Africa articles from June 2004

Africa archives from June 2004

Reflections on witchcraft, danger, and modernity among the Tuareg.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT This essay explores the varied ways so-called 'witchcraft' powers are implicated today in an African society, the Tuareg of the Republic of Niger. There is analysis of the interplay of these powers and dangers in case studies and...

Drinking, rumour, and ethnicity in Jimma, Ethiopia.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation of the relationship between identity, politics, and rumours in Jimma, Ethiopia. The introduction of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia after the fall of the Marxist Derg regime in 1991 has been the topic...

Maintaining difference and managing change: female agrarian clientelist relations in a Gambian community.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT The introduction of dry-season vegetable cultivation on a large scale in Brikama, The Gambia in the early 1970s has led to the development of a new labour system amongst female farmers whereby strangers or clients are given access...

Entrustment and its changing political meanings in Fuladu, the Gambia (1880-1994).
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT The practice of entrustment is a form of voluntary allegiance for the sake of protection, one which historically lies at the core of host stranger relationships along the River Gambia. Deeply woven into the social fabric of local...

Making ethnic elites: ritual poetics in a Cameroonian lycee.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT This case study of youth cultural production in Cameroon examines how lycee students introduce idioms of tradition and the ancestral past into the lycee context by creating a club modelled on a dance society popular in the region....

The making of the Ogoni ethnic group.
June 22, 2004... ABSTRACT The existence of the Ogoni ethnic group is taken for granted in the literature that has grown out of the minority rights and environmentalist campaigns of the 1990s. This article departs from this tradition by engaging the...

History and identity in Senegambia and on the upper Guinea Coast.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... GEORGE E. BROOKS, Eurafricans in Western Africa: commerce, social status, gender, and religious observance from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Athens: Ohio University Press (paperback US$20.00, ISBN 0 8214 1486 0; hard covers...

E. M. Chilver and Ute Roschenthaler (eds), Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's expedition and its consequences.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... E. M. CHILVER and UTE ROSCHENTHALER (eds), Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's expedition and its consequences. Cameroon Studies, vol. 3. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (paperback US$25.00, 17.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 57181 310 1; hard...

Henri Bocquene, Memoirs of a Mbororo: the life of Ndudi Umaru, Fulani Nomad of Cameroon.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... HENRI BOCQUENE, Memoirs of a Mbororo: the life of Ndudi Umaru, Fulani Nomad of Cameroon. Transl. by Philip Burnham and Gordeen Gorder. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (paperback US$25.00, 15.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 57181 845 6; hard...

Holger Kirscht, Ein Dorf in Nordost-Nigeria. Politische und wirtschaftliche Transformation der bauerlichen Kamuri-Gesellschaft.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... HOLGER KIRSCHT, Ein Dorf in Nordost-Nigeria. Politische und wirtsckaftliche Transformation der bauerlichen Kamuri-Gesellschaft. Gottinger Studien zur Ethnologie, Band 6. Hamburg: Lit Verlag (30.90 [euro], ISBN 3 8258 4494 3). 2001, 345 pp. ...

Wendy James, Donald L. Donham, Eisei Kurimoto and Alessandro Triulzi (eds), Remapping Ethiopia: socialism and after.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... WENDY JAMES, DONALD L. DONHAM, EISEI KURIMOTO and ALESSANDRO TRIULZI (eds), Remapping Ethiopia: socialism and after. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 455 9); Athens: Ohio University Press (paperback...

Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... RONALD HYAM and PETER HENSHAW, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], US$60.00, ISBN 0 52182 453 2). 2003, 379 pp. The...

Robert Morrell, From Boys to Gentlemen: settler masculinity in colonial Natal, 1880-1920.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... ROBERT MORRELL, From Boys to Gentlemen: settler masculinity in colonial Natal, 1880-1920. Pretoria: UNISA (paperback R96.00, 29.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 86888 151 2). 2001, 322 pp. The boys and gentlemen referred to in the title of Rob...

Gillian Hart, Disabling Globalization: places of power in post-apartheid South Africa.(W)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... GILLIAN HART, Disabling Globalization: places of power in post-apartheid South Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press (paperback US$21.95, 13.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 520 23756 0; hard covers US$54.95, ISBN 0 520 23755 2). 2002,...

Anthony Simpson, 'Half London' in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... ANTHONY SIMPSON, 'Half London' in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International Africa Institute (paperback 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7486 1804 X). 2003, 224 pp....

Judith A. Byfield, The Bluest Hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... JUDITH A. BYFIELD, The Bluest Hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 17.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 600 4; hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255...

Jean-Pascal Daloz, Elites et representations politiques. La Culture de l'echange inegal au Nigeria.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... JEAN-PASCAL DALOZ, Elites et representations politiques. La Culture de l'echange inegal au Nigeria. Collection >. Pressac: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux (paperback 20.00 [euro], ISBN 2 86781 297 6). 2002, 174 pp. In this rich...

John F. Clark (ed.), The African Stakes of the Congo War.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... JOHN F. CLARK (ed.), The African Stakes of the Congo War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (hard covers US$59.95, 37.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 312 29550 2). 2002, 249 pp. This book originates in a conference that John F. Clark (then a...

Manfred O. Hinz, Sam K. Amoo and Dawid Van Wyk (eds), The Constitution at Work: ten years of Namibian nationhood.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... MANFRED O. HINZ, SAM K. AMOO and DAWID VAN WYK (eds), The Constitution at Work: ten years of Namibian nationhood. Proceedings of the Conference on 'Ten Years of Namibian Nationhood', 11-13 September 2000. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press;...

Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu F. Ogundimu (eds), Media and Democracy in Africa.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... GORAN HYDEN, MICHAEL LESLIE and FOLU F. OGUNDIMU (eds), Media and Democracy in Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (paperback 240 kr, 24.00 [euro], 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 91 7106 495 8); New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers...

Birgitte Bruun, Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... BIRGITTE BRUUN, Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (paperback 13.00 [euro], ISBN 90 5260 083 X). 2002, 96 pp. This book, in Aksant's Community...

Nancy Ellen Lawler, Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers: the Gold Coast in World War II.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... NANCY ELLEN LAWLER, Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers: the Gold Coast in World War II. Athens: Ohio University Press (hard covers US$49.95, 35.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 8214 1430 5). 2002, 286 pp. Nancy Lawler published in 1942...