African Studies Review back issues from April 2007:
From the Editors
Apr 01, 2007; ... We are enormously pleased to welcome Catharine Newbury and David Newbury as the Book Review Editors for the African Studies Review. We look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration as all the editors seek to bring the very best scholarship on Africa to the attention of readers of this ...
Is It Ethical to Study Africa? Preliminary Thoughts on Scholarship and Freedom
Apr 01, 2007; ... (Editors' note: The author was honored by the African Studies Association by being invited to give the Bashorun M. K. O Abiola Lecture at the 49th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in November 2006 in San Francisco. The article that follows is based on that ...
Framing Reparations Claims: Differences between the African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations
Apr 01, 2007; ... (Editors' note: Our panel of peer reviewers sustained strikingly divergent views of the original version of this article, so we thought we would bring to the readers of the ASR some of the issues signaled by our initial reviewers. We sent the manuscript to several Africanist scholars and invited ...
Commentary on "Framing Reparations Claims: Differences between the African and Jewish Social Movements for Reparations"
Apr 01, 2007; ... Comment by Victor T. Le Vine Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis First, in the interest of full disclosure and in deference to the authors of this essay, I admit to having reviewed the article last year and advising the editors of the African Studies Review not to ...
Africa's New Territorial Politics: Regionalism and the Open Economy in Côte d'Ivoire
Apr 01, 2007; ... Abstract: This paper considers implications of the neoliberal shift for forms of national integration that were achieved during the era of state-led development. These national integration strategies (1960s-1980s) helped define and manage regional competition within the juridical ...
Political Transition without Transformation: The Dialectic of Liberalization without Democratization in Kenya and Zambia
Apr 01, 2007; ... Abstract: The decade from 1990 to 2000 saw a total of seventy-eight top leadership elections involving forty-three of the forty-eight sub-Saharan African countries. Of these, only twenty-one elections led to power transition from an incumbent to an opposition political party in nineteen ...
Is a New Worldwide Web Possible? An Explorative Comparison of the Use of ICTs by Two South African Social Movements
Apr 01, 2007; ... Abstract: In this article the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially new media technologies such as e-mail and the Internet, by postapartheid South African social movements is explored. Following a discussion of the use of these technologies by activist ...
UNSUNG HEROES AND HEROINES: THE ROLE OF PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA'S LIBERATION STRUGGLE
Apr 01, 2007; ... UNSUNG HEROES AND HEROINES: THE ROLE OF PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA'S LIBERATION STRUGGLE Ben Turok Nothing But the Truth: Behind the ANC's Struggle Politics. Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2003. 314 pp. Photographs. Index. R 147.00 ....
Brickyards to Graveyards: From Production to Genocide in Rwanda
Apr 01, 2007; ... BOOK REVIEWS ON THE GREAT LAKES CRISIS Villia Jefremovas. Brickyards to Graveyards: From Production to Genocide in Rwanda. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, 2002. xi + 162 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $21.95 ....
Rwanda: L'histoire secrète/Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs
Apr 01, 2007; ... REVIEW ESSAY: CONTROVERSY WITHIN THE CATACLYSM Lieutenant Abdul Joshua Ruzibiza. Rwanda: L'histoire secrète. Paris: Editions du Panama, 2005. 494 pp. Maps. euro22. Paper. Pierre Péan. Noires fureurs, blancs menteurs. Paris: Mille et Une Nuits, 2005. 544 pp. 2 Maps ....
Conspiracy to Murder
Apr 01, 2007; ... Linda Melvern. Conspiracy to Murder. New York: Verso, 2006. 380 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $18.00. Paper. In Conspiracy to Murder, Linda Melvern offers a highly readable account of the 1994 Rwanda genocide that draws on, and synthesizes, a wide range of source materials. Melvern ...
Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide/Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines
Apr 01, 2007; ... Scott Straus and Robert Lyons. Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide. New York: Zone Books, 2006. 185 pp. Illustrations. Map. Glossary. $37.95. Cloth. Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer. Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines. New York: St ....
Security Dynamics in Africa's Great Lakes Region
Apr 01, 2007; ... Gilbert M. Khadiagala, ed. Security Dynamics in Africa's Great Lakes Region. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2006. A Project of the International Peace Academy, xii + 229 pp. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $19.95. Paper. This edited volume makes a welcome addition to the scant ...
