERY IN THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE.
June 22, 2000... One obedient slave is better than three hundred sons, for the latter desire their father's death, the foyer his master's glory.
Nisam al-Mulk, Siyasatnameh(1)
In 1893 Kano emirate was devastated by a civil war between two rival...
`HER NAME IS KAMUNDAGE': RETHINKING WOMEN AND PROPERTY AMONG THE HAYA OF TANZANIA.
June 22, 2000... The father says to the musigire (groom's representative): `You have asked me for a wife for so and so and I have given you one. Do not treat her badly. Rather than that, bring her back and I will refund the brideprice. She can always live with...
Of Revelation and Revolution, I Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa.(Review)
June 22, 2000... JEAN COMAROFF AND JOHN L. COMAROFF, Of Revelation and Revolution, I Christianity, Colonialism and Consciousness in South Africa, 1991, 434pp., ISBN 0226 114414 (hard covers), ISBN 0226 114422 (paperback).
One cannot talk about colonialism...
The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier.(Review)
June 22, 2000... JEAN COMAROFF AND JOHN L. COMAROFF, II The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier, 1997, 612pp., ISBN 0226 114430 (hard covers), ISBN 0226 114449 (paperback). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
One cannot talk about...
The Mask of Anarchy: the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war.(Review)
June 22, 2000... STEPHEN ELLIS, The Mask of Anarchy: the destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war. London: Hurst, 1999, 350 pp., ISBN 1 85065 401 8 (hard covers), ISBN 1 85065 417 4 (paperback).
Thought and talk of the...
The Christian Churches and the Democratisation of Africa.(Review)
June 22, 2000... PAUL GIFFORD (ed.), The Christian Churches and the Democratisation of Africa. Studies of Religion in Africa, supplements to the Journal of Religion in Africa. ISSN 0169 9814. Leiden, New York and Cologne: Brill, 1995, 301 pp., ISBN 90 04 10324...
Saints and Somalis: popular Islam in a clan-based society.(Review)
June 22, 2000... I. M. LEWIS, Saints and Somalis: popular Islam in a clan-based society. Lawrenceville NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Red Sea Press, 1998, 174 pp., ISBN 1 56902 102 3 (hard covers), ISBN 1 56902 103 1 (paperback).
Thought and talk of the devil seem...
Translating the Devil: religion and modernity among the Ewe in Ghana.(Review)
June 22, 2000... BIRGIT MEYER, Translating the Devil: religion and modernity among the Ewe in Ghana. International African Library 21, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International African Institute, 1999, 265 pp., ISBN 0 7486 1303 X (paperback)....
Tales of Faith: religion as political performance in Central Africa.(Review)
June 22, 2000... V. Y. MUDIMBE, Tales of Faith: religion as political performance in Central Africa. SOAS Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion 18. London: Athlone Press, 1997, 204 pp., ISBN 0 485 17418 9.
Thought and talk of the devil seem to be on the...