The Journal of African History articles from July 2002

The Journal of African History archives from July 2002

Characteristics of captives leaving the Cameroons for the Americas, 1822-37 *.
July 1, 2002... COMPARED to the information now available on the shipping part of the slave trade, and, indeed, on the experiences of slaves after they arrived in the Americas, we still know little about the people who were forced on board slave vessels on...

'I was afraid of Samuel, therefore I came to Sekgoma': Herero refugees and patronage politics in Ngamiland, Bechuanaland protectorate, 1890-1914 *.
July 1, 2002... IN EARLY 1904, as Herero (1) refugees fled the carnage of war in German South-West Africa (GSWA), M. G. Williams, the resident magistrate in Tsau, Ngamiland, Bechuanaland protectorate, was 'amused' to note that their arrival was opposed by...

The white camel of the Makgabeng *.
July 1, 2002... ROCK art studies have, over the years, been the undoing of a succession of great archaeological minds. One thinks, for instance, of the famous French prehistorian, the Abbe Henri Breuil, who saw a white lady in the Bushman (1) rock art of the...

Out of Africa.
July 1, 2002... 'THERE is always something new coming out of Africa', proclaims the narrator of the film, The Ancient Africans, a documentary aired in 1985. This sentence, varied one way or another, and in particular shortened to 'out of Africa', in fact...

The settlers' cattle complex: the etiquette of culling cattle in colonial Zimbabwe, 1938 *.
July 1, 2002... HISTORIANS of Africa have long realized that the control of animals was just as much a part of colonial rule as was the control of people. In settler colonies, for example, state control and the limitation of Africans' cattle, dogs and even...

Madheruka and Shangwe: ethnic identities and the culture of modernity in Gokwe, Northwestern Zimbabwe, 1963-79 *.
July 1, 2002... PRIOR to the 1950s, Shangwe sparsely populated the Gokwe region of northwestern Zimbabwe. (1) The presence of tsetse fly and the semi-arid conditions of the region had historically precluded settlement by large populations. However, from the...

A history of Genocide in Rwanda. (Review Article).(When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda. By MAHMOOD MAMDANI. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi + 364. $29.95/[pounds sterling]19.95 (ISBN 0-691-05821-0). KEY WORDS: Rwanda, colonial,...

Surveying Ancient Africa. (Reviews).(Africa and Africans in Antiquity)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702218290 Africa and Africans in Antiquity. Edited by EDWIN M. YAMAUCHI. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+324. $28.95, paperback (ISBN 0-87013-507-4). KEY WORD: Archaeology. The...

New Findings in Livestock History. (Reviews).(The Origins and Development of African Livestock Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702228297 The Origins and Development of African Livestock Archaeology, Genetics, Linguistics and Ethnography. Edited by ROGER M. BLENCH and KEVIN C. MACDONALD. London: University College London Press, 2000. Pp....

Excavations at Aksum. (Reviews).(Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993--7. 2 vols)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702238293 Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993--7. 2 vols. Edited by DAVID W. PHILLIPSON. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa and the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2000. Pp. xii+538. [pounds sterling]95...

Coastal Interactions. (Reviews).(The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S002185370224829X The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile Society. By MARK HORTON and JOHN MIDDLETON. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. 282. [pounds sterling]40; $54.95 (ISBN 0-631-18919-X), KEY WORDS: Eastern...

Dated Synthesis? (Reviews).(Histoire de la Mauritanie: des origines a Pindependance)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702258296 Histoire de la Mauritanie: des origines a Pindependance. By GENEVIEVE DESIRE-VUILLEMIN. Paris: Editions Karthala, 1997. Pp. 652. FF 190, paperback (ISBN: 2-86537-788-1). KEY WORDS: Northern Africa,...

Islam and the Marinid State. (Reviews).(Morocco, The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marinid Experience in Pre-Protectorate)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702268292 The Berbers and the Islamic State: The Marinid Experience in Pre-Protectorate Morocco. By MAYA SHATZMILLER. Princeton: Marcus Wiener Publications, 2000. Pp. XVii+200. [pounds sterling]58.95 (ISBN...

Cataloguing Pre-Colonial Art. (Reviews).(African Art and Artefacts in European Collections, 1400-1800)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702278299 African Art and Artefacts in European Collections, 1400-1800. By EZIO BASSANI. Edited by MALCOLM MCLEOD. London: British Museum Press, 2000. Pp. xxxix + 328 + diskette. No price given (ISBN 0-7141-235744)....

