African Studies Blog

The Washington Post reports that security forces in Nigeria have killed militants in the northern city of Maiduguri. The militants known as the Boko Haram sect had been blamed for the violence in the mostly Muslim region of Nigeria.  The government forces shelled and stormed the group’s mosque and headquarters Wednesday night, setting off a raging firefight with retreating militants.

Read it in the Washington Post

BL2470.S55 C66 2009
Conteh, Prince Sorie. Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Africa : interreligious encounters and dialogue. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2009.

BL2480.G34 A38 2009
Aguilar, Mario I. The politics of God in East Africa : Oromo ritual and religion. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2009.

BP188.8.A358 H36 2009
Hanretta, Sean. Islam and social change in French West Africa : history of an emancipatory community. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Staying Maasai? : livelihoods, conservation, and development in East African rangelands. New York ; London: Springer, 2008.

DT443.3.S92 H34 2007x
Hadi, Nadin. Kanga wisdom : a collection of Kanga sayings. Zanzibar: Gallery Publications, 2007.

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Lohrmann, Ullrich. Voices from Tanganyika : Great Britian, the United Nations and the decolonization of a Trust Territory, 1946-1961. Berlin; London: Lit; Global Book Marketing distributor, 2007.

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Saine, Abdoulaye S. The paradox of third-wave democratization in Africa : the Gambia under AFPRC-APRC rule, 1994-2008. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.

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Doh, Emmanuel Fru. Africa’s political wastelands : the bastardization of Cameroon. Bamenda, North West Province Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2008.

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Davies, Rebecca. Afrikaners in the new South Africa : identity politics in a globalised economy. London ; New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2009.

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Nyamushirwa, Lydwine. –iwacu i Burundi– : ijambo mu ntambwe z’ubuzima bw’Umurundi. Bujumbura, Burundi: L. Nyamushirwa, 2005.

HB74.P65 E48 2009
Elnur, Ibrahim. Contested Sudan : the political economy of war and reconstruction. London ; New York: Routledge, 2009.

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Growth and development in Africa. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2009.

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Krotz, Larry. The uncertain business of doing good : outsiders in Africa. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2009.

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Miguel, Edward. Africa’s turn? Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009.

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The East African Community Development Strategy, 2006-2010. Arusha, Tanzania: EAC Secretariat, 2006.

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Report of the national capacity needs self assessment for implementation of the multilateral environment agreements (CBD, UNFCCC, CCD and International Waters) in Uganda. Kampala: National Environment Management Authority, Ministry of Water and Environment, 2007.

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Turner, E. Quantifying Aid for Trade : a case study of Tanzania. London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2008.

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Facteurs de transition : de la micro-entreprise a l’enterprise capitaliste moderne en Republique democratique du Congo. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA, 2008.

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Organization and performance of cotton sectors in Africa : learning from reform experience. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2009.

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Kasahun Woldemariam. The rise of elective dictatorship and the erosion of social capital : peace, development, and democracy in Africa. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2009.

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Feinstein, Andrew. After the party : corruption, the ANC and South Africa’s uncertain future. London ; New York: Verso, 2009.

JQ2998.A58 O48 2008x
Olukoshi, Adebayo O. Governance trends in West Africa, 2006 : a synthesis report. Dakar; CODESRIA: OSIWA, 2008.

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Language, literature and education in multicultural societies : collaborative research on Africa. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008.

The Melville J Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University has created The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960.  This is a searchable collection of digitized photographs, which includes about 7,610 photographs depicting life, primarily in East Africa, between about 1860 and 1960.  A press release states “they include formal and informal portraits of Africans and their colonizers, photos of slaves and slave traders, and images depicting the building of railroads and urban areas and of traditional African life.  They represent the work of explorers, colonial officials, settlers, missionaries, military officers, travelers and early commercial photographers.”

The first international conference on African digital libraries and archives was held in Addis Abba, Ethiopia, from July 1-3. The aim was “to bring together key African and international stakeholders to discuss critical policy issues and explore approaches and challenges facing Africa in relation to the digitisation of African resources; and promote ways of strengthening, coordinating and forging stronger links between African digitisation initiatives, networks, projects and policies”.  In the opening remarks  Lalla Ben Barka, deputy executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) “shared her concerns about a growing digital divide which she said may leave the poor more marginalised in the “new global community”.

http://www.uneca.org/icadla1/index.htm

View this video on You Tube, Julia Royall, chief on international programs, discusses the National Library of Medicine’s interactive African malaria tutorial.  The tutorial accessed through MedlinePlus is a collaboration of NLM and Makerere University Faculty of Medicine in Uganda.  It is available in both English and Luganda, includes information about how malaria spreads, the importance of treatment and techniques for prevention.