Africa Today Volume 53 Number 1Fall 2006 Number 2Creating the Kenya Post-Colony

CONTENTS Volume 53, Number 1 Fall 2006

Mahir Saul Islam and West African Anthropology/3 Piet Konings Solving Transportation Problems in African Cities: Innovative Responses by the Youth in Douala, Cameroon/35 John Kemoli Sagala HIV/AIDS and the Military in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impact on Military Organizational Effectiveness/53 Katherine A. Snyder Mothers on the March: Iraqw Women Negotiating the Public Sphere in Tanzania/79 Leander Schneider The Maasai’s New Clothes: A Developmentalist Modernity and Its Exclusions/101 Book Reviews I. William Zartman Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition, Gretchen Bauer and Scott D. Taylor/132 Tim Carmichael Leaf of Allah: Khat and Agricultural Transformation in Harerge Ethiopia, 1875–1991, Ezekiel Gebissa/134

Noel Leo Erskine Ghana’s New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalizing African Economy, Paul Gifford/137 Akin Adesokan The Press and Political Culture in Ghana, Jennifer Hasty/139 William A. Munro Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Southern Africa, Robert Hitchcock and Diana Vinding (editors)/141 Erin E. Stiles Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis, Hsain Ilahiane/144 Klaas van Walraven Western Sahara: Anatomy of a Stalemate, Erik Jensen/146 Barbara M. Cooper Concubines and Power: Five Hundred Years in a Northern Nigerian Palace, Heidi J. Nast/147 Books Received/150 Contributors/151

CONTENTS Volume 53, Number 2 Winter 2006

Special Issue: Creating the Kenya Post-Colony Nic Cheeseman Introduction: Political Linkage and Political Space in the Era of Decolonization/3 Daniel Branch Loyalists, Mau Mau, and Elections in Kenya: The First Triumph of the System, 1957-1958/27 Mathew Carotenuto Riwruok E Teko: Cultivating Identity in Colonial and Postcolonial Kenya/53 Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle Universal Claims and Selective Memory: A Comparative Perspective on the Culture of Opposition in Kenya/75 Stephen Orvis Conclusion: Bringing Institutions Back into the Study of Kenya and Africa/95 Book Reviews Michael H. Allen State of the Nation: South Africa 2005-2006, ed. Sakhela Buhlungu, John Daniel, Roger Southall, and Jessica Lutchman/111 Katharina Schramm Dilemmas of Culture in African Schools: Youth, Nationalism, and the Transformation of Knowledge, by Cati Coe/113 Jan-Bart Gewald On the Fringes of History: A Memoir, by Philip D. Curtin/115 Goran Hyden Central Africa: Crises, Reform and Reconstruction, ed. E.S.D. Fomin and John Forje/117

Robert Ross Nachituti’s Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa, by David M. Gordon/118 Katherine A. Snyder The Church of Women: Gendered Encounters Between Maasai and Missionaries, by Dorothy L. Hodgson/120 Gretchen Walsh Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources, by Alfred Kagan/122 Mary Nyangweso Wangila The Vitality of Karamojong Religion: Dying Tradition or Living Faith?, by Ben Knighton/124 Katherine M. Homewood Politics in Land and Water Management: Study in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, by Fred Simon Lerise/126 Allan D. Cooper Southern Africa in World Politics, by Janice Love/129 Richard L. Peck South Africa’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, by Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess/131 Karen Tranberg Hanson Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City, ed. AbdouMaliq Simone & Abdelghani Abouhani/133 Books Received/135 Contributors/136

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