Recently added articles from Ufahamu : Journal of the African Activist Association:

Editors' Introduction

Jan 01, 2007; Foulds, Kim; Haight, Cody ... This double issue of Ufahamu marks the beginning of the renewed partnership between the journal and the African Activist Association. To follow their 2006 conference, entitled "Soccer, Nationalism, and Globalization," as well as the 2006 African Cup of Nations and World Cup Finals, the first ...

"Angola Is Not Just about Oil, War and Poverty": Reflections on Angolan Soccer, Nationalism and the Run to the 2006 World Cup Finals

Jan 01, 2007; Cleveland, Todd ... Abstract Prior to Angola's initial qualification for the 2006 World Cup Finals, internationally the country was largely known only for its prodigious oil reserves, protracted civil war (1975-2002), copious landmines, pervasive corruption, and rampant poverty amidst mind-boggling wealth ....

Tanzania's New National Stadium and the Rhetoric of Development

Jan 01, 2007; Sortijas, Steve ... This paper looks at current discourse on Tanzania's new National Stadium and situates it in the context of Tanzania's aspirations in the realms of international football and international development. The new National Stadium, built in part with foreign aid, is generally depicted as a marker for ...

Moving the Goalposts: The Impact of Soccer on the Lives and Prospects of Girls and Young Women in Rural Kenya

Jan 01, 2007; Forde, Sarah; Kendall-Taylor, Andrea ... Abstract 'Sport and development' is increasingly utilized as a tool for social change in Africa. However there is very little published work available on the effectiveness of this approach and it therefore remains an unproven method in mainstream development practice. This paper ...

Jamais une grève de football (never a soccer strike): A Reflection on Soccer at a Senegalese University

Jan 01, 2007; Nesper, Emma ... Abstract This reflective piece considers the symbolic place of soccer within the institutional framework of I'Universite Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal. Considering sport as an arena for discourse, I explore notions of identity and national imagination as they are played out on ...

Review of Paul Darby's Africa, Football, and FIFA: Politics, Colonialism, and Resistance

Jan 01, 2007; Mirmotahari, Emad ... When reading Paul Darby's Africa, Football, and FIFA: Politics, Colonialism, and Resistance, I could not help reminiscing about a central problematic in historical scholarship that I encountered in my early studies. I took a seminar entitled 'Historiography and Revolutionary France', in which we ...

Review of Dosunmu and Robinson's The African Game

Jan 01, 2007; Foulds, Kim ... To celebrate the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations in Cairo and the 2006 World Cup in Germany, filmmaker and photographer Andrew Dosunmu and writer Knox Robinson joined forces with PUMA North America to create The African Game, a pictorial representation of soccer in Africa. Focusing specifically on ...

Women Subjugating Women: Re-Reading Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter and Scarlet Song

Jan 01, 2007; Mutunda, Sylvester ... Abstract Mainstream feminist scholarship attributes the dominance of patriarchal ideology in African society to the activities of men, while regarding women as innocent victims of patriarchal authority. However, a close reading of texts by some African women writers like Manama Bâ, ...

Colonizing the Mahadra: Language, Identity, and Power in Mauritania Under French Control

Jan 01, 2007; Pettigrew, Erin ... Abstract With its ancient cities renowned for their private libraries filled with manuscripts with content reflecting the history of the trans-Saharan realm, the territory once known as Bilad al-Shinqit, now Mauritania, was home to a rich history of scholarly tradition. As contact ...

The Sénégal 2000 Research Program(i)

Jan 01, 2007; Diop, Momar Coumba ... Abstract This article is an overview of the principal accomplishments of the research program known as the "Sénégal 2000 project," which undertook an examination and analysis of Senegalese state and society at the dawn of the new century. A team of social scientists and historians of ...

An Octosyllabic Kuria Praise Poem

Jan 01, 2007; Mwita, Leonard Chacha ... Abstract This paper examines Kuria praise poetry from a prosodic point of view. It argues that though the poem is delivered at great speed, it follows well laid out rhythmic patterns. Further, it claims that the poem is fundamentally a syllabic verse, that is, a verse in which syllable ...