Recently added articles from African Studies Quarterly:
Political Liberation and Decolonization in Africa: Lessons from Country Experiences.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Political Liberation and Decolonization in Africa: Lessons from Country Experiences. Julius Omozuanvbo Ihonvbere and John Mukum Mbaku. Westport CT: Praeger, 2003. 373 pp. African scholars who have first hand experience of political developments in the continent since ...
The challenge of globalization, labor market restructuring and union democracy in Ghana.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction Studies on trade unions, especially those of the political economy approach, reiterate the importance of trade unions in arresting the excesses of globalization, such as the threat to the environment and increasing global poverty. [1] They also underscore trade ...
Stakeholder participatory processes and dialogue platforms in the Mazowe river catchment, Zimbabwe.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction At the global level, issues of water scarcity and shifting natural resources management paradigms have helped to push water onto the priority list of international development agencies. In response to increasing water demand and changing global water resources ...
Medicine and anthropology in twentieth century Africa: Akan medicine and encounters with (medical) anthropology.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction In twentieth century southern and eastern Africa, "traditional" medicine was the dominant healing system and often regarded as the more appropriate mode of treatment by specialists and recipients. [1] Stretching from Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa, and Zambia to ...
Who ruled by the spear? Rethinking the form of governance in the Ndebele state.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... INTRODUCTION One of the earliest attempts to understand the ontology of African political systems and the forms of African governance is the collaborative anthropological work of M. Fortes and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. In this work, sweeping generalizations were made about diverse ...
Colonialism within colonialism: the Hausa-Caliphate imaginary and the British colonial administration of the Nigerian Middle Belt.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Introduction This paper explores three interrelated issues; the origins and development of a Hausa-Caliphate imaginary in the intertwinements of caliphate and British discourses and its subtle entry into official British colonial policy in northern Nigeria; how the search for ...
The 5th Francophonie Sports and Arts Festival: Niamey, Niger hosts a global community.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... THE FRANCOPHONIE COMMUNITY SEEKS SOLIDARITY THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGES OF SPORTS AND ARTS This paper explores transnational and local cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the 5th Jeux de la Francophonie ("Francophonie Games" or "Francophonie Sports and Arts ...
Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Beyond Words: Discourse and Critical Agency in Africa. Andrew Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 169 pp. When in 1976, Wole Soyinka presented us with Myth, Literature and the African World, and in 1986, Ngugi wa Thiong'o offered us Decolonising the Mind, both ...
Brown Water of Africa: Portuguese Riverine Warfare 1961-1974.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Brown Water of Africa: Portuguese Riverine Warfare 1961-1974. John P. Cann. St. Petersburg, FL: Hailer Publishing, 2007. 248 pp. Brown Waters of Africa is the second volume in John P. Cann's planned trilogy of works that examine the Portuguese counterinsurgency in its former ...
Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority. Shareen Hassim. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 355 pp. Shireen Hassim analyzes women's political participation in South Africa during a dramatic period of that country's history in Women's ...
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Sep 22, 2008; ... One Hundred Days of Silence: America and the Rwanda Genocide. Jared A. Cohen. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. 232 pp. During its colonial rule of ethnically diverse Rwanda, Belgium supported the minority governing Tutsi, which ensured the majority Hutus' continued ...
Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Masquerades of Modernity: Power and Secrecy in Casamance, Senegal. Ferdinand De Jong. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2005. 216 pp. It is always a pleasure to find insightful Anglophone treatises on the Casamance region of Southern Senegal, and Masquerades of Modernity ...
Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Makishi: Mask Characters of Zambia. Manuel Jordan. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA, 2006. 84 pp. From the art historical perspective of traditional African art, the distinction between the systems of thought and the supporting visual traditions among the continent's ethnic ...
Internet and the Construction of the Immigrant Public Sphere: The Case of the Cameroonian Diaspora.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Internet and the Construction of the Immigrant Public Sphere: The Case of the Cameroonian Diaspora. Kehbuma Langmia. University Press of America, Inc., 2007. 100 pp. Langmia's book is a contribution to the rapidly emerging literature on the use of the Internet by Diasporic ...
Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide. Scott Straus and Robert Lyons. Brooklyn, NY: Zone Books, 2006. 192 pp. The genocide in Rwanda was unparalleled in its transparency, expediency and brutal intimacy. Neighbors slaughtered neighbors, most often with ...
The African Manufacturing Firm: An Analysis based on Firm Surveys in Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The African Manufacturing Firm: An Analysis based on Firm Surveys in Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Dipak Mazumdar and Ata Mazaheri. New York: Routledge, 2003. 451 pp. Spanned over thirteen key chapters, besides two introductory and concluding ones, this book by Mazumdar ...
Schooling and Difference in Africa: Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Schooling and Difference in Africa: Democratic Challenges in a Contemporary Context. George Sefa Dei, Alireza Asgharzadeh, Sharon Bahador and Riyad Shahjahan. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 331 pp. Five decades after political independence, African countries ...
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Law and Disorder in the Postcolony. Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 357 pp. The collection of essays being reviewed consists of seven case studies of local patterns of violence drawn from experiences in ten countries--South Africa, ...
Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage. Laura Edmondson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007. 175 pp. This fascinating book adds to an ever-growing literature on contemporary identity in Tanzania, tracing the contestation of national identities and ...
Vanguard or Vandals: Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Vanguard or Vandals: Youth, Politics and Conflict in Africa. Jon Abbink and Ineke van Kessel. Leiden, Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill, 2005. 300 pp. This diverse collection contributed by NGO activists and academics revolve around the very unitive focus of youth in Africa, whose ...