Africa articles from September 2002

Africa archives from September 2002

Planning 'suburban bliss' in Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT Joe Slovo Park, a housing development in a white middle-class suburb of Cape Town, was designed to replace the shack settlement of Marconi Beam with an orderly working-class suburb. This article focuses on the vicissitudes of...

Wombs as God's laboratories: Pentecostal discourses of femininity in Zimbabwe.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT Studies of born-again Churches in Africa generally conclude that they help members embrace modernity. Their teachings provide the ideological bases for members to embrace changing material realities. Such studies are rather silent...

Environment, society and the state in western Eritrea.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between the environment, society and the state in the Gash-Setit region of western Eritrea. Through an analysis of the environmental narrative of the local communities and the state, it...

The religious conversion process among the Sidama of North-east Africa.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT This article analyses the conversion process and the experiences of the Sidama, in being proselytised by Protestant missionaries in an attempt to integrate them into the modernising Ethiopian state. The conversion process is...

The cognitive rationality of taboos on production and reproduction in sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT All over sub-saharan Africa, menstruating women, pregnant women and sexual relations are seen as incompatible with productive activities (hunting, blacksmithing, cattle herding, agriculture, pottery, beer brewing, etc.). The...

Richard Werbner (ed.), Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... London: Zed Books, 2002, 244 pp., 50.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85649 954 5 (hard covers), 15.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85649 955 3 (paperback). Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa--the third part in a trilogy of works presenting...

David Robinson, Paths of Accommodation: Muslim societies and French colonial authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2001, 340 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 458 3 (hard covers), 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 457 5 (paperback). Colonial conquest emerges here as an interactive...

Michael Barnett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: the United Nations and Rwanda.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, US$25.00, ISBN 0 8014 3883 7. Eyewitness to a Genocide is an international relations text that seeks to account for UN behaviour before, during and after the Rwandan genocide of April 1994. For...

Amy Stambach, Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: schooling, community and gender in East Africa.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 221 pp., 50.00 [pounds sterling] (US$80.00), ISBN 0 415 92582 7 (hard covers), 12.99 [pounds sterling] (US$21.95), ISBN 0 415 92583 5 (paperback). Amy Stambach presents an ethnography and analysis of...

Carolyn Jenkins and John Knight, The Economic Decline of Zimbabwe: neither growth nor equity.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002, 343 pp., 62.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 333 97027 6. Zimbabwe's economic collapse is a matter of record. Estimated GDP is down by 10 per cent and still falling; inflation has topped 150 per cent and is rising...

E. W. Muller, Kultur, Gesellschaft und Ethnologie. Aufsatze 1956-2000.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Munster, Hamburg and London: Lit Verlag, 2001, 384 pp. 65.90 [pounds sterling], ISBN 3 8258 4326 2 (hard covers), 40.90 [euro], ISBN 3 8258 4325 4 (paperback). In this intriguing and incisive series of essays that span more than thirty...