Recently added articles from Africa:
Human rights and NGO 'wrongs': conflict diamonds, culture wars and the 'Bushman question'.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT I examine the struggle surrounding the relocations of Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana. Despite a recent court decision allowing the Bushmen to return, the 'war of words' continues and the Bushmen's circumstances remain inconclusive. I analyse ...
'Sleep occupies no space': the use of public space by street gangs in Kinshasa.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT This article deals with issues of territoriality, public space, the microphysics of power and street gang life in the current urban context of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In this city, a growing number of street children invade the public ...
Anticipating the tsunami: rumours, planning and the arbitrary state in Zimbabwe.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Using ethnographic material alongside newspaper and NGO reports, this article explores popular responses to ZANU PF's devastating Operation Murambatsvina, commonly dubbed Zimbabwe's tsunami, which targeted informal markets and 'illegal' housing across Zimbabwe between ...
The occult does not exist: a response to Terence Ranger.(Critical essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In recent years, it has become common for academic writers to use 'the occult' as an analytical category to which are assigned various types of mystical belief and activity that are quite widespread in Africa, including those often described as 'magic' and ...
Response to ter Haar and Ellis.
Jun 22, 2009; ... In his review article, Terence Ranger raises two major issues. First, he is concerned about the relation between exoticizing ideas about an 'African occult' in Western societies (for example, Scotland Yard investigations, media reports, etc.) and Africanist work on this topic. This is a ...