Africa Today Volume 51 Number 1Fall 2004 Number 2Winter 2004 Number 3Youth and Citizenship in East Africa Number 4 Summer 2005

CONTENTS Volume 51, Number 1 Fall 2004

Susanne Freidberg and Leah Horowitz Converging Networks and Clashing Stories: South Africa’s Agricultural Biotechnology Debate / 3 Kobena T. Hanson Rethinking the Akan Household: Acknowledging the Importance of Culturally and Linguistically Meaningful Images / 27 Aaron Mushengyezi Reimaging Gender and African Tradition? Ousmane Sembène’s Xala Revisited / 47 Claire Metelits Reformed Rebels? Democratization, Global Norms, and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army / 65 Christiane Dika Nsangue Akwa The Feedback Phenomenon in the Cameroonian Press, 1990–1993 / 85 Lynda R. Day What’s Tourism Got to Do With It? The Yaa Asantewa Legacy and Development in Asanteman / 99 Book Reviews Gregory H. Maddox Eroding the Commons: The Politics of Ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890–1963. David Anderson / 114 Claude Welch Beyond State Crisis? Postcolonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia in Comparative Perspective. Mark R. Beissinger and Crawford Young, eds. / 116 Elizabeth L. Normandy A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and Culture in the New Malawi. Harri Englund, ed. / 118 James S. Wunsch Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa. Lyn S. Graybill / 120

John Gartley Media and Resistance Politics: The Alternative Press in Namibia, 1960–1990. William Heuva / 122 Margaret Snyder Once Intrepid Warriors: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Politics of Maasai Development. Dorothy L. Hodgson / 124 Hanan Sabea The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa. Paulin J. Hountondji / 126 Andrew F. Clark Africa’s Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. David Leonard and Scott Strauss / 129 Barnett Singer West African Responses to European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam / 131 Smile Dube The Inconvenient Indigenous: Remote Area Development, Donor Assistance, and the First People of the Kalahari. Sidsel Saugestad / 133 Howard P. Lehman Security and Politics in South Africa: The Regional Dimension. Peter Vale / 136 Deborah Durham Creating Germans Abroad: Cultural Policies and National Identity in Namibia. Daniel Joseph Walther / 138 Elsabet W. Giorgis Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia. Bahru Zewde / 140 Books Received / 143 Contributors / 144

CONTENTS Volume 51, Number 2 Winter 2004

Ann May and J. Terrence McCabe City Work in a Time of AIDS: Maasai Labor Migration in Tanzania Carolyn Martin Shaw Turning Her Back on the Moon: Virginity, Sexuality, and Mothering in the Works of Yvonne Vera Gavin M. Hilson Structural Adjustment in Ghana: Assessing the Impacts of Mining-Sector Reform A. Graham Tipple, with Stephen E. Owusu and Columbus Pritchard User-Initiated Extensions in Government-Built Estates in Ghana and Zimbabwe: Unconventional but Effective Housing Supply Krista Johnson The Politics of AIDS Policy Development and Implementation in Postapartheid South Africa BOOK REVIEWS Julian Kunnie Workers, War &the Origins of Apartheid: Labour & Politics in South Africa, 1939­48. Peter Alexander Frank A. Salamone The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa. Nahas Angula and B. F. Bankie

Elaine Windrich From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa’s Evolving Security Challenges. Mwesiga Baregu and Christopher Landsberg Richard F. Weisfelder The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa. Clifton Crais Charles M. Becker Transnationalism & New African Immigration to South Africa. Jonathan Crush and David McDonald Louise M. Bourgault Creolisations in Nigerian Theatre. Victor Samson Dugga Ch. Didier Gondola In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa, 1885­1960. Christraud M. Geary Mark L. Lilleleht Black African Literature in English, 1992­1996. Bernth Lindfors Stephan F. Miescher Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: “How to Play the Game of Life.” Stephanie Newell Books Received Contributors

CONTENTS Volume 51, Number 3 Spring 2005

Youth and Citizenship in East Africa

Thomas Burgess Introduction to Youth and Citizenship in East Africa Thomas Burgess The Young Pioneers and the Rituals of Citizenship in Revolutionary Zanzibar Eileen Moyer Street-Corner Justice in the Name of Jah: Imperatives for Peace among Dar es Salaam Street Youth Timothy H. Parsons No More English than the Postal System: The Kenya Boy Scout Movement and the Transfer of Power Andrew M. Ivaska Of Students, “’Nizers,” and a Struggle over Youth: Tanzania’s 1966 National Service Crisis Carol Summers Young Buganda and Old Boys: Youth, Generational Transition, and Ideas of Leadership in Buganda, 1920–1949 BOOK REVIEWS Charles W. Weber Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe. J. M. Burns Kimberly Lanegran Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: Malevolent Geographies. Glen S. Elder

Margaret L. Brown History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770–1822. Pier Larson Joseph McLaren The Heart of Redness: A Novel. Zakes Mda Lidwien Kapteijns Historical Dictionary of Somalia. Mohamed Haji Mukhtar Richard Peck Local Governance in Africa: The Challenges of Democratic Decentralization. Dele Olowu and James S. Wunsch David Schoenbrun Political Power in pre-Colonial Buganda: Economy, Society & Warfare in the Nineteenth Century. Richard Reid Pia Thielmann Critical Essays on Bessie Head. Maxine Sample Philip L. Kilbride The Children of Africa Confront AIDS. Arvind Singhal and W. Stephen Howard Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley Gender, Development and Poverty. Caroline Sweetman Books Received Contributors

CONTENTS Volume 51, Number 4 Summer 2005

Karen Tranberg Hansen Getting Stuck in the Compound: Some Odds against Social Adulthood in Lusaka, Zambia / 3 Fiona C. Ross Urban Development and Social Contingency: A Case Study of Urban Relocation in the Western Cape, South Africa / 19 Shannon M. Jackson Cape Colonial Architecture, Town Planning, and the Crafting of Modern Space in South Africa / 33 Liv Haram “Eyes Have No Curtains”: The Moral Economy of Secrecy in Managing Love Affairs among Adolescents in Northern Tanzania in the Time of AIDS / 57 Alex Perullo Hooligans and Heroes: Youth Identity and Hip-Hop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / 75 BOOK REVIEWS Nate Plageman Boundaries of Self and Other in Ghanaian Popular Culture / 102 Joseph K. Adjaye

Inge Brinkman Young Soldiers. Why They Choose to Fight Rachel Brett and Irma Specht / 104 Shane Graham Writing as Resistance: Life Stories of Imprisonment, Exile, and Homecoming from Apartheid South Africa Paul Gready Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid Mark Sanders / 106 Richard Peck Politics in Francophone Africa Victor T. Le Vine / 109 Thomas Ofcansky Ethiopia since the Derg: A Decade of Democratic Pretension and Performance  Siegfried Pausewang, et al. / 111 Jonathan Haynes Focus on African Films Françoise Pfaff, ed. / 112 Kate M. Schroeder The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources 3rd edition. Hans M. Zell, ed. / 114 Books Received / 116 Contributors / 117