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The African Studies program at Ohio University invites submissions for the 2nd Perspectives on African Decolonization conference. This year’s theme is African Intellectuals and Decolonization.In 1958, Guinea, under Ahmed Sékou Touré, chose political independence over continued association with France. Focusing on African intellectuals and decolonization will allow for an interrogation of all three concepts as well as an opportunity to examine the roles intellectuals have played and continue to play in contemporary African efforts at liberation from economic neo-colonialism. This conference will also provide an opportunity to highlight the cutting edge work of contemporary African philosophers, the heritors of the intellectual traditions established by the generations who fought for the liberation of Africa.

Conference planners invite the submission of abstracts for papers and panels from scholars and graduate students in any academic discipline. Presentations that are interdisciplinary and/or transnational in scope will be particularly welcome. Abstracts for individual papers should be 250-300 words and accompanied by a brief CV (no more than two pages). Panel proposals should include abstracts and CVs for each presenter as well as a 250-500 word overview of the panel. Topics for discussion include but by no means are limited to:

? Who is African?

? Who is an intellectual?

? What do we mean by decolonization?

? Colonialism and decolonization in Africa

? Neocolonialism and (neo)decolonization in Africa

? Women and decolonization in Africa

? Decolonizing the (Westernized) Academy

? African philosophies and decolonization? African indigenous knowledge systems and decolonization? The Arts and African decolonization? African literatures and decolonization? The Sciences and decolonization in Africa

? Conservation of natural resources in Africa and decolonizationAs the conference will be held in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Guinea’s independence on October 2, 2008 we will particularly welcome panels and papers concerning Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinea, and decolonization.

Selected papers will be published in an edited collection of essays to commemorate these significant moments in African history and to reflect upon the legacies of fifty years of “independence” in Africa.

Please submit paper and panel proposals to: Acacia Nikoi <nikoi@ohio.edu>. The deadline for submission of proposals is May 31, 2008. Visit our website: <http://www.african.ohio.edu/Conferences/index.html> for more information.

 

18-19 Sept 2008 – 'African Children in Focus: A Paradigm Shift in Methodology
and Theory? Interdisciplinary Conference', Leiden, Netherlands.

"From the late 1990’s onwards, the research of children and childhoods has
gradually become a topic of study in the social sciences. Children have
increasingly come into the limelight as culture makers and not just as
extensions to the study of adults. At the same time, African children have
remained in the margins of such studies despite the fact that over forty
percent of Africans are under the age of fifteen. African children are
commonly depicted as victims of war, poverty and illness. This conference aims
to provide a platform for qualitative studies on African children, paying
attention to children’s own perspectives, agencies and interdependencies. The
conference query centralises around methodological approaches and theories and
wishes to initiate discussions on the following questions: a) What
(interdisciplinary) methodological approaches are best suited to research with
children? b) What theoretical innovations and perspectives emerge from the
study of children? Papers of case studies with African children are welcome,
but a reflection on the above questions is required. A selection of papers
will be published. The conference is organised by the Netherlands African
Studies. (…) The conference language is English."

Conference Organising Committee: Sandra Evers (VU) and Catrien Notermans (RU),
NVAS, P.O. Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, Netherlands. E-mail:
Conference.Children@gmail.com

Here is a review of Steven L. Robins book by Christopher J. Lee.

Steven L. Robins, ed.  Limits to Liberation after Apartheid:

Citizenship, Governance and Culture. Oxford: James Currey, 2005.

Reviewed for H-SAfrica by Christopher J. Lee, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Politics of the “Multitude” in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Like many of its predecessors, this book about the post-apartheid period

begins with the celebratory moment of Nelson Mandela’s release from

prison in February 1990. A more apt image would be the assassination of

Chris Hani outside of his home in April 1993. A symbol of the violence

and future anxieties that preoccupied the early 1990s, Hani’s premature

death in retrospect has foreshadowed trends of recurring political

intolerance and marginalization that have characterized the

post-apartheid period. Taken as a whole then, _Limits to Liberation_ is

an edited volume that inhabits a now familiar declensionist narrative of

auspicious political change in 1994 followed by a steady decline of

optimism concurrent with an escalation of new feelings of political,

social, and economic uncertainty over the past fourteen years.

