Africa back issues from June 2004:
The making of the Ogoni ethnic group.
Jun 22, 2004; ... ABSTRACT The existence of the Ogoni ethnic group is taken for granted in the literature that has grown out of the minority rights and environmentalist campaigns of the 1990s. This article departs from this tradition by engaging the historical development of the Ogoni ethnic ...
History and identity in Senegambia and on the upper Guinea Coast.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... GEORGE E. BROOKS, Eurafricans in Western Africa: commerce, social status, gender, and religious observance from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Athens: Ohio University Press (paperback US$20.00, ISBN 0 8214 1486 0; hard covers US$65.00, ISBN 0 8214 1485 2); Oxford: James Currey ...
E. M. Chilver and Ute Roschenthaler (eds), Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's expedition and its consequences.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... E. M. CHILVER and UTE ROSCHENTHALER (eds), Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's expedition and its consequences. Cameroon Studies, vol. 3. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (paperback US$25.00, 17.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 57181 310 1; hard covers US$69.95, 51.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 ...
Henri Bocquene, Memoirs of a Mbororo: the life of Ndudi Umaru, Fulani Nomad of Cameroon.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... HENRI BOCQUENE, Memoirs of a Mbororo: the life of Ndudi Umaru, Fulani Nomad of Cameroon. Transl. by Philip Burnham and Gordeen Gorder. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (paperback US$25.00, 15.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 57181 845 6; hard covers US$39.95, 25.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 ...
Holger Kirscht, Ein Dorf in Nordost-Nigeria. Politische und wirtschaftliche Transformation der bauerlichen Kamuri-Gesellschaft.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... HOLGER KIRSCHT, Ein Dorf in Nordost-Nigeria. Politische und wirtsckaftliche Transformation der bauerlichen Kamuri-Gesellschaft. Gottinger Studien zur Ethnologie, Band 6. Hamburg: Lit Verlag (30.90 [euro], ISBN 3 8258 4494 3). 2001, 345 pp. This is a fascinating study about ...
Wendy James, Donald L. Donham, Eisei Kurimoto and Alessandro Triulzi (eds), Remapping Ethiopia: socialism and after.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... WENDY JAMES, DONALD L. DONHAM, EISEI KURIMOTO and ALESSANDRO TRIULZI (eds), Remapping Ethiopia: socialism and after. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 14.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 455 9); Athens: Ohio University Press (paperback US$24.95, ISBN 0 82141 448 8; hard covers US$49.95, ...
Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... RONALD HYAM and PETER HENSHAW, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], US$60.00, ISBN 0 52182 453 2). 2003, 379 pp. The historiography of South Africa is, perhaps, unique ...
Robert Morrell, From Boys to Gentlemen: settler masculinity in colonial Natal, 1880-1920.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... ROBERT MORRELL, From Boys to Gentlemen: settler masculinity in colonial Natal, 1880-1920. Pretoria: UNISA (paperback R96.00, 29.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 1 86888 151 2). 2001, 322 pp. The boys and gentlemen referred to in the title of Rob Morrell's book are the menfolk of the ...
Gillian Hart, Disabling Globalization: places of power in post-apartheid South Africa.(W)(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... GILLIAN HART, Disabling Globalization: places of power in post-apartheid South Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press (paperback US$21.95, 13.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 520 23756 0; hard covers US$54.95, ISBN 0 520 23755 2). 2002, 385 pp. This could have been a ...
Anthony Simpson, 'Half London' in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... ANTHONY SIMPSON, 'Half London' in Zambia: contested identities in a Catholic mission school. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, for the International Africa Institute (paperback 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7486 1804 X). 2003, 224 pp. This is a thoughtful ethnography ...
Judith A. Byfield, The Bluest Hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... JUDITH A. BYFIELD, The Bluest Hands: a social and economic history of women dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940. Oxford: James Currey (paperback 17.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 600 4; hard covers 45.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 85255 650 0); Portsmouth NH: Heinemann (paperback ...
Jean-Pascal Daloz, Elites et representations politiques. La Culture de l'echange inegal au Nigeria.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... JEAN-PASCAL DALOZ, Elites et representations politiques. La Culture de l'echange inegal au Nigeria. Collection << Le Territoire du politique >>. Pressac: Presses universitaires de Bordeaux (paperback 20.00 [euro], ISBN 2 86781 297 6). 2002, 174 pp. In this rich interpretative ...
John F. Clark (ed.), The African Stakes of the Congo War.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... JOHN F. CLARK (ed.), The African Stakes of the Congo War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (hard covers US$59.95, 37.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 312 29550 2). 2002, 249 pp. This book originates in a conference that John F. Clark (then a Fulbright scholar at Makerere University) ...
Manfred O. Hinz, Sam K. Amoo and Dawid Van Wyk (eds), The Constitution at Work: ten years of Namibian nationhood.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... MANFRED O. HINZ, SAM K. AMOO and DAWID VAN WYK (eds), The Constitution at Work: ten years of Namibian nationhood. Proceedings of the Conference on 'Ten Years of Namibian Nationhood', 11-13 September 2000. Windhoek: University of Namibia Press; Pretoria: VerLoren van Themaat Centre and ...
Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie and Folu F. Ogundimu (eds), Media and Democracy in Africa.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... GORAN HYDEN, MICHAEL LESLIE and FOLU F. OGUNDIMU (eds), Media and Democracy in Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (paperback 240 kr, 24.00 [euro], 16.95 [pounds sterling], ISBN 91 7106 495 8); New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Publishers (paperback US$24.95, ISBN 0 76 580980 X; hard ...
Birgitte Bruun, Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... BIRGITTE BRUUN, Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (paperback 13.00 [euro], ISBN 90 5260 083 X). 2002, 96 pp. This book, in Aksant's Community Drug Use Study series, takes the simple ...
Nancy Ellen Lawler, Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers: the Gold Coast in World War II.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... NANCY ELLEN LAWLER, Soldiers, Airmen, Spies and Whisperers: the Gold Coast in World War II. Athens: Ohio University Press (hard covers US$49.95, 35.50 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 8214 1430 5). 2002, 286 pp. Nancy Lawler published in 1942 Soldiers of Misfortune: Ivoirien ...