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Ripple effects: the groundnut scheme failure and railway planning for colonial development in Tanganyika, 1947–1952 连锁反应:1947-1952年，坦噶尼喀殖民地发展的花生计划失败和铁路规划
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.832628
M. Bourbonnière
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引用次数: 0
Duolocal residence and gender relations in urban domestic water supply: understanding the Ga in contemporary Ghana 城市生活供水中的多居民与性别关系:对当代加纳Ga的理解
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.865540
K. Mensah, J. FitzGibbon
{"title":"Duolocal residence and gender relations in urban domestic water supply: understanding the Ga in contemporary Ghana","authors":"K. Mensah, J. FitzGibbon","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.865540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.865540","url":null,"abstract":"This case study employed a qualitative methodology to examine gender relations in urban domestic water supply under duolocality where heterogeneous spouses live in separate residences. It is based on the experiences of the Ga of Ghana at the present time (2011–present), with James Town as the study area. Results show that gender relations in duolocal water supply is mediated by several factors, including women's economic positioning and time reported to sleep at husbands' homes, age and authority structure, proximity of males and females, distance to water points, and availability of public showers and sachet water. There is significant participation of duolocal men in household water provision, aided by short distances to water points and ready access to showers and pure water. Women renegotiate their subordinate position in domestic water provision by using their economic clout as leverage, manipulating their physical presence at men's residences, including late arrival to sleep but early departure, and capitalising on opportunities presented by new social dynamics to form indirect alliances with men. The study provides additional contribution to understanding gender discourse in urban water supply as it uncovers previously under-explored social processes in the linkages between residential patterns and gender relations in resource access and use.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"361 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124548283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
New perspectives on myth. Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein (The Netherlands), 19–21 August, 2008. PIP-TraCS: papers in intercultural philosophy and transcontinental comparative studies, 5 对神话的新看法。第二届国际比较神话学会年会论文集，荷兰，Ravenstein, 2008年8月19-21日。《跨文化哲学与跨大陆比较研究》第5期
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2014.893966
Anthony A. Lee
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引用次数: 0
Redrawing historical maps of the Bight of Benin Hinterland, c. 1780 重绘贝宁腹地湾的历史地图，约1780年
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.876920
H. Lovejoy
{"title":"Redrawing historical maps of the Bight of Benin Hinterland, c. 1780","authors":"H. Lovejoy","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.876920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.876920","url":null,"abstract":"Given advances in digital cartography, mapmaking is straightforward, affordable, accurate and easy to scale. In the absence of reliable contemporary maps of pre-colonial sub-Saharan West Africa, scholars have been compiling paper-based illustrations of the continent for different regions, periods and purposes. In consequence, there is a large collection of maps thematically, spatially and temporally fragmented throughout the historiography of Africa and the African Diaspora. As a means of addressing this crucial problem, this article surveys hundreds of primary and secondary source maps related to the Bight of Benin hinterland in order to examine the inconsistencies of historical maps of pre-colonial Africa. This theoretical and methodological discussion about historical mapmaking is the first step to defragmenting key secondary source maps and improving upon our historical understanding about Africa's internal geography. Part of the solution is a remake of the political map of the Bight of Benin hinterland in c. 1780.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130574485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Scarification and identity in the liberated Africans department register, 1814–1815 被解放的非洲人的伤痕和身份登记，1814-1815
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.832337
Katrina H. B. Keefer
{"title":"Scarification and identity in the liberated Africans department register, 1814–1815","authors":"Katrina H. B. Keefer","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.832337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.832337","url":null,"abstract":"This research intersects with ongoing efforts to understand the identity of enslaved Africans entering the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Methods of reading scarification, along with its close analogue tattooing within the African context are a fundamental starting point for this study. Evidence for this approach may be found in the Registers of Liberated Africans, which are held at the Sierra Leone Public Archives at Fourah Bay College and at the National Archives in Kew. These documents, created between 1808–1862, provide data for nearly 100,000 Africans removed from vessels and holding pens which would have sent them to the Americas. Considered in light of anthropological theories of identity and the marked body, this data can be unpacked to find hidden meanings. This study employs a new approach to understanding origins, by translating body modification to understand the information conveyed through the skins of individuals.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131051349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
“Shaving of a woman's head”: Isinmo and the Igbo women's war on forced marriages in Southern Nigeria 1900–1936 “剃掉女人的头”:Isinmo和伊博妇女对尼日利亚南部1900-1936年强迫婚姻的战争
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2014.898967
O. Ojo
{"title":"“Shaving of a woman's head”: Isinmo and the Igbo women's war on forced marriages in Southern Nigeria 1900–1936","authors":"O. Ojo","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2014.898967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2014.898967","url":null,"abstract":"How, when and to whom should a woman marry, what constitutes marriage and what rights has a woman to influence the selection of her spouse? These and other questions were subjects of intense contestation between young men and women and their parents, on one hand, and, on the other, between commoners and members of the traditional elite in the Western Igbo district of Igbuzo in Southern Nigeria during the early twentieth century. Disputes over marriage rites centred on the politics of isinmo or the shaving of a woman's head. Isinmo gave the “barber” exclusive and inalienable rights to the woman. Yet, in what amounted to reversal of tradition, women seeking to end or reduce parental and patriarchal control appropriated some the rituals of isinmo to contest its use and efficacy in the hands of its erstwhile beneficiaries.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114403336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Far from basic rules: social dynamics, legal regulations and access to household water in Northern Ghana, 1965–2012 远离基本规则:1965-2012年，加纳北部的社会动态、法律法规和家庭用水
