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

{"title":"New studies of sexual orientation, gender identities and expression in Africa south of the Sahara: complicating the narrative","authors":"Aminata Cécile Mbaye, M. Epprecht","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2142253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2142253","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84676116","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":"Exploring embodied differences in Xhosa manhood masculinity, and reflecting on thematic analysis","authors":"Thoko Sipungu","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2142252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2142252","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Very little research has been carried out on the significance of the physical body, particularly the disabled body, in the construction and negotiation of and meaning-making in relation to Xhosa manhood, despite manhood status among AmaXhosa being grounded on the body. Through structured and semi-structured in-depth interviews with seventeen visibly physically impaired Xhosa men and one Xhosa cultural expert, this article captures and tentatively theorises the participants’ inability, or lack of language, to talk about their impaired bodies in doing Xhosa manhood masculinity. I argue that the ritualised Xhosa initiation, as a grantor of equality for all traditionally initiated men, and the higher premium on social bodies than physical bodies in this context are the sources of the men’s inability to talk about their bodies as different. Secondly, the article reflects on the author’s decisions and choices regarding analytical themes during the data analysis process.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90176743","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":"New directions in conditional policy transfer to sub-Saharan Africa: the case of renewable energy policy transfer to ECOWAS by the EU","authors":"Titilayo Soremi","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2137213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2137213","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article applies the policy transfer framework and the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine the transfer of renewable energy policy to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by the European Union (EU). The transfer of policy to ECOWAS was shaped by an asymmetrical power dynamic, the use of conditionality and narratives of allyship. I argue that the EU’s conditional policy transfer obstructs domestic policymaking in West Africa, and that its narrative of allyship is undermined by the focus on economic strength. Applying the policy transfer lens to the EU’s conditionality helps to position the engagement as coercive and to examine the recipient’s response to external interference.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90632217","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":"Révolution et sorcellerie: une ethnologue au Burkina Faso","authors":"S. Belcher","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2133369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2133369","url":null,"abstract":"of Sansanding in return for his military and diplomatic services rendered in the conquest of the Western Sudan under Louis Archinard, who used Sèye to implement a protectorate. Chapter 3 shows how Sèye’s challenges of governance between 1891 and 1895 revealed indirect rule to be a costly and violent enterprise. Chapter 4 is a pivotal one in which broader imperial developments between 1895 and 1899, which saw a republican attack on military power in the French empire, conditioned Sèye’s turn toward a coercive patriarchal domination indexed by a growing entourage of women, children and slaves. Chapter 5 examines the broad crisis in 1898 and 1899 that saw the end of military rule in the colony as well as the circulation of lurid allegations about the faama worthy of the pen of a playwright. Chapter 6 returns to the period during which the investigation into Sèye’s alleged malfeasance deepens and the trial that never was produces the legal quandary at the heart of the book. A series of increasingly smaller investigations and bureaucratic maneuverings of Sèye’s allies effectively shield the colonial king in what was perhaps his biggest bargain of collaboration. Here, what had appeared to be a biography reveals itself to be a paradigmatic social history through legal cases. The meticulously detailed depositions on the Mademba affair collected by colonial officials show how the lives of hundreds of ordinary people in Sansanding were utterly transformed by the power wielded by a cunning, and perhaps sadistic, bureaucrat. Chapter 7 covers Mademba’s “redemption” through his careful exploitation of the promise of cotton production. Finally, Chapter 8 traces Sèye’s successful re-branding through a public relations campaign and the discourse of economic development. The source base is broad and effectively marshalled. Roberts deploys a diversity of official and personal correspondence from archives in Mali, Senegal and France as well as oral histories. He does not shy away from quarrels among the sources. Instead, he finds every opportunity to highlight how the differences among the reports offer more historical insight. He also modestly minds the gap between what he is certain about and what cannot be known about this particular past. To return to the paradox that the story of a changing colonialism might be told through a single person – indeed, a single case – it is worth noting Roberts’ own reluctance to write through a biographical frame. He did not want to write a history made by a hero, as he believes that history is made by ordinary people who struggle for justice and equity (309). All the better, as Sèye comes off as a paranoid villain with not-too-implicit comparisons to Donald Trump (xi). But Roberts writes a biography all the same. This reviewer wonders whether, in the context of recent African historiography, this might suggest a definitive turn toward the biographical, and if so, what that might mean for the field.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90995375","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":"Conflicts of Colonialism: The Rule of Law, French Soudan, and Faama Mademba Sèye","authors":"W. Marsh","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2133367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2133367","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82899276","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":"Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development","authors":"Mark Harvey","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2133368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2133368","url":null,"abstract":"Hawley, C. 2008. India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms. Bloomington: Indiana UP. Hofmeyr, I. 2007. “The Black Atlantic Meets the Indian Ocean: Forging New Paradigms of Transnationalism for the Global South – Literary and Cultural Perspectives.” Social Dynamics 33 (2): 3–32. King, K., and M. Venkatachalam, eds. 2021. India’s Development Diplomacy and Soft Power in Africa. London: James Currey. Mawdsley, E., and G. McCann, eds. 2011. India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press. McCann, G. 2019. “Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian solidarity? Africa’s ‘Bandung Moment’ in 1950s Asia.” Journal of World History 30 (1–2): 89–123.