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Book SynopsisThe author provides evidence to question many common assumptions about land degradation.What impact do displaced people and refugees have on the place where they eke out a living from resources under pressure? Gaim Kibreab questions the degree of impact on land degradation by war-displaced Eritreans on the Gedaref region of the Sudan. Was land degradation on and around the scheme really due to humans and their livestock? North America: Africa World Press/Red Sea PressTrade Review...it is one of the best in-depth studies of land use in Africa that I have come across, and it is certainly important to demonstrate in detail how non-demographic factors are the ultimate causes of resource depletion. - -- Tim Allen, London School of EconomicsThis study is an excellent in depth study of land use and it demonstrates clearly just how non-demographic factors can affect, indeed cause, resource depletion... .This is valuable, useful and an involved work. Gaim Kibreab's final, more optimistic, point deserves to be repeated. The refugees at Qala en Nahal, despite the physical and institutional constraints, have demonstrated extraordinary resilience and abilities to survive, they have found ways of leading a meaningful life. People on the Edge, as Gaim Kibreab hopes, has provided some of the explanations of how they managed to do this. - -- Patrick Gilkes * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsOvercultivation and land degradation on the Qala en Nahal scheme; change in vegetation resources; decline in crop yields; the impact of woodfuel use on environmental degradation; overstocking and the problem of overgrazing of range resources; institutions and resource management systems in Eritea - the refugees' resources on the scheme; ecological perception and conservation; population pressure and resource depletion; the farmers' response to land degradation; environmental degradation and predisposition to change; farmers' responses to ACORDs natural resource programmes; conclusion.

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Book SynopsisRich ethnographic studies expanding the understanding of ngoma in Africa.The indigenous African healing system of music, dance, possession and trance is perhaps best known through John Janzen's book Ngoma: Discourse of Healing in Central and Southern Africa. This collection engages with Janzen'sanalysis and examines ngoma in its culturally diverse manifestations. North America: Ohio U PressTrade Review... rich ethnography and provocative intellectual engagement. - -- Michael Humphrey * ASAAP *The book as a whole shows anthropology in transition, struggling with its own past and its future, as the authors discover new aspects to healing and reach for parallels elsewhere. In a concluding review, Janzen comments on the rich and varied ethnography these essays offer, traces his own scholarly quest from his studies of healing in Lower Congo to Ngoma, and notes that Ngoma is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. - -- Wyatt Macgaffey * BULLETIN of SOAS *Table of ContentsIntroduction - beyond the confinement of affliction; a discursive field of experience, Rijk van Dijk, Ria Reis, Marja Spierenburg; kings, spirits and brides in Tanzania, Henny Blokland; gender and ngoma - the power of drums in Eastern Zambia, Annette Drews; the "wounded healer" as ideology - the work of ngoma in Swaziland, Ria Reis; social commentaries and the influence of the clientele - the case of the Mhondoro cult in Dande, Zimbabwe, Marja Spierenburg; the story of a scapegoat king in rural Malawi, Matthew Schoffeleers; the politics of therapeutic ngoma - the case of the Zionist churches in urban Zambia, Cor Jonker; ngoma, born-again fundamentalism and contesting representations of time in urban Malawi, Rijk van Dijk.

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Book SynopsisThis volume reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater.Meganisi is one of the smallest and most remote of the Greek Ionian islands. From another point of view, it is the centre of the world, and its sailors travel literally from China to Peru while its migrants maintain familial connections from Johannesburg to Montreal. The villages of Meganisi are tightly-knit communities and this detailed ethnographic study explores the basis on which the islanders' solidarity and sense of identity are constructed andreconstructed despite population mobility and economic change: the values, sentiments and structures of kinship and family. Series Editors: Wendy James & N.J. AllenTrade Review... an ambitious and successful attempt to reinvigorate the anthropological study of kinship and community. - -- Shauna LaTosky * ANTHROPOLOGICA *Roger Just has a very perceptive ethnographic eye (and ear) and is extremely skilful at unravelling often seemingly mundane events in a manner that is illuminating, sympathetic and often witty. His descriptions of island life are evocative and manage to be sensitive to attractions without falling into romanticism. - -- Sharon MacDonald, University of Sheffield... contains an extremely thorough examination of the nuts and bolts of consanguinity, affinity and godparenthood, but Just was also very much a participating observer, working as a fisherman's mate, and as dish-washer and helper to the gregarious Nikos in his coffee shop. Some of the book's livelier passages are descriptions of incidents which involved him trying to balance his good relations with everyone in a tight-knit, gossipy community. He describes sleepless nights spent planning routes and manoeuvres by which he could accept the gift of olive oil from a person (it being deemed inappropriate to buy it) without anyone else learning about it and being offended that the gift was not from them. Creeping down side streets with oily newspaper-wrapped bottles concealed under his coat, he wonders 'How could anything so simple have become so complicated?' - -- Sofka Zinovieff * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *... in sum, a fine piece of work from start to finish. Just's scholarship in plumbing the history of Meganisi, including the alternative etymologies of local toponymy, matches his powers of ethnographic observation and give this book an overall balance. Central topics of discussion such as dowry, gender relations and privacy are all cross-referenced with the treatments given by other anthropologists of Greece, thus making this book a valuable key to the whole of Greek ethnography. - -- Charles Stewart * THE ANGLO-HELLENIC REVIEW *His defence of the rural community as a viable unit of analysis is very stimulating and constitutes an excellent reading for courses examining anthropological methodology and the anthropology of Europe. ...This scholarly and well-written monograph is a testimony to the value of careful anthropological research and will inevitably expand the anthropological appreciation of ethnographic diversity within Greece. - -- Dimitrios Theodossopoulos * JRAI *Table of ContentsOrientations; delineations of history; the advent of wealth; the terms of kinship; godparenthood; the back-to-back community; household and inheritance; romance and dowry; a kalos kosmos; epilogue.

