Africa articles from September 2004

Africa archives from September 2004

Visible and invisible differences: the Somali paradox.
September 22, 2004... THE COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL FRAMEWORK FOR ETHNICITY IN AFRICA Generally, Africa's colonial and post-colonial states share two striking structural features that are often insufficiently emphasised in discussions about their stability....

Differences that matter: the struggle of the marginalised in Somalia.
September 22, 2004... A NATION WITHOUT A STATE In many African states, ethnicity has been considered as a major obstacle to modern state-building causing political instability and violent conflict. In Somalia, political observers and analysts were more...

The political ecology of colonial Somaliland.
September 22, 2004... In Africa, generally speaking, scholars draw a link between ecological degradation, food crisis, poverty and famine, which they explore either by reconstructing 'historical climate' (long-term climatic changes and the consequential changes in...

In-migrants and exclusion in east African rangelands: access, tenure and conflict.
September 22, 2004... East African rangelands, though limited by aridity and seasonality, are fertile areas supporting major livestock production systems, spectacular wildlife populations, and, increasingly, smallholder and large-scale commercial farming. While they...

'Decentralised there, centralised here': local governance and paradoxes of household autonomy and control in north-east Ethiopia, 1991-2001.
September 22, 2004... On 28 May 1991, a coalition of insurgent movements calling itself the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) captured Addis Ababa. (1) It did so after nearly two decades of rural-based guerrilla warfare waged against the...

Intercultural creativity in Joshua Uzoigwe's music.(Biography)
September 22, 2004... The history of art music in Nigeria is shaped by several related experiences through contact with two domineering forces, the Christian church and colonisation. The establishment of the Christian mission in Nigeria as far back as the 1840s...

Eldridge Mohammadou 15 January 1934-18 February 2004.(Scholors)(Obituary)
September 22, 2004... Eldridge Mohammadou's body was returned from Nigeria to Cameroon--for a funeral on 29 April 2004 which took place more than two months after his death in Maiduguri. Protective of his privacy to the last, Eldridge had refused medical treatment...

The World Bank on land policies: a west African look at the World Bank Policy Research Report.(Policy Research Report, Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction)
September 22, 2004... After an intense preparation lasting more than two years, after four regional workshops (in Hungary, Cambodia, Uganda, and Mexico), and an electronic conference at the beginning of 2003, the World Bank recently published its Policy Research...

Stefano Boni, Le strutture della disuguaglianza: capi, appartenenze e gerarchie nel mondo Akan dell'Africa occidentale.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... STEFANO BONI, Le strutture della disuguaglianza: capi, appartenenze e gerarchie nel mondo Akan dell'Africa occidentale. Milano: Franco Angeli (paperack 24.00 [euro], ISBN 88 464 4700 X). 2003, 303 pp. The title ('The structures of...

Sylviane A. Diouf (ed.), Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... SYLVIANE A. DIOUF (ed.), Fighting the Slave Trade: West African strategies. Oxford: James Currey (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 448 6; paperback 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 447 8); Athens: Ohio University Press...

Thorsten Altena, Ein Hauflein Christen mitten in der Heidenwelt des dunklen Erdteils. Zum Selbst- und Fremdverstandnis protestantischer Missionare im kolonialen Afrika 1884-1918.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... THORSTEN ALTENA, "Ein Hauflein Christen mitten in der Heidenwelt des dunklen Erdteils'. Zum Selbst- und Fremdverstandnis protestantischer Missionare im kolonialen Afrika 1884-1918. Munster and New York: Waxmann (44.90 [euro], ISBN 3 8309 1199...

Adam Jones (ed.), Transculturation: mission and modernity in Africa.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... ADAM JONES (ed.), Transculturation: mission and modernity in Africa. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa, Mission Archives Series No. 22. Leipzig: Institut fur Afrikanistik (12.00 [euro], ISBN 3 935999 14 3). 2003, 80 pp. This...

Stefania Capone (ed.), Religions Transnationales.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... STEFANIA CAPONE (ed.), Religions Transnationales. (Civilisations, vol. LI, no. 1-2). Bruxelles: Institut de sociologie, Universite libre de Bruxelles (30.00 [euro], ISSN 0009 8140). 2004, 223 pp. Transnational religion is, it seems, an area...

Maia Green, Priests, Witches and Power: Popular Christianity After Mission in Southern Tanzania.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... MAIA GREEN, Priests, Witches and Power: popular Christianity after mission in Southern Tanzania. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 40 [pounds sterling], US$60, ISBN 0 521 62189 5). 2003, 180 pp. Maia Green carried out...

