{"title":"African Conflicts and Informal Power: Big Men and Networks","authors":"B. Riddell","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2012.705611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2012.705611","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"46 1","pages":"350 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2012.705611","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778580","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":"Le petit manuel français–bambara à époque coloniale, entre description et appropriation pratique","authors":"Cécile Van den Avenne","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2012.705588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2012.705588","url":null,"abstract":"A partir de l'étude de deux petits manuels français–bambara d'époque coloniale, il s'agit de rendre compte d'un genre de description linguistique spécifique, construisant un savoir pratique et attestant de formes particulières d'appropriation de la langue de l'autre en situation coloniale. Il s'agit d'une analyse à la fois pragmatique et textuelle du petit manuel, partant de l'idée que cet objet permet d'éclairer les pratiques communicationnelles interculturelles coloniales et d'appréhender la manière dont a pu se constituer une forme de savoir sur les langues africaines.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"46 1","pages":"251 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2012-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2012.705588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778466","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":"African female immigration to the United States and its policy implications.","authors":"Kevin J A Thomas, Ikubolajeh Logan","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2012.659582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2012.659582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines the dynamics of female African immigration and settlement in the United States and discusses the research and policy implications for these processes. It highlights a significant surge in female immigration from African than non-African countries in recent years. This surge is driven by female immigration from Africa's countries most populous countries, from countries affected by civil conflicts, and from English-speaking countries in the region. African women are also more likely to arrive as unmarried single than other female immigrants. In addition, they had the highest prevalence of Bachelors, Masters, or Doctorate degrees among women in the US. African females were also about twice more likely to be enrolled in US Educational institutions compared to other women. Those in the labor force were more likely to work as nursing professionals than in technical occupational groups such as engineering and computing. The study concludes by discussing the research and policy implications of these findings for countries in the developing world.</p>","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"46 1","pages":"87-107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2012.659582","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32563843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Esclaves et esclavages en Afrique-Occidentale française: un objet embarrassant pour les sciences sociales françaises en situation coloniale (de la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années 1950)","authors":"Marie-Albane de Suremain","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2011.9707536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2011.9707536","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé Malgré l'abolition officielle de l'esclavage par les autorités coloniales en Afrique-Occidentale française (AOF) en 1905, esclaves et différentes situations d'esclavages n'ont pas pour autant disparu en pratique. Leur persistance ne retient pourtant pas l'attention des travaux venus des sciences sociales qui se développent dans une situation de plus grande autonomie par rapport aux pouvoirs coloniaux, surtout depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale grâce à des structures scientifiques comme l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (IFAN). Les travaux ethnologiques ne s'intéressent guère à cette catégorie spécifique au sein des populations étudiées et l'approche historique tend à réduire l'esclavage à une réalité passée. La sociologie paraît, elle, plus soucieuse de montrer la modernité des sociétés africaines. La situation des esclaves est dépeinte sans fard cependant lors d'enquêtes de géographie sur les niveaux de vie, qui permettent d'identifier la condition spécifique qui leur est faite. Mais au moment des indépendances de ces nouveaux Etats, cette thématique n'apparaît cependant pas comme prioritaire.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"45 1","pages":"108 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2011.9707536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778458","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":"Deaf, Gay, HIV Positive, and Proud: Narrating an Alternative Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa","authors":"C. Broqua","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2010.9707584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2010.9707584","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the ways in which John Meletse, a young black man who is an openly gay Deaf activist living with HIV, prioritizes some identities over otherswhen telling us about his life. In analyzing this narrative of self, this article explores the ways in which sexual, gender, and \"disabled\" identities intersect in alternative constructions of masculinity. A close reading of parts of John's biographic narrative allows the article to show rather than tell how his coming to terms with sexual identity is a process. John's videotaped life story, translated from South African Sign Language, was drawn from original interviews that formed part of the results of a SANPADproject onDeaf Culture in South Africa and from subsequent follow-up interviews.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"43 1","pages":"104 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2010.9707584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778423","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":"Children of Ham: Freed Slaves and Fugitive Slaves on the Kenya Coast, 1873-1907","authors":"T. Spear, F. Morton","doi":"10.2307/485859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/485859","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"28 1","pages":"170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2008-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/485859","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69442400","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 Voyage to Abyssinia","authors":"A. H. Ahmad, S. Johnson","doi":"10.2307/485109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/485109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"21 1","pages":"121"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2008-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/485109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69399486","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":"Hidden in the Household: Gender and Class in the Study of Islam in Africa","authors":"E. Ann Mcdougall","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2008.10751395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2008.10751395","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe household, if understood in a dynamic multi-status, multi-generational, multi-cultural, “gendered” way, can provide a conceptual framework for reinterpreting practices, processes, and patterns of Islamization in Africa. This framework contrasts with the one privileged in literature that focuses on the agency of traders, clerics and chiefs in public institutions. It reminds us that they “lived Islam” next to their mothers, wives, sisters, and slaves in households. This preliminary exploration of women and slaves usually seen as marginal to Islamization is intended to challenge extant perceptions: women and slaves were not only “recipients” of Islam but its agents. In their households, they shaped how Islam was lived by all around them. So instead of looking only at the history of more public Islamic people and places, addressing attention to the household and its changing nature over time may allow us to see a different face of Islam and different process of Islamization.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"42 1","pages":"508 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2008.10751395","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778377","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":"Engaging with the Legacy of Nehemia Levtzion: An Introduction","authors":"E. Ann Mcdougall","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2008.10751378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2008.10751378","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This volume draws principally on presentations from two African Studies Association meetings (2003, 2004) that celebrated Nehemia Levtzion’s contributions to the field of Islam in Africa and reminisced about our collective personal interactions with him. It is enriched by additional papers from former students, colleagues and friends (usually one and the same), as well as from contemporary young scholars just beginning to “know” Levtzion through his legacy. The “Epilogue” gives a final, posthumous word to Levtzion himself, in an article looking at the contemporary role of fundamentalism from the perspective of an historian who spent his life engaged in the history of Islam at its Middle Eastern and African crossroads. The following pages are meant not only to pay homage to Nehemia Levtzion but also to reflect critically, to push boundaries, and to introduce Africanist scholars, engaged in other areas of study and new generations of Africanist scholars in this field, to Levtzion’s role in shaping how we have come to understand the experience of Islam in Africa.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"42 1","pages":"213 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2008.10751378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778366","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":"“We Are Working for Nothing”: Livelihoods and Gender Relations in Rural Zimbabwe, 2000-06.","authors":"A. Goebel","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2007.11434725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2007.11434725","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis article draws on interviews with women resettlement farmers in Wedza District, Zimbabwe, to trace changes in livelihood strategies and gender relations from 2000 to 2006. The research indicates a shrinking number of viable options for livelihoods, and the severe erosion of formerly critical activities. Thewomen interviewed see increases inmarital discord and collapse, with implications for family formation, social order, and survival. The article explores the linkages between changing livelihoods and gender relations, focusing especially on marriage in relation to agriculture and land issues, gendered incomes, sexuality, AIDS orphans and other effects of HIV/AIDS. Within this overall difficult context, the enduring ethic of caring and the buffering effects of people’s access to arable land and other natural resources are apparent. Throughout, the article discusses the theoretical implications of the research, participating in debates about regional conditions and theoretical understandings of...","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":"41 1","pages":"226-257"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2007.11434725","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778296","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}