Africa articles from September 2001

Africa archives from September 2001

By the sweat of their brow? `Street children', NGOs and children's rights in Addis Ababa.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT In the past two decades NGOs helping `street children' in Addis Ababa have distinguished themselves by their adherence to highly controversial assumptions about the nature of childhood and the failure of the poor to raise their...

`Voodoo' on the doorstep young Nigerian prostitutes and magic policing in the Netherlands.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT This article deals with the moral panic that emerged in the Netherlands when it became publicly known that under-age Nigerian girls were being smuggled into the country to be put to `work' in the sex industry. A massive police...

`The arrow of God' pentecostalism, inequality, and the supernatural in South-Eastern Nigeria.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT In September 1996 the city of Owerri in south-eastern Nigeria erupted in riots over popular suspicion that the town's nouveaux riches were responsible for a spate of ritual murders allegedly committed in the pursuit of `fast...

There are many Kongo worlds particularities of magico-religious beliefs among the Vili and Yombe of Congo-Brazzaville.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT The article analyses the distinctiveness of magico-religious practices in the north-western sector of the vast Kongo cultural complex, namely among the peoples who refer to themselves as Vili and Yombe. On the basis of fieldwork...

Africa's `last wilderness' reordering space for political and economic in colonial Tanzania.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT Focusing on south-eastern Tanzania, this article explores the colonial state's spatial strategies for economic and political control of its citizenry and their concurrence with strategies to control and conserve nature. Analysing...

Urban agriculture in Mwanza, Tanzania.
September 22, 2001... ABSTRACT Many people living in Mwanza, Tanzania, provision themselves through urban agriculture--the planting of crops and raising of animals in urban and peri-urban areas, as well as in the countryside. This article compares Mwanza's...

David Anderson and Richard Rathbone (eds), Africa's Urban Past.
September 22, 2001... DAVID ANDERSON and RICHARD RATHBONE (eds), Africa's Urban Past. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2000, 320 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 761 2 (hard covers), 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 760 4 (paperback)....

Susan Keech Mcintosh (ed.), Beyond Chiefdoms: pathways to complexity in Africa.
September 22, 2001... SUSAN KEECH MCINTOSH (ed.), Beyond Chiefdoms: pathways to complexity in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 176 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 521 63074 6 This book addresses the pervasiveness of intellectual biases and...

David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas.
September 22, 2001... DAVID ELTIS, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 368 pp., 37.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 65231 6 (hard covers), 13.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 65548 X (paperback). This...

Diane Frost, Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century.
September 22, 2001... DIANE FROST, Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999, 32.00 [pounds sterling], 278 pp., ISBN 0 85323 523 6 (hard covers), 15.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0...

Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed, A History of the Church in Africa.
September 22, 2001... BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED, A History of the Church in Africa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 1,252 pp., 95.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 58342 X. All students of Christianity in Africa, and many Africanists more...

Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels (eds), The History of Islam in Africa.
September 22, 2001... NEHEMIA LEVTZION and RANDALL L. POUWELS (eds), The History of Islam in Africa. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2000, 592 pp., US$75.00, ISBN 0 8214 1296 5 (hard covers), $26.95, 0 8214 1297 3...

Carola Lentz and Paul Nugent (eds), Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention.
September 22, 2001... CAROLA LENTZ and PAUL NUGENT (eds), Ethnicity in Ghana: the limits of invention. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000, 256 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling] (US$65.00), ISBN 0 333 73323 1. Ghana has experienced relatively little in the way of violent...

Roger S. Gocking, Facing Two Ways: Ghana's coastal communities under colonial rule.
September 22, 2001... ROGER S. GOCKING, Facing Two Ways: Ghana's coastal communities under colonial rule. Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1999, 326 pp., US$47.00, ISBN 0 7618 1354 3. This study represents the culmination of twenty-five years' research...

Gerard Chouin, Eguafo: un royaume africain "au coeur francois" (1637-1688): mutations socio-economiques et politique europeen d'un Etat de la Cote de l'Or (Ghana) au XVII siecle.
September 22, 2001... GERARD CHOUIN, Eguafo : un royaume africain "au coeur francois" (1637-1688): mutations socio-economiques et politique europeen d'un Etat de la Cote de l'Or (Ghana) au XVII siecle. Paris: Aftra, 1998, 280 pp., FF 140.00, ISBN 2 910707 02 9...