Augustin Cyiza: un homme libre au Rwanda
Apr 01, 2007; ... T. Cruvellier et al. Augustin Cyiza: un homme libre au Rwanda. Paris: Karthala, 2004. 217 pp. Photographs. Figure. Annexes. euro18. Paper. Much has been written on Rwanda over the last dozen years, but the focus has almost exclusively been on the violence that has shaken the country ...
Rwanda 1994. Les politiques du génocide à Butare
Apr 01, 2007; ... André Guichaoua. Rwanda 1994. Les politiques du génocide à Butare. Paris: Editions Karthala, 2005. 479 pp. Maps. Annexes. Index. euro32. Paper. On April 6, 1994, following the assassination of President Habyarimana, mass murder became the law of the land in Rwanda. André Guichaoua's ...
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Apr 01, 2007; ... Jean Hatzfeld. Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005/Picador, 2006. Translated by Linda Coverdale. Preface by Susan Sontag. xiv + 253 pp. Maps. Chronology of Events. Photograph. Index. $24.00. Cloth. $14.00. Paper. The provocative title of ...
The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources
Apr 01, 2007; ... BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE WORKS Hans M. Zell, ed. The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources. 4th edition. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishing, 2006. 833 pp. Index. $296.00. Cloth. The fourth edition of The African Studies Companion is an exceptional ...
Recherches archéologiques à Dia dans le Delta intérieur du Niger (Mali): bilan des saisons de fouilles 1998-2003
Apr 01, 2007; ... ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY R. Bedaux et al., eds. Recherches archéologiques à Dia dans le Delta intérieur du Niger (Mali): bilan des saisons de fouilles 1998-2003. Leiden: CNWS Publications, 2005. Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies. Leiden University. Mededelingen van het ...
Africa. A Short History
Apr 01, 2007; ... HISTORY Robert O. Collins. Africa. A Short History. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2005. 250 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $68.95 Cloth. $24.95 Paper. In reviewing a one-volume history of Africa, one has to stand in awe at the courageous spirit that embarked on such ...
The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa/Mining in South Africa and the Genesis of Apartheid, 1871-1948/Apartheid, Repression and Dissent in the Mines, 1948-1982/Organize or Die
Apr 01, 2007; ... V. L. Allen. The History of Black Mineworkers in South Africa. London: Merlin Press, 2005. Bibliograpy. Index. Volume 1; Mining in South Africa and the Genesis of Apartheid, 1871-1948. xx + 491 pp. £40.00. Cloth. Volume 2: Apartheid, Repression and Dissent in the Mines, 1948-1982. xx + 489 pp ....
Myths and Realities in the Distribution of Socioeconomic Resources and Political Power in Ethiopia
Apr 01, 2007; ... Kasahun Woldemariam. Myths and Realities in the Distribution of Socioeconomic Resources and Political Power in Ethiopia. New York: University Press of America, 2006. 304 pp. Figures. Tables. Illustrations. Appendix. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $39.95. Paper. The field of Ediiopian ...
"Civil Disorder Is the Disease of Ibadan": Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City
Apr 01, 2007; ... Ruth Watson. "Civil Disorder Is the Disease of Ibadan": Chieftaincy and Civic Culture in a Yoruba City. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xii + 180 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper. "The past is always political" is a phrase I often invoke in class ...
Never Be Silent: Publishing and Imperialism in Kenya, 1884-1963
Apr 01, 2007; ... Shiraz Durrani. Never Be Silent: Publishing and Imperialism in Kenya, 1884-1963. London: Vita Books/Mau Mau Research Centre, 2006. xi + 272 pp. Bibliography. Index. £20.00. Paper. African historians in Kenya have long been familiar with Uhuru and the Kenya Indians by Dana April ...
Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880-1960
Apr 01, 2007; ... Kathleen R. Smythe. Fipa Families: Reproduction and Catholic Evangelization in Nkansi, Ufipa, 1880-1960. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2006. xxx + 202 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $89.95. Cloth. $29.95. Paper. Blinkers have their value, excluding distractions and keeping eyes ...
Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster
Apr 01, 2007; ... POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND GLOBALIZATION J. Millard Burr and Robert O. Collins, Darfur: The Long Road to Disaster. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006. xix + 340 pp. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $88.95. Cloth. $28.95. Paper. When the conflict in Darfur ...
Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics
Apr 01, 2007; ... Roger Southall and Henning Melber, eds. Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics. Cape Town: HSRC Press/Uppsala: Nordic Afrikainstitutet, 2006. xxvi + 350 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $24.95. Paper. Drawing on case studies from Anglophone ...
Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa
Apr 01, 2007; ... Francis B. Nyamnjoh. Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA/London: Zed Books, 2006. Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, New York, x + 273 pp. Notes. References. Index. $85.00. Cloth. $29.95. Paper. In this ...
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community/Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the Coloured Community of Zimbabwe
Apr 01, 2007; ... Mohamed Adhikari. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xv + 252 pp. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. $24.00. Paper. James Muzondidya. Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the ...
The Next Liberation Struggle: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Apr 01, 2007; ... John S. Saul. The Next Liberation Struggle: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa. Toronto: Between the Lines/Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press/New York: Monthly Review Press/London: The Merlin Press, 2005; 341 pp. Index. $21.95. Paper. In The Next ...
South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation
Apr 01, 2007; ... James J. Hentz. South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xii + 276 pp. Map. Tables. Photographs. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. As part of its foreign relations, the interaction between South Africa and ...
Africa and the World Trading System/Selected Issues of the Doha Agenda
Apr 01, 2007; ... Ademola Oyejide and William Lyakurwa, eds. Africa and the World Trading System. Volume 1: Selected Issues of the Doha Agenda. Trenton, N.J., and Asmara: Africa World Press, 2005. iii + 395 pp. Tables. Notes. References. Index. $29.95. Paper. Edited by two African scholars, this volume ...
Making Men in Ghana
Apr 01, 2007; ... WOMEN AND GENDER Stephan F. Miescher, Making Men in Ghana. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xxxii + 320 pp. Photographs. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. In the expansive literature on personal life narratives and oral historical method, Stephan ...
"To Subsidise My Income": Urban Farming in an East African Town
Apr 01, 2007; ... ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT Dick Foeken. "To Subsidise My Income": Urban Farming in an East African Town. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. Copyright by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, xvi + 224 pp. Maps. Photographs. Tables. Annexes. Footnotes. References. Index. $39.00 ....
Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa
Apr 01, 2007; ... Alcinda Honwana and Filip De Boeck, eds. Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xii + 244 pp. Photographs. References. Index. $29.95. Paper. Makers and Breakers fills several important gaps in African postcolonial studies ...
Children at Work: Child Labor Practices in Africa
Apr 01, 2007; ... GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY Anne Kielland and Maurizia Tovo. Children at Work: Child Labor Practices in Africa. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2006. xi + 191 pp. Tables. Figures. Photographs. Endnotes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95. Paper. $22.50. Cloth. Anne Kielland and ...
Of Global Concern: Rural Livelihood Dynamics and Natural Resource Governance
Apr 01, 2007; ... Kjell Havnevik, Tekeste Negash, and Atakilte Beyene, eds. Of Global Concern: Rural Livelihood Dynamics and Natural Resource Governance. Stockholm: SIDA, 2006. 263 pp. Tables. Figures. References. Appendix. Annex. List of acronyms. No price reported. Paper. This edited collection by ...
African Households: Censuses and Surveys
Apr 01, 2007; ... Etienne van de Walle, ed. African Households: Censuses and Surveys. Amonk, N.Y, and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2006. xxxix + 247 pp. Figures. Maps. Tables. References. Index. $104.95. Cloth. Peter Laslett first showed us the sociological information available in historical census data. African ...
Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania
Apr 01, 2007; ... Philip Porter. Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food Security in Tanga Region, Tanzania. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xi + 318 pp. Tables. Figures. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. This book synthesizes geographic, ...
The African AIDS Epidemic: A History/AIDS in Nigeria: A Nation on the Threshold
Apr 01, 2007; ... HEALTH AND DISEASE John Iliffe. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Athens: Ohio University Press/Oxford: James Currey/Cape Town: Double Storey Books, 2006. ix + 214 pp. Maps. Notes. Index. $24.95. Paper. Olusoji Adeyi et al., eds. AIDS in Nigeria: A Nation on the Threshold. Cambridge: ...
Life Skills, Sexual Maturation and Sanitation: What's (Not) Happening in Our Schools? An Exploratory Study from Kenya
Apr 01, 2007; ... Peter Mutunga and Julie Stewart. Life Skills, Sexual Maturation and Sanitation: What's (Not) Happening in Our Schools? An Exploratory Study from Kenya. Harare: Weaver Press/University of Zimbabwe, Women's Law Centre, 2003. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., 27 Park End Street, Oxford, ...
