The International Journal of African Historical Studies back issues from September 2006:
PASTORALISM, SLAVERY, COMMERCE, CULTURE AND THE FATE OF THE NUBIANS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL KORDOFAN UNDER DAR FUR RULE, ca. 1750-ca. 1850
Sep 01, 2006; ... The century that embraced the last half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth formed a critical period in the creation of the modern Sudan. For the eastern kingdom of Sinnar, centered in the Nile valley, this "Heroic Age" witnessed the rise of towns and a middle class at the ...
"LANDLORDS OF ONITSHA": URBAN LAND, ACCUMULATION, AND DEBATES OVER CUSTOM IN COLONIAL EASTERN NIGERIA, ca. 1880-1945*
Sep 01, 2006; ... Many scholars have explored how property, particularly urban land and housing, became a resource for economic accumulation for some Africans during the colonial period.1 The penetration of international commerce and the imposition of colonial rule led to commercialization of land in many parts ...
FASHIONING SEXUALITY: DESIRE, MANYEMA ETHNICITY, AND THE CREATION OF THE KANGA, ca. 1880-1900*
Sep 01, 2006; ... "The Manyuema are far more beautiful than either the bond or free of Zanzibar. I overhear the remark often, 'If we had Manyuema wives what beautiful children we should beget.'"1 Introduction Conceptions of the desirability of elite Manyema women probably differed greatly among ...
COUNTER-COUP IN LOURENÇO MARQUES: SEPTEMBER 1974
Sep 01, 2006; ... The long established rightwing dictatorship in Portugal was overthrown by a military coup led by General António de Spinola on 25 April 1974. One of the chief objectives of the so-called Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement) was to extricate the country from the wars of ...
MORE THAN RED RUBBER AND FIGURES ALONE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF THE MEMORY OF THE CONGO EXHIBITION AT THE ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA, TERVUREN, BELGIUM*
Sep 01, 2006; ... The conquest of the earth, ... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.1 A number of years ago a friend and I visited the Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren in Belgium. Guards in ill-fitting blue uniforms, modeled on those of the Congo Free State with golden epaulets ...
Litigants and Households: African Disputes and Colonial Courts in the French Soudan, 1895-1912
Sep 01, 2006; ... Litigants and Households: African Disputes and Colonial Courts in the French Soudan, 1895-1912. By Richard Roberts. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2005. Pp. xii, 309; maps. $99.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. In their introduction to Law in Colonial Africa (1991), Richard Roberts and Kristen Mann ...
Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Sep 01, 2006; ... Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. Edited by T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii, 417; 67 illustrations. $110.00. The European dimension of the African diaspora has been much less well studied than its American one, just as later ...
Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change
Sep 01, 2006; ... Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change. Edited Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. Lincoln, Nebr. and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. 336. $60.00/£45.95. Africanist scholars are known for applying multidisciplinary approaches to the ...
French Colonialism Unmasked, The Vichy Years in French West Africa
Sep 01, 2006; ... French Colonialism Unmasked, The Vichy Years in French West Africa. By Ruth Ginio. Lincoln, Nebr.: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 213. 8 Illustrations. $65.00 / £49.95. This lively, meticulously researched, well-written volume frontally confronts a hot button issue in ...
The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Maphumulo Uprising: War, Law and Ritual in the Zulu Rebellion. By Jeff Guy. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZuluNatal Press, 2005. Distributed by International Specialized Book Services, Portland, Oreg. Pp. xii, 276. $34.95 paper. This book examines the last part of what ...
South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sep 01, 2006; ... South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction. By Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. 313. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. In 1993, South Africa's President F. W. De Klerk, announced that it had fully dismantled its stockpile of six ...
Child Soldiers in Africa
Sep 01, 2006; ... Child Soldiers in Africa. By Alcinda Honwana. Ethnography of Political Violence series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 202. $45.00/£29.50 cloth. Alcinda Honwana addresses a difficult and necessary topic in her survey of child soldiers in Africa. Though the ...