Thomas J. Bassett, The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire 1880-1995.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... THOMAS J. BASSETT, The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire 1880-1995. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 47.50 [pounds sterling], US$65.00, ISBN 0 521 78313 5). 2001, 266 pp. Since the early 1960s, Cote...

Richard Kuba, Carola Lentz and Claude Nurukyor Somda (eds), Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... RICHARD KUBA, CAROLA LENTZ and CLAUDE NURUKYOR SOMDA (eds), Histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso. Paris: Karthala (25 [euro], ISBN 2 84586 459 0). 2004, 290 pp. The past appears to be one of the most important...

Toyin Falola and Barbara Harlow (eds), African Writers and Their Readers: Essays in Honor of Bernth Lindfors, vol. 2.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... TOYIN FALOLA and BARBARA HARLOW (eds), African Writers and Their Readers: essays in honor of Bernth Lindfors Vol II. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (paperback US$34.95, 24.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 86543 860 9). 2002, 542 pp. ...

Biodun Jeyifo, Wole Soyinka: Politics, Poetics, and Postcolonialism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... BIODUN JEYIFO, Wole Soyinka: politics, poetics, and postcolonialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], US$70.00, ISBN 0 521 39486 4). 2004, 356 pp. 'Leftocratic', blinkered, ideologically...

Josef Gugler, African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... JOSEF GUGLER, African Film: re-imagining a continent. Oxford: James Currey (hard covers 40.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 562 8; paperback 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 561 X). 2003, 216pp. Gugler's book, which is published in a...

Melissa Thackway, Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... MELISSA THACKWAY, Africa Shoots Back: alternative perspectives in sub-Saharan francophone African film. Oxford: James Currey (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 82555 577 6; paperback 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 576 8). 2003,...

Karine Bennafla, Le Commerce frontalier en Afrique Centrale: acteurs, espaces, pratiques.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... KARINE BENNAFLA, Le Commerce frontalier en Afrique Centrale: acteurs, espaces, pratiques. Paris: Karthala (25.00 [euro], ISBN 2 84586 230 X). 2002, 368 pp. Although the importance of cross-border trade in Africa is widely acknowledged,...

Dominique Malaquais, Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... DOMINIQUE MALAQUAIS, Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun. Paris: Karthala (26 [euro], ISBN 2 84586 231 8). 2002, 400pp. The starting point for this very accessible and lively study is the emphasis that architecture is a...

Dena Freeman, Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: Causes and Consequences of Cultural Transformation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... DENA FREEMAN, Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia: causes and consequences of cultural transformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 40.00 [pounds sterling], US$60.00, ISBN 0 521 81854 0). 2002, 180 pp. This...

Bereket Habte Selassie, The Making of the Eritrean Constitution: The Dialectic of Process and Substance.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... BEREKET HABTE SELASSIE, The Making of the Eritrean Constitution: the dialectic of process and substance. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press (paperback US$24.95, ISBN 1 56902 161 9). 2003, 325 pp. There are probably two things that most of us...

William Beinart and JoAnn McGregor (eds), Social History and African Environments.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... WILLIAM BEINART and JOANN McGREGOR (eds), Social History & African Environments. Oxford: James Currey (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 951 8; paperback 18.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 950 X). 2003, 275 pp. It is,...

Liz Walker, Graeme Reid and Morna Cornell, Waiting to Happen: HIV/AIDS in South Africa, the Bigger Picture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... LIZ WALKER, GRAEME REID and MORNA CORNELL, Waiting to Happen: HIV/AIDS in South Africa: the bigger picture. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner (paperback US $25.00, ISBN 1 58826 263 4). 2004, 143 pp. This book is the product of a historic 'AIDS in...

Andrea Behrends, Drahtseilakte: Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... ANDREA BEHRENDS, Drahtseilakte. Frauen aus Nordghana zwischen Bildung, Beruf und gesellschaftlichen Konventionen. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel Verlag (paperback 19.90 [euro], ISBN 3 86099 309 7). 2002, 272 pp. Andrea Behrends' book...

David Hulme and Marshall Murphree (eds), African Wildlife and Livelihoods: The Promise and Performance of Community Conservation.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... DAVID HULME and MARSHALL MURPHREE (eds), African Wildlife and Livelihoods: the promise and performance of community conservation. Oxford: James Currey (hard covers 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 413 3); Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (hard...