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Book SynopsisExamines the rise in the inter-war years of a Gandhian influenced non-violent movement in the North West Frontier.The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God), which adopted military forms of organizations anddress, but which also drew its inspiration from Gandhian principles of non-violent action and was dedicated to an Indian nationalism rather than communal separatism. Virtually erased from the national historiography of post-partition Pakistan, where they now reside, the ageing veterans of the movement are still highly respected by younger Pukhtun. This is an account of rank and file members of the Khudai Khidmatgar, describing why they joined, what they did, and how they perceived the ethics and aims of the movement. It attempts to answer the questions of how notoriously violent Pukhtun were converted to an ethic of non-violence. It finds the answer rooted in the transformation of older social structures, Islamic revisionism and the redefinition of the traditional code of honour. South Asia excluding India: OUP Series Editors: Wendy James & N.J. AllenTrade ReviewMukulika Banerjee's extraordinarily timely study ... sets out to recover a story that has receded from the historical record as well as from popular memory. It is a story that disturbs orientalist stereotypes about the region and its people, and complicates the national narratives of Pakistan and of India. It should also give pause to the policy wonks shuttling between the Beltway and Downing Street, transmuted by the need of the hour into anthropologists and historians as they bone up on Islam and its ways, and on the martial traditions and factional culture of the Afghans. ... Badsha Khan was, for a time, able to make his people believe that the idea of the modern state could be made trustworthy. He was able to forge a movement that tapped the moral repertoire of Islam, and link it into local predispositions, weaving together a distinctive symbolic and practical cloth. This historical episode seems far indeed from the political imagination of Pathans today. But its memory may still have an effect: different futures need alternative pasts. As Haji Chairman Meherban Saha, a veteran Khudai Khidmatgar in his eighties, recalled when talking to Banerjee, 'Badsha Khan's words seemed sweet to us... Talk to a Pathan sweetly and he will do anything.' - Sunnil Khilnani in The * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *... a valuable corrective to orientalist representations, which portray the Pathans as invariably hotheaded and unpredictable. Firmly grounded in anthropological research but with a keen eye for historical nuance, it provides a sober and illuminating insight into a complex society that has long beguiled Western observers and is once again the object of intense Western concern. - -- Faranza Shaikh * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *This forgotten chapter suggests that Islam is more mutable than either its radical adherents or its Western detractors allow and that Pashtun history offers an extraordinary precedent for peace as well as a legacy of war. - -- Karl E. Meyer * the NEW YORK TIMES *Table of ContentsThe North-West Frontier Province in the early 20th century; the origins of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement; ethnography of the movement; the British riposte; leadership of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement; the ideology of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement; Pathans and nationalist politics; the work of memory; epilogue - the nature of frontiers.

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Book SynopsisEssential overview of Uganda's National Resistance Movement's desperate inheritance.Uganda's recovery has been remarkable, but when this book was being written, Museveni's guerrillas were only then launching their final bid for power. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain PublishersTrade ReviewAlthough the country in recent years has been drawing more than average attention, this has not been paralleled by a commensurate flow of studies on different aspects of Uganda's development path and policy. The collective efforts that Hansen and Twaddle ...fill part of this gap and stand out among the most important sources on Uganda today. - -- Martin Doornbos * SOCIAL CHANGE *

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Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive assessment of the requirements for recovery and development in the Horn after the cessation of conflict in the region.International specialists and experts from within the Horn address the problems facing the region as various conflicts in the region come to an end and the challenges of peacetime emerge. North America: Africa World Press; Ethiopia: University Book Centre, Addis Ababa; Netherlands: ISS, The HagueTrade ReviewIts success is based on the rather similar problems faced by states in the Horn of Africa, the high standard of research on which most of the essays are based, the realism and common sense of most of the writers and the skilled editing. - -- David Pool * POLITICAL STUDIES *Table of ContentsPart I: achieving peace, recovery and development. Part II: the problems of peace and the return of normalcy; repatriation of refugees; demobilization of combatants; rehabilitation of children, women and other victims of war; public welfare; future role of NGOs. Part III: potential regional economic collaboration; the Nile; oil; Red Sea ports trade networks; labour migration; pastoral people. Part IV: requirements for reconstruction and long-term development; towards sustainable agriculture and food security; debt and economic adjustment; restructuring the state.

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Book SynopsisExamines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity.Do small wars in Africa manifest a 'new barbarism'? What appears as random, anarchic violence is no such thing. The terrifying military methods of of Sierra Leone's soldiers may not fir conventional western models of warfare,but they are rational and effective nonetheless. The war must be understood partly as a 'performance', in which techniques of terror compensate for lack of equipment. PAUL RICHARDS is Professor of Technology and Agrarian Development, Wageningen University Published in association with the International African InstituteTrade ReviewA perceptive, passionate and disturbing book which sheds light on issues of great current importance, far beyond the compass of the West African rainforest. - -- A.F. Robertson * JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES *Fighting for the Rain Forest is a book infused with the importance of ideas, whether the indigenous knowledge of forest communities, youthful film criticism, the RUF's intellectual roots, or arguing for knowledge-intensive smart relief and support for in situ analysis and political debate...In his analysis of the war and rebel mind-set ...Richards has an important point to make: war and violence may not just serve a function. They are also about ideas. - -- Mark Bradbury * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Through dedicated scholarship and long-term residence in Sierra Leone, Richards successfully contextualises the RUF struggle as a revolt against the patrimonial rule of Sierra Leone and marginalization of ordinary people rather than one driven by greedy and trigger happy illiterate people - -- Doreen Lwanga * PAMBAZUKA NEWS *