However, to call this sensibility familiar is not to call this volume

unnecessary. Edited by Steven L. Robins, an associate professor of

social anthropology at Stellenbosch University, this compelling

collection of essays focuses on the transformative limits of the

post-apartheid period by situating these boundaries not within realms of

economic or social policy assessment, but instead within the more

commonplace complexities that South Africans face on a day-to-day basis.

As Robins suggests, locating solutions to many of South Africa’s

problems does not rest solely with party politics or economic reform,

but through engagement with “specific, concrete realities and everyday

struggles” in order to understand the local “negotiations and pragmatic

compromises” in which South Africans participate (p. 2). Given the

involvement of a set of contributors who are mostly, if not all,

anthropologists, a central touchstone is the role of culture and

cultural spaces vis-à-vis such questions of citizenship and social

change. The interplay between a new South African state predicated on

liberal principles of universal rights and a vibrant, culturally diverse

civil society consequently forms the key dynamic of this text. The book

is divided into three sections that include twelve essays in total.

The first section–entitled “Culture and the Limits of

Liberalism”–consists of four essays, the first of which lays out the

problems of South Africa’s democratic transition and the contributions

that South Africa might offer to contemporary understandings of

democratic theory. Bettina von Lieres, a political scientist at the

University of the Western Cape, argues that political marginalization,

rather than inclusion, has been the central theme of South Africa’s new

democracy. Although rights have been universally granted and citizenship

status is assured by law, the experience of citizenship suggests that

more attention must be granted to the ambiguous politics of

incorporation. Von Lieres works against center-periphery notions of

political assimilation–that inclusion is merely a matter of bringing

communities previously marginalized during the apartheid era back into

the system–to propose that the post-apartheid political system itself

has produced new situations of marginalization. The meaning of

“consensus” over political ideas, values, and state practices remains a

fraught realm of definition and negotiation, with South African

communities periodically entering and retreating from such debates in

such a way that fragmentation has become the norm.

The second essay of this section by Jean and John Comaroff–entitled

“Reflections on Liberalism, Policulturalism and ID-ology: Citizenship

and Difference in South Africa”–further explores why the category of

“citizenship” has preoccupied contemporary scholarship in a fashion

similar to the notion of “civil society” during the late 1980s.

Observing a broad tension between “right-bearing individuals” and

“identity-bearing subjects,” they contend that the ambiguities produced

by such distinctions, through the fact that individuals have had to

inhabit and negotiate both, are the exact reason why “citizenship” and

“community” have become contested abstractions. The centripetal

tendencies of past ideologies have been replaced by the centrifugal

motion of contemporary “ID-ology,” an expression referring to the

identity struggles that have defined day-to-day life. A

“policulturalism”–signifying both the plural and politicized nature of

cultural practice–has subsequently taken hold, pointing to the limits

of liberalism as counterbalanced by the “Kingdom of Custom” (p. 52).

Suren Pillay’s essay, which follows, explores another case study of such

ambiguities by focusing on the status of Afrikaner identity,

underscoring how the re-assertion of this identity both approximates the

nation-building project underway but has also raised the specter of

white privilege. Pillay therefore questions the universalism of the

liberal democratic model, by evincing the complexities that can unfold

when this abstract set of ideas intersects with a particular history.

The final essay by Thomas A. Koelble and Edward LiPuma focuses on a

separate intersection, that between contemporary global capital and the

African National Congress (ANC) government. Returning to themes touched

upon by the Comaroffs, their approach to the resurgence of customary

authority outlines how the lack of economic autonomy vis-à-vis the

World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other forms of

international finance has constrained the South African state such that

it has had to make overtures to chiefs and other local authorities to

achieve political and economic legitimation. The consequent continuity

between apartheid and post-apartheid states in their co-optation is

striking.

Part 2, entitled “Rethinking Citizenship and Governance in Urban South

Africa,” takes a more focused turn to venture into the meanings of

political change and status in urban areas. The first essay–”Nodal

Governance, Denizenship and Communal Space: Challenging the Westphalian

Ideal” by Clifford Shearing and Jennifer Wood–makes the basic, but

important, point that the generic Westphalian model of the nation-state

and its citizenry is not analytically useful for interpreting

contemporary South Africa. With the devolution of state power and a

concurrent rise of alternative institutions and bodies providing

security and other social services, a Foucauldian nodal form of

governance has taken hold, with “denizenship”–defined as a status of

inhabiting a particular social context–supplanting conventional

definitions of citizenship. Understanding what it means to be a

“denizen” serves to locate the multiple spaces through which identities

are constituted–whether as consumers at shopping malls or dwellers in

shantytowns–in addition to the webs of power that intersect and

constitute such spaces. Denizenship consequently enables visions of

power beyond the state to capture better the everyday negotiations that

contemporary South Africans face.