A Classic Revisited. (Reviews).(L'evolution du royaume Rwanda des origins a 1900)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702288295 L'evolution du royaume Rwanda des origins a 1900. By JAN VANSINA. Brussels: Academie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, 2000. Pp. 102. No price given, paperback (ISBN 90-75652-17-8). KEY WORDS: Rwanda,...

Giving Akyem History its Due. (Reviews).(The Akyem Factor in Ghana's History, 1700-1875)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702298291 The Akyem Factor in Ghana's History, 1700-1875. By KOFI AFFRIFAH. Accra: Ghana Universities Press, 2000. Pp. xiv+242. [pounds sterling]14.95; $24.95 (ISBN 9964-30261-4). KEY WORDS: Ghana, pre-colonial....

Enslavement and Ethnic Identity. (Reviews).(History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702308296 History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822. By PIER M. LARSON. Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip, 2000. Pp....

Constructions of Shaka. (Reviews).(Savage Delight: White Myths of Shaka)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702318292 Savage Delight: White Myths of Shaka. By DAN WYLIE. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000. Pp. xi+270. Rand 145; L15.95; $34.95, paperback (ISBN 0-86980-955-5). KEY WORDS: South Africa,...

Military Leadership and Political Structures. (Reviews).(Century, Yoruba Warlords of the Nineteenth)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S00021853702328299 Yoruba Warlords of the Nineteenth Century. By TOYIN FALOLA and G. O. OGUNTOMISIN. Trenton NJ and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 301. [pounds sterling]17.99, paperback (ISBN...

Earth Shrines and Dagara Settlement History. (Reviews).(Les Dagara et leurs voisins: histoire de peuplement et relations interethniques au sudouest du Burkina Faso)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702338295 Les Dagara et leurs voisins: histoire de peuplement et relations interethniques au sudouest du Burkina Faso. Edited by RICHARD KUBA, CAROLA LENTZ and KATJA WERTHMANN. Frankfurt am Main: Johann Wolfgang...

French Rule and Moroccan Soldiers. (Reviews).(French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702348291 French Military Rule in Morocco: Colonialism and its Consequences. By MOSHE GERSHOVICH. London: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. 256. [pounds sterling]39.50; $54.50 (ISBN 0-7146-4949-X). KEY WORDS: Morocco,...

Asante Lives. (Reviews).(Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village, 1850-1950)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702358298 Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village, 1850-1950. By T. C. McCASKIE. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute; Bloomington: Indiana University...

Asante Women's Struggles. (Reviews).('I Will Not Eat Stone': A Women's History of Colonial Asante)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702368294 'I Will Not Eat Stone': A Women's History of Colonial Asante. By JEAN ALLMAN and VICTORIA TASHJIAN. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2000. Pp. xvi+255. [pounds sterling]40 (ISBN...

Gender Politics in Colonial Lesotho. (Reviews).('This Matter of Women is Getting Very Bad': Gender, Development and Politics in Colonial Lesotho)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702378290 'This Matter of Women is Getting Very Bad': Gender, Development and Politics in Colonial Lesotho. By MARC EPPRECHT. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 281. [pounds sterling]18.95;...

Competing Colonial Discourses. (Reviews).(Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702388297 Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain. By ALAN LESTER. London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xii+257. [pounds sterling]55; $90 (ISBN 0-415-19850-X);...

Men's War History. (Reviews).(The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702398293 The Boer War: Direction, Experience and Image. Edited by JOHN GOOCH. London: Frank Cass, 2000, Pp. xxi+310. [pounds sterling]35; $49.50 (ISBN 0-7146-5101-X). KEY WORDS: South Africa, gender, military....

Nutrition, Science and Racial Politics. (Reviews).(Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702408298 Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa. By DIANA WYLIE. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 2001. Pp. xiv + 317. No price given...

Resistance and Resilience in Matebeleland. (Reviews).(Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the 'Dark Forests' of Matebeleland)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702418294 Violence and Memory: One Hundred Years in the 'Dark Forests' of Matebeleland. By JOCELYN ALEXANDER, JOANN MCGREGOR and TERENCE RANGER. Oxford: James Currey; Portsmouth NH: Heinemann; Cape Town: David...

