Africa articles from June 2003

Africa archives from June 2003

Identification in violent settings and situations of rapid change.(Introduction)
June 22, 2003... The papers collected here all deal with North-East Africa or, politically speaking, with IGAD (1) countries. Within this geographical framework, they address subjects as diverse as new states and justifications for their existence, changes in...

Redrawing the map of the horn: the politics of difference.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT The paper examines the changing shapes of territories in the Horn of Africa and the discourses which legitimise these different shapes. It starts with the 'Horn' itself, the different ways to delineate it, and the interests behind...

Old problems in new conflicts: some observations on Eritrea and its relations with Tigray, from liberation struggle to inter-state war.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT This article examines the problematic relationship between Eritrea and Tigray as represented by the Eritrean and Tigray Peoples' Liberation Fronts. The EPLF won independence for Eritrea in 1991, at the same time as the TPLF seized...

Rebounding nationalism: state and ethnicity in Wollega 1968-1976.
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT This article deals with the interrelationship of ethnic and national processes in a rural district in Wollega at the time of the Ethiopian revolution of 1974. It describes how the state policy of 'official nationalism' and...

The state as raider among the Karamojong: 'where there are no guns, they use the threat of guns'.(political, religious and social importance of weapons and disarmament in Uganda)
June 22, 2003... ABSTRACT The article brings together archival material, past ethnography, and memory on the one hand, and up-to-date eye-witness and newspaper reports on the other, to set current traumatic events in the very long view. The presentism of...

Concluding comments: collective identities in a complex world.(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... As I write, the United States and the United Kingdom have begun their invasion of Iraq. Thus, the most developed forms of violence are being brought into relationship with some of the world's most complexly layered local identities--all on...

A disconcerting life.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... UDO MISCHEK, Leben und Werk Gunter Wagners (1908-1952). Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Ethnologie der Universitat Leipzig. Reihe Fachgeschichte. Band 2. Gehren: Escher Verlag, 2002, 293 pp., 51.20 [euro], ISBN 3 932642 21 X. For...

Serge Tornay, Les Fusils jaunes. Generations et politique en pays nyangatom (Ethiopie).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... SERGE TORNAY, Les Fusils jaunes. Generations et politique en pays nyangatom (Ethiopie). Nanterre: Societe d'Ethnologie, 2001, 363 pp., 27.44 [euro], ISBN 2 901161 64 2. Les Fusils jaunes ('yellow guns'), the translation of their ethnic...

Victor Azarya, Anneke Breedveld, Mirjam de Bruijn, and Han Van Dijk (eds): Pastoralists Under Pressure? Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... VICTOR AZARYA, ANNEKE BREEDVELD, MIRJAM DE BRUIJN, and HAN VAN DIJK (eds) Pastoralists Under Pressure? Fulbe societies confronting change in West Africa Leiden, Boston, and Koln: Brill, 1999, 454pp., 57.20 [euro], ISBN 90 04 11364 9 (hard...

Ann Brower Stahl, Making History in Banda: anthropological visions of Africa's past.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... ANN BROWER STAHL, Making History in Banda: anthropological visions of Africa's past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 268 pp., 47.50 [pounds sterling] (US$69.95), ISBN 0 521 80182 6 (hard covers). This book is a welcome...

Omar Faruk Ibrahim, Prince of the Times: Ado Bayero and the transformation of emiral authority in Kano.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... OMAR FARUK IBRAHIM, Prince of the Times: Ado Bayero and the transformation of emiral authority in Kano. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002, 298 pp., US$39 (17.99 [pounds sterling]), ISBN 0 8654 3952 4. Ado Bayero is the...

Adebayo Oyebade (ed.), The Transformation of Nigeria: essays in honor of Toyin Falola.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... ADEBAYO OYEBADE (ed.), The Transformation of Nigeria: essays in honor of Toyin Falola, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2002, 638 pp., US$34.95, ISBN 0 86543 998 2 (paperback). Prolific and widely published for over thirty years, Toyin...

Washington A. J. Okumu, The African Renaissance: history, significance and strategy.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... WASHINGTON A. J. OKUMU, The African Renaissance: history, significance and strategy. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2002, 295 pp., US$24.95, ISBN 1 59221 013 9 (paperback). FANTU CHERU, African Renaissance: roadmaps to the...

Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds), Black Business and Economic Power.
June 22, 2003... Thus far, the study of African business and that of African American business have developed as separate fields. This edited collection contains papers from a conference that brought these fields of study together around the theme of black...

Wyatt MacGaffey, Kongo Political Culture: the conceptual challenge of the particular.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... WYATT MACGAFFEY, Kongo Political Culture: the conceptual challenge of the particular. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000, 272 pp., US$26.95, ISBN 0 253 33698 8 (hard covers). Challenging yet eminently rewarding, MacGaffey's study...

Norman Etherington, The Great Treks: the transformation of South Africa, 1815-1854.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... NORMAN ETHERINGTON, The Great Treks: the transformation of South Africa, 1815-1854. London: Longman, 2001, 366 pp., 16.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 582 31567 0 (paperback). When Norman Etherington's publishers suggested that he write about...

Shelagh Willet, Stella Monageng, Sidsel Saugestad and Janet Hermans, The Khoe and San: an annotated bibliography, Volume 1.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... SHELAGH WILLET, STELLA MONAGENG, SIDSEL SAUGESTAD and JANET HERMANS, The Khoe and San: an annotated bibliography, Volume 1. Gaborone: Lightbooks, 2002, 248 pp., Pula 90.00 (24.95 [pounds sterling], US$ 41.95), ISBN 99912 71 26 0. The term...

Lynn Schumaker, Africanizing Anthropology: fieldwork, networks, and the making of cultural knowledge in central Africa.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... LYNN SCHUMAKER, Africanizing Anthropology: fieldwork, networks, and the making of cultural knowledge in central Africa. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2001, 376 pp., 15.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 82232 673 6 paperback. ...