The chapters that follow embrace a similar appreciation for de-centering

conventional notions of power and multiplying definitions of belonging.

For example, Edgar Pieterse’s examination of City Development Strategy

discourse in Cape Town argues for an organic, rather than top-down,

approach to understanding South Africa cities, one that is cognizant of

a “multiplicity of struggle” that “moves across formal/informal and

insider/outsider binaries” (p. 130). Building upon a bio-political

notion of the state, Ivor Chipkin contends that contemporary citizenship

is being determined via ethnical norms seeking to construct “moral

communities” and “the good subject” (pp. 135, 137). This “moral-ethical

disposition” is an overlooked dimension, one that could inform how the

contours of “development” are determined (p. 142). As Chipkin writes,

“Development, therefore, is not simply about meeting the needs of

citizens. It is about capturing residents to a life-ethic defined by the

state so that they can be citizens! It is about making ethical beings.

It is about holding people in relations that make them governable by the

state” (p. 154).

Sean Jacobs and Ron Krabill carry this theme of construction further to

underscore the role of the media in determining the visibility and

consequent representation of people and their concerns. The problem of

“mediated citizens” is particularly acute for township residents as they

demonstrate in a case study of Manenberg, where people “are treated [by

the media] at best as unfortunate victims, if not ungrateful criminals,

without ever addressing their more profound claims for structural

change, made as citizens” (p. 171).

These shifting contours of the public sphere are equally explored in

part 3, “Cultural Plurality and Cultural Politics after Apartheid.”

Elaine Salo, for example, looks at the ways in which youth in Manenberg

have renegotiated urban space and opportunity by redefining notions of

masculinity and femininity through access to and appropriation of the

material and media resources of a global public sphere. Adopting a

slightly more insular method, Andrew Spiegel traces the various meanings

of the expression “spaza”–which range from adjectives such as

“informal,” “imitation,” “fake,” and “unreal” to the verbs “bewilder” or

“eyeblind”–to identify the contours of a critical urban discourse

centered on how people interpret situations and power via this term.

Shannon Jackson similarly excavates the “civic-mindedness” of Coloured

South Africans by locating its historical roots through practices of

memory, domesticity, and urban belonging, thus challenging what she

perceives as more present-focused, instrumental views of this identity,

and others, as of late. Rafael Marks concludes the collection with the

spectacle of Cape Town’s Century City, arguing that this “city within a

city” represents a new level of privatizing and commodifying public

life. When ideas of equitable development and global capital confront

one another, the latter typically wins out. As Marks writes,

“The city is beholden to private developers and democratic planning

processes have been marginalised. Far from attempting to rectify the

inequalities and spatial patterns of the apartheid city, the free market

has intensified existing divisions. The rich retreat into their

well-serviced laagers, protected by fences, private security and

nostalgic fantasy, while the poor are locked outside, battling with

decreasing public services. The apartheid legacy of (urban) segregation

continues to intensify with differing access to goods and services” (p.

241).

These lines in many ways summarize the volume as a whole, underscoring

the ineluctable manner in which post-apartheid politics and social life

have intersected with the variegated pathways and demands of global

capital, to compromise many of the ideals of anti-apartheid struggle.

This convergence of political autonomy and economic entanglement appears

to link South Africa’s transition with that of other African countries,

which experienced similar binds earlier, albeit with tangible socialist

options that the Cold War once provided. Nevertheless, a key strength of

this text is its effort to identify the critical ways in which South

Africa’s “multitude” has intervened in this ongoing process, to

challenge policies and perspectives that would have them remain

passive.[1] As with many edited collections, there are some imbalances

and areas for further consideration. For example, the case studies

presented are almost exclusively urban in focus. The popularity of

researching peasants and rural areas that existed from the late 1970s to

the mid-1990s has waned dramatically. Among urban areas, the collection

is tilted decidedly toward Cape Town. Durban and Johannesburg receive

little attention. On another level, there is too, at times, a rhetorical

quality to many of the arguments presented, with descriptive keywords

such as “discourse,” “contested,” “struggle,” and “fluid,” for example,

standing in for ethnographic detail. Furthermore, from a conceptual

standpoint, the three sections blend into one another for the most part,

rather than maintain the distinctions suggested by their titles. Still,

these critiques stem from the observable strengths of this collection.