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines just how successful community-based conservation approaches have been in their twin objectives of conserving African environments and improving rural livelihoods.Recent conservation policies in Africa have followed three main principles: 1) that conservation should be community-based; 2) that things conserved should be managed to achieve both development and conservation goals; 3) that markets should play a role in shaping the incentives for conservation. The editors and contributors of this volume examine the success or otherwise of these practices in a number of different contexts across the continent.Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP; Zimbabwe: Weaver PressTrade Review...this book is valuable for the honest and hard-hitting examination it gives community conservation. We learn that it will be difficult to provide meaningful returns from wildlife unless wildlife densities are high; that conservation is costly to communities. ...a must for all who are working on community conservation, scholars and practitioners alike. - Marja Spierenburg in * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *...a useful resource for conservation practitioners, academics and students alike. The impressive list of contributors emphasises the combination of both practical field experience and academic rigour that makes this work so valuable...[will] prove to be a seminal publication in this field. Not only does the book come at an opportune time, when an increasingly critical analysis of community conservation in Africa is taking hold, but, through its own genesis (the processes of research, working papers and agenda setting), it has undoubtedly been instrumental in pushing this debate to the fore. - -- Will Banham * LUCAS Bulletin *a timely contribution, which questions what has been achieved and whether intended objectives have been met. ...the cases hold some excellent accounts of conservation projects and convey well the perspectives of people working in this field. ...the detailed and informed tracing of histories of community-orientated conservation projects, drawn together in one volume, will undoubtedly make this a useful text for students conducting research in this field, and also for practitioners wanting to compare experiences in different country contexts. - -- Eleanor Fisher * JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT *Table of ContentsPart 1 Setting the scene: conservation and communities, William Adams and D. Hulme; community conservation from concept to practice - a practical framework, Edmund Barrow and Marshall Murphree. Part 2 Conservation policies and institutions: the evolution of policy in Namibia and Zimbabwe, Brian Jones and M. Murphree; community conservation in East Africa, Edmund Barrow et al; the political economy of community conservation policy in Mozambique, Simon Anstey; reforming a conservation bureaucracy in Tanzania, Patrick Bergin. Part 3 Parks and people revisited -community conservation as projected area outreach: Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda, D. Hulme and Mark Infield; Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda, William Adams and Mark Infield; Tarangire National Park, Tanzania (1992-97), Kadzo Kangwana and Rafael Ole Mako. Part 4 Developing management: the evolution of a community-based approach to wildlife management at Kunene, Namibia, Brian Jones; community conservation and private business (Mahenye, Zimbabwe), M. Murphree; community conservation designed by the community (Mozambique), Simon Anstey and Camila de Sousa. Part 5 Economics, incentives and institutional change: the nature of benefits and the benefits of nature, Lucy Emerton; economic incentives and institutional change in Zimbabwe, Ivan Bond; committees, rights, costs and benefits (Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE programme), James Murombedzi. Part 6 Measuring and monitoring conservation: can community conservation strategies meet the conservation agenda?, Kadzo Kangwana; participatory natural resource management - implications for conservation, Russell Taylor. Part 7 Conclusions: the future of community conservation; community conservation and beyond.

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Book SynopsisThis text examines community-based natural resource management in Africa.This book reveals a dynamic picture of African rural society in which production patterns change rapidly in response to market opportunities. These changes are driven largely by local farmers' initiatives, and are often associatedwith an increase in market-based access to land that is evident under both customary and private land tenure. North America: Africa World PressTrade ReviewWhile ecological critics have gained something of an upper hand in this debate of late, the editors of African Enclosures have given the pendulum a huge shove in the opposite direction. For Philip Woodhouse, Henry Bernstein and David Hulme, the most critical determinant of environmental change in Africa is the creeping commoditization of land and water resources ... this unfashionable but cogent and vigorously argued, structuralist position marks African Enclosures as a valuable and timely contribution to political ecology and a range of cognate fields. It should be widely read by those who share its authors' interest in returning political ecology to its political-economic roots. - -- Richard A. Schroeder * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *A theoretical, and important and revealing book. * SPORE *Customary tenure provides the best protection for the land claims of poorer people. True or false? In all four areas covered by this research programme on land rights and governance, customary authority to control land remains very important, despite the state's attempts to impose other forms of governance. And it demonstrates that, as land becomes scarcer and more valuable, such customary systems provide no guarantee of equitable access for poor, vulnerable groups ...This book combines effectively a series of detailed case studies and broader discussion which places the relevance of field-level material in a larger discussion of environmental management, land rights and policy. It will be essential reading for many courses on African development at undergraduate and Master's level. - -- Camilla Toulmin * AFRICA *Table of ContentsFrom commons to enclosures? Philip Woodhouse, Henry Bernstein, David Hulme; a very decentralized development - exploiting a new wetland in the Sourou Valley, Mali, Philip Woodhouse, Pippa Chenevix-Trench, Martin Tessougue; uncommon property - the scramble for wetland in Southern Kenya, Christopher Southgate, David Hulme; modernizing communal lands - evolving resource use in the Shoshong Hills, Botswana, Andrew Clayton, Philip Woodhouse; the Mutale River Valley - an apartheid oasis, Edward Lahiff; whose environments? whose livelihoods, Henry Bernstein, Philip Woodhouse, David Hulme.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Sylviane A. Diouf I DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES Lacustrine villages in south Benin as refuge from the slave trade by Elisee Soumonni - Slave raiding & defensive systems south of Lake Chad from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by Thierno Mouctar Bab - The myth of inevitability & invincibility: resistance to slavers & the slave trade in Central Africa, 1850-1910 by Dennis D. Cordell - The impact of the slave trade on Cayor & Baol: mutations in habitat & land occupancy by Adama Gueye - Defensive strategies: Wasulu, Masina & the slave trade by Martin A. Klein II PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES The last resort: redeeming family & friends by Sylviane A. Diouf - Anglo-Efik relations & protection against illegal enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740-1807 by Paul E. Lovejoy & David Richardson III OFFENSIVE STRATEGIES Igboland, slavery & the drums of war & heroism by John N. Oriji - 'A devotion to the idea of liberty at any price': rebellion & antislavery in the Upper Guinea coast in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries by Ismail Rashid - Strategies of the decentralized: defending communities from slave raiders in coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815 by Walter Hawthorne - The struggle against the transatlantic slave trade: the role of the state by Joseph E. Inikori - Shipboard revolts, African authority & the transatlantic slave trade by David Richardson - Epilogue: memory as resistance by Carolyn A. Brown.