Mission to the Whites. (Reviews).(Northward from Cape Town: The Anglican Church Railway Mission in Southern Africa, 1885-1980)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702428290 Northward from Cape Town: The Anglican Church Railway Mission in Southern Africa, 1885-1980. By JOHN RODEN. Appleton Roebuck, York: Sacram Publishing, 1999. Pp. 349. [pounds sterling]13.95 (ISBN)...

France in Islamic West Africa. (Reviews).(Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702438297 Paths of Accommodation: Muslim Societies and French Colonial Authorities in Senegal and Mauritania, 1880-1920. By DAVID ROBINSON. Athens OH: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 2000. Pp. 361....

Comparing Colonialisms in Togo. (Reviews).(Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana independants : changement social sous regime colonial)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702448293 Du Togo allemand aux Togo et Ghana independants : changement social sous regime colonial. By ULRIKE SCHUERKENS. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001. Pp. 619. No price given (ISBN 2-7475-0248-1). KEY WORDS: Togo,...

Modes of Power in Borgu. (Reviews).(Im Gewand von Herrschaft: Modalitaten der Macht im BORGOU (Nord-Benin), 1900-1995 [Dressed as Ruler: Modes of Power in Borgu (Northern Benin), 1900-1995])(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S002185370245829X Im Gewand von Herrschaft: Modalitaten der Macht im BORGOU (Nord-Benin), 1900-1995 [Dressed as Ruler: Modes of Power in Borgu (Northern Benin), 1900-1995]. By ERDMUTE ALBER. (Studien zur Kulturkunde 116)....

Methodological Inversion. (Reviews).(Recalling the Belgian Congo Conversations and Introspection)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10,1017/S0021853702468296 Recalling the Belgian Congo Conversations and Introspection. By MARIE-BENEDICTA DEMBOUR. (New Directions in Anthropology, 9). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2000. Pp. xx+235. [poundssterling]45 (ISBN...

War and the Origins of Statist Development Policies. (Reviews).(Empire State-building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI:10.1017/S0021853702478292 Empire State-building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52. By JOANNA LEWIS. Oxford: James Currey; Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii+ 393. o40 (ISBN 0-85255-790-6); o19.95, paperback (IsBN...

Nation and Gender. (Reviews).(Mau Mau's Daughter: A Life History)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702488299 Mau Mau's Daughter: A Life History. By WAMBUI WAIYAKI OTIENO, edited with an introduction by CORA ANN PRESLEY. Boulder: Lynne Reiner, 1998. Pp. xiii + 254. [pounds sterling]36.95; $52 (ISBN 1-55587-722-2)....

Gender and Domestic Service. (Reviews).(Serving Class: Masculinity and the Feminisation of Domestic Service in Tanzania)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702498295 Serving Class: Masculinity and the Feminisation of Domestic Service in Tanzania. By JANET BUJRA. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, 2000. Pp. x + 222. [pounds...

The Escalation of Cattle Raiding. (Reviews).(Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S002185370250829X Kuria Cattle Raiders: Violence and Vigilantism on the Tanzania/Kenya Frontier. By MICHAEL L. FLEISHER. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 198. $59.50 (ISBN 0-472-11152-3); $19.95...

Religion and Party Politics. (Reviews).(The Time of Politics (Zamanin Siyasa): Islam and the Politics of Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria, 1950-1966)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702518296 The Time of Politics (Zamanin Siyasa): Islam and the Politics of Legitimacy in Northern Nigeria, 1950-1966. By JONATHAN T. REYNOLDS. Lanham and New York: University Press of America, 1999. Pp. iii + 229. No...

Who Murdered Lumumba? (Reviews).(The Assassination of Lumumba)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702528292 The Assassination of Lumumba. By LUDO DE WITTE. Translated by ANN WRIGHT and RENEE FENBY. London: Verso, 2001. Pp. xxxii + 224. [pounds sterling]19 (ISBN 1-85984-618-1). KEY WORDS: Democratic Republic...

Congo-Brazzaville: Still Neglected in Anglophone Academe. (Reviews).(Political Transformations of the Congo)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702538299 Political Transformations of the Congo. By MBOW M. AMPHAS. Edinburgh: Pentland Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 135. [pounds sterling]13.50 (ISBN 1-5821-070-4). KEY WORDS: Republic of Congo, politics/political,...

