Africa articles from March 2004

Africa archives from March 2004

The transfer of trust: ethnicities as economic institutions in the livestock trade in West and East Africa.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT This article explores the role of ethnic identity in the framework of the livestock trade in West and East Africa. It argues that ethnic identity was used as an instrument to build trust relationships that were vital to the...

Gold trading networks and the creation of trust: a case study from Northern Benin.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT The paper provides insights into an illicit trading system and explores the logics that contribute to its proliferation. It joins the literature on informal trading networks and revises conventional wisdom about what is necessary...

The internal dynamics of ethnicity: clan names, origins and castes in Southern Zimbabwe.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT Since the late 1960s, researchers have primarily regarded ethnicity as the result of increasing international relations, and thus often as a comparative phenomenon. Although this research has been immensely important for its...

Marginalisation of the Waata Oromo hunter-gatherers of Kenya: insider and outsider perspectives.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT This paper examines how the way of life of a little known group of hunter-gatherers, the Waata Oromo, was brought to an end through British colonial wildlife conservation laws and the creation of national parks in Kenya. Through...

Gendered ritual dualism in a patrilineal society: opposition and complementarity in Kulere fertility cults.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT Although a favourable position for women is usually anticipated where they occupy important economic roles in the context of matrilineal descent, such a position may well exist in a patrilineal society, especially if women...

Transacting Obasinjom: the dissemination of a cult agency in the Cross River area.
March 22, 2004... ABSTRACT During the twentieth century, Obasinjom became one of the best known and most effective cult agencies in the Cross River area of Cameroon and Nigeria. This paper aims at reconstructing the history of Obasinjom and some of its...

Trains, coal, and industrial labour.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JAMES A. JONES, Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: workers of the Chemin de Fer Dakar-Niger, 1881-1963. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (hard covers US$59.95, ISBN 0 325 07089 X). 2002, 184 pp. AHMAD ALAWAD SIKAINGA, City of Steel and Fire: a...

Jock McCulloch, Asbestos Blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JOCK MCCULLOCH, Asbestos Blues: labour, capital, physicians and the state in South Africa. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 12.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 862 7; hard covers 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 863 5); Bloomington:...

Andrew Burton (ed.), The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa c.1750-2000.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... ANDREW BURTON (ed.), The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa c.1750-2000. Nairobi: British Institute in Eastern Africa (paperback KSh 1,600, 15.00 [pounds sterling], US$24.00, ISBN 1 872566 26 X). 2002, 264 pp. Burton's edited collection on...

Rosalind Shaw, Memories of the Slave Trade: ritual and the historical imagination in Sierra Leone.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... ROSALIND SHAW, Memories of the Slave Trade: ritual and the historical imagination in Sierra Leone. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press (hard covers US$52.00, 36.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 226 75131 7; paperback US$21.00, 15.00...

Toyin Falola (ed.), Africa (volume 4): the end of colonial rule, nationalism and decolonization.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... TOYIN FALOLA (ed.), Africa (volume 4): the end of colonial rule, nationalism and decolonization. Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press (paperback US$45.00, 26.92 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 89089 202 4). 2002, 541 pp. African history is still...

Jan-Georg Deutsch, Peter Probst and Heike Schmidt, African Modernities: entangled meanings in current debate.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH, PETER PROBST and HEIKE SCHMIDT, African Modernities: entangled meanings in current debate. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 792 2; hard covers 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 793 0);...

Osaak A. Olumwullah, Dis-ease in the Colonial State: medicine, society and social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... OSAAK A. OLUMWULLAH, Dis-ease in the Colonial State: medicine, society and social change among the AbaNyole of Western Kenya. Westport CT: Greenwood Press (hard covers US$64.95, 44.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 313 32003 9). 2002, 336 pp. ...

Clive Glaser, Bo-Tsotsi: the youth gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... CLIVE GLASER, Bo-Tsotsi: the youth gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (paperback US$24.95, ISBN 0 325 00218 5; hard covers US$65.00, ISBN 0 325 00219 3); Oxford: James Currey (paperback 17.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255...

Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners: biography of a people.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... HERMANN GILIOMEE, The Afrikaners: biography of a people. London: Hurst & Company (paperback 19.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85065 714 9). 2003, 698 pp. Ten years in the writing, and based on a lifetime's research, Hermann Giliomee's...

Debie Lebeau and Robert J. Gordon (eds), Challenges for Anthropology in the 'African Renaissance': a Southern African contribution.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... DEBIE LEBEAU and ROBERT J. GORDON (eds), Challenges for Anthropology in the 'African Renaissance': a Southern African contribution. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press (paperback 23.95 [pounds sterling], US$39.95, ISBN 99916 59 42 0),...

Thomas Widlok, Living on Mangetti: 'Bushman' autonomy and Namibian independence.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... THOMAS WIDLOK, Living on Mangetti: 'Bushman' autonomy and Namibian independence. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hardback 58.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 19 823389 2). 1999, 291 pp. Although the object of early twentieth-century...

Shelagh Willet, The Khoe and San: an annotated bibliography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... SHELAGH WILLET, The Khoe and San: an annotated bibliography. Vol. 2. Gaborone: Lightbooks (ISBN 99912 71 32 5). 2002, 124 pp. The first volume of this annotated bibliography, by Shelagh Willet, Stella Monageng, Sidsel Saugestad and Janet...

Susan Kent (ed.), Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers and the 'Other': association or assimilation in Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... SUSAN KENT (ed.), Ethnicity, Hunter-Gatherers and the 'Other': association or assimilation in Africa. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press (hard covers US$48.00, 42.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 58834 060 0). 2003, 360 pp. ...

Carolyn Hamilton, Verne Harris, Jane Taylor, Michele Pickover, Graeme Reid and Razia Saleh (eds), Refiguring the Archive.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... CAROLYN HAMILTON, VERNE HARRIS, JANE TAYLOR, MICHELE PICKOVER, GRAEME REID and RAZIA SALEH (eds), Refiguring the Archive. Cape Town: David Philip (hard covers R 240, ISBN 0 86486 507 4); Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (hard covers 106.00...

Jonathan Crush and David A. McDonald (eds), Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... JONATHAN CRUSH and DAVID A. MCDONALD (eds), Transnationalism and New African Immigration to South Africa. Toronto: Southern African Migration Project & Canadian Association of African Studies (CDNS30.00, ISBN 0 88911 926 0). 2002, 188 pp. ...

Stefano Ponte, Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: how policy reforms affect rural livelihoods in Africa.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... STEFANO PONTE, Farmers and Markets in Tanzania: how policy reforms affect rural livelihoods in Africa. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 17.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 168 1; hard covers 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 169 X); Dar es...

Gabriel Warburg, Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... GABRIEL WARBURG, Islam, Sectarianism and Politics in Sudan since the Mahdiyya. London: C. Hurst & Co (paperback 19.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85065 590 1; hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85065 588 X); Madison: University of...

Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed, Anthropology in the Sudan: reflections by a Sudanese anthropologist.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... ABDEL GHAFFAR M. AHMED, Anthropology in the Sudan: reflections by a Sudanese anthropologist. Utrecht: International Books, in association with OSSREA (paperback 29.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 90 5727 044 7). 2002, 192 pp. This book brings...

Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. London: International African Institute; Oxford: James Currey; Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Kampala: Fountain Publishers (paperback 12.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 392...

Omar A. Touray, The Gambia and the World: a history of the foreign policy of Africa's smallest state, 1965-1995.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... OMAR A. TOURAY, The Gambia and the World: a history of the foreign policy of Africa's smallest state, 1965-1995. Hamburg: Institut fur Afrika-Kunde (paperback 16.00 [euro], ISBN 3 928049 66 6). 2000, 209 pp. It would be a pity if this...

Francis M. Deng and I. William Zartman, A Strategic Vision for Africa: the Kampala Movement.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... FRANCIS M. DENG and I. WILLIAM ZARTMAN, A Strategic Vision for Africa: the Kampala Movement. Washington DC: Brookings Institution (paperback US819.95, ISBN 0 8157 0265 5; hard covers US$46.95, ISBN 0 8157 0264 7). 2002, 198 pp. Deng and...