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Book SynopsisIs the woman writer free to follow her own creative impulse and write about what she pleases?Reflects the emergence of accomplished works by African women writers. North America: Africa World PressTable of ContentsEditorial - The female writer & her commitment by Molara Ogundipe-Leslie - Women without men: the feminist novel in Africa by Katherine Frank - Mother Africa on a pedestal: the male heritage in African literature & criticism by Mineke Schipper - Feminist issues in the fiction of Kenya's women writers by Jean F.O'Barr - The didactic essence of Efua Sutherland's plays by Adetokunbo Pearce - Bessie Head's A Question of Power and identity by Charles P. Sarvan - Contemporary society & the female imagination: a study of the novels of Mariam Ba by Mbye B. Cham - Dreams of a common language: Nadine Gordimer's July's People by Jennifer Gordon - Ama Ata Aidoo & the oral tradition: a paradox of form & substance by Arlene Elder - Images of women in Wole Soyinka's work by Sylvia Bryan - Women & resistance in Ngugi's Devil on the Cross by Jennifer Evans - The house of slavery by Adewale Maja-Pearce - The Afro-American West African marriage question: its literary & historical contexts by Brenda F. Berrian

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Book SynopsisInterviews with a selection of African women writers.This book makes a strong and compelling statement about the position of women writers and women in contemporary Africa using the words of the writers themselves', says Dennis Duerden, the author of the earlier African WritersTalking.Trade Review...essential reading... - -- Femi Ojo-Ade * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Its particular value lies in the diversity of views espoused; no monolithic line-toeing here. The force with which many of the arguments are put forward is also startlingly refreshing. - -- Sarah Modebe * WEST AFRICA *

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Book SynopsisNorth America: Africa World PressTrade ReviewAmong the best points about this issue of African Literature Today is the fact that a subject such as orature...has been discussed lucidly by critics concentrating on practicality and functionality. * . *Table of ContentsMyth and modernity - African writers and their roots, E.D. Jones; yearning for utopia - orality versus literacy in Mazisi Kunene's "Emperor Shaka the Great", W. Ogundele; oral tradition and modern African poetry - Okot p'Bitek's "Song of Lawino" and Okigbo's "Labyrinths", C.A. Bodunde; Kofi Awoonor as a poet, I. Elimimian; Niyi Osundare's poetry and the Yoruba oral artistic tradition, A. Bamikunle; plot and conflict in African folktales, S. Ukala; oral echoes in Armah's short stories, O.S. Ogede; "Two Thousand Seasons" a dissent, D. Wright; the folk roots of Flora Nwapa's early novels, C. Ikonne; oral literature and modern Nigerian drama - the example of Femi Osofisan, M.P. Awodiya; French-language African drama and the oral tradition - trends and issues, J. Conteh-Morgan.

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Book SynopsisThe experience of childhood as examined in the works of African writers.This volume examines linguistic, literary, gender and generation issues in both autobiographies and fictional treatments of childhood in the works of Camara Laye, Wole Soyinka, Mongo Beti, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Zaynab Alkali, Buchi Emecheta, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Athol Fugard and Issac Mogotsi. North America: Africa World PressTable of ContentsEditorial article - childhood before and after birth, Eldred Jones; carving a niche - visions of gendered childhood in Buchi Emecheta's "The Bride Price" and Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions", Pauline Uwakweh; gender issues in Zaynab Alkali's novels, Adetayo Alabi; childhood in African literature - a literary perspective, Maxwell Okolie; beloved pawns - the childhood experience in the novels of Chinua Achebe and Mongo Beti, N.F. Inyama; the symbolic concept of childhood in Chukwuemeka Ike's "The Potter's Wheel" and "The Bottled Leopard", Ezenwa-Ohaeto; aspects of language in the African literary autobiography, Tony E. Afejuku; evaluating the literary achievement of Gcina Mhliopne, Betty Govinden; childhood a la Camara Laye and childhood a la Mongo Beti, E.P. Abanime; absence of conflict in maturation in "The African Child", G.N. Marete; trapped childhood - a study of Athol Fugard's "Cousins" and Isaac Mogotsi's "The Alexandra Tales", Lekan Oyegoke; reviews.

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Book SynopsisThis volume lists all the important work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1992 and 1996.This bibliographic work is a continuation of the earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 9000 entries, some of which areannotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources. Also included are a substantial number of African newspaper and magazine articles.Trade Review...this is another fine work. It is hoped that more sequels will follow.k in African and world literature.' - -- G. Walsh in Choice... comprehensive coverage ... a very easy book to consult ... It is a model of its kind. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *... the book is handsomely produced ... It is the consummate working tool for researchers, scholars, teachers and students in the field. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *... one of the most valuable tools for research in the field of African studies. * MATATU *This title is essential for any reference collection in African studies ... Bernth Lindfors' regularly updated bibliography Black African Literature in English, now in its fifth edition, has over the past twenty-two years become the most comprehensive reference tool in the search for information in critical discussions of African literature in English. - Ode S. Ogede in * INTERNATIONAL FICTION REVIEW *The first question that comes to mind when looking at the latest volume in Bernth Lindfors' Black African Literature in English (BALE) series is: how does he do it? The breadth of coverage is unparalleled As a tool in the field of African literary studies, it is indispensable, as a exercise in organization and what is termed bibliographical control it is breathtaking. ...Making the pre-eminent bibliographical resource in African literary studies available electronically is perhaps, a dream. I would not want to give up the print version, for it is really is a resource where browsing pays off often in unexpected and most delightful ways, and despite the quibbles, there is no betterresource available, not one I would trust more. - -- Mark L Lilleleht * AFRICA TODAY *From reviews of earlier volumes in the series: * . *This excellent work will aid literary research on all levels and be an invaluable addition to any collection supporting work in African and world literature.- -- G. Walsh * CHOICE *So comprehensive is this volume, so enriched by forays into holdings in Africa and by the support of students, scholars, writers and critics around the world, that anyone wanting to do any work of substance on contemporary Black African Literature in English will simply have to get access to it. - -- James Gibbs * WEST AFRICA *... a remarkable achievement: it contains details of publications in many different languages, both African and European, and provides an impressive and essential resource for libraries. - -- Stephanie Newell * AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION *Table of ContentsGenre, topic studies and reference sources; individual authors.