Jews of a Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community
Sep 01, 2006; ... Jews of a Saharan Oasis: Elimination of the Tamantit Community. By John Hunwick. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener, 2006. Pp. viii, 91; 1 illustration. $68.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. An oft-invoked myth, current in academic circles as elsewhere, is that of the preZionist "Golden Era" between ...
Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe
Sep 01, 2006; ... Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial Zimbabwe. By Beverly Carolease Grier. Social History of Africa. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2006. Pp. xii, 284; 19 illustrations. $29.95 paper. Beverly Grier's monograph, Invisible Hands: Child Labor and the State in Colonial ...
Power & Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact of Globalization and Civil Society on Media-Government Relations
Sep 01, 2006; ... Power & Press Freedom in Liberia, 1830-1970: The Impact of Globalization and Civil Society on Media-Government Relations. By Carl Patrick Burrowes. Trenton, N.J. and Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 2004. Pp. vii, 312; 10 illustrations, 3 maps, 16 tables, notes, index, bibliography ....
Limits to Liberation after Apartheid: Citizenship, Governance and Culture
Sep 01, 2006; ... Limits to Liberation after Apartheid: Citizenship, Governance and Culture. Edited by Steven L. Robins. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford, U.K.: James Currey; Cape Town, So. Afr.: David Philip Publishers, 2005. Pp. x, 246; index, bibliography, illustrations. $49.95 cloth, $26.95 ...
Gouverner les sociétés africaines: Acteurs et institutions
Sep 01, 2006; ... Gouverner les sociétés africaines: Acteurs et institutions. Edited by Patrick Quantin. Coll. "L'Afrique politique," Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire. Paris: Editions Karthala, 2005. Pp. 337; tables, abbreviations. This work is the latest avatar of the collection of annual volumes put out ...
Simon Vengayi Muzenda and the Struggle for, and the Liberation of Zimbabwe
Sep 01, 2006; ... Simon Vengayi Muzenda and the Struggle for, and the Liberation of Zimbabwe. By Ngwabi Bhebe. Gweru, Zimbabwe: Mambo Press, 2004. Pp. 286; index. $24.95 paper. Biographies of living people have enormous constraints. If you let the subject speak for himself, the text essentially becomes an ...
A Hill among a Thousand: Transformations and Ruptures in Rural Rwanda
Sep 01, 2006; ... A Hill among a Thousand: Transformations and Ruptures in Rural Rwanda. By Danielle de Lame (Translated by Helen Arnold). Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture. Madison, Wisc. and Teruven, Belg.: The University of Wisconsin Press and Royal Museum for Central Africa, 2005. Pp. xix, ...
Food, Culture and Survival in an African City
Sep 01, 2006; ... Food, Culture and Survival in an African City. By Karen Coen Flynn. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xviii, 254; 32 illustrations. $22.95 paper. In Food, Culture and Survival in an African City, Karen Coen Flynn engages the challenge of describing experiences of food deprivation ...
Farmers and Townspeople in a Changing Nigeria: Abakaliki during Colonial Times (1905-1960)
Sep 01, 2006; ... Farmers and Townspeople in a Changing Nigeria: Abakaliki during Colonial Times (1905-1960). By Simon Ottenberg. Ibadan, Nigeria: Spectrum Books, 2005. Pp. xxi, 373; 3 maps, 23 photographs. In what Professor Ottenberg clearly means to be one of his last full-length studies of Igbo history ...
Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadi's Court of Brava 1893-1900
Sep 01, 2006; ... Servants of the Sharia: The Civil Register of the Qadi's Court of Brava 1893-1900. Edited by Alessandra Vianello and Mohamed M. Kassim. African Sources for African History Volume 6. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Volume I: Pp. xviii, 1-1169, 24 illustrations; Volume II: Pp. vii. 1172-2185, 10 appendices, ...
Danish Sources for the History of Ghana, 1657-1754
Sep 01, 2006; ... Danish Sources for the History of Ghana, 1657-1754. Edited by Ole Justesen; translated by James Manley. Fontes Historiae Africanae, Series Varia VIII. Copenhagen: Del Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2005. 2 vols. Pp. xxxviii, 1058; 4 maps. DKK 600 [about $105]. These two volumes ...
