Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines最新文献

{"title":"Our new husbands are here: households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule","authors":"C. J. Korieh","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.830399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.830399","url":null,"abstract":"African civil society organisations, beyond their members’ sero-status. This question becomes particularly relevant as increased ART access has made HIV a manageable disease for many Africans, and AIDS support organisations have had to refashion themselves as community development associations that undertake income-generation projects for their members. Despite these limitations, the book raises numerous questions that will inform future research and policymaking. First, just as AIDS activists self-fashioned themselves through testimony during Côte d’Ivoire’s economic and political demise, how might they selffashion themselves in response to the decline in donor funding for AIDS? What new technologies (beyond testimonies) will they incorporate? Since the politics of triage revolves around such mobilisation, these are highly relevant questions. Second, can the politics of triage become more transparent? That is, what are the criteria for who does and does not get access to important medications, not just for HIV, but for numerous lifethreatening diseases? By pointing out the dynamics of who lives and dies in West Africa’s AIDS epidemic, Nguyen challenges us all to engage this question.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123146564","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}

{"title":"A history of race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960","authors":"S. Harris","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829942","url":null,"abstract":"workers, some of whose stories are heart-wrenching. “Places”, Rodman (1992, 641) reminds us, “have multiple meanings that are constructed spatially” and calls for the need to appreciate such places, not simply as sites of research but as places that hold profound physical, emotional, and experiential realities for their inhabitants. Significantly, places are experienced differently by individuals even when they share the same space. Ginsburg’s narrative bears out this point to my satisfaction. At Home with Apartheid is significant in that it skilfully exposes the apartheid “backyard” to the world – reminding us that what we see may not always be what we get. This book is a worthy addition to the growing attempts by historians, sociologists and anthropologists to increase the tempo in the voices of those who occupied the lowest rungs of society during the great tragedy that was apartheid. This book is highly recommended to scholars interested in the history of apartheid and domestic service in South Africa, as well as to individuals committed to the pursuit of social justice the world over.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130348287","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}

{"title":"Religious ideas and institutions: transitions to democracy in Africa","authors":"Amy S. Patterson","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829943","url":null,"abstract":"groups needed the French to maintain a privileged position, and the French needed their authority to control the population. At the same time, the French presence changed land use and modified possession. This section of the book also encompasses a legal history built upon case studies of Islamic law used to justify slavery; Hall effectively shows how the French allowed slavery to continue in the region up to decolonization. He argues that the French colonial presence changed the authority and structure between pastoralist Tuareg and Songhay-speaking sedentary villages to such an extent that the area politically polarized after decolonization, leading to two wars. This is a very fine piece of academic scholarship that will further understandings about the intellectual and political history of the Niger Bend area, as well as a wider North and West African region. A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600– 1960 is particularly relevant given current events in the Niger Bend area of Mali.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129538695","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}

{"title":"The republic of therapy: triage and sovereignty in West Africa's time of AIDS","authors":"Amy S. Patterson","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.840118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.840118","url":null,"abstract":"contemporary social problems were often placed at the heels of Europe in acts having more to do with politics than historical accuracy. Metaphor makes a number of such assertions that risk depicting a romanticized pre-slave trade Africa whose agency is subordinated to Europeans. Other examples of this include suggesting the transatlantic slave trade was responsible for “the failed [postcolonial] states that indirectly resulted from it” (179), and qualifying the transition from acephalous communities to centralized polities as tragic, without analyzing why this might be so (2). Another challenge of Murphy’s undertaking, and one to which she readily admits, is that metaphors are open-ended. Consequently, their relationships to the transatlantic slave trade in particular are difficult to establish. So when she suggests, for example, that Ben Okri’s image of a river serving as a road connecting to the rest of the world signifies “the moment when slave-trading ships reached the coast and introduced a ‘New World’ to unsuspecting and undesiring African people” (80), one is left wondering why this reading should be more convincing than a dozen others, and why transatlantic slavery is singled out and divorced from broader historical patterns of trade and enslavement affecting Africa over la longue durée. Despite these shortcomings, with arguments illuminating the manner in which memories of the transatlantic slave trade continue to find expression in Africa, and careful readings of some of Anglophone Africa’s most important novels, Metaphor and the Slave Trade in West African Literature is a valuable contribution to our understanding of postcolonial Anglophone African literature and the transatlantic slave trade’s continuing place in the African imagination. While its somewhat labyrinthine structure makes it unsuitable for undergraduates, and its lack of rigorous historical analysis renders it questionable to historians, it will be a valuable resource for those interested in the authors under study, the Black Atlantic, and slavery in African literature.","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"287 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133588200","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}

{"title":"The fate of Sudan: the origins and consequences of a flawed peace process","authors":"M. Leriche","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.829957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.829957","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing upon his long and impressive engagement with political affairs in Sudan (now Sudan and South Sudan) and the region of the Horn more widely, John Young's book The Fate of Sudan paints a blea...","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122720692","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}

{"title":"The politics of necessity: community organizing and democracy in South Africa","authors":"Jennifer Terrell","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2013.830400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2013.830400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":172027,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies/ La Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125917641","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}