Africa articles from June 2006

Africa archives from June 2006

Race, identity and citizenship in black Africa: the case of the Lebanese in Ghana (1).
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT As we approach the post-colonial half century, transnationalism has become a major reality in Africa and the wider world with the proliferation of immigrants, refugees and displaced persons. But transnationalism is not a new...

Lebanese traders in Cotonou: a socio-cultural analysis of economic mobility and capital accumulation.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT Passenger cars and other small vehicles have for a long time been the backbone of transport in west Africa. The cars are usually second-hand, and they are sourced on overseas car markets, mostly in western Europe. During the 1990s...

Northern gothic: witches, ghosts and werewolves in the Savanna Hinterland of the Gold Coast, 1900s-1950s.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT This article examines witchcraft, shape-shifting and other supernatural beliefs among the Talensi and neighbouring Gur-speaking peoples on the frontier of the Northern Territories Protectorate of the Gold Coast (Ghana) in the...

K. R. S. Morris and Tsetse eradication in the gold coast, 1928-51.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT This article investigates the anti-tsetse fly work of colonial entomologist K. R. S. Morris in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast between 1928 and 1951. Morris's main programme was directed at the Lawra District of the...

Flexibility in domestic organization and seasonal migration among the Fulani of Northern Burkina Faso.
June 22, 2006... ABSTRACT Migration patterns among the Fulani of Burkina Faso have changed over recent decades from predominant transhumance, involving whole families, to seasonal rural-to-urban labour migration of young men. This article uses a...

Northern Uganda revisited.(Living with Bad Surroundings: War and Existential Uncertainty in Acholiland, Northern Uganda)(The Vitality of Karamojong Religion: Dying Tradition or Living Faith?)(Inside West Nile)(Book review)
June 22, 2006... SVERKER FINNSTROM, Living with Bad Surroundings: war and existential uncertainty in Acholiland, northern Uganda. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press (pb US$72.50-91 554 5747 9). 2003, 352 pages. BEN KNIGHTON, The Vitality of Karamojong...

Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Endangering Development: politics, projects, and environment in Burkina Faso.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... LARS ENGBERG-PEDERSEN, Endangering Development: politics, projects, and environment in Burkina Faso. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger (hb US$76.95-0275979105). 2003, 184 pp. Together with a range of other buzzwords, 'participation' has...

Thandika Mkandawire (ed.), African Intellectuals: rethinking politics, language, gender and development.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE (ed.), African Intellectuals: rethinking politics, language, gender and development. Dakar: Codesria (pb US$35-2 86978 145 8); London: Zed Books (pb 18.95 [pounds sterling]-1 84277 621 5). 2005, 248 pp. This book...

Donald S. Moore, Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... DONALD S. MOORE, Suffering for Territory: race, place and power in Zimbabwe. Durham and London: Duke University Press (pb 15.95 [pounds sterling] pb-0 223 3570 0; hb 64.00 [pounds sterling]-0 8223 3582 4); Harare: Weaver Press (price not...

Steven Robins (ed.), Limits to Liberation after Apartheid: citizenship, governance and culture.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... STEVEN ROBINS (ed.), Limits to Liberation after Apartheid: citizenship, governance and culture. Oxford: James Currey (pb 18.95 [pounds sterling]-0 85255 878 3); Ohio: Ohio University Press (pb US$28.95-0 8214 1666 9). 2005, 256 pp. This...

Dena Freeman and Alula Pankhurst (eds), Peripheral People: the excluded minorities of Ethiopia.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... DENA FREEMAN and ALULA PANKHURST (eds), Peripheral People: the excluded minorities of Ethiopia. London: Hurst and Company (pb 20.95 [pounds sterling]-1 85065 656 8). 2003, 400 pp. Throughout Africa, occupational minorities have often been...

Zine Magubane, Bringing the Empire Home: race, class and gender in Britain and colonial South Africa.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... ZINE MAGUBANE, Bringing the Empire Home: race, class and gender in Britain and colonial South Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (pb US$18.00-0 226 50177 9; hb US$45-0 226 50176 0). 2004, 216 pp. This is an ingenious and ambitious...

Emmanuel Kreike, Re-creating Eden: land use, environment and society in southern Angola and northern Namibia.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... EMMANUEL KREIKE, Re-creating Eden: land use, environment and society in southern Angola and northern Namibia. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann (pb 17 [pounds sterling]-0 325 07076 8; hb 57 [pounds sterling]-0 325 07077 6). 2004, 304 pp. Emmanuel...

Eddy Tshidiso Maloka, Basotho and the Mines: a social history of labour migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... EDDY TSHIDISO MALOKA, Basotho and the Mines: a social history of labour migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890-1940. Dakar: CODESRIA (pb 28.95 [pounds sterling], US$47.95-2 86978 128 8). 2004, 272 pp. (Distributed by African Books...

Tabitha Kanogo, African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... TABITHA KANOGO, African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50. Oxford: James Currey (pb 16.95 [pounds sterling]-0 8214 1568 9); Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (pb $24.95-0 8214 1568 9); Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers (price not...

Heidi J. Nast, Concubines and Power: five hundred years in a northern Nigerian palace.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... HEIDI J. NAST, Concubines and Power: five hundred years in a northern Nigerian palace. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (pb US$22.95-0 8166 4154 4; hb US$68.95-0 8166 4153 6). 2005, 280 pp. Heidi Nast has written a book that...

James McDougall (ed.), Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... JAMES MCDOUGALL (ed.), Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa. London: Frank Cass (pb-0 7146 8337 X). 2003, 192 pp. This collection contains nine diverse essays on aspects of nationhood and culture in countries of the Maghrib--namely,...

Rik Ceyssens, Le Roi Kanyok au milieu de quatre coins (Mwin Kanyok, makook' manaay).(Book review)
June 22, 2006... RIK CEYSSENS, Le Roi Kanyok au milieu de quatre coins (Mwin Kanyok, makook' manaay). Fribourg: Editions Universitaires (pb 0 226 30501 5). 2003, 576 pp. The sociologist Rik Ceyssens, who has taught and conducted research in the Congo for...

Jean-Claude Muller, Les Rites initiatiques des Dii de l'Adamaoua.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... JEAN-CLAUDE MULLER, Les Rites initiatiques des Dii de l'Adamaoua. Nanterre: Societe d'ethnologie (pb 22.50 [pounds sterling]-2 901161 52 9). 2002, 129 pp. The province of Adamawa in Cameroon was, until recently, little studied by...

Alma Gottlieb, The Afterlife is Where We Come From: the culture of infancy in West Africa.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... ALMA GOTTLIEB, The Afterlife Is Where life Come From: the culture of infancy in West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (pb $25.00-0 226 30502 3; hb 562.50-0 226 30501 5). 2004, 424 pp. Occasionally, one reads a book that is worth...

Karen Tranberg Hansen and Mariken Vaa (eds), Reconsidering Informality: perspectives from urban Africa.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... KAREN TRANBERG HANSEN and MARIKEN VAA (eds), Reconsidering Informality: perspectives from urban Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (pb SEK250, 16.95 [pounds sterling], 25 [euro]-91 7106 518 0). 2002, 240 pp. This volume brings...

Mike Oquaye, Politics in Ghana, 1982-1992: Rawlings, revolution and populist democracy.(Book review)
June 22, 2006... MIKE OQUAYE, Politics in Ghana, 1982-1992: Rawlings, revolution and populist democracy. Accra and New Delhi: Tornado Publications and Thomson Press India Ltd (pb 17.99 [pounds sterling]-9988 7868 1 6). 2004, 640 pp. When Jerry John...