Robins and his contributors have added new perspectives and ideas to an

important research agenda, one that will no doubt preoccupy

scholars–and activists–for some time to come.

Note

[1]. Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, _Multitude: War and Democracy in

the Age of Empire_ (New York: Penguin, 2004).

 

 

 

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Here is an uplifting article in the Washington Post on female entrepreneurialism in Rwanda and how that has greatly helped efforts to rebuild the country’s economy and the fight against poverty there. 

 

Here is a list of new additions to the Africana collection.

Adebajo, Adekeye, and Helen Scanlon, ed. A Dialogue of the Deaf:

Essays on Africa and the United Nations. Auckland Park: Fanele, 2006.

Agbese, Pita Ogaba, and George Klay Kieh, Jr, ed. Reconstituting the

State in Africa. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. Between Faith and History: A Biography of J.A.

Kufuor. 2nd ed. Banbury, UK: Ayebia Clarke, 2006.

Ahluwalia, Pal, et al., ed. Violence and Non-Violence in Africa. New

York: Routledge, 2007.

Akama, John S., ed. Ethnography of teh Gusii of Western Kenya: A

Vanishing Cultural Heritage. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006.

Akol, Lam. Southern sudan: Colonialism, Resistance, and Autonomy.

Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 2007.

Alam, S. M. Shamsul. Rethinking Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya. 1st ed. New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Allman, Jean Marie. Tongnaab: The History of a West African God.

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Argenti, Nicolas. The Intestines of the State: youth, Violence, and

Belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 2007.

Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka, ed. Emerging Perspectives on Aminata Sow Fall:

The Real and the Imaginary in Her Novels. Trenton, NJ: Africa World

Press, 2007.

Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka, and Maureen Ngozi Eke, ed. Gender and Sexuality

in African Literature and Film. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007.

Agyeman-Duah, Ivor. Between Faith and History: A Biography of J.A.

Kufuor. Banbury, UK: Ayebia Clarke, 2006.

B?hre, Erik. Money and Violence: Financial Self-Help Groups in a South

African Township. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Barnard, Rita. Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the

Politics of Place. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Bart, Fran?ois, et al., ed. Mount Kilimanjaro: Mountain, Memory,

Modernity. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2006.

Barrett, Andrew G. Mude, ed. Decentralization and the Social Economics

of Development: Lessons From Kenya. Cambridge, UK: CABI, 2007.

Black, Richard. Migration and Development in Africa: An Overview. Cape

Town: Idasa, 2006.

Bond, Patrick. Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global

Reforms. 2nd ed. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwa-Zulu-

Natal Press, 2006.

Borne, Francine van den. Trying to survive in Times of Poverty and

AIDS: Women and Multiple Partner Sex in Malawi. Amsterdam: Het

Spinhuis, 2005.

Boudraa, Nabil, and Joseph Krause, ed. North African Mosaic: A

Cultural Reappraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities. Newcastle,

UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Bridgman, Frederick Arthur. Winters in Algeria. 1st Gorgias Press ed.

Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.

Briggs, Philip. Africa: Continent of Contrasts. Cape Town: Struick,

2005.

Brown, Hamish M. The Mountains Look on Marrakech: A Trek Along the

Atlas Mountains. Dunbeath, Scotland: Whittles, 2007.

Butler, L. J. Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern

Rhodesia, c. 1930-64. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Buur, Lars, ed. The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of

Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Cape Town: HSRC,

2007.

Carmody, P?draig Risteard. Neoliberalism, Civil Society and Security

in Africa. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Caron, Bernard, and Petr Zima, ed. Sprachbund in the West. Louvain,

Belgium: Peeters, 2006.

Chabal, Patrick, ed. African Alternatives. Boston: Brill, 2007.

Chabal, Patrick, and Nuno Vidal, ed. Angola: The Weight of History.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Chiwandamira, Lindlyn, and Moncia Makaula, ed. Perspectives on African

Governance. Cape Town: Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2006.

Chiwandamira, Lindlyn, ed. Perpectives on African Governance. Cape

Town: Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2006.