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.827987
I. Eguavoen
{"title":"Far from basic rules: social dynamics, legal regulations and access to household water in Northern Ghana, 1965–2012","authors":"I. Eguavoen","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.827987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.827987","url":null,"abstract":"Northern Ghana has been a pilot region for implementing drinking water programs. The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has acted as a key player in constructing hand pumps and small-town water systems, as well as in designing institutional frameworks for their delivery and management, which have been subsequently up-scaled to national level. Water rights are neither uniform nor immune to institutional drawbacks. The ethnographic study analyzes the history of water supply in a rural settlement from the mid-1960s through to 2012, and outlines the evolution of local law. It shows that water development is a non-progressive, multi-directional and hegemonic process that is driven by institutional bricolage and rule making in external and local political arenas.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125671889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
(De)legitimising I-banks: the controversy over Islamic banking in contemporary Nigeria (去)合法化I-banks:当代尼日利亚关于伊斯兰银行的争议
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.831364
Isaac Terwase Sampson
{"title":"(De)legitimising I-banks: the controversy over Islamic banking in contemporary Nigeria","authors":"Isaac Terwase Sampson","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.831364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.831364","url":null,"abstract":"Since the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) published guidelines on the establishment and regulation of Islamic banking (I-banking) in Nigeria, differing sentiments have been offered to (de)legitimise this financial product. This paper therefore evaluates contending perspectives on the institutionalisation of I-banking in Nigeria. It argues that in spite of the globally acknowledged benefits of I-banking, the peculiar character of religiosity in Nigeria may render this financial product an instrument of conflict, and ultimately trivialise its anticipated advantages. Although some of the negative opinions against I-banking are informed by sectarian sentiments, the legal, constitutional and social arguments advanced by some of its antagonists seem persuasive. Consequently, the paper recommends some alternative options that will bring about a liberalised non-interest banking regime that reflects Nigeria's national peculiarities without necessarily compromising peace and unity.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126542510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Fear and alienation: narratives of crime and race in post-apartheid South Africa 恐惧与疏离:种族隔离后南非的犯罪与种族叙事
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.869178
G. Kynoch
{"title":"Fear and alienation: narratives of crime and race in post-apartheid South Africa","authors":"G. Kynoch","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.869178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.869178","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on interpretations and representations of violent crime in fiction, non-fiction and media to explore racialised discourses of fear and vulnerability in contemporary South Africa. It is less concerned with statistics and “facts” related to crime than with the role of race in impressions of and attitudes towards criminal violence. And, whereas gender, class and nationality all mediate the ways in which crime is experienced and perceived by residents of South Africa, for a considerable portion of the white population race remains the predominant factor when it comes to fear of violent crime. Perhaps the most significant difference in black narratives is that black South Africans do not conceptualise violent crime in terms of a racial assault. For a country struggling to overcome its corrosive racial history, crime discourses that emphasise blacks as perpetrators and whites as victims both reflect and shape the ongoing reconciliation process.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125845337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
Urban trust in Kenya and Tanzania: Cooperation in the provision of public goods 肯尼亚和坦桑尼亚的城市信任:公共产品提供方面的合作
Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines Pub Date : 2013-12-01 DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2013.876921
D. Burbidge
{"title":"Urban trust in Kenya and Tanzania: Cooperation in the provision of public goods","authors":"D. Burbidge","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.876921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.876921","url":null,"abstract":"Literature connecting ethnic diversity with public goods provision has found public goods to be poorly and unevenly supplied in ethnically heterogeneous communities. Scrutinising this hypothesis, the study contrasts an ethnically homogenous community in Kenya with an ethnically heterogeneous one in Tanzania, documenting levels of trust and cooperation in public goods provision. Interviews and focus groups with market-sellers of Mwanza (Tanzania) and Kisumu (Kenya) reveal how the two professionally similar populations differ starkly in the way they participate in public goods, and in an opposite direction to that which would be predicted by the current literature on ethnicity. On the topic of the organisation of security and cleaning within markets in Mwanza, ethnically heterogeneous market-sellers' sense of solidarity facilitates a greater degree of seller-on-seller trust. In Kisumu, in contrast, with participants reflective of the dominant Luo ethnicity, the lack of state provision of public services has seen a feeble and individualistic response. The findings demonstrate how ethnic distribution matters less for public goods provision than commitments amongst citizens themselves and between citizens and local authorities.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127861858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
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