Recently added articles from African Studies Review:
Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Since the arrival of European missionaries in Africa, there has been charged debate over people's marriage choices. This article outlines the major elements in the academic, theological, and popular discourses on marriage in Africa, focusing on two topics: the conceptual divide ...
Reading the Diary of Akinpelu Obisesan in Colonial Africa
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract: This article considers the private diary not just as a historical source or literary text, but mainly as a symbolic cultural creation with sociological and psychological dimensions. The multiple identities of Akinpelu Obisesan, a member of the colonial intelligentsia in Ibadan, ...
EXPLORING STATE AND SOCIETY IN TANZANIA
Sep 01, 2008; ... EXPLORING STATE AND SOCIETY IN TANZANIA Gregory H. Maddox, with Ernest M. Kongola. Practicing History in Central Tanzania: Writing, Memory and Performance. Social History of Africa Portsmouth, N. H.: Heinemann, 2006. xii + 181 pp. Bibliography. Index. $99.95. Cloth. $29.95 ....
The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku
Sep 01, 2008; ... HISTORY The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku Stephanie Newell. The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. vii + 233 pp. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $46.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper. At the very end of the nineteenth century John Mount ...
From the Editors
Sep 01, 2008; ... Periodically, we wish to thank in the pages of the African Studies Review the truly unsung heroes of our enterprise: those scholars who review manuscripts for us. As editors with our own specific areas of expertise, we could not possibly evaluate credibly the substance of most of the manuscripts ...
Individualism, Community, and Cooperatives in the Development Thinking of the Union Soudanaise-RDA, 1946-1960
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract: In the late 1940s and 1950s, nationalists and colonial officials in French Soudan (Mali) shared a language of development centered on the concepts of tradition, modernity, community, and individualism. This shared language permitted collaboration but also masked important ...
Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s-1960s
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract: This article examines the history of rape prosecutions in the African courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, from the 1940s through the first years of independence. Drawing on transcripts from African courts, it demonstrates that Gusii court elders were quite sympathetic to women who ...
Wage Labor, Precarious Employment, and Social Inclusion in the Making of South Africa's Postapartheid Transition
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract: During South Africa's first decade of democracy, policies of social inclusion and social citizenship have emphasized productive employment and the work ethic in a context of fiscal discipline and public spending thrift. The government's institutional discourse contrasts, ...
African Underclass: Urbanisation, Class and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam
Sep 01, 2008; ... Andrew Burton. African Underclass: Urbanisation, Class and Colonial Order in Dar es Salaam. Eastern African Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press; Nairobi: British Institute in East Africa; Oxford: James Currey Publishers; Dar es Salaam: Mkuti wa Nyota, 2005. xviii + 301 pp. Photographs. Maps ....
ON THE CUSP OF COLONIAL RULE: MEDICINE MURDER IN LESOTHO
Sep 01, 2008; ... ON THE CUSP OF COLONIAL RULE: MEDICINE MURDER IN LESOTHO Colin Murray and Peter Sanders. Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho: The Anatomy of a Moral Crisis. International African Library. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. 368 pp. Photographs. Maps. Notes. Appendix. Bibliography ....
History of the City of Gondar
Sep 01, 2008; ... Solomon Getahun. History of the City of Gondar. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xi + 278 pp. Tables. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Appendixes. $29.95. Paper. The establishment of the historical city of Gondar in northern Ethiopia around 1636 signaled the end of the medieval ...
A History of Sub-Saharan Africa
Sep 01, 2008; ... Robert O. Collins and James M. Burns. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xii + 406 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Index. $75.00. Cloth. $27.99. Paper. Africanists have long discussed the legitimacy of dividing Africa into ...
The Congo: Plunder and Resistance
Sep 01, 2008; ... David Renton, David Seddon, and Leo Zeilig. The Congo: Plunder and Resistance. London and New York: Zed Books, 2007. Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave MacMillan. vii + 243 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $99.00. Cloth. $31.00. Paper. Renton, Seddon, and Zeilig's book offers an economic ...
Exilés, réfugiés, déplacés en Afrique centrale et orientale
Sep 01, 2008; ... André Guichaoua, ed. Exilés, réfugiés, déplacés en Afrique centrale et orientale. Paris: Karthala, 2004. 1066 pp. Maps. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. euro48. Paper. André Guichaoua has produced an edited volume that should become the handbook for researchers specializing in forced ...
A Critical Examination of Honor Cultures and Herding Societies in Africa
Sep 01, 2008; ... Abstract. African pastoralists have historically used aggression strategically to restock after major losses. On the basis of anthropological studies of African pastoral societies, cultural psychologists have linked the psychological roots of pastoral aggression to the cultural complex ...
INSIDE THE CIA: CONGO IN THE 1980s
Sep 01, 2008; ... INSIDE THE CIA: CONGO IN THE 1980s Larry Devlin. Chief of Station, Congo: A Memoir of 1960-67. New York: Public Affairs, 2007. xi + 288 pp. Photographs. Map. Index. $26.95. Cloth. Congo watchers have been distressed at the little mention that the Congo receives in U.S. news media. After ...
Playful Performers: African Children's Masquerades
Sep 01, 2008; ... ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY Simon Ottenberg and David A. Binkley, eds. Playful Performers: African Children's Masquerades. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2006. 268 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $59.95. Cloth. Focusing on children's ...
The King of Drinks: Schnapps Gin from Modernity to Tradition
Sep 01, 2008; ... Dmitri van den Bersselaar. The King of Drinks: Schnapps Gin from Modernity to Tradition. African Social Studies Series, vol. 18. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007. xiv + 268 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $99.00. Paper. Early in this fascinating history of ...
A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary
Sep 01, 2008; ... Jeremy Rich. A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization series, xx + 220 pp. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. As Jeremy Rich states ...
Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed
Sep 01, 2008; ... William F. S. Miles, ed. Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. xi + 221 pp. Map. Notes. Bibliography. List of Contributors. Index. $49.95. Cloth. Before September 11, 2001, the literature on political ...