Douglas A. Anthony, Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, Power, and Violence in a Nigerian City, 1966 to 1986.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... DOUGLAS A. ANTHONY, Poison and Medicine: ethnicity, power, and violence in a Nigerian city, 1966 to 1986. Oxford: James Currey (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 959 3; paperback 17.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0 85255 954 2);...

Norma Kriger, Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980-1987.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... NORMA KRIGER, Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe: symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], US$65.00, ISBN 0 521 81823 0; paperback African edition, available in...

Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
September 22, 2004... History If you believe the media reports, Ethiopia is a depressed nation of recurring famine, drought and conflict. Although this is the daily reality for many, where 85% of people live on the land, and many survive on less than $1 a day,...

Guide to Africa Bibliography.
September 22, 2004... Scope and coverage This bibliography records publications on Africa of interest to students of Africa, principally in the social and environmental sciences, development studies, humanities and arts. Some items from the medical, biological...

Periodicals list.
September 22, 2004... Academie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-mer, bulletin des seances ACARM newsletter Accounting, business and financial history Acquisitions librarian Acta academica Acta sociologica Acta tropica Aethiopica ...

Africa.
September 22, 2004... General 1 Abrahamsen, R., African studies and the postcolonial challenge. African affairs 102, 407 2003 189-210 2 Adadevoh, I.O., Ethnicism and the democratization of Civil Society: envisioning changes in the proximal and causal...

Lusophone Africa.
September 22, 2004... General 1018 Newitt, M. Chabal, P. (eds.), Community & the state in lusophone Africa: papers read at the New Research on Lusophone Africa Conference held at King's College London 16-17 May 2002. London King's College, London 2003 184 pp....

North Africa.
September 22, 2004... General 1024 Almarcegui, P., From Africanism to Orientalism: Spanish representations of the East. Revue d' histoire maghrebine 112 2003 409-416 1025 Hare, J., Shadows across the Sahara: travels with camels from Lake Chad to Tripoli....

Horn of Africa.
September 22, 2004... Current Affairs See also 1681 1397 Eritrea & Ethiopia: the Horn of Africa War: mass expulsions and the nationality issue. Human rights watch 15 3A 2003 64 pp. 1398 Cliffe, L., Peace in the Horn this year? Review of African...

East Africa.
September 22, 2004... General 1661 Askew, K.M., As Plato duly warned: music, politics and social change in coastal East Africa. Anthropological quarterly 76 4 2003 609-637 1662 Job, H. Metsler, D., Tourismuseumwicklung und Tourismuspolitik in Ostafrika....

West Africa.(General-Literature)
September 22, 2004... General 2263 Costa Dias, E., Estado, Politica e Dignitarios Politico-religiosos: o caso senegambiano. Cadernos de estudos africanos 1 2001 27-52 2264 Dahou, K., Afrique de l' Ouest: les nouvelles formes de groupements en milieu urbain...

West Africa.(Media-History, C20th)
September 22, 2004... Media See also 3002 3114 Dare, O., The Press, politics and democracy in Nigeria since 1960. Matutu 23124 2001 251-264 3115 Folarin, B., The Press and national rebirth. Orita 33 2001 34-47 3116 Ibelema, M., The Nigerian Press...

West Central Africa.
September 22, 2004... General 3290 Tonda, J., Economie des miracles et dynamiques de en Afrique centrale. Politique africaine 87 2002 20-44 Anthropology No entry See also 3294 Environment 3291 Williams, J.L. and others, Integrating...

Central Africa.
September 22, 2004... General 3440 Drysdall, A.R., Letters to and from British Central Africa, North eastern Rhodesia and Mocambique: the Fletcher Jones correspondence. [West Didsbury?] Rhodesian Study Circle 2003 88 pp. Anthropology 3441 Ichikawa, M....

Southern Africa.(General-Libraries)
September 22, 2004... General 3713 Derman, B. Ferguson, A., Value of water: political ecology and water reform in Southern Africa. Human organization 62 3 2003 277-288 3714 Mcgregor, J., The Victoria Falls 1900-1940: landscape, tourism and the geographical...

South Africa.(Literature-Zoology)
September 22, 2004... Literature See also 4029, 4051, 4106, 4372, 4473, 4474 4556 Adhikari, M., From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews. African studies 62 2 2003 171-186 4557 Alexander,...

Islands.
September 22, 2004... General 4987 Haring, L., Indian Ocean folktales: Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles. Chennai National Folklore Support Centre 2002 146 pp. Law 4988 Cadoux, C., Pluralisme juridique et droits mixtes dans les pays...