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A scholarly journal devoted to the study of African societies and cultures. Editorial emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary approach to African studies by the inclusion of topics in social sciences, history, the environment, and life sciences. Each i
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Africa archives from September 1998
Style in modern Nigerian art music: the pioneering works of Fela Sowande.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT
The Nigerian musical landscape changed significantly following the advent of Christian missionary activity and British colonial administration in the later nineteenth century. New idioms of musical practice which have evolved as a...
African history and imperial culture in colonial Nigerian schools.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT
Evaluations of colonial education policy tend to treat it as a tool for applying imperial ideology, which--among other things--denied the Africans their past. This study of the debate about history education in southern Nigeria in...
The colonial encapsulation of the northwestern Namibian pastoral economy.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT
The inhabitants of Kaokoland, Himba and Hereto, have recently gained prominence in the discussions concerning a controversial hydro-electric power scheme in their region. They are depicted as southern Africa's `most traditional...
Communal tenure in Zimbabwe: divergent models of collective land holding in the communal areas.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT
This article discusses the historical construction of land tenure patterns in the Communal Areas of Zimbabwe, previously the Reserves of colonial Rhodesia. In many respects the form of communal tenure found in the Communal Areas...
Locating the politics of a Sierra Leonean chiefdom.
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT
The chiefdoms of Sierra Leone are institutions of colonial origin but nevertheless continue to serve as local government units in the post-colonial state. The prevailing view among scholars is that these institutions have little...
Violence and the war of words: ethnicity v. nationalism in the Casamance.(Senegal)
September 22, 1998... ABSTRACT
Since 1982 the Mouvement des forces democratique casamancais has been fighting for the independence of the Casamance region of Senegal. In 1989, when the Mouvement initiated a sustained military campaign, Senegal's official and...
Reconciliation Through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance.(Review)
September 22, 1998... KADER ASMAL, LOUISE ASMAL and RONALD SURESH ROBERTS, Reconciliation through Truth: a reckoning of apartheid's criminal governance, second edition. Cape Town: David Philip; Oxford: James Currey; New York: St Martin's Press, 1997, 231 pp., 35.00...
La France dans l'Afrique de l'apres-guerre froide.(Review)
September 22, 1998... INGER OSTERDAHL, La France dans l'Afrique de l'apres-guerre froide. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997, 87 pp., 8.95[pounds sterling], ISBN 91 7106 4109.
Pour qui ne se serait pas arrete sur la quatrieme de couverture ou la table des...
The History of the Nigerian Railway.(Review)
September 22, 1998... FRANCIS JAEKEL, The History of the Nigerian Railway, three volumes (not sold separately). Ibadan: Spectrum Books, for Diamond Bank, 1997, 125.00[pounds sterling]. Vol. I, Opening the Nation to Sea, Air and Road Transportation, 236 pp., ISBN 978...
Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land and Agricultural Development in Arusha and Meru.(Review)
September 22, 1998... THOMAS SPEAR, Mountain Farmers: moral economies of land and agricultural development in Arusha and Meru. Oxford: James Currey, 1997, 262 pp., 40 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 736 1 hard covers, 14.95[pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 737 X...
The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast.(Review)
September 22, 1998... KATHRYN FIRMIN-SELLERS, The Transformation of Property Rights in the Gold Coast. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 200 pp., 35 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 55503 5.
Scholarly explanation of continuing economic underdevelopment...
Policy Implications on Environment: The Case of Villagisation in Tanzania.(Review)
September 22, 1998... IDRIS S. KIKULA Policy Implications on Environment: the case of villagisation in Tanzania. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1997, 237 pp., 19.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 91 7106 405 2.
Professor Kikula has written an excellent volume...
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.(Review)
September 22, 1998... RICHARD ANDREW LOBBAN, JNR, and PETER KARIBE MENDY, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, third edition. African Historical Dictionaries 22, Lanham, Md, and London: Scarecrow Press, 1997, 432 pp., $79.00, ISBN 0 8108 3226 7....
Protecting Human Rights in Africa: Strategies and Roles of Non-Governmental Organisations.(Review)
September 22, 1998... CLAUDE E. WELCH, JNR, Protecting Human Rights in Africa: strategies and roles of non-governmental organisations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996, 356 pp., 37.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 8122 3330 1.
It is early...
BOOK NOTES.(Review)
September 22, 1998... BILL FREUND, The Making of Contemporary Africa: the development of African Society since 1800, second edition. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998, 352 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 333 69871 1 hard covers; 14.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 333...