Christiansen, Catrine, et al., ed. Navigating Youth, Generating

Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context. Uppsala: Nordiska

Afrikainstitutet, 2006.

Cole Catherine, M., ed. Africa After Gender?. Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 2007.

Collins, Robert O. A History of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York:

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Columbus, Frank, ed. Politics and Economics of Africa. Huntington, NY:

Nova Science Publishers, 2001.

Cronin, Stephanie, ed. Subalterns and Social Protest: History From

Below in the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Cross, Catherine, et al., ed. Views on Migration in Sub-Saharan

Africa: Proceedings of an African Migration Alliance workshop. Cape

Town: HSRC Press, 2006.

Crush, Jonathan, et al. States of Vulnerability: The Future Brain

Drain of Talent to South Africa. Kingston, Canada: Southern African

research Centre, Queen’s University, 2006.

Davis, John. African and the War on Terrorism. Burlington, VT:

Ashgate, 2007.

Dan, Henk. The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African

Environment. New York: Palgrave, 2007.

Daly, M.W. Darfur’s Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide. New

York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

De Villiers, Marq. Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fables City of Gold. 1st

U.S. ed. New York: Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.

De Vletter, Fion. Migration and Development in Mozambique: Poverty,

Inequality and Survival. Kingston, Canada: Southern African Research

Centre, Queens University, 2006.

Drayton, Arthur D. African Literature Association. Meeting (26th:

2000: University of Kansas, Lawrence). Trenton, NJ: Africa World

Press, 2007.

Edward, Jane Kani. Sudanese Women Refugees: Transformations and Future

Imaginings. 1st Ed. New York: Palgrave macmillan, 2007.

Eldredge, Elizabeth A. Power in Colonial Africa: Conflict and

Discourse in Lesotho, 1870-1960. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin

Press, 2007.

Endeley, Joyce Bayand Mbongo. The Social Impact of the Chad-Cameroon

Oil Pipeline: How Industrial Development Affects Gender Relations,

Land Tenure, and Local Culture. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2007.

Fadlalla, Amal Hassan. Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and

Regeneration in Eastern Sudan. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin

Press, 2007.

Falola, Toyin, and Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, ed. Population Movements,

Conflicts and Displacements in Nigeria. Trenton, NJ: Africa World

Press, 2008.

Falola, Toyin, and Niyi Afolabi, ed. Trans-Atlantic Migration: The

Paradoxes of Exile. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Fiedler, Klaus. Gospel Takes Roots on Kilimanjaro: A History of the

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Old Moshi-Mbokomu (1885-1940). Zomba,

Malawi: [distributed by] Michigan State University Press, 2006.

Fig, David. Staking their Claims: Corporate Social and Environmental

Responsibility in South Africa. Scottsville, South Africa: University

of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2007.

Gaim, Kibreab. Critical Reflections on the Eritrean War of

Independence: Social Capital, Associational Life, Religion, Ethinicity

and Sowing Seeds of Dictatorship. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2008.

Graeber, David. Lost People: magic and the Legacy of Slavery in

Madagascar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

Graham, Paul, ed. Inheriting Poverty? The Link Between Children’s

Wellbeing and Unemployment in South Africa. Cape Town: IDASA, 2006.

Grasdorff, Eriv van. African Renaissance and Discourse Ownership in

the Information Age: The Internet as a Factor of Domination and

Liberation. M?nster, Germany: LIT, 2005.

Gray, Doris H. Muslim Women on the Move: Moroccan Women and French

Women of Moroccan Origin Speak Out. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.

Guyer, Jane I. Vision and Policy in Nigerian Economics: The Legacy of

Pius Okigbo. Ibadan, Nigeria: Ibadan Univeristy Press, 2005.

Harrison, Philip. Planning and Transformation: Learning From the Post-

Apartheid Experience. New York: Routledge, 2008.

Hartman, Saidiya V. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic

Slave Route. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Hartwig, Elisabeth. Rural African Women as Subjects of Social and

Political Change: A Case Study of Women in Northwestern Cameroon.

M?nster, Germany: Lit, 2005.

Hebinck, Paul, and Peter C. Lent, ed. Livelihoods and Landscapes: The

People of Guquka and Koloni and Their Resources. Boston: Brill, 2007.

Henk, Dan. The Botswana Defense Force in the Struggle for an African

Environment. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Holt, Clive. At Thy Call We Did Not Falter. New ed. Cape Town: Zebra

Press, 2005.

