Recently added articles from African Studies Quarterly:
A question of intervention: American policymaking in Sierra Leone and the power of institutional agenda setting.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Cook, Christopher R. ... Abstract: This article is an examination of American foreign policy towards Sierra Leone in 1999 and 2000. Hopefully it will contribute to the literature of Sierra Leone while shedding theoretical light on types of humanitarian intervention. It seeks to answer two questions about American ...
Official representations of the nation: comparing the postage stamps of Sudan and Burkina Faso.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Kevane, Michael ... Abstract: An analysis of the imagery on postage stamps suggests that regimes in Sudan and Burkina Faso have pursued very different strategies in representing the nation. Sudan's stamps focus on the political center and dominant elite (current regime, Khartoum politicians, and Arab and ...
Comparative perspectives on the rehabilitation of ex-slaves and former child soldiers with special reference to Sudan.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Fegley, Randall ... Abstract: Despite the January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, reconstruction of southern Sudan remains a daunting task, which limited resources and unlimited suspicions may derail or delay. Among myriad issues facing agencies and their client communities are the problems of assisting ...
An interest in intervention: a moral argument for Darfur.(Darfur, Sudan)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Mawdsley, Christy ... INTRODUCTION The United States government has consistently failed to act when faced with governments committing mass atrocities against their own citizens. Yet U.S. leaders acknowledge that the United States is capable of and responsible for such action. We have thus seen one ...
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; De Bondt, Wendy ... Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. Gerard Prunier. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2007. 236 pp. Gerard Prunier is a research professor at the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques at the University of Paris and Director of the Centre francais des etudes ...
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Simms-Burton, Michele L. ... Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. Sylviane A. Diouf, ed. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2003. 242 pp. Sylviane A. Diouf has assembled a collection of provocative essays by scholars of African history that challenges the idea of West Africans' complicity ...
Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Idrissa, Abdourahmane ... Gallery Bundu: A Story about an African Past. Paul Stoller. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 176 pp. The Peace Corps, I was once told, has a matrimonial agency quality to it. It is about helping, and occasionally, espousing third-worlders. It is about roughing it up ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Ochieng'-Odhiambo, F. ... Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions. Polycarp Ikuenobe. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 329 pp. The text is "a logical, systematic, and normative interpretation or analysis of the idea of communalism in African cultures" (p. 2). This, ...
Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Frontani, Heidi G. ... Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana. Michael Amoah. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007. 248 pp. In Reconstructing the Nation in Africa, author Michael Amoah examines the extent to which theories and debates on nationalism formed in ...
Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Davidheiser, Mark ... Telling the Truths: Truth Telling and Peace Building in Post-Conflict Societies. Tristan Anne Borer, ed. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 328 pp. Telling the Truths is a collection of essays developed out of a conference at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for ...
History Making and Present Day Politics: The Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Shanafelt, Robert ... History Making and Present Day Politics: The Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa. Hans Erik Stolten, ed. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. 2007. 376 pp. This work is an important contribution both to the recent historiography of South Africa and to analysis of the ...
Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Fenio, Kenly Greer ... Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid. Belinda Bozzoli. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2004. 208 pp. Theatres of Struggle and the End of Apartheid depicts the Alexandra Rebellion of 1986 as analyzed through various themes from literature on collective action and ...
West African Literatures: Ways of Reading.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Sow, Alioune ... West African Literatures: Ways of Reading. Stephanie Newell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 288 pp. In West African literatures, Stephanie Newell examines, in thirteen chapters, crucial questions and debates, which are central in the commentaries of Francophone and ...