TY - JOUR ID - 4714 T1 - "No Prime Minister could want a better leader of the opposition" : Sir De Villiers Graaff, the United Party and the apartheid State, 1956-1977 A1 - Mouton,F.A. Y1 - 2014/// KW - apartheid KW - political history KW - political opposition KW - politicians KW - South Africa KW - United Party RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 48 EP - 69 JA - African Historical Review: (2014), vol.46, no.1, p.48-69. VL - 46 IS - 1 U2 - w47 N2 - As leader of the United Party and the official parliamentary opposition in South Africa between 1956 and 1977, Sir De Villiers Graaff bolstered the apartheid State and destroyed his own party in the process. This article, by investigating Graaff's personality and politics, concludes that he was a man of integrity and decency who loathed the impractical, vicious and cruel nature of apartheid, but that his lack of political acumen, vision and ruthlessness, made him a disastrous party leader. Despite his honest intentions he was the best leader of the parliamentary opposition the apartheid State could have wished for. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Kf;D2 M3 - 375159088 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2014.911437 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4708 T1 - 2015 and the survival of the Nigerian State A1 - Ben Simon,Okolo Y1 - 2014/// KW - 2015 KW - national security KW - Nigeria KW - political stability KW - presidential elections RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 161 EP - 171 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.161-171. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - Nigeria is currently faced with serious domestic challenges. While the State is not officially at war, it is standing on the precipice, especially with the eruption of violence occasioned by the emergence of the Boko Haram sect and the tenuous peace in the Niger Delta. With the 2015 general elections on the horizon, fears of further violence and disintegration are rife, more so because of the debate over who occupies the Presidential Villa at Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner, seems poised for a comeback even amidst the vociferous challenge posed by the political elites of northern Nigeria. This article looks at the different scenarios that might play out in 2015. It analyses the challenges of the survival of the Nigerian State, and makes some policy recommendations that Nigeria and its people need to put into place in order to ensure its survival beyond 2015. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Fn;D2 M3 - 375414975 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.904235 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4715 T1 - A case of 'strategic ethnicity'? The Natal Indian Congress in the 1970s A1 - Vahed,Goolam A1 - Desai,Ashwin Y1 - 2014/// KW - 1970-1979 KW - ethnic relations KW - Indians KW - Natal Indian Congress KW - political history KW - South Africa RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 22 EP - 47 JA - African Historical Review: (2014), vol.46, no.1, p.22-47. VL - 46 IS - 1 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article focuses on the revival of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa in 1971, in the context of what is retrospectively known as the "Durban moment". The early 1970s witnessed the emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) as well as a resurgence of working class collective action that was to form the embryo of the independent labour movement later in the decade. The article examines the debates surrounding the revival of the NIC, in particular whether this reinforced an exclusive ethnic identity while dampening broader non-racial responses, and whether and how the NIC's revival impacted on debates about participation in government-created structures such as the South African Indian Council (SAIC). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Kf;D2 M3 - 375159061 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2014.911436 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4697 T1 - A view of a 'bureaucratic' developmental State : local governance and agricultural extension in rural Ethiopia A1 - Planel,Sabine Y1 - 2014/// KW - agricultural extension KW - Ethiopia KW - local government KW - peasantry KW - power KW - State-society relationship RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 420 EP - 437 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.420-437. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article discusses the hybridism of the Ethiopian developmental State through an analysis of the local interface between the State and the peasantry. The aim is to explore to what extent bureaucratic rationality both conditions and perverts the procedures employed in the implementation of public rural development policies, in this case agricultural extension. And to what extent development policies can operate as an instrument of power that reinforces the local disempowerment of the most vulnerable peasants. The article makes a detailed analysis of the machinery of agricultural extension, the local conditions of distribution and reception of fertilizers and improved seeds in rural Ethiopia. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Dd;E5 M3 - 378083376 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.922745 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4700 T1 - African workers and the Universities' Mission to Central Africa in Zanzibar, 1864-1900 A1 - Liebst,Michelle Y1 - 2014/// KW - child labour KW - Christianity KW - domestic workers KW - missions KW - slavery KW - Tanzania KW - Zanzibar RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 366 EP - 381 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.366-381. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article explores the connections between African workers and Christian missions in late nineteenth-century Zanzibar, focusing on the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), a High-Church Anglican missionary society. Procuring and managing labour was central to the everyday lives of Christian mission societies because missionaries demanded a range of skilled and unskilled workers, including builders, cooks, water-fetchers, porters and servants, in order to establish an ideal setting for the core aims: the conversion of souls and establishment of an African ministry. The missionaries constantly veered between submitting to local customs and conditions, and imposing their own ideals of what they felt to be the proper management and division of labour. A good example of this was their employment of slaves, a practice that was not always illegal for British subjects and particularly widespread amongst explorers in need of porters. At the same time, the missionaries often had to abandon their belief that they must not exercise formal authority outside the main nucleus of the clergy, as they managed their labour forces and attempted to reform freed slaves into skilled free wage workers. These issues bear on how historians understand the tensions between conversion, cultural adaption, industrialization and capitalism, but it also says something of the role of missionaries and Christian Africans as cultural brokers between the mission economies and the local economies they interacted with. This article addresses the missionaries' employment of hire slaves, the attempts to establish Christian working communities and the use of household labour with regard to women and children. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - He;B1;E4 M3 - 378083341 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.922279 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4696 T1 - Choices and changes of recruitment methods in a Tanzanian city A1 - Fischer,Gundula A1 - Egbert,Henrik A1 - Bredl,Sebastian Y1 - 2014/// KW - labour recruitment KW - private enterprises KW - Tanzania KW - towns RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 438 EP - 458 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.438-458 : tab. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - Labour market processes in Tanzania constitute an important but an under-researched topic. This article investigates the recruitment methods of private companies in Mwanza, Tanzania's second largest city. It asks whether employers make use of informal methods more often than formal methods, whether the skills required for a job relate to the choice of methods and whether the vacancy period of a position is linked to a specific approach. A survey consisting of 81 face-to-face interviews with hiring authorities shows that employers prefer informal to formal schemes but tend to rely on formal ones for filling high-ranking positions. Statistically, no influence of the recruitment method on the vacancy period could be found. Additional insights are provided by 10 semi-structured follow-up interviews with respondents from the same group. They suggest an increase in solicited and unsolicited applications that might have caused some hiring authorities to avoid formal methods or modify informal methods. Moreover, it emerges that recruitment choices may be influenced by powerful actors outside or within companies. Future research should explore the benefits and risks of specific recruitment methods as related to the socio-economic context in which they are used, changes in the repertoire of recruitment methods and the role of various actors as potential codeterminants of recruitment methods, especially for lower ranks. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - He;E4 M3 - 378083384 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.917856 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4710 T1 - Conflict management in the Central African Republic: making genocide prevention work A1 - Lockhart Smith,Ivonne Y1 - 2014/// KW - Central African Republic KW - conflict prevention KW - peacekeeping operations KW - UN RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 178 EP - 185 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.178-185. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This commentary analyses the international response to the crisis that struck the Central African Republic (CAR) in early December 2013. It examines three intertwined dimensions defining the courses of action available to policymakers dealing with pre-genocidal crises: the politics and institutional manoeuvring shaping the United Nations (UN) Security Council's decision to authorise an enforcement mission without deploying 'blue helmets' on the ground; the operational complexities involved in launching rapid reaction forces; and the interdependent logics between peacebuilding and atrocity prevention. The author argues that there are three ways for the UN Secretariat to ensure a more effective response to CAR-type situations: generating political will to respond swiftly to deteriorating crises leading to widespread abuses of human rights by advancing the concept of Responsibility to Protect as a core component of States' national interests; developing strategic frameworks for the deployment of multi-plural missions equipped to avert the actual or potential threat of atrocities; and developing joint early warning and scenario planning between peacebuilding and atrocity prevention agencies. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Gd;D4 M3 - 375414940 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.894925 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4713 T1 - Dams and the dilemmas of development A1 - Cohen,Andrew Y1 - 2014/// KW - China KW - dams KW - development KW - environment KW - Kariba Dam KW - literature reviews (form) KW - Malawi KW - Mozambique KW - Rhodesia and Nyasaland KW - rural population KW - Zambia KW - Zimbabwe RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 70 EP - 81 JA - African Historical Review: (2014), vol.46, no.1, p.70-81. VL - 46 IS - 1 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - In this review article the author discusses three books on the subject of dams and development: "Light and power for a multiracial nation: the Kariba Dam scheme in the Central African Federation", by Julia Tischler; "Dams, displacement and the delusion of development: Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 19652007", by Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman; "The large dam dilemma: an exploration of the impacts of hydro projects on people and the environment in China", by Pu Wang, Shikui Dong and James P. Lassoie. Each of these books highlights the contested nature of dam construction and the impacts, both anticipated and unintended, on the local ecology and population. [ASC Leiden abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Ja;E1 M3 - 375159096 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2014.911438 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4665 T1 - Digging deeper: inside Africa's agricultural, food and nutrition dynamics A1 - Akinyoade,Akinyinka A1 - Klaver,Wijnand A1 - Soeters,Sebastiaan A1 - Foeken,Dick Y1 - 2014/// N1 - Met literatuuropgave KW - agricultural development KW - agricultural production KW - agricultural research KW - food exports KW - food security KW - malnutrition KW - Subsaharan Africa KW - urban agriculture RP - NOT IN FILE EP - XXVIII, 352 CY - Leiden PB - Brill U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available T3 - African dynamics, ISSN 1568-1777 ; volume 13 N2 - This collective volume explores what is currently happening in Africa's agricultural and rural sector, and aims to convince policymakers and other stakeholders that it is important to look at current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value chain improvements and agro-food cluster innovations. The book links empirical accounts of agricultural dynamics to current policy debates on the need for economic transformation in Africa. It does this in ways that add to African attempts to understand and support 'transformation' and also engages in a critical debate about the emphasis in these circles on industrial development. Following the introduction by Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken and Wijnand Klaver, the chapters in the book are divided into four main themes: 1. Mapping the evidence (Mapping the food economy in sub-Saharan Africa (Lia van Wesenbeeck); Agricultural pockets of effectiveness in Africa: a comparative inventory of Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda since 2000 (Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and Andr‚ Leliveld); Food production and consumption in relation to food insecurity and undernutrition in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda (Wijnand Klaver)); 2. Agricultural production and effectiveness (Dairy clustering in Kenya (Diederik de Boer and Jackson Langat); Biofuel feedstock production in Ethiopia: status, challenges and contributions (