Huchzermeyer, Marie, and Aly Karam, ed. Informal Settlements: A

Perpetual Challenge? Cape town: UCT PRess, 2006.

Human Science Research Council. State of the Nation: South Africa.

Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2003.

Hunter, Archie. Power and Passion in Egypt: A Life of Sir Eldon Gorst.

London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

Hunwick, John O. West Africa, Islam, and the Arab World: Studies in

Honor of Dasil Davidson. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2006.

Hulterstr?m, Karolina. Political Opposition in African Countries: The

Cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Uppsala: Nordiska

Afrikainstitutet, 2007.

Iliffe, John. Africans: The History of a Continent. 2nd ed. Cambridge,

UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Irinoye, A.I., ed. Optimal Management of Health Care Organisations.

Ibadan, Nigeria: Safari Books, 2004.

Isubikalu, Prossy. Stepping-Stones to Improve Upon Functioning of

Participatory Agricultural Extension Programmes: Farmer Field Schools

in Uganda. Wageningen, the Netherlands: Wageningen Academic

Publishers, 2007.

Jelen, Sheila E. Intimations of Difference: Dvora Baron in the Modern

Hebrew Renaissance. 1st ed. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.

Jell-Bahlsen, Sabine. The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of

Oguta Lake. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2008.

Jennings, Michael. Surrogates of the State: NGOs, Development, and

Ujamaa in Tanzania. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, 2008.

Jok, Jok Madut. Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence. Oxford, UK:

Oneworld, 2007.

Juul, Kristine. Tubes, Tenure and Turbulence: The Effects of Drought

Related Migration on Tenure Issues and Resource Management in Northern

Senegal. M?nster, Germany: Lit, 2005.

Kakuru, Doris Muhwezi. The Combat for Gender Equality in Education:

Rural Livelihood Pathways in the Context of HIV/AIDS. Wageningen, the

Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2006.

Kane, Thomas Leiper. Tigrinya-English Dictionary. Springfield, VA:

Dunwoody Press, 2000.

Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield. African Art and the Colonial Encounter:

Inventing a Global Commodity. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University

Press, 2007.

Kieh, George Klay. The First Liberian Civil War: The Crises of

Underdevelopment. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

King, Alison Jill. Domestic Service in Post-Apartheid South Africa:

Deference and Disdain. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Pub. Company, 2007.

Kiernan, James, ed. The Power of the Occult in Modern Africa:

Continuity and Innovation in the Renewal of African Cosmologies.

London: Global, 2006.

Khadiagala, Gilbert M. Meddlers or Mediators? African Interveners in

Civil Conflicts in Eastern Africa. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007.

Kolap, Femi J., and Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, ed. African Agency and

European Colonialism: Latitudes of Negotiations and Containment:

Essays in Honor of A.S. Kanya-Forstner. Lanham, MD: University Press

of America, 2007.

Korieh, Chima J., and Femi J. Kolapo, ed. The Aftermath of Slavery:

Transitions and Transformations in Southeastern Nigeria. Trenton, NJ:

Africa World Press, 2007.

Kraus, Jon, ed. Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa.

1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Kugle, Scott Alan. Rebel Between Spirit and Law: Ahmad Zarruq,

Sainthood, and Authority in Islam. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University

Press, 2006.

Kusow, Abdi M., ed. From Mogadishu to Dixon: The Somali Diaspora in a

Global Context. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2007.

Laurence, Tony. The Dar Mutiny of 1964: And the Armed Intervention

that Ended It. Brighton, UK: Book Guild, 2007.

Lawrence, Benjamin N. Locality, Mobility, and “Nation”: Periurban

Colonialism in Togo’s Eweland, 1900-1960. Rochester, NY: University of

Rochester Press, 2007.

Legassick, Martin. Towards Socialist Democracy. Scottsville, South

Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007.

Lipton, Merle. Liberals, Marxists and nationalists: Competing

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Loimeier, Roman, ed. The Global Worlds of teh Swahili: Interfaces of

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Lubjemann, Stephen C. Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social

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MacGonagle, Elizabeth. Crafting Identity in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

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MacKenzie, John M. The Scots in South Africa: Ethnicity, Identity,

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Each issue of the Africana Librarian’s Council Newsletter  lists newly published Africana titles of note under the section New Resources Noted. It includes both print and online resources.