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CONTENTS Volume 50, Number 1 Spring/Summer 2003
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Paul Darby Africa, the FIFA Presidency, and the Governance of World Football: 1974, 1998, and 2002 / 3 Janet Berry Hess Imagining Architecture II: "Treasure Storehouses" and Constructions of Asante Regional Hegemony / 27 William F. S. Miles Shari'a as De-Africanization: Evidence from Hausaland / 51 Diri I. Teilanyo The Use of Bombast in Nigeria: The Examples of Icheoku and Masquerade / 77 Ian E. A. Yeboah Demographic and Housing Aspects of Structural Adjustment and Emerging Urban Form in Accra, Ghana / 107 Book Reviews Nonso Okereafoezeke Human Rights in Africa: The Conflict of Implementation. Richard Amoako Baah / 121 Robert Launay Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power and Schooling in a West African Muslim Society. Louis Brenner / 123 K. T. Tuchscherer Historical Dictionary of Liberia. D. Elwood Dunn, Amos J. Beyan, and Carl Patrick Burrowes / 124 F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Dollar Capitalism. Tony Hodges / 127 |
Felix Ekechi "Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Dorothy L. Hodgson and Shirley A. McCurdy / 131 Karen A. Porter Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa-Ganga / 133 Allen F. Roberts Prayer Has Spoiled Everything: Possession, Power, and Identity in an Islamic Town of Niger. Adeline Masquelier / 137 Anthonia C. Kalu Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas. Anuradha Dingwaney Needham / 139 John W. Harbeson Brothers at War: Making Sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. Tekeste Negash and Kijtel Tronvoll / 141 Scott S. Reese Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora. Ronald Segal / 143 Obed Nkunzimana The Desert Shore: Literatures of the Sahel. Christopher Wise / 145 Books Received / 150 Contributors / 153 |
CONTENTS Volume 50, Number 2 Fall/Winter 2003
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Special Issue: Oral Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge Preface / vii Kofi Anyidoho The Back Without Which There Is No Front / 3 D. A. Masolo Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledge: An African Perspective / 21 Sandra E. Greene Whispers and Silences: Explorations in African Oral History / 41 Babacar Fall Orality and Life Histories: Rethinking the Social and Political History of Senegal / 55 Bill Derman Cultures of Development and Indigenous Knowledge: The Erosion of Traditional Boundaries / 67 Book Reviews Richard Peck Globalization and Emerging Trends in African States' Foreign Policy-Making Process: A Comparative Perspective of Southern Africa. Korwa Gombe Adar and Rok Ajulu / 87 Inge Brinkman Women in African Colonial Histories. Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi / 89 Kwamina Panford Land, Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana: A Critique of Land Policy Under Neo-Liberalisation. Kojo Sebastian Amanor / 90 Willliam McConnell Politics, Property and Production in the West African Sahel: Understanding Natural Resources Management. T. A. Benjaminsen and C. Lund / 92 |
Aran S. MacKinnon Historical Dictionary of Swaziland. Alan Booth / 97 Patrick J. Furlong The London Missionary Society in Southern Africa, 1799-1999: Historical Essays in Celebration of the Bicentenary of the LMS in Southern Africa. John De Gruchy / 99 Kasongo M. Kapanga Little Boys Come from the Stars. Emmanuel Dongala / 101 Jeremy Rich Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa. Eugenia Herbert / 103 Donald Crummey Property Rights and Political Development in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Sandra Fullerton Joireman / 105 Allan D. Cooper Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa's Political Reconstruction. Heinz Klug / 107 Derrick K. Gondwe African Friends and Money Matters. David Maranz / 108 Mathurin Houngnikpo The Imperial Mantle: The United States, Decolonization, and the Third World. David Newson / 110 Charles Sugnet Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa. Anthony O'Brien / 112 Books Received / 115 Contributors / 116 |
