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Volume 49, Number 1 Spring 2002
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Special Issue: Women, Language, and Law in Africa
Beverly J. Stoeltje with Kathryn Firmin-Sellers and Okello Ogwang Introduction to Special Issue: Women, Language, and Law in Africa / vii Ulrike Wanitzek The Power of Language in the Discourse on Women's Rights: Some Examples from Tanzania / 3 Samuel Obeng and Beverly J. Stoeltje Women's Voices in Akan Juridical Discourse / 21 Gracia Clark Market Association Leaders' Strategic Use of Language and Narrative in Market Disputes and Negotiations in Kumasi, Ghana / 43 Anne Griffiths Women's Worlds, Siblings in Dispute over Inheritance: A View from Botswana / 61 Jane E. Goodman "Stealing Our Heritage?": Women's Folksongs, Copyright Law, and the Public Domain in Algeria / 85 Book Reviews Hannington Ochwada "I Will Not Eat Stone": A Women's History of Colonial Asante. Jean Allman and Victoria Tashjian / 99 Margaret Snyder Is Uganda an Emerging Economy?. Arne Bigsten and Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa / 101 |
Charles Sugnet Subject to Colonialism: African Self-Fashioning and the Colonial Library. Gaurav Desai / 103 Brian C. Vivian Asante Identities: History and Modernity in an African Village 1850-1950. T.C. McCaskie / 107 John Boye Ejobowah The Changing Forms of Identity Politics in Nigeria under Economic Adjustment: The Case of the Oil Minorities Movement of the Niger Delta. Cyril I. Obi / 108 Mary Johnson Osirim African Women and Children: Crisis and Response. Apollo Rwomire / 110 Richard Peck The Nation and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa. Tirop Peter Simatei / 113 Nonso Okereafoezeke Yoruba Hometowns: Community, Identity, and Development in Nigeria. Lillian Trager / 115 David E. Skinner France, the United States, and the Algerian War. Irwin M. Wall / 118 Christopher J. Colvin The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State. Richard Wilson / 119 Books Received / 121 Contributors / 123 Price: $16.95 |
CONTENTS Volume 49, Number 2 Summer 2002
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Special Issue: Women, Language, and Law in Africa, Part 2
Beverly J. Stoeltje Introduction to Women, Language, and Law in Africa II: Gender and Relations of Power / vii Dorothy L. Hodgson Women's Rights as Human Rights: Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF) / 3 Loveness H. Schafer True Survivors: East African Refugee Women / 29 Susan F. Hirsch The Power of Participation: Language and Gender in Tanzanian Law Reform Campaigns / 51 Linda Semu Kamuzu's Mbumba: Malawi Women's Embeddedness to Culture in the Face of International Political Pressure and Internal Legal Change / 77 Lynn S. Khadiagala Justice and Power in the Adjudication of Women's Property Rights in Uganda / 101 Laurel L. Rose Women's Strategies for Customary Land Access in Swaziland and Malawi: A Comparative Study / 123 Book Reviews Shane Graham The South African Truth Commission. Kenneth Christie / 151 |
Robert B. Charlick Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory. Kevin C. Dunn and Timothy M. Shaw / 153 Gilbert M. Khadiagala South Africa's Brittle Peace: The Problem of Post-Settlement Violence. Pierre du Toit / 155 Catherine Elkins The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War. Stephen Ellis / 157 Sidney L. Harring South Africa's Treaties in Theory and Practice. Jacqueline A. Kalley / 159 Jeremy Rich Political Legitmacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food. Michael Schatzberg / 161 Diana Wylie Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History. Benjamin Stora / 163 Dalvan M. Coger National Law and International Human Rights Law: Cases of Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe. Onkemetse Tshosa / 165 Shane Graham Without a Name and Under the Tongue. Yvonne Vera / 166 Books Received / 168 Contributors / 171 Price: $16.95 |
CONTENTS Volume 49, Number 3 Fall 2002
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H. S. Bhola Reclaiming Old Heritage for Proclaiming Future History: The Knowledge-for-Development Debate in African Contexts / 3 Cati Coe Educating an African Leadership: Achimota and the Teaching of African Culture in the Gold Coast / 23 Jennifer Hasty Rites of Passage, Routes of Redemption: Emancipation Tourism and the Wealth of Culture / 47 John C. McCall Madness, Money, and Movies: Watching a Nigerian Popular Video with the Guidance of a Native Doctor / 79 Manuel Ruiz Pérez, Ousseynou Ndoye, Antoine Eyebe, and Danielle Lema Ngono A Gender Analysis of Forest Product Markets in Cameroon / 97 Book Reviews Sue Standing Oral Traditions and Aesthetic Transfer: Creativity and Social Vision in Contemporary Black Poetry. Charles Bodunde / 127 Jean-Godefroy Bidima Foundations of an African Ethic: Beyond the Universal Claims of Western Morality. Bénézet Bujo / 129 |
James Cobbe Women Informal Traders in Harare and the Struggle for Survival in an Environment of Economic Reforms. Rodreck Mupedziswa and Perpetua Gumbo / 131 Michael O. West The Skull Beneath the Skin: Africa after the Cold War. Mark Huband / 132 Susan Linnee The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali A. Mazrui / 134 Allen F. Roberts Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. Lyn Schumaker / 136 Axel Harneit-Sievers Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria. Rotimi T. Suberu / 138 Books Received / 141 Contributors / 143 Price: $13.25 |
CONTENTS Volume 49, Number 4 Winter 2002
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Nicodemus Fru Awasom Politics and Constitution-Making in Francophone Cameroon, 1959-1960 / 3 Hannah E. Britton Coalition Building, Election Rules, and Party Politics: South African Women's Path to Parliament / 33 Emily Frank A Participatory Approach for Local Level Peace Initiatives: The Lodwar Border Harmonization Meeting / 69 Zine Magubane Globalization and the South African Transformation: The Impact on Social Policy / 89 Helen Meyer Educational Partnerships and Democratic Education in Namibia / 113 Book Reviews Sharon Gramby-Sobukwe The Colour of Business: Managing Diversity in South Africa. Kanya Adam / 133 Richard Peck The New South Africa. Guy Arnold / 135 Michael J. C. Echeruo African Diaspora & Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin. Chinosole / 137 Adria LaViolette African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective. Graham Connah / 139 |
Mustafah Dhada The Origins of the Angolan Civil War: Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict. Fernando Andersen Guimarães / 141 Opolot Okia People Versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century. Ted Robert Gurr / 143 Catherine Elkins Salaula: The World of Secondhand Clothing and Zambia. Karen Tranberg Hansen / 144 Kisangani F. Emizet Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective. John Mukum Mbaku / 146 Inge Brinkman African Spirituality: Forms, Meanings, and Expressions. Jacob K. Olupona / 148 Peter Pels East African Expressions of Christianity. Thomas Spear and Isaria N. Kimambo / 150 Christopher J. Colvin The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma: The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa. Rijk Van Dijk, Ria Reis, and Marja Spierenburg / 152 Frank A. Salamone The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World. Albert Wertheim / 154 Books Received / 156 Contributors / 159 |
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