Recently added articles from Africa:
The blacksmiths of Tamale: the dynamics of space and time in a Ghanaian industry.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In the last twenty years the number of smiths and the range of their activity have greatly increased in Tamale, the principal city of northern Ghana. The evolution of the national economy and the particular situation of Tamale in the geography of Ghana explain this ...
The re(public) of salsa: Afro-Cuban music in fin-de-siecle Dakar.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT This article explores why, despite its diminished popularity, Afro-Cuban music remains among the most performed musics in Senegalese music clubs. Since the Second World War, many Senegalese have associated Afro-Cuban music with cosmopolitanism and modernity. In ...
Fast food in Ibadan: an emerging consumption pattern.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In its modernization garb, development has come to mean the inculcation of foreign values resulting in the fundamental transformation of modernizing nations. Ironically, little attention is being drawn to the consequences of modernizing influences. This is the cote of ...
Burial sites, informal rights and lost kingdoms: contesting land claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In the new South Africa, the promise of land restitution raised millennial-style expectations amongst dispossessed and dispersed former landholders. Partly prompted by emerging policy discourses, iconic tropes of localized cultural experience such as grave sites, ...
Mimesis and mimicry in dynamics of state and identity formation in northern Somalia.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT In this article, mimesis and mimicry are used as analytical concepts to explore dynamics of state and identity formation in Somaliland and Puntland since the early 1990s. Mimesis captures endeavours to imitate well-established models of social and political ...
Pain with punishment and the negotiation of childhood: an ethnographic analysis of children's rights processes in Maasailand.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Children's rights activists contend that corporal punishment in schools is a form of child abuse which hinders children's learning. Yet most parents and teachers in Maasailand, Kenya consider corporal punishment, if properly employed, to be one of the most effective ...
Patricia Tang, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof percussionists of Senegal.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... PATRICIA TANG, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof percussionists of Senegal. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press (pb $27.95--978 1 59213 420 5; hb $79.50--978 1 59213 419 9). 2007, 209 pp. Tang's first book is based on the research she conducted for her PhD in ethnomusicology. As ...
David Bellin Coplan, In Township Tonight! South Africa's black city music and theatre.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... DAVID BELLIN COPLAN, In Township Tonight! South Africa's black city music and theatre (second edition). Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (pb $26.00--978 0 22611 567 2; hb $67.50--978 0 22611 566 5). 2008, 472pp. In 1985 the first edition of In Township Tonight! ...
David Mcdermott Hughes, From Enslavement to Environmentalism: politics on a Southern African frontier.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... DAVID MCDERMOTT HUGHES, From Enslavement to Environmentalism: politics on a Southern African frontier. Seattle WA and London: University of Washington Press (pb 13.99 [pounds sterling]--978 0 29598 840 5; hb 31.00 [pounds sterling]--978 0 29598 590 9). 2006, xvii + 288 pp. This ...
Kenda Mutongi, Worries of the Heart: widows, family, and community in Kenya.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... KENDA MUTONGI, Worries of the Heart: widows, family, and community in Kenya. Chicago IL and London: University of Chicago Press (pb $20.00--978 0 22655 420 4; hb $50.00--978 0 22655 419 8). 2007, 256 pp. Kenda Mutongi's social history of twentieth-century Maragoli widows raises ...
Stephanie Newell, West African Literatures: ways of reading.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... STEPHANIE NEWELL, West African Literatures: ways of reading. Oxford: Oxford University Press (pb 18.00 [pounds sterling]--978 0 19927 397 3; hb 43.00 [pounds sterling]--978 0 19929 887 7). 2006, 259 pp. Newell's book offers several distinct features. First, it is remarkably ...
Roman Loimeier and Rodiger Seesemann (eds), The Global Worlds of the Swahili: interfaces of Islam, identity and space in nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Africa.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ROMAN LOIMEIER and RODIGER SEESEMANN (eds), The Global Worlds of the Swahili: interfaces of Islam, identity and space in nineteenth- and twentieth-century East Africa. Berlin: Lit Verlag (hb 34.90 [euro]--3 8258 9769 9). 2006, 424 pp. A product of several workshops sponsored by ...
Vivian Bickford-Smith and Richard Mendelson (eds), Black and White in Colour: African history on screen.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... VIVIAN BICKFORD-SMITH and RICHARD MENDELSON (eds), Black and White in Colour: African history on screen. Oxford: James Currey (14.95 [pounds sterling]--978 1 84701 522 8). 2007, 384 pp. This intelligent and informative collection of essays brings together a group of leading ...
John Glover, Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal: the Murid order.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... JOHN GLOVER, Sufism and Jihad in Modern Senegal: the Murid order. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press (hb 40 [pounds sterling]--978 1 58046 268 6). 2007, 236 pp. John Glover has produced a fascinating study of the innovative ability of the Muridiyya tariqa to address the ...
John Parker and Richard Rathbone, African History: a very short introduction.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... JOHN PARKER and RICHARD RATHBONE, African History: a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press (pb 6.99 [pounds sterling]--978 0 19280 248 4). 2007, 144 pp. This is an elegant and carefully crafted work, which will be an invaluable starting-point for university ...
Godwin R. Murunga and Shadrack W. Nasong'O (eds), Kenya: the struggle for democracy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... GODWIN R. MURUNGA and SHADRACK W. NASONG'O (eds), Kenya: the struggle for democracy. London: Zed Books (pb 19.99 [pounds sterling]--978 1 84277 857 9). 2007, 344 pp. KWAME BOAFO-ARTHUR (ed.), Ghana: one decade of the liberal state. London: Zed Books (pb 19.99 [pounds ...
Diabetes, medicine and modernity in Cameroon.
Sep 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 started in four diabetes clinics (two in ...
Between self-help and dependence: donor funding and the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Sep 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 international and donor organizations now ...
'African sex is dangerous!' Renegotiating 'ritual sex' in contemporary Masaka District.
Sep 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 education. Based on ethnographic fieldwork ...
Mbororo claims to regional citizenship and minority status in north-west Cameroon.
Sep 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 north-west Cameroon (also known as the Western ...