African Studies Review back issues from April 2003:
Legacies of Engagement: Scholarship Informed by Political Commitment
Apr 01, 2003; ... Abstract: Scholar-activists, by virtue of their critical engagement in the central issues of the day and their role in the production and dissemination of knowledge, have a unique opportunity to challenge the inherited orthodoxies in the academy and in the larger world in which we live ....
La Révolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lomé, Togo, 1931-33
Apr 01, 2003; ... Abstract: In 1932 the governor of French Togoland announced an increase in taxes on Lomé market women because of the economic downturn caused by the Depression. Both the indigenous city council and a clandestine resistance movement opposed this fiscal plan, warning of social unrest. The ...
Islamic-Hausa Feminism Meets Northern Nigerian Romance: The Cautious Rebellion of Bilkisu Funtuwa
Apr 01, 2003; ... Abstract: This study of contemporary Hausa literature analyzes a northern Nigerian body of popular fiction currently referred to as Kano market literature and known to Hausa speakers as Littattafan Soyayya (books of love). The popularity of this genre of romance rests firmly upon its ...
Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea
Apr 01, 2003; ... Abstract: After an Eritrea nationalist movement gained Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia in 1991, the newly formed government introduced a national educational policy based on the use of mother languages as the medium of instruction in all public schools. The stated purpose of the ...
Perceptions of Unequal Access to Primary and Secondary Education: Findings from Nigeria
Apr 01, 2003; ... Abstract: Nigerian parents and teachers were interviewed with the purpose of understanding how ordinary citizens view the unequal participation in education in Nigeria. Several areas of concern were identified in relation to participation in schooling such as its financial cost to ...
Responding to Crisis: Patterns of Health Care Utilization in Central Kenya Amid Economic Decline
Apr 01, 2003; ... Abstract: African states have become increasingly unable to provide adequate health care to their citizens due to debt, structural adjustment, poverty, and mismanagement. The health crisis is worsening in many areas and driving up mortality rates after decades of decline. This article ...
DESPOTISM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE CONGO
Apr 01, 2003; ... DESPOTISM AND DEMOCRACY IN THE CONGO Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja. The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History. London: Zed Books, 2002. Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave/St.Martin's Press, New York, xiv + 304 pp. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $69.95. Cloth. $25.00 ....
TEACHING ABOUT THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND REPARATIONS
Apr 01, 2003; ... TEACHING ABOUT THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AND REPARATIONS Manu Herbstein. Ama, A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: E-Reads, 2001. Distributed by E-Reads, 171 East 74th St., New York, N.Y. 10021. Online at http://www.ereads.com. Supported by a Web site, http://www.ama.africatoday.com/ ....
The Rise And Decline of a Special Relationship: Israel and Ghana, 1957-1966
Apr 01, 2003; ... Abstract: The "special relationship" between Israel and Ghana that began with the latter's attainment of independence in March 1957 endured only three years. At the January 1961 Casablanca Conference, Ghana joined in a sharp condemnation of Israel, marking the end of Israel's brief but ...
WHEN THE WORLD WAS RED
Apr 01, 2003; ... WHEN THE WORLD WAS RED Anthony Kirk-Greene. Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858-1966 Basingstoke: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv + 347 pp. Map. Tables. Notes. Thematic bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper. Anthony Kirk-Greene. Glimpses of Empire: A ...
Culture and Customs of the Congo
Apr 01, 2003; ... Tshilemalema Mukenge. Culture and Customs of the Congo. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xx + 204 pp. Photographs. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $45.00. Cloth. The third installment in the Greenwood Culture and Customs of Africa series, Tshilemalema Mukenge's book may seem at ...
Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone
Apr 01, 2003; ... Rosalind Shaw. Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. xv + 299 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $21.00. Paper. The central message of this very insightful work is that much "traditional" practice in ...
Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
Apr 01, 2003; ... ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY Arne Tostensen, Inge Tvedten, and Mariken Vaa, eds. Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2001. Distributed by Transactions Publishers, Somerset, N.J. 324 pp. References. Index. $24.95 ....
Les Fusils jaunes: Générations et politique en pays Nyangatom (Ethiopie)
Apr 01, 2003; ... Serge Tornay. Les Fusils jaunes: Générations et politique en pays Nyangatom (Ethiopie). Nanterre: Société d'Ethnologie, 2001. 363 pp. Figures. Photographs. Eur. 27.44. Paper. This book is a meticulous anthropological case study of the Nyamgatom peoples, Nilotic-speaking agro-pastoralists ...
Seed Provision and Agricultural Development: The Institutions of Rural Change
Apr 01, 2003; ... Robert Tripp. Seed Provision and Agricultural Development: The Institutions of Rural Change. London: Overseas Development Institute/Oxford: James Currey/Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2001. viii + 174 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $64.00. Cloth. The aim of this book is to provide a ...
Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians, and the State in South Africa
Apr 01, 2003; ... HEALTH AND DISEASE Jock McCulloch., Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians, and the State in South Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. 252 pp. Map. Photographs. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49. 95. Cloth. $22. 95. Paper. For much of the twentieth century, South ...
Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt
Apr 01, 2003; ... ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT Ray Bush. Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. xv + 184 pp. Tables. Figures. References. Index. $55.00. Cloth. Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt is simply dazzling. In this book, Ray Bush ...
Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa
Apr 01, 2003; ... Eugenia W. Herbert. Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa. New York: Palgrave, 2002. xxii + 196 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Cloth. Those who are already familiar with Eugenia Herbert's work will not be disappointed in this, her latest ...
Environmental Justice in South Africa
Apr 01, 2003; ... GEOGRAPHY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY David A. McDonald, ed. Environmental Justice in South Africa. Athens: Ohio University Press/Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press, 2002. 319 pp. Notes. Bibliographical references. Index. $59.95. Cloth. $26.95. Paper. With contributions from ...
Constitutionalism in Africa: Creating Opportunities, Facing Challenges
Apr 01, 2003; ... LAW Joe Oloka-Onyango. Constitutionalism in Africa: Creating Opportunities, Facing Challenges. Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2001. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., The Jam Factory, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OXl 1HU. xi + 345 pp. Index. $41.95. Paper. The growing interest in ...
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Foreign Policy in the Era of Globalization
Apr 01, 2003; ... POLITICS Thomas Borstelmann. The Cold War and the Color Line: American Foreign Policy in the Era of Globalization. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 369 pp. Photographs. Notes. Index. $35.00. Cloth. American studies used to exist in a moderate vacuum, as investigations of U.S ....
Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania
Apr 01, 2003; ... HISTORY Thaddeus Sunseri. Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2002. xv + 223 pp. Maps. Photographs. Sketches. Bibliography. Index. $24.00. Paper. To appreciate Vilimani, one should understand the recalcitrant and uneven ...
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Apr 01, 2003; ... Robert Harms. The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xxx + 466 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Appendixes. Index. $30.00. Cloth. On May 31, 1731, a converted grain ship, the Diligent, left the French port of Vannes for a slaving voyage along ...
African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze
Apr 01, 2003; ... LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Olivier Barlet. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze. Translated by Chris Turner. London and New York: Zed Books, 2000. Distributed by Palgrave. xii + 315 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. $69.95 Cloth. $29.95 Paper. The relationship between the ...