CONTENTS Volume 50, Number 3 Spring 2004
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Aili Mari Tripp The Changing Face of Authoritarianism in Africa: The Case of Uganda / 3 J. Oloka-Onyango "New-Breed" Leadership, Conflict, and Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa: A Sociopolitical Biography of Uganda's Yoweri Kaguta Museveni / 29 Wa'Njogu J. Kiarie Language and Multiparty Democracy in Multiethnic Kenya / 55 Annelies Verdoolaege & Paul Kerstens The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Belgian Lumumba Commission: A Comparison / 75 Adekeye Adebajo Africa, African-Americans, and the Avuncular Sam / 93 Anita Pandey "Woman Palava No Be Small, Woman Wahala No Be Small": Linguistic Gendering and Patriarchal Ideology in West African Fiction / 113 Book Reviews Daniel B. Reed Performing the Nation: Swahili Music and Cultural Politics in Tanzania. Kelly M. Askew. / 139 Allen F. Roberts Same and Other: Negotiating African Identity in Cultural Production. Maria Eriksson Baaz and Mai Palmberg. / 140 |
Kodzo Gavua Chiefs Know their Boundaries: Essays on Property, Power, and the Past in Asante. Sara S. Berry. / 142 Eiman Zein-Elabdin Endangered Peoples of Africa and the Middle East: Struggles to Survive and Thrive. Robert K. Hitchcock and Alan Osborn. / 144 Stephen A. Harmon Dialogue Avec Abdoulaye Ly: Historien et Homme Politique Sénégalais. IFAN Ch. A. Diop. / 145 Richard Priebe Meditations on African Literature. Dubem Okafor. / 148 Timothy Scarnecchia The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe. Michael O. West. / 150 Jay Spaulding African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History. Luise White, Stephan F. Miescher, and David William Cohen. / 152 Books Received / 154 Contributors / 155 |
CONTENTS Volume 50, Number 4 Summer 2004
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Special Issue: Security, Socioecology, Polity
Melissa Leach Introduction to Special Issue: Security, Socioecology, Polity: Mande Hunters, Civil Society, and Nation-States in Contemporary West Africa / vii Joseph Hellweg Encompassing the State: Sacrifice and Security in the Hunters' Movement of Côte d'Ivoire / 3 Thomas J. Bassett Containing the Donzow: The Politics of Scale in Côte d'Ivoire / 31 Sten Hagberg Political Decentralization and Traditional Leadership in the Benkadi Hunters' Association in Western Burkina Faso / 51 Mariane C. Ferme and Danny Hoffman Hunter Militias and the International Human Rights Discourse in Sierra Leone and Beyond / 73 Karim Traoré The Intellectuals and the Hunters: Reflections on the Conference "La Rencontre des Chasseurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest" / 97 Book Reviews Nick Fobih Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau. Adekeye Adebajo / 112 Gorm Gunnarsen We Are the Poors: Community Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Ashwin Desai / 114 |
James Quirin The Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia: Essays in History and Social Anthropology. Donald L. Donham and Wendy James, eds. / 116 Norma J. Kriger State, Society and Democracy: A Reader in Namibian Politics. C. Keulder, ed. / 118 Steven Kyle Reforming Agricultural Markets in Africa. Mylene Kheralla, Christopher Delgado, Eleni Gabre-Mahdin, Nicholas Minot, and Michael Johnson / 120 John Gartley War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist. Benjamin Pogrund / 122 Nelson Kasfir From Guerrillas to Government: The Eritrean People's Liberations Front. David Pool / 124 Bichaka Fayissa Aid and Poverty Reduction in Zambia: Mission Unaccomplished. Oliver Saasa / 126 Alphonse Otieno Cutting the Vines of the Past: Environmental Histories of the Central African Rain Forest. Tamara Giles-Vernick / 129 Sandra Chait The Stone Virgins. Yvonne Vera / 132 Books Received / 135 Contributors / 137 |
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