Recently added articles from African Studies Quarterly:
The 2007 General Election in Lesotho: The Application and the Challenges of the Electoral System.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Introduction Elections are events intrinsic to democracy--building but do not determine whether the country is a democracy or not. The delivery of regular free and fair elections is one of the standards by which a country's democracy is judged. In fact, elections "perform two ...
Kwasi Konadu. Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Kwasi Konadu. Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society. New York: Routledge, 2007. 240p. The historical analysis of conceptions of health and healing in many traditional African societies offer an interesting avenue for the study of the contradictions and ...
Donald A. Yerxa, ed. Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Donald A. Yerxa, ed. Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press. 2008. 128p. In 1963, Hugh Trevor-Roper dismissed the idea of an African history, let alone that of the Atlantic ...
Alternative electoral systems and the 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary election.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Introduction As many scholars have noted, electoral systems exert a powerful influence on the process of democratization. [1] Indeed first competitive or "transitional" elections are crucial moments for newly democratizing countries. Although these elections mark only a ...
'We want to belong to our roots and we want to be modern people': New farmers, old claims around lake Mutirikwi, Southern Zimbabwe.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Introduction <Pre>Gore rino ndinoda kusadza GMB nechibage changu [2] But in terms of the broader vision, I have to stress that I thinkthis ...