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Book SynopsisAnnotated bibliography of the literature on mass communication and the press in AfricaCovering the whole of Africa, this bibliography is a valuable tool to any researcher or library in media studies.

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Book SynopsisBibliographical references to writing about maps, both historical and contemporary, of AfricaIncluding the earliest known references on up to modern times, the book features a guide to bibliographies and catalogues of maps, individual cartographic references, and a bibliography of related writings. The references are provided for the entire continent, for individual nations, and for major regions.

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Book SynopsisHow have African writers addressed the issue of war and its impact across the continent?Since the second half of the twentieth century, no single phenomenon has marred the image and development of Africa more than senseless fratricidal wars which rapidly followed the political independence of nations. This issue ofAfrican Literature Today is devoted to studies of how African writers, as historical witnesses, have handled the recreation of war as a cataclysmic phenomenon in various locations on the continent. The contributors explore the subject from a variety of perspectives: panoramic, regional, national and through comparative studies. War has enriched contemporary African literature, but at what price to human lives, peace and the environment? ERNESTEMENYONU is Professor of the Department of Africana Studies University of Michigan-Flint. The contributors include: CHIMALUM NWANKWO, CHRISTINE MATZKE, CLEMENT A. OKAFOR, INIBONG I. UKO, OIKE MACHIKO, SOPHIE OGWUDE, MAURICE TAONEZVI VAMBE, ZOE NORRIDGE and ISIDORE DIALA. Nigeria: HEBNTrade ReviewThe African Literature Today series has greatly enriched the study of contemporary African writing. [...] These articles provide real insights for the reading and understanding of political instability and volatility in most parts of Africa. [...] This volume stands out clearly as a groundbreaking one in that it privileges all forms of African creativity as well as authors irrespective of sex or class. [It] is a brilliant attempt to weave an 'authentic history' of wars in Africa, and is a thoroughly researched project that opens a door into Africa's soul and its unpredictable and precarious condition. * AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION *Table of ContentsEditorial article. War in African literature: literary harvests, human tragedies - Ernest N. Emenyonu The muted index of war in African literature & society - Chimalum Nwankwo 'Life in the camp of the enemy': Alemseged Tesfai's theatre of war - Christine Matzke Sacrifice & contestation of identity in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn - Clement Okafor Of war & madness: a symbolic transmutation of the Nigeria-Biafra war in select stories from The Insider:Stories of War & Peace from Nigeria - Iniobong I. Uko Becoming a feminist writer: representation of the subaltern in Buchi Emecheta's Destination Biafra - Oike Machiko Politics & human rights in non-fiction prison literature - Sophia O. Ogwude Problems of representing the Zimbabwean war of liberation in Mutasa's The Contract, Samupinda's Pawns & Vera's The Stone Virgins - Maurice Taonezvi Vambe The need to go further? Dedication & distance in the war narratives of Alexandra Fuller & Alexander Kanengoni - Zoe Norridge History, memoir & a soldier's conscience: Philip Efiong's Nigeria & Biafra: My Story - Isidore Diala Of the versification of pain: Nigerian civil war poetry - Ogaga Okuyade Reviews - James Gibbs

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Book SynopsisThis volume lists the work produced on anglophone black African literature between 1997 and 1999.This bibliographic work is a continuation of the highly acclaimed earlier volumes compiled by Bernth Lindfors. Containing about 10,000 entries, some of which are annotated to identify the authors discussed, it covers books, periodical articles, papers in edited collections and selective coverage of other relevant sources.Trade Review... how does he do it? The breadth of coverage is unparalleled. As a tool in the field of African literary studies, it is indispensable, as an exercise in organization and what is termed 'bibliographical control' it is breathtaking... Making the pre-eminent bibliographical resource in African literary studies available electronically is perhaps, a dream. I would not want to give up the print version, for it really is a resource where browsing pays off often in unexpected and most delightful ways, and despite the quibbles, there is no better resource available, not one I would trust more. - -- Mark L. Lilleleht * AFRICA TODAY *... the sixth in the series of this magisterial work, which began publication in 1979... is, like the rest, an immensely valuable reference tool. - -- Marion Wallace * FOCUS *True to form, Lindfors has produced a text suited to all levels of research, containing items to delight the curious browser and items for undergraduates and the professional scholar. - -- Stephanie Newell * AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION *From reviews of earlier volumes in the series: * . *This excellent work will aid literary research on all levels and be an invaluable addition to any collection supporting work in African and world literature. - -- G. Walsh * CHOICE *So comprehensive is this volume, so enriched by forays into holdings in Africa and by the support of students, scholars, writers and critics around the world, that anyone wanting to do any work of substance on contemporary Black African Literature in English will simply have to get access to it. - -- James Gibbs * WEST AFRICA *... the book is handsomely produced ... It is the consummate working tool for researchers, scholars, teachers and students in the field. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *... one of the most valuable tools for research in the field of African studies. * MATATU *This title is essential for any reference collection in African studies ... far ahead of any imaginable rival... covers an extraordinary range of commentary. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *As interest in African literature increases among both undergraduates and graduate students, Lindfors' compilations become increasingly essential. This supplement and its predecessors are invaluable reference tools that belong in collections supporting work in African or world literature. - -- D.L. Easterbrook, Northwestern University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsI Genre & Topic Studies & Reference Sources - II Individual Authors - Indexes: author index, titles index, subject index, geographical index

