Africa articles from March 2001

Africa archives from March 2001

MARKETS IN AFRICA IN A NEW ERA.
March 22, 2001... The following articles are all authored by scholars who started out their research careers on African economies in the latter half of the 1990s. They had an unusual opportunity. The world they were studying posed new logistical challenges to...

BORDER ZONE TRADE AND THE ECONOMIC BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE IN NORTH-EAST GHANA.
March 22, 2001... For the concept of society as a closed unit, a sort of thing distinguishable from like things in the same way as one house from another or one animal from another, we must substitute the concept of society as a socio-geographic region. We must...

SECRETS OF SUCCESS UNCERTAINTY, PROFITS AND PROSPERITY IN THE GARI ECONOMY OF IBADAN, 1992-94.
March 22, 2001... Over the last fifteen years the gari supply system for the great urban centres of south-western Nigeria (Lagos, Ibadan, Abeokuta and many smaller towns) has been constituted and refined into a major sector of the urban food market. Its growth...

THE POLITICS OF LAND ACQUISITION AND STRUGGLES OVER LAND IN THE `COMMUNAL' AREAS OF ZIMBABWE: THE GOKWE REGION IN THE 1980s AND 1990s.
March 22, 2001... For a long time historical writings on agrarian differentiation in Zimbabwe focused on the racial division of land and on inequalities between white commercial farmers and an increasingly marginalised subsistence sector; the rural population...

REVIVING THE DEAD: ENTANGLED HISTORIES IN THE PRIVATISATION OF THE TANZANIAN SISAL INDUSTRY.
March 22, 2001... How do histories shape the way people map their present and envision the future, especially at a moment of rapid political, economic and social transformation like that associated with the shift from socialism to liberal market economy/polity...

Bodies and Persons: comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia.(Review)
March 22, 2001... MICHAEL LAMBEK and ANDREW STRATHERN (eds), Bodies and Persons: comparative perspectives from Africa and Melanesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, 311 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 521 62194 1 (hard covers), 15.00 [pounds...

Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500-1500 BC: the archaeological discovery of an ancient Nubian empire.(Review)
March 22, 2001... TIMOTHY KENDALL, Kerma and the Kingdom of Kush, 2500-1500 BC: the archaeological discovery of an ancient Nubian empire. Washington DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1997, 142 pp., US$29.95, ISBN 0 9656001 0 6. ...

Mapping Intersections: African literature and Africa's development.(Review)
March 22, 2001... ANNE V. ADAMS and JANIS A. MAYES (eds), Mapping Intersections: African literature and Africa's development. African Literature Association 2. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1998, 316 pp., US$40.00, ISBN 0 86543 633 9 (hard covers), US$19.95,...

South Africa in Transition: the misunderstood miracle.(Review)
March 22, 2001... ADRIAN GUELKE, South Africa in Transition: the misunderstood miracle. London: Tauris, 1999, 224 pp., 39.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 86064 343 4. South African politics are indeed complex and much has been written on them, often more...

From Obscurity to Bright Dawn: how Nyasaland became Malawi: an insider's account.(Review)
March 22, 2001... HENRY PHILLIPS, From Obscurity to Bright Dawn: how Nyasaland became Malawi: an insider's account. London: Radcliffe Press, 1998, 252 pp., 24.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 86064 248 9. Beginning in 1946 with his appointment as assistant...

Angola's Last Best Chance for Peace: an insider's account of the peace process.(Review)
March 22, 2001... PAUL HARE, Angola's Last Best Chance for Peace: an insider's account of the peace process. Washington DC: US Institute of Peace Press, 1998, 165 pp., US$14.95, ISBN 1 878379 80 1. In the light of the recent devastating return of conflict to...

`A Job, A Shop, and Loving Business'.(Review)
March 22, 2001... VERONICA FUEST, `A job, a shop, and loving business'. Lebensweisen gebildeter Frauen in Liberia. Gottinger Studien zur Ethnologie 1. Munster: Lit Verlag, 1996, 246 pp., DM 48.80, ISBN 3 8258 2644 9. Central to Veronika Fuest's most...

Mau Mau's Daughter: a life history.(Review)
March 22, 2001... WAMBUI WAIYAKI OTIENO, Mau Mau's Daughter: a life history, ed. Cora Ann Presley. Boulder CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 1998, 255 pp., 39.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 55587 722 2. The scarcity of diaries or autobiographies is one of the...

Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy.(Review)
March 22, 2001... ASAFA JALATA (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press, 1998, 313 pp., US$44.00, ISBN 1 56902 065 5 (hard covers), US$24.95, ISBN 1 56902 066 3 (paperback). ...

Marxist Modern: an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution.(Review)
March 22, 2001... DONALD L. DONHAM, Marxist Modern: an ethnographic history of the Ethiopian revolution. Oxford: James Currey; Berkeley and Los Angeles CA: University of California Press, 1999, 284 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 2645 (hard covers),...

Ethiopia: traditions of creativity.(Review)
March 22, 2001... RAYMOND SILVERMAN (ed.), Ethiopia: traditions of creativity. Seattle WA and London: University of Washington Press, 1999, 308 pp., US$40.00, ISBN 0 295 97740 X. All the essays in this excellent collection take their tone and direction from...

Mauritius, an island of success: a retrospective study 1960-93.(Review)
March 22, 2001... EDWARD and BRIDGET DOMMEN, Mauritius, an island of success: a retrospective study, 1960-93. Oxford: James Currey, 1999, 100 pp., 9.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 160 6. In the capitalist mode of production there is one thing worse for...

Lethal Aid: the illusion of socialism and self-reliance in Tanzania.(Review)
March 22, 2001... SEVERINE M. RUGUMAMU, Lethal Aid: the illusion of socialism and self-reliance in Tanzania. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1997, 325 pp., 14.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 86543 513 8. `If several respectable studies have already concluded...

Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji District, c. 1870-1986.(Review)
March 22, 2001... MATTHEW LOCKWOOD, Fertility and Household Labour in Tanzania: demography, economy, and society in Rufiji District, c. 1870-1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, 35.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 19 828752 4. Matthew Lockwood's book...

Diversification and Accumulation in Rural Tanzania: anthropological perspectives on village economics.(Review)
March 22, 2001... PEKKA SEPPALA, Diversification and Accumulation in Rural Tanzania: anthropological perspectives on village economics. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 243 pp., SEK 220.00, ISBN 91 7106 427 3. Pekka Seppala's book is a new...

Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal.(Review)
March 22, 2001... BENNO NDULU, NICOLAS VAN DE WALLE et al., Agenda for Africa's Economic Renewal. US--Third World Policy Perspectives 21. Washington DC: Overseas Development Council, 1996, 246 pp., 32.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 56000 280 8. By the second...