{"title":"The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power, and the Political Imagination in South Africa","authors":"G. Kynoch, Clifton C. Crais","doi":"10.2307/4107376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107376","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68803364","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":"[Review of: A. Matsuoka, J. Sorenson (2001) Ghosts and shadows: construction of identity and community in an African diaspora]","authors":"G. Abbink","doi":"10.2307/4107388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107388","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107388","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68803532","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":"Lignages et territoires en Afrique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles : stratégies, compétition, intégration","authors":"C. Perrot","doi":"10.2307/4107390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107390","url":null,"abstract":"Lignages et territoires en Afrique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles-Claude Hélène Perrot 2000-01-01 Les Lignages sont présents partout en Afrique subsaharienne, et pas seulement dans les sociétés dites \" lignagères \" (ou encore segmentaires, acéphales etc.). Dans les formations étatiques les lignages existent même si l'un d'eux, le lignage royal, prédomine. Aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, l'expansion des hommes dans l'espace un espace peu densément peuplé, où les terres libres ne manquaient pas a été dans une large mesure voulue et orientée par les lignages. S'accroître en nombre et étendre le TERRITOIRE contrôlé étaient les objectifs que ceux-ci ont poursuivi à travers des STRATÉGIES diverses, qui les mettaient en COMPETITION les uns avec les autres. Nous voici loin de la vision généralement admise d'une histoire subie, soumise aux impératifs du milieu naturel et aux aléas des guerres dans laquelle on enferme généralement les peuples africains. Les huit auteurs réunis en ce livre ont au contraire mis en lumière dans les sociétés très diverses qu'ils ont étudiées les dynamismes internes qui font d'elles des sociétés \" historiques \" à part entière. Dans la majorité des cas (cinq sur huit) le lecteur est conduit dans des sociétés non étatiques de Côte d'Ivoire, du Gabon et du Congo Brazaville, là où naguère les historiens ne pénétraient pas, laissant la place aux ethnologues. Les études, apparemment plus classiques, consacrées aux Bamum du Cameroun, aux Baoulé et aux Anyi-Ndénye, constitués en unités de type étatique, doivent leur singularité au fait que les auteurs se sont résolument placés non pas \" au sommet \", mais à la base de l'édifice. Ces huit \" historiens de terrain \" qui ont œuvré à partir des sources orales qu'ils ont eux-mêmes recueillies, puis confrontées et interprétées, ont en effet choisi un niveau d'observation original. Ils se sont placés au ras du sol, à l'échelle de simples unités lignagères, et non pas celle des grands ensembles, politiques ou \" ethniques \", qu'affectionnent les historiens de l'Afrique mais non ceux de l'Europe qui depuis quelque temps pratiquent ces \" jeux d'échelle \". Le cadre lignager est certes familier aux ethno-anthropologues qui sans hésitation appliquent à l'ensemble les règles, les normes qu'ils ont repérées dans l'unité de base. Ici se sont les inégalités internes qui saillent, car dans la pratique socio-politique ces stratégies, ouvertes à L'INTEGRATION d'éléments allogènes, rencontrent un succès inégal. Et ces inégalités sont justement à la source de leur mouvement interne, de leur dynamisme.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107390","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68803580","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 Dynamics of Civil Society and the Democratization Process in Nigeria","authors":"E. Remi Aiyede","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2003.10751258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2003.10751258","url":null,"abstract":"Résumé On a représenté les sociétés civiles africaines “à l’état naissant” comme les initiatrices principales du processus de démocratisation des années 1990. Mais, suite à l’instauration de gouvernements démocratiques en Afrique, les grands espoirs investis dans le rôle et la capacité des organisations de ces sociétés civiles à promouvoir les réformes de gouvernance et à favoriser l’approfondissement de la démocratie ont été fortement exagérés. Si l’autorité démocratique a permis un plus grand espace favorable à l’expression politique au Nigéria, les acteurs non-démocratiques sont devenus très visibles et les chasseurs de pouvoir ont dominé l’espace politique parce qu’un secteur substantiel des organisations des sociétés civiles est tellement détaché de l’état et leur orientation vers le désengagement est tel que les conditions ne sont guère propices à la construction d’un état ou à la démocratisation. Les associations professionnelles ou celles de la classe moyenne, initialement au premier rang du mouvement démocratique ont tendance à se séparer du mouvement populaire. Les organisations civiques pro-démocratie au Nigéria ont été en grande partie modelées par la nécessité de confronter des régimes autoritaires et de ce fait, ont été limitées dans leur capacité à promouvoir une consolidation de la démocratie. Ces organisations doivent subir un processus de renouvellement démocratique interne, se rapprocher davantage du mouvement populaire et construire des structures capables de faire face aux institutions étatiques.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00083968.2003.10751258","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58778182","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":"Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures","authors":"Stephen Brown, D. Leonard, S. Straus","doi":"10.2307/4107322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107322","url":null,"abstract":"David K. Leonard and Scott Strauss. Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures. Boulder, CoIo.: Lynne Rienner, 2003. Bibliography. Index. $42.00. Cloth. $17.95. Paper. Africa 's Stalled Development is an accessible and valuable contribution to the literature on Africa's troubled political economy. As the elaboration of a series of lectures first delivered by one of the authors, the book provides a concise summary of key debates in African politics: endemic poverty, administrative weakness, and violent ethnic conflict. Although the text is unlikely to redefine Africanists' understanding of African states and societies, the authors' central thesis is sensible and, especially for those first acquainting themselves with the continent's politics, subtly provocative. Rather than relying on culturalist arguments to explain sub-Saharan Africa's seemingly endemic poverty, patronage, and political instability, Leonard and Strauss posit that the root of the continent's frail states is to be found in the history of their formation and subsequent incorporation into the international economy. These processes, they argue, have resulted in the creation of weak and poorly embedded politico-administrative institutions and, more important, in the pervasiveness of enclave production. As a result, \"revenue generation is physically confined to small areas, and the main markets are external, thus making the general economic health of areas outside the enclave quite secondary, if not irrelevant\" (13). Enclave production provides no incentives for leaders to establish popular legitimacy through programmatic reform or a strong developmental agenda. Instead, leaders can rely on taxes or rents from exports to sustain themselves. Worse still, the physical sites for enclave production-mines, oil rigs, or concentrated agricultural estates-are easy targets for would-be rebel groups. And having once experienced conflict, the potential for repeated violence is greatly increased. all of these problems, combined with the failures of international aid, which does little more than keep African countries out of bankruptcy, have led to the crises that beset the continent. At various points throughout the book, especially in two chapters written exclusively by David Leonard on technical assistance and foreign humanitarian (military) intervention, the authors offer concrete proposals for remedying the situations they have identified. Although self-admittedly idealistic, these suggestions are well reasoned, based on solid evidence, and thought-provoking. At the same time, the authors are determined to normalize the study of African politics, first by making the subject intelligible, then by making it highly visible to an American academic audience. …","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107322","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68801758","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 1964 Army Mutinies and the Making of Modern East Africa","authors":"M. Owino, T. Parsons","doi":"10.2307/4107288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107288","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107288","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68799518","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":"Industrial Labor in the Colonial World: Workers of the Chemin de fer Dakar-Niger, 1881-1963","authors":"Steven High, James A. Jones","doi":"10.2307/4107320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107320","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2002-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107320","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68801662","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}
Scott Brunger, Mylène Kherallah, C. Delgado, E. Gabre-Madhin, N. Minot, Michael E. Johnson
{"title":"Reforming Agricultural Markets in Africa","authors":"Scott Brunger, Mylène Kherallah, C. Delgado, E. Gabre-Madhin, N. Minot, Michael E. Johnson","doi":"10.2307/4107281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107281","url":null,"abstract":"\"Since the early 1980s, almost all African governments have embarked on economic reform programs to reduce state intervention in the economy and to allow markets to play a larger role. In the agricultural sector these programs were designed to eliminate price controls on agricultural commodities, disband or privatize state farms and state-owned enterprises, reduce the heavy taxation of agricultural exports, phase out subsidies on fertilizer and other inputs, and allow greater competition in agricultural markets. These measures have been highly controversial. Proponents argue that the reforms have improved market efficiency, reduced budget deficits, stimulated export production, and increased the share of the final price received by farmers. Opponents argue that the reforms have destabilized agricultural prices, widened the income distribution gap, and reduced access to low-cost inputs. Reforming Agricultural Markets in Africa by Mylene Kherallah, Christopher Delgado, Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Nicholas Minot, and Michael Johnson, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press for IFPRI, reviews the experience of the last 20 years. It evaluates the degree to which the reforms have actually been implemented, their impact on agricultural production and prices, and the net effect on the well-being of African households.\" Author's Introduction.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2002-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68799792","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":"Liberia's Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG and Regional Security in West Africa","authors":"L. Gberie, Adekeye Adebajo","doi":"10.2307/4107306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107306","url":null,"abstract":"This text aims to unravel the tangled web of the conflict by addressing questions including: why did Nigeria intervene in Liberia and remain committed throughout the seven-year civil war?; and to what extent was ECOMOG's intervention shaped by Nigeria's hegemonic aspirations.","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2002-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107306","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68800960","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 Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World","authors":"S. Lewis, Albert Wertheim","doi":"10.2307/486321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/486321","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction 1. Early Work and Early Themes 2. The Port Elizabeth Plays: The Voice with Which We Speak from the Heart 3. 'Acting' Against Apartheid 4. Dimetos: Fugard's First Problem Play 5. The Drama as Teaching and Learning: Trauerspiel, Tragedy, Hope and Race 6. The Other Problem Plays 7. Writing to Right: Scripting Apartheid's Demise 8. Where Do We, Where Do I, Go from Here?: Performing a New South Africa Works Cited Index","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2002-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/486321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69462776","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}