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Book SynopsisThese two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle.This work examines people's beliefs, ideas and experiences both during Zimbabwe's liberation war and afterwards. The contributors look at African religion and Christianity and explore the efforts to educate people for a new society. They also look at the ideas used by whites to justify brutality and at the civilian experiences at the hands of the guerillas and the Fifth Brigade. Finally, they ask whether the new ideas were carried on after the war had ended. Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe PublicationsTrade ReviewThese volumes provide signposts for researchers to begin to ask new questions about the events of the wars. -- Diane Jeater * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *These two volumes represent the most important critical collection of work on the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe. The range of the studies provides an impressive overview of the complex responses of various social forces to the liberation war… -- Brian Raftopoulos * JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES *The impressive number and quality of these local level studies, many part of larger works, add to existing conflicting and consensual claims about the war and its aftermath, making a review of a now sizeable literature timely. - Norma Kriger in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY * . *Like Volume I, this volume is a milestone in recording the history of the liberation war...The revelation of the horrors is a part of the balm that heals the wounds of both the victim and the perpetrator. They set directions for future writers on the painful genesis of Zimbabwe. - -- Charles Pfukwa * INDEPENDENT WEEKENDER *Table of ContentsReligion in the guerilla war - Southern Matabeleland, Mark Noube and Terence Ranger; mission Christianity and war in Western Zimbabwe, Carl Hallencreutz; Avila mission - turning point in church relations with state and the liberation forces, Janice McClaughlin; Elim mission - Christianity in Eastern Zimbabwe, David Maxwell; Rhodesian discourse, Rhodesian novels, Anthony Chennells; education and the war in Zimbabwe, Paulos Matjaka Nare; education and the struggle in Mozambique, Fay Chung; in memory - a heritage of war in Southern Zimbabwe, Richard Webner; gender and status, Heike Schmidt; mobilization and demobilization in Zimbabwe's rural areas, Jocelyn Alexander.

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Book SynopsisThis study offers a social interpretation of environmental process for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana.The Anlo-Ewe, sometimes called the quintessential sea fishermen of West Africa, are a previously non-maritime people who developed a maritime tradition. Since the mid-17th century they have attempted to domesticate the lagoons and the seas through the exploitation of salt and fish, the use of waterways as trade routes, and in the struggle to obtain security from lagoon flooding and sea erosion. This study offers a social interpretation of environmental process for the coastal lowlands of southeastern Ghana.North America: Ohio U PressTrade ReviewA thin ribbon of land constitutes the heart of Anlo state and society, poised between the pounding surf on the beaches to one side and the glistening expanse of the Keta Lagoon to the other...Nowhere else in Ghana does the on-going struggle between humansettlement and the forces of nature seem so apparent as in the watery landscape of the country's far south-eastern corner. It is the history of this uneasy dialogue between culture and nature that forms the subject of Emmanuel Akyeampong's new book, which sets out to offer a social interpretation of environmental process in the Anlo-Ewe region...This learned, accessible study contains many original insights into the historical interaction between the Anlo people and their distinctive regional landscape...the most effective sections of the book are focused on what might be termed moral economy (or moral ecology )...Between the Sea and the Lagoon represents a notable contribution to the growing body of work on the environmental history of Africa.' - John Parker in Journal of African History 'Eco-social history is a relatively new field (ignored by Chambers Dictionary) and could easily be misread as a combination of economic and social history. But this is a more interesting approach, tracing the interconnections between ecology and society in a specific political and cultural context. ...Certainly this will be an important source for students of Ghanaian history, society and culture, and for ecologists everywhere...the publishers are to be congratulated on recognizing the original quality of this work, and on producing it impeccably, right down to the footnotes, which actually appear at the foot of each page - a great convenience for the reader, especially as some contain shrewd comments.' - in Progress in Development Studies -- Helen KimbleTable of ContentsMigration, topography and early settlement in the Keta Lagoon basin; abolition, British influence and smuggling in the Anlo lowlands up to c.1890; commercial prosperity, urbanization and social life in early colonial Keta; unstable ecology - belief, knowledge and the enigma of sea erosion in colonial Keta, 1907-1932; the search for space - land reclamation, migrant fishing, shallot cultivation and illicit liquor distillation in Anlo, c.1930-1957; harbours and dams - economic development and environmental change in the Lower Volta basin, 1957 to present - political ecology, ecological unity and the politics of Ewe ethnicity in contemporary Ghana; living with the sea - society and culture in contemporary Anlo.

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Book SynopsisExamines the slave trade in three areas of Africa: the old Congo kingdoms, the city states of the East Coast, and parts of the Guinea coast.Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circumstance' he was taking 'a fresh look at the oversea slave trade, the steady year-by-year export of African labour to the West Indies and the Americas that marked the greatest and most fateful migration - forced migration - in the history of man.' North America: Times/Random HouseTrade ReviewThe best general acount of the Atlantic slave trade. - -- Christopher FyfeRead this book, then read it again. [Davidson's] is the story of one of the most enormous crimes in all human history. * THE NEW YORK TIMES *...the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa. -- Roland Oliver * THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS *Table of ContentsIntroduction - I Fact & Fable - II The Years Of Trial - III Manner Of The Trade - IV Mani-Congo - V East Coast Fortunes - VI Frontier Of Opportunity - VII Four Centuries: A Summing Up

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Book SynopsisA detailed study of the impact of gender on the politics of Uganda.This study analyses the interrelationship between national and local politics and the women's movement in Africa. It covers: women's mobilization and social autonomy; the background to the National Resistance Movement; and decentralization and women's participation in Uganda. North America: University of Wisconsin Press; Uganda: Fountain PublishersTrade ReviewWomen and Politics in Uganda is a rich and detailed study of the impact of gender on the political environment of Uganda. The product of considerable and extensive empirical research and fieldwork, its methodology is based on wide-ranging interviews and survey material that highlight the lives and life-chances of very different women...[It] is a fascinating study and should be commended as a significant contribution to the study of gender relations and the politics of power. This work is essential reading, not only for those interested in the nuances of state and society within an African nation, but also for those concerned with the lives of the poor and disadvantaged. -- Heather Deegan * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *...shows, through interview and case studies of conflicts between women's associations and local level authorities, how that nation's women's movement was established with surprising rapidity and considerable autonomy from the state, making itself a powerful force. -- Margaret Snyder * CHOICE *...this book will be standard citation for academics and activists in the area of gender and politics in Africa. -- Sylvia Tamale * NEW VISION *Table of ContentsWomen's mobilization and social autonomy in comparative African perspective; a foot in the door - historical perspectives on the women's movement in Uganda; background to the National Resistance Movement; the rise of the women's movement under the NRM; preserving organizational autonomy; the practical and the political - the battle for market stalls and power in Kiyembe; reconfiguring the political - the case of Wakitaka health clinic; resisting patronage politics - the case of Kawaala housing project; anatomy of a deception - "something is fishy in Kamuli"; decentralization and women's participation in Uganda; appendix A -survey methods; appendix B - developing Kawaala through self help participation - "the proposed Kawaala land development project" drawn up by Kawaala residents; appendix C - constitution of Ekikwenza Omubi project, 1990.