I Want to Dance and Other Poems
Sep 01, 2006; ... I Want to Dance and Other Poems. By Tenure Ojaide. San Francisco and Lagos, Nigeria: African Heritage Press, 2003; Pp. 89. $14.95 paper. Tanure Ojaide is among the most prolific modern African poets, and this collection is the thirteenth of his poetry volumes. He has discussed in several ...
Murambi, The Book of Bones: A Novel
Sep 01, 2006; ... Murambi, The Book of Bones: A Novel. By Boubacar Boris Diop. Translated by Fiona McLaughlin. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006. Original, Editions Stock, 2000. Pp. xix, 182. $16.95 paper. Murambi, The Book of Bones, is a novel that moves the soul. Knowing its ...
The Western Sahara Conflict: The Role of Natural Resources in Decolonization
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Western Sahara Conflict: The Role of Natural Resources in Decolonization. Edited by Claes Olsson. Current African Issues, No. 33. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2006. Pp. 31; map. SEK 90 paper. On April 30, 2006, the Kerr-McGee Corporation, a petroleum exploration and ...
Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community
Sep 01, 2006; ... Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community. By Mohamed Adhikari. Ohio University Research in International Studies, Africa Series no. 83. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 252. $24.00 paper. Mohamed Adhikari's most recent book ...
Léopold II, un roi génocidaire?
Sep 01, 2006; ... Léopold II, un roi génocidaire? By Michel Dumoulin. Mémoires de la Classe des Lettres, vol. 37. Brussels: Académie Royale de Belgique, 2005. Pp. 122. euro 17.00 paper. The deliberately provocative question that serves as the title of this slim volume stands out as an oddity for a piece ...
The African AIDS Epidemic: A History
Sep 01, 2006; ... The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. By John Iliffe. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: Double Storey, 2006. Pp. ix, 214; 4 maps. $55.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. John Iliffe's most recent book is a slim volume on a broad topic. The African AIDS Epidemic: A ...
Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000
Sep 01, 2006; ... Maize and Grace: Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop, 1500-2000. By James McCann. Cambridge, Mass, and London: Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 289. $27.95. One of the remarkable developments in Africa's agricultural geography since the early twentieth century is the ...
Liberia: The Violence of Democracy
Sep 01, 2006; ... Liberia: The Violence of Democracy. By Mary H. Moran. The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 190; 15 illustrations. $49.95 /£32.50. In Liberia: The Violence of Democracy, anthropologist Mary Moran uses a grassroots ...
"Gendered Social Relationships."
Sep 01, 2006; ... "Gendered Social Relationships." Edited by Marissa Moorman and Kathleen Sheldon. Revue Lusotopie: International Political Research on Spaces Stemming from Portuguese Colonization and History, vol. XII, nos. 1 and 2. Leiden/Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. Pp. 289. $66.00/euro ...
Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho
Sep 01, 2006; ... Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho. By Kate B. Showers. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. Pp. xxix, 346. $55.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. Kate Showers could hardly have chosen a more difficult topic to investigate than the history of soil erosion and conservation in ...
Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation
Sep 01, 2006; ... Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation. Second edition. By John Ruedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 325; 7 maps. $21.95 paper. The pioneering "first generation" of American historians studying Algeria's modern period prominently included, among ...
The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters between Maasai and Missionaries. By Dorothy L Hodgson. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xv, 307. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. This superb book is one of the best studies written on conversion to Christianity in an ...
The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa. By Elias K. Bongmba. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. x, 310. $69.95. The volume is a socioeconomic and political analysis of the "African crisis." It is also an attempt to define a new moral compass about how individuals relate to each ...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors and the State
Sep 01, 2006; ... Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African NGOs, Donors and the State. Edited by Jim Igoe and Tim Kelsall. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005. Pp. 309. $40.00/£33.00 paper. Over the past decade I have noticed an increase in the number of students engaged in fieldwork on NGOs and ...
The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria
Sep 01, 2006; ... The Pan-African Nation: Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria. By Andrew Apter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. x, 334; maps, charts, figures. $24.00/£17 paper. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation is something of a hybrid text, and this is meant in the spirit in ...
