Africa articles from September 2008

Africa archives from September 2008

Diabetes, medicine and modernity in Cameroon.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT This article examines popular understandings of diabetes, and conflicts and ambiguities in the management of diabetes care, in two areas of Cameroon. Conducted over a two-year period, comparative ethnography in Yaounde and Bafut...

Between self-help and dependence: donor funding and the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT This article examines funding for HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and the relationship between foreign donors and the South African government. The recognition of the AIDS pandemic as an epochal crisis has led to a proliferation of...

'African sex is dangerous!' Renegotiating 'ritual sex' in contemporary Masaka District.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT The sexual culture of sub-Saharan African peoples is variously utilized as an explanation for the high incidence of HIV in Africa. Thus it has been the target of behaviour change campaigns championed by massive public health...

Mbororo claims to regional citizenship and minority status in north-west Cameroon.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT Discourses on autochthony, citizenship and exclusion have become popular in Cameroon as well as in other parts of Africa, and lately even in Europe. This article considers the case of the Mbororo (agro-pastoral Fulbe) in...

Risky trade, resilient traders: trust and livestock marketing in northern Kenya.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT This article examines innovations in livestock marketing that livestock traders in northern Kenya use to overcome a host of trading obstacles. Livestock trading in northern Kenya is one of the toughest and most risk-prone jobs in...

Gleaming like the sun: aesthetic values in Wodaabe material culture.
September 22, 2008... ABSTRACT The Fulbe Wodaabe from Central Niger--like other nomadic pastoralists--seem to be highly resistant to the influence of global consumer goods, the consumption of modern products being more of less confined to satisfying practical...

On reason and Afro-Pessimism.(Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... RICHARD WERBNER, Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: the public anthropology of Kalanga elites. Bloomington and Indianapolis IN: Indiana University Press (hb $60.00-978 0 25334 402 1; pb $24.95-978 0 25321 677 9). 2004, 254 pp. ...

Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel and Leo De Haan (eds), African Alternatives.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... PATRICK CHABAL, ULF ENGEL and LEO DE HAAN (eds), African Alternatives. Leiden and Boston MA: Brill (pb $63/42 [euro]--978 9 00416 113 9). 2007, vi+186 pp. Chabal, Engel and de Haan's collection is billed as exploring African 'agency' in...

Saheed A. Adejumobi, The History of Ethiopia.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... SAHEED A. ADEJUMOBI, The History of Ethiopia. Westport CT and London: Greenwood Press (hb $45/ 25.95 [pounds sterling]--978 0 31332 273 0). 2007, xix+219 pp. This book on Ethiopia is part of a new series by Greenwood Press on country...

Janice A. Boddy, Civilizing Women: British crusades in colonial Sudan.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... JANICE A. BODDY, Civilizing Women: British crusades in colonial Sudan. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press (pb $24.95/15.95 [pounds sterling]--978 0 691 12305 9). 2007, 432 pp. Janice Boddy's insightful history of colonial Sudan is...

Edward I. Steinhart, Black Poachers, White Hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... EDWARD I. STEINHART, Black Poachers, White Hunters: a social history of hunting in colonial Kenya. Oxford: James Currey/Nairobi: East African Educational Press/Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb 16.95 [pounds sterling]--978 0 8525 5960 4)....

David M. Gordon, Nachituti's Gift: economy, society, and environment in Central Africa.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... DAVID M. GORDON, Nachituti's Gift: economy, society, and environment in Central Africa. Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press (pb $24.95--978 0 29921 364 0; hb $60--978 0 29921 360 2). 2006, xii+301 pp. Fisheries have often been taken...

Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston McIntosh Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... GRACE BANTEBYA KYOMUHENDO and MARJORIE KENISTON MCINTOSH Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (pb 526.95--978 0 82141 734 8; hb 555.00--978 0 82141 733 1). 2006, 308 pp. As Hilda Tadria wrote in 1987:...

Alamin Mazrui, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: literature, language and identity.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... ALAMIN MAZRUI, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: literature, language and identity. Athens OH: Ohio University Press (Ohio University Research in International Studies Series, African Series no. 85) (pb $24--978 0 89680 252 0). 2007, ix + 206 pp....

M. S. C. Okolo, African Literature as Political Philosophy.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... M. S. C. OKOLO, African Literature as Political Philosophy. Dakar: CODESRIA Books/London: Zed Books (pb 19.99 [pounds sterling]--978 1 84277 895 1; hb 65.00 [pounds sterling]--978 1 84277 894 4). 2007, 164 pp. The author offers here a...

Ranka Primorac, The Place of Tears: the novel and politics in modern Zimbabwe.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... RANKA PRIMORAC, The Place of Tears: the novel and politics in modern Zimbabwe. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies (pb US$85--978 1 84511 120 5). 2006, 241 pp. A refreshing new addition to African literary criticism, Primorac's...