John C. McCall, Dancing Histories: heuristic ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo.
September 22, 2001... JOHN C. MCCALL, Dancing Histories: heuristic ethnography with the Ohafia Igbo. Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 2000, 216 pp., US$42.50, ISBN 0 472 11070 5. Ohafia is famous in the history of Igboland. Its men were the warriors...

Roy Willis, Some Spirits Heal, Others only Dance: a journey into human selfhood in an African village.
September 22, 2001... Roy WILLIS, Some Spirits Heal, Others only Dance: a journey into human selfhood in an African village. Oxford: Berg, 1999, 220 pp., 42.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85973 283 6 (hard covers), 14.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85973 288 7...

Andreas Eckert, Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel. Douala 1880 bis 1960.
September 22, 2001... ANDREAS ECKERT, Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel. Douala 1880 bis 1960. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, 504 pp., DM 144.00, ISBN 3 515 06777 9 (paperback). Andreas Eckert's book is about a fascinating piece of history: the role...

Robert Ross, Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: a tragedy of manners.
September 22, 2001... ROBERT ROSS, Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: a tragedy of manners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 203 pp., 35.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 521 62122 4. Robert Ross has written prolifically on many...

Anne Kelk Mager, Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: a social history of the Ciskei, 1945-59.
September 22, 2001... ANNE KELK MAGER, Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: a social history of the Ciskei, 1945-59. Social History of Africa series. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David Philip, 1999, 248 pp., 40.00 [pounds...

Jan-Bart Gewald, Herero Heroes: a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923.
September 22, 2001... JAN-BART GEWALD, Herero Heroes: a socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia, 1890-1923. Oxford: James Currey, 1999, 320 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 754 X (hard covers), 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 749 3...

Paulus Gerdes, Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa.
September 22, 2001... PAULUS GERDES, Women, Art and Geometry in Southern Africa. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 1999, 244 pp., 14.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85643 602 9 (paperback). This book has as its main objective `to call attention to some mathematical...

Barbara Sorgoni, Words and Bodies: anthropology, legal discourses and interracial sex policies in Eritrea.
September 22, 2001... BARBARA SORGONI, Parole e corpi: antropologia, discorso giuridico e politiche sessuali interraziali nella colonia Eritrea, 1890-1941 [Words and Bodies: anthropology, legal discourses and interracial sex policies in Eritrea]. Naples: Liguori,...

Lidwien Kapteijns with Maryan Omar Ali, Women's Voices in a Man's World: women and the pastoral tradition in northern Somali orature, c. 1899-1980.
September 22, 2001... LIDWIEN KAPTEIJNS with MARYAN OMAR ALI, Women's Voices in a Man's World: women and the pastoral tradition in northern Somali orature, c. 1899-1980. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 1999, 248 pp., US$59.95, ISBN 0 325 00136 7 (hard covers), US$24.00,...

I. M. Lewis, A Pastoral Democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, third edition.
September 22, 2001... I. M. LEWIS, A Pastoral Democracy: a study of pastoralism and politics among the northern Somali of the Horn of Africa, third edition. Classics in African Anthropology series. Oxford: James Currey, with the International African Institute,...

Clark C. Gibson, Politicians and Poachers: the political economy of wildlife policy in Africa.
September 22, 2001... CLARK C. GIBSON, Politicians and Poachers: the political economy of wildlife policy in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 245 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling] (US$59.99), ISBN 0 521 62385 5 (hard covers), 14.95 [pounds sterling]...

Lennart Wohlgemuth, Samantha Gibson, Stephan Klasen and Emma Rothschild (eds), Common Security and Civil Society in Africa.
September 22, 2001... LENNART WOHLGEMUTH, SAMANTHA GIBSON, STEPHAN KLASEN and EMMA ROTHSCHILD (eds), Common Security and Civil Society in Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999, 216 pp., 19.95 [pounds sterling] (SEK 260.00), ISBN 91 7106 450 8. ...

Books received.(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2001... Banham, Martin, Gibbs, James, and Osofisan, Femi (eds), African theatre in Development. Oxford: James Currey, 1999, 182 pp., 35.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 954 61 (hard covers), 11.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 599 7 (paperback)....