Africa articles from September 2003

Africa archives from September 2003

Forgetful remembering: a colonial life in the Congo.(Column)
September 22, 2003... MEMORY: REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING ABSTRACT Social memory, cultural memory, culture as memory, and memory as culture, landscape and memory, places of memory, regimes of memory--all these have been prominent topics in cultural studies,...

Remembering J. M. Stuart-Young of Onitsha, colonial Nigeria: memoirs, obituaries and names.(obituary)(Obituary)
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT Colonial Onitsha provided the stage for John Moray Stuart-Young (1881-1939), a Manchester trader and poet, to perform the role of an educated gentleman. In his autobiographical writing, Stuart-Young created a host of famous...

Money and death: funeral business in Asante, Ghana.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT This article examines the current commercialisation and expansion of Asante funeral celebrations in Ghana. Funerals have always been the main public social events in Asante, but the growing funeral business significantly alters...

Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the stranger's beauty in Botswana.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT This contribution considers the current position of the Ghanaian migrant community in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, at a time of rising xenophobic sentiments and increasing ethnic tensions among the general public. The article...

Patriarchies, prophets, and procreation: sources of gender practices in three African churches.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT The Celestial Church of Christ, the Christ Apostolic Church, and the Church of the Lord (Aladura) are indigenous churches, which share the selective blending of Christian and Yoruba religious traditions; however, their gender...

The talk goes outside: argument, privacy and power in Mambila society towards a sociology of embedded praxis.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT In this paper the sociological implications of loud argument are considered, by taking a case study from the Mambila in Cameroon. Meetings of rotating credit societies are non-traditional forums where power and status are in...

Carol Summers, Colonial Lessons: Africans' education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940.(Michael O. West, The Rise of an African Middle Class: colonial Zimbabwe, 1898-1965)(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... CAROL SUMMERS, Colonial Lessons: Africans' education in Southern Rhodesia, 1918-1940. Oxford: James Currey, 2002, 212 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 953 4 (hard covers), 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 952 6 (paperback). ...

David Maxwell (ed.) with Ingrid Lawrie, Christianity and the African Imagination: essays in honour of Adrian Hastings.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... DAVID MAXWELL (ed.) with Ingrid Lawrie, Christianity and the African Imagination: essays in honour of Adrian Hastings. Studies of Religion in Africa, 23. Leiden: Brill, 2002, 421 pp, 75.00[euro] (US$94.00), ISBN 90 04 11668 0 (hardback). ...

Justin Willis, Potent Brews: a social history of alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... JUSTIN WILLIS, Potent Brews: a social history of alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999. Oxford: James Currey, 2002, 304 pp., 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 471 0 (hard covers), 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 470 2 (paperback). ...

Cynthia Brantley, Feeding Families: African realities and British ideas of nutrition and development in early colonial Africa.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... CYNTHIA BRANTLEY, Feeding Families: African realities and British ideas of nutrition and development in early colonial Africa. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann. 2002, pp. 248, US$64.95, ISBN 0 325 07081 4 (hard covers), US$24.95, ISBN 0 325 07080 6...

Beatrix Heintze, Afrikanische Pioniere: Tragerkarawanen im westlichen Zentralafrika.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... BEATRIX HEINTZE, Afrikanische l"h'oniere: Trdgerkarawanen im westlichen Zentralafrika. Frankfurt am Main: Otto Lembeck Verlag, 2002, 319 pp., 25 [euro], ISBN 3 87476 410 9 (paperback). Beatrix Heintze's Afrikanische Pioniere invites its...

Myron Echenberg, Black Death, White Medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... MYRON ECHENBERG, Black Death, White Medicine: bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann Press; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2002, 328 pp., US$69.95, ISBN 0 325...

Thomas J. Bassett and Donald Crummey (eds), African Savannas: global narratives and local knowledge of environmental change.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... THOMAS J. BASSETT and DONALD CRUMMEY (eds), African Savannas: global narratives and local knowledge of environmental change. Oxford: James Currey, 2003, 270 pp., 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 424 9 (paperback). What part do...

Henning Melber (ed.), Zimbabwe's Presidential Elections 2002: evidence, lessons, implications.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... HENNING MELBER (ed.), Zimbabwe's Presidential Elections 2002: evidence, lessons, implications. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Discussion Paper 14, 2002, 88 pp., 7.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 91 7106 490 7 (paperback). This short booklet, part of...

Mark Shaw, Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa: transforming under fire.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... MARK SHAW, Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa: transforming under fire. London: Hurst & Company, 2002, 169 pp., 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 85065 399 2 (hard covers), 14.95 [pounds sterling], 1 85065 418 2 (paperback). ...

Barbara Trudell, Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Paul Nugent (eds), Africa's Young Majority.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... BARBARA TRUDELL, KENNETH KING, SIMON MCGRATH and PAUL NUGENT (eds), Africa's Young Majority. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2002, 342 pp., 19.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 9527917 7 3 (paperback). This volume...

Roger Botte, Jean Boutrais and Jean Schmitz (eds), Figures peules.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... ROGER BOTTE, JEAN BOUTRAIS and JEAN SCHMITZ (eds), Figures peules. Paris: Karthala, 1999, 539 pp., 29.00 [euro], ISBN 2 86537 983 3 (paperback). As a field of study, the Fulfie have a long history, dating back to the time European...

Gerhard Muller-Kosack, The Way of the Beer: ritual re-enactment of history among the Mafa, terrace farmers of the Mandara mountains (North Cameroon).(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... GERHARD MULLER-KOSACK, The Way of the Beer: ritual re-enactment of history among the Mafa, terrace farmers of the Mandara mountains (North Cameroon). London: Mandaras Publishing, 2003, 408 pp., 10.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 9544730 0 0...

Laray Denzer, Folayegbe M. Akintunde-Ighodalo: a public life.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... LARAY DENZER, Folayegbe M. Akintunde-Ighodalo: a public life. Ibadan: Sam Bookman Publishers, 2001, 329 pp., ISBN 978 048 012 9 (hard covers), ISBN 978 048 005 6 (paperback). The 1990s were a particularly memorable period for Nigeria, then...