The Politics of AIDS in Africa
Apr 01, 2007; ... Amy S. Patterson. The Politics of AIDS in Africa. Boulder. Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. xii + 226 pp. Maps. Charts. Bibliography. Index. $52.00. Cloth. $19.95. Paper. Africa currently bears the brunt of HIV and AIDS. While twenty-five million Africans were living with HIV at ...
Tongnaab: The History of a West African God
Apr 01, 2007; ... RELIGION Jean Aliman and John Parker. Tongnaab: The History of a West African God. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xi + 299 pages. Maps. Photographs. Glossary. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00. Cloth. $24.95. Paper. As the subtitle makes clear, Tongnaab is the study of a ...
Christianity and Social Change in Africa. Essays in Honor of J. D. Y. Peel
Apr 01, 2007; ... Toyin Falola, ed. Christianity and Social Change in Africa. Essays in Honor of J. D. Y. Peel. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. 696 pp. Figures. Photographs. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. $65.00. Cloth. The title of this book should perhaps be reversed; it is as much a fitting ...
Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadis' Court of Brava, 1893-1900
Apr 01, 2007; ... Alessandra Vianello and Mohamed M. Kassim, eds. Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadis' Court ofBrava, 1893-1900. 2 volumes. Leiden: Brill, 2006. xviii + 2185 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendixes. Glossary. Bibliography. General Index. Index of Personal Names. $99.00 ....
A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination
Apr 01, 2007; ... Emmanuel M. Katongole. A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination. Scranton, Pa.: The University of Scranton Press, 2005. xix + 264 pp. Bibliography. Index. $25.00. Paper. Fundamental conceptual frameworks are changing in many fields. These transformations ...
African Mud Cloth. The Bogolanfini Art Tradition of Gneli Traoré of Mali
Apr 01, 2007; ... LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND THE ARTS Pascal James Imperato. African Mud Cloth. The Bogolanfini Art Tradition of Gneli Traore of Mali. Manhasset, N.Y.: Kilima House Publishers/Tenafly, N.J.: The African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, 2006. xvi + 103 pp. Photographs. References. Bibliography ....
Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance
Apr 01, 2007; ... Bayo Ogunjimi and Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah. Introduction to African Oral Literature and Performance. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xxi + 256 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper. This volume is basically a primer on the study of African oral literary genres, an ...
The Languages and Literatures of Africa
Apr 01, 2007; ... Alain Ricard. The Languages and Literatures of Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2004/Oxford: James Currey, n.d. x + 230 pp. Photographs. Maps. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. What speaks for this book, evidendy, is the broad experience in the field of African literature and ...
Jua Kali's Voyage on the Jade Sea/The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu
Apr 01, 2007; ... MEMOIRS AND BIOGRAPHY Ian Parker. Jua Kali's Voyage on the Jade Sea. Moray, Scotland: Librario Publishing Ltd., 2004. xi + 228 pp. Maps. Photographs. Notes. Index. Appendix. £21.00. Cloth. Kira Salak. The Crudest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, ...
Mandela: In Celebration of a Great Life. 2nd edition/A Prisoner in the Garden: Photos, Letters, and Notes from Nelson Mandela's 27 Years in Prison
Apr 01, 2007; ... Charlene Smith. Mandela: In Celebration of a Great Life. 2nd edition. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2003. 184 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $35.00. Cloth. Nelson Mandela Foundation. A Prisoner in the Garden: Photos, Letters, and Notes from Nelson Mandela's 27 Years in Prison. New ...
An African Trading Empire: The Story of Susman Brothers and Wulfsohn, 1901-2005
Apr 01, 2007; ... Hugh Macmillan. An African Trading Empire: The Story of Susman Brothers and Wulfsohn, 1901-2005. London and New York: LB. Tauris, 2005. Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, New York, ii + 492 pp. Maps. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $74.95. Cloth. In this detailed yet readable volume, ...
Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman
Apr 01, 2007; ... Geoffrey Nyarota. Against the Grain: Memoirs of a Zimbabwean Newsman. Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2006. Distributed by New Holland Publishing, Cape Town; www.zebrapress.co.za xvi + 352 pp. Photographs. Index. $29.95. Paper. Against the Grain honors ordinary Zimbabweans advancing the best ...
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links
Apr 01, 2007; ... DIASPORA Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005 xxii + 225 pp. Illustrations. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Cloth. Gwendolyn ...