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Book SynopsisPresents an account of the UDF's efforts in the struggle for freedom.This study argues that South Africa after apartheid cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the UDF and its role in the transition to democracy. North America: Ohio U Press; South Africa: David Philip(NAB)Trade ReviewWhat does a political movement inherit from the past, and what does it leave to the future? That is the fascinating question that lies at the heart of this detailed analysis of the most influential organization to come out of South Africa in the 1980s. -- Martin Plaut * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *... this book is necessary reading for anyone concerned with South African politics in the 1980s. -- Allison Drew * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *... is a masterful compilation of information based on scores of interviews. ...The special value of this book for researchers is as a record of political activists who have since taken positions within the ANC. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *

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Book SynopsisA volume of electoral studies of multiparty politics in 14 African countries during the 1990s.Most of the studies in this book are about national elections in Anglophone Africa. There are also less well-known examples from Sudan, Ethiopia and Guinea Bissau. The collection also features studies of the local elections in Namibia and of a significant by-election in Malawi. The multiparty period has been put, wherever possible, within the historical context of earlier elections in Africa. Questions addressed include: how did incumbent governing regimes learn to live with multiparty politics? Why have some elections been so closely fought and others have suffered from apathy? Why has there been relatively open political expression and activity when the elections have increased the political and economic manipulation by incumbent governments? Why have the elections of the 1990s been so marked by local and ethnic variations? To what extent did this wave of democracy result from pressure from donor countries? North America: PalgraveTrade Review... the most definitive analysis to date of Africa's fraught transition towards local, national and regional democracies ... It should be required reading for all both on and off the continent concerned with the limitations of participation, especially election monitors and NGOs as well as candidates and donors. -- Timothy M. Shaw * ROUND TABLE *Cowen and Laakso's collection is particularly valuable because of its coverage of unusual cases. In addition to fairly standard cases such as Kenya, Malawi, Zambia,Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Nigeria.... Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, and the Sudan are also given chapters of their own, along with a comparative study of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland...One analytic commonality running through most, if not all, of the contributions is a critique of the liberal project, defined as an emphasis on choice and an assumption that if the institutions are in place, then voters can make a free and fair choice. Critiques of this position include analyses of how deep-rooted gender socialization may exclude women from the political sphere (Ethiopia), how economics can affect voting decisions (Ghana), and how majorities can use elections to repress minorities (Sudan). Others emphasize that elections are not really about choice but about legitimation and/or closing off other arenas of political action to the masses (Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland)... -- Sara Rich Dorman * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *...this is a very useful book and it will be of much use not only for students of African elections, but also for comparativists seeking to identify what was unusual or notable about elections in the region in 1990s. -- Jeff Haynes * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *

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Book SynopsisThe conditions for democracy in South Africa cannot be taken for granted as many South African citizens remain on the margins, outside of the formal democratic system.The post-apartheid public sphere in South Africa has been characterised by race tensions and distrust. Socio-economic inequalities and structural unemployment are contributing to widespread crises. In addressing the conceptual andempirical questions relating to the transition to democracy, the contributors to this volume take the questions of culture and identity seriously, drawing attention to the creative agency of citizens of the 'new' South Africa. They raise important questions concerning the limits of citizenship and procedural democracy. Steven L. Robins is Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Stellenbosch North America: Ohio U PressTrade ReviewThe ending of apartheid and creation of a new democratic state in 1994 provided the opportunity to establish a new socio-economic and political system that would redress the inequalities of the past and also create a major economic and political player, between the socialist ideal and neo-liberal economic reality in contemporary South Africa. The 12 chapters (divided into three thematic sections) provide examples of this contradiction at various scales and institutions, concluding that solutions to this gap lie in the everyday struggles of both citizens and policymakers. While by no means the first attempt to tackle this issue, this collection successfully grapples with both theoretical and empirical issues underlying this dilemma, exploring the implications of the South African experience for broader theories of liberalism and democracy. ... I highly recommend this book to those concerned with the post-apartheid South African state as well as those with an interest in theories of democracy and citizenship. Indeed, the development of such important theoretical ideas should not be confined to the 'South Africa' library shelves or literature debates. Indeed, the movement away from an emphasis on social equality towards the prominence of socio-cultural group differentiation is a worldwide trend, and perhaps experiences in South Africa can serve as the blueprint for elsewhere. -- Charlotte Lemanski * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *The volume offers a challenging account of power relations in post-1994 South Africa....Weaving together macro-economic, political science, policy-related and ethnographic research, the volume is a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of the conundrums of post-1994 South Africa. - , University of Cape Town in JRAI -- Fiona Ross, University of Cape Town in JRAITable of ContentsIntroduction by Steven Robins I CULTURE & THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM Marginalisation and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa by Bettina Von Lieres - Reflections on liberalism, politculturalism and ID-ology: citizenship and difference in South Africa by John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff - The demands of recognition and the ambivalence of difference: race, culture and afrikanerness in post-apartheid South Africa by Suren Pillay - Traditional leaders and democracy: cultural politics in the age of globalisation by Thomas A. Koelble and Ed Li Puma II RETHINKNG CITIZENSHIP and GOVERNANCE IN URBAN SOUTH AFRICA Nodal governance, denizenship and communal space: challenging the Westphalian ideal by Clifford Shearing and Jennifer Wood - Political inventions and interventions: a critical review of the proposed city development strategy partnership in Cape Town by Edgar Pieterse - 'Functional' and 'dysfunctional' communities: the making of ethical citizens by Ivor Chipkin - Mediating Manenberg in the post-apartheid public sphere: media, democracy and citizenship by Sean Jacobs and Ron Krabill III CULTURAL PLURALITY and CULTURAL POLITICS AFTER APARTHEID Negotiating gender and personhood in the new South Africa: adolescent women and gangsters in Manenberg Township on the Cape Flats by Elaine Salo - Refracting an elusive South African urban citizenship: problems with tracking spaza by Andrew Spiegel - Coloureds don't toyi-toyi: gesture, constraint and identity in Cape Town by Shannon Jackson - Palaces of desire: Century City and the ambiguities of development by Rafael Marks.