Danger, Dissimulation and Female Sociality. (Reviews).(The Underneath of Things: Violence, History and the Everyday in Sierra Leone)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702548295 The Underneath of Things: Violence, History and the Everyday in Sierra Leone. By MARIANE C. FERME. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 287. $60 (ISBN 0-520-22542-2); $24.95, paperback...

Paths of Rice Improvement. (Reviews).(Wide Crossing: The West Africa Rice Development Association in Transition, 1985-2000)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702558291 Wide Crossing: The West Africa Rice Development Association in Transition, 1985-2000. By JOHN R. WALSH. (SOAS Studies in Development Geography). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. Pp. x + 152. [pounds...

Dealing with History. (Reviews).(Commission, A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation)(The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10-1017/S0021853702568298 A Country Unmasked: Inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. By ALEX BORAINE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 466. [pounds sterling]20 (ISBN 0-19-57-1805-4). The...

African Writing in and from Paris. (Reviews).(Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702578294 Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape. By BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. xviii+350. $17.95, paperback (ISBN 0-252-02066-9). KEY WORDS: Diaspora,...

History of African Political Ideas. (Reviews).(Political Discourses in African Thought: 1860 to the Present)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702588290 Political Discourses in African Thought: 1860 to the Present. By PIETER BOELE VAN HENSBROEK. Westport: Praeger, 1999. Pp. ix+238. [pounds sterling]47.95 (ISBN 0-275-96494-9). KEY WORDS: Intellectual,...

Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702598297 Maps of Africa to 1900 A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. By THOMAS J. BASSETT and YVETTE SCHEVEN....

Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702608291 Ancestors, Power and History in Madagascar. Edited by KAREN MIDDLETON. (Studies of Religion in Africa: Supplements to the Journal of Religion). Leiden, Boston and Cologne: Brill, 1999. Pp. xi+360. $94.50...

Rorke's Drift 1879: Anatomy of an Epic Zulu War Siege. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702618298 Rorke's Drift 1879: Anatomy of an Epic Zulu War Siege. By EDMUND YORKE. Stroud, UK and Charleston SC: Tempus Publishing, 2000. Pp. 176. [pounds sterling]15.99; $26.99, paperback (ISBN 0-7524-1978-1). ...

The Boer War: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702628294 The Boer War: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. By FRED R. VAN HARTESVELDT. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. Pp. 255. [pounds sterling]66.95 (ISBN 0-313-30627-3). KEY WORDS: South Africa,...

Grandmother's Footsteps: Oral Tradition and South-east Angolan Narratives on the Colonial Encounter. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702638290 Grandmother's Footsteps: Oral Tradition and South-east Angolan Narratives on the Colonial Encounter. Edited by INGE BRINKMAN and AXEL FLEISCH. Koln: Rudiger Koppe 1999. Pp. 255. DM 34.77 (ISBN...

Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays for John E. Flint. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702648297 Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays for John E. Flint. Edited by CHRIS YOUE and TIM STAPLETON. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001 Pp. x + 219. [pounds sterling]42.50; $60 (ISBN 0-333-77885-5). KEY...

The Conservative Government and the End of Empire, 1957-1964. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702658293 The Conservative Government and the End of Empire, 1957-1964. Edited by RONALD HYAM and W. M. ROGER LOUIS. (British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A. Volume IV, Parts 1 and 2). Norwich: The...

Regionalism and Public Policy in Northern Ghana. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.107/S002185370266829X Regionalism and Public Policy in Northern Ghana. Edited by YAKUBU SAABA. New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Pp. xi+242. $32.95 (ISBN 0-8204-51452). KEY WORDS: Ghana, decentralized societies, poverty, regional....

Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century: History, Politics and Society. (Shorter Notices).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI:10.1017/S0021853702678296 Sierra Leone at the End of the Twentieth Century: History, Politics and Society. By EARL CONTEH-MORGAN and MAC DIXON-FYLE. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1999. Pp. xvi+75. [pounds sterling]17 (ISBN...

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. (Shorter Notices).(Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon)(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... DOI: 10.1017/S0021853702688292 Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon. Third edition. By MARK W. DELANCEY and MARK DIKE DELANCEY. Lanham MD and London: Scarecrow Press, 2000. Pp. xxxvii+359. $75 (ISBN 0-8108-3775-7). KEY...