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90841839","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":"An Uneasy Embrace: Africa, India and the Spectre of Race","authors":"M. Venkatachalam","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2133362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2133362","url":null,"abstract":"agement in ex-colonial contexts like Namibia, even if African agency is centered (64–65). Although the central argument of Diamond Warriors is, of course, based on evidence from Namibia, it has implications for other parts of Africa too. Indeed, the author’s claim that his monograph is a pathbreaking addition to the literature on diamond stealing in colonial Namibia is without question (x). Amupanda’s work, particularly its “endogenous” emphasis, stands as a crucial example that should inspire similar in-depth accounts that uncover clandestine dealing in diamonds in other African contexts. That the author engages more with the scholarship on illegal diamond dealing or smuggling in colonial southern African settings, his area of specialty, than he does for other regions signals two related points: first, it highlights the fact that existing historical scholarship on diamond theft in the western, central, and eastern African contexts is sparse; and, second, it draws attention to gaps as yet unfilled. Additional scholarship on diamond smuggling in West and Central Africa would be significant especially because these regions are often cited to support the natural resource curse theory. Thus, new contributions to the historiography focusing on these regions will potentially offer useful insights against which to evaluate Dr. Amupanda’s “Afrocentric interpretation” and the “endogenous” turn he proposes.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75623537","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":"Diamond Warriors in Colonial Namibia: Diamond Smuggling, Migrant Workers and Development in Owamboland","authors":"E. Sewordor","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2133361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2133361","url":null,"abstract":"trade and the trade in commodities such as coffee, cotton and sugar cane. This era of transition also saw Luanda’s population grow from 5605 at the end of 1844 to 12,565 in 1850. This dramatic population increase was largely due to the end of the slave trade. In addition, Northern European demand for tropical commodities led to an expansion in local slave labor to work Angolan plantations. Of the 12,565 people in Luanda, 6,020 or 45% were enslaved. Oliveira argues that during this period slavery became increasingly harsh, even “domestic slavery” (86). Amidst the hardships of slavery, however, there were “paths to freedom.” Enslaved people in Luanda could buy their freedom or report abusive masters for redress. What is not clear from the discussion is the real source of the increasing harshness of slavery by the mid-nineteenth century. Was this development due to the demanding nature of commercial plantations or foreign racialized notions of chattel slavery? Whatever the case, Oliveira highlights the fierce resistance of enslaved Africans against their oppressors. Enslaved people who fled founded “mutoltos,” the settlements “that constantly formed around Angola” (95). I find the idea of mutoltos particularly interesting because one could easily draw parallels with quilombos or settlements of runaway slaves in Brazil. This was clearly not Oliveira’s focus. But such a comparison could have been worthwhile, in a book that grounds Angola in a comparative Portuguese/Brazilian imperial history during and in the aftermath of the slave trade. Finally, Oliveira shows how toward the second half of the nineteenth century, racial cleavages between whites and Luso-Africans began to harden. The definition of “white” became exclusive of Luso-Africans in ways that paralleled the emergence of new colonial racial hierarchies in the Atlantic port towns of Africa at the end of the nineteenth century (81). Overall, I highly recommend this book. Slave Trade and Abolition brings fresh perspectives on African and Euro-African women who, through their conjugal relationships with European men, not only participated in the Atlantic slave trade but also steered the course of the socalled legitimate commerce.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73453306","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":"Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda","authors":"Hermann W. von Hesse","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2121514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2121514","url":null,"abstract":"be an asset to this country”: Canadian Restrictions of Black Caribbean Female Domestic Workers, 1910–1955. In this chapter, Johnson uses a vast archive of legislation, immigration policies and official correspondence between Caribbean and Canadian officials to argue that “Canadian immigration and other authorities sustained a deliberate and racist rejection of Black female immigration into the Dominion” (281). She links this rejection to fear of Black families and Black communities, as well as to the concomitant fear of Black women as the putative nucleus of both. Finally, Esmeralda M. A. Thornhill’s “Re-Thinking and Re-Framing RDS: A Black Woman’s Perspective” is a meticulous critical review of the aforementioned 1997 Supreme Court of Canada landmark case R. v. S. that situates the courtroom as “a colonized space of White privilege, White entitlement, and above all, White comfort” (566). Moving into the present, Thornhill’s perceptive essay concludes that Black Canadians are still construed “as disruptive of the country’s touted founding image: ‘a White man’s country’” (540). Unsettling the Great White North is a timely, comprehensive and major contribution to the field of Black Canadian history. Barring the puzzling omission of an index, this is a truly impressive collection in both ambition and execution. Surely it will become a vital resource to all students of Canadian history.","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87730619","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":"Sharing the Burden of Sickness: A History of Healing and Medicine in Accra","authors":"Bernard Aristide Bitouga","doi":"10.1080/00083968.2022.2119710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2022.2119710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9481,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85212333","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}