Historical Dictionary of Madagascar
Sep 01, 2006; ... Historical Dictionary of Madagascar, second edition. By Philip M. Alien and Maureen Covell. Historical Dictionaries of Africa, No. 98. Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press, 2005. Pp. lxxxiii, 420; 3 maps. $90.00. Historians, social scientists, and all others with an interest in Madagascar owe ...
An African Trading Empire: The Story of Susman Brothers & Wulfsohn, 1901-2005
Sep 01, 2006; ... An African Trading Empire: The Story of Susman Brothers & Wulfsohn, 1901-2005. By Hugh Macmillan. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. Pp. xii, 492; 16 illustrations. $74.95. In An African Trading Empire Hugh Macmillan presents a detailed history of a family business, commenced in western ...
I Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
Sep 01, 2006; ... I Laugh So I Won't Cry: Kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives. By Helena Halperin. Trenton, NJ.: Africa World Press, 2005. Pp. xxii, 350. $29.95 paper. In I Laugh So I Won't Cry, Helena Halperin documents ways in which Kenyan women of all ranks have tended to view their own ...
Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana
Sep 01, 2006; ... Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana. By Julie Livingston. African Systems of Thought. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp.xii, 310; 13 illustrations. $65.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana, Julie Livingston's first book, offers a ...
Entretiens avec Bala Kanté: Une chronique du Manding du XXème siecle
Sep 01, 2006; ... Entretiens avec Bala Kanté: Une chronique du Manding du XXème siecle. Edited by Jan Jansen and Mountaga Diarra. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006. Pp. 155; b/w photos 10. $55.00/euro55 paper. Between 1999 and 2002, during sporadic visits to a Mandé village in the Malian region of West ...
Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines
Sep 01, 2006; ... Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines. By Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer. New York: St. Martin's Press. Pp. xvi, 367. $26.95. Rwanda Means the Universe is about Louise Mushikiwabo's memories of both the 1994 Rwanda genocide and her own family's history ....
Undermining Development: The Absence of NGO Power among Local NGOs in Africa
Sep 01, 2006; ... Undermining Development: The Absence of NGO Power among Local NGOs in Africa. By Sarah Michael. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press 2004. Pp. xi; 206. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Based upon its title, I expected Michael's book to engage innovatively with the literature on power ...
Negotiating Power and Privilege: Igbo Career Women in Contemporary Nigeria
Sep 01, 2006; ... Negotiating Power and Privilege: Igbo Career Women in Contemporary Nigeria. By Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 230. $26.00 paper. Negotiating Power and Privilege explores the link between Igbo women's access to schooling and paid employment, ...
A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania
Sep 01, 2006; ... A History of the Excluded: Making Family a Refuge from State in Twentieth-Century Tanzania. By James L. Giblin. Eastern African Studies. Athens: Ohio University Press and Oxford: James Currey, 2005. Pp. xii, 304, maps, tables, illustrations. $55.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. The "excluded" in ...
L'Africa nella collezione fotografica dell'IsIAO: il fondo Eritrea-Etiopia [Africa in the Photo Collection of the IsIAO: The Eritrea and Ethiopia Collection)
Sep 01, 2006; ... L'Africa nella collezione fotografica dell'IsIAO: il fondo Eritrea-Etiopia [Africa in the Photo Collection of the IsIAO: The Eritrea and Ethiopia Collection). By Silvana Palma. Rome: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente-Italian Institute for Africa and Asia, 2005. Pp. 690; 108 photographs ....
Wir haben Spuren hinterlassen! Die DDR in Mosambik: Erlebnisse, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse aus drei Jahrzehnten
Sep 01, 2006; ... Wir haben Spuren hinterlassen! Die DDR in Mosambik: Erlebnisse, Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse aus drei Jahrzehnten. Edited by Matthias Voß. Die DDR und Dritte Welt (The GDR and the Third World Series) Vol. 6. Muenster: Lit Verlag, 2005. Pp. 604. euro 29.90 paper. Aware that their own ...