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Book SynopsisThis work examines the relationship between violence, narrative and memory in the former West Nile district of Uganda.West Nile is best known as the home of Uganda's notoriously violent dictator, Idi Amin. But the area's association with violence goes back much further, through the colonial era, when the district was significantly under-developedin comparison with mostof Uganda, and to a pre-colonial past characterised by slave-raiding and ivory poaching. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in the district capital, Arua town, during the late 1990s, when a low intensity conflict between the government and local rebels became embroiled in wars spilling over from nearby borders with Sudan and Zaire. The author adopts the unconventional approach of moving backwards from the present through successive layers of the past, developing an anthropological critique of the forms of historical representation and their relationship with the human realities of war and violence, in a border area which has long suffered the consequences of being portrayed as a 'heart of darkness'. The book contributes to current debates in political anthropology on issues such as border areas, the local state, and the nature of the 'post-colonial'. Itwill also be of interest to historians, political scientists, literary and cultural critics, and others working on questions of violence, narrative and memory. Uganda: Fountain Publishers Series editors: Wendy James& N.J. AllenTrade ReviewNestled in an obscure corner of Uganda on the Sudan and Congo borders, the sector was once fought over by the Belgians, French, Germans and British. 'Gordon of Khartoum', Henry Morgan Stanley, President Theodore Roosevelt, Idi Amin, and others join a host of lesser-known but equally fascinating figures in this temporal journey that starts in the district's troubled present and moves backward. Along the way the reader first encounters a recent locally produced history, then the idiosyncratic anthropological accounts of the indigenous peoples from the mid-20th century, earlier colonial reports, and 19th-century precontact period reports of rogue European ivory hunters and Arab slavers. The journey ends in the singularly irenic past of indigenous origin myths. This compelling portrait of time and space shows how each era's interlopers misrepresented the local human condition with the importation of the theme of violence as a constant feature of the landscape. This is a brilliant example of anthropological scholarship. - -- W. Arens * CHOICE *One comes away from Inside West Nileknowing a considerable amount, concisely argued, about the ways in which the narratives and imaginings of outsiders have affected the material conditions of the region. Leopold is particularly good in his historiographical analysis. He does an expert job of explaining how notions of brutality and marginality have been confirmed, not only by administrators, but also by the academic literature on the region....As an historical account of the West Nile region, Inside West Nileis impressive, nuanced and polished. - -- Ben Jones * CAHIERS D'ETUDES AFRICAINES *This is a thoughtful, insightful, clearly and engagingly written, and deeply analytical and compelling book. It deserves to be widely read. - -- Ronald R Atkinson * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *I found much that was very thought provoking about Inside West Nile and I can imagine it being a useful text for teaching about the colonial legacy in Africa. - -- Tim Allen * AFRICA *Table of Contents'Why are we cursed?' an introduction - '"Arua" means "prison"': violence & ethnography at the end of the twentieth century - Amin, West Nile & the postcolony, (1995-1962) - Drawing a margin: West Nile under colonial rule, (1961-1925) - 'Rather a difficult tribe to tame': the invention of an uprising & the creation of a colonial district, (1924-1914) - Imperial encounters: the Lado Enclave & the birth of the Nubi, (1913-c.1850) - Lifting the curse: writing history & making peace - Violence, history & representation: an afterword - Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Aidoo-Snyder Prize.This groundbreaking book by two leading scholars offers a complete historical picture of women and their work in Uganda, tracing developments from pre-colonial times to the present and into the future. Setting women's economic activities into a broader political, social, and cultural context, it provides the first general account of women's experiences amidst the changes that shaped the country. Prior to the 1970s, relatively few Ugandan women broughtin their own income, despite producing most of the food and craftwork that was taken to local markets. Educational expansion in the 1950s and 1960s were years of gradual evolution for women and their work, with many employed as lower level teachers or nurses. Since the 1970s, there have been a number of dramatic changes which have led to many more women earning their own income: high mortality of men from conflict and HIV/AIDS, increased migration of women into urban areas, the collapse of the state-controlled economy and the emergence of a magendo economy, the development of a free market economy within a system of global capitalism, deepening poverty through Structural Adjustment Programmes, and the expansion of women's roles in many areas. This book traces the origins of the current situation, highlighting the challenges working women now face, and recommending strategies that will improve their circumstances in the future. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain PublishersTrade ReviewImportant for anyone seeking to understand women's history in Uganda. ... A richly documented work with a provocative central structure that offers an alternative to seeing the history of Uganda's women through simplistic narratives of either progress towards rights and equity or tragic loss of 'traditional' forms of respect. * JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY *Those involved in development work involving gender in Uganda will find this book very useful. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsI INTRODUCTION; Introduction; Uganda: its districts & people; II THE GENERATIONS OF GRADUAL CHANGE, 1900-71; The early colonial world, 1900-39; Women's issues & the domestic virtue model; The late colonial period, 1940-62; The early independence years, 1962-71; III RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR UGANDA & ITS WOMEN, 1971-2003; The Amin/Obote II period, 1971-86; The broader developments for women during the NRM period, 1986-2003; Work & gender issues in the NRM years; Women & work in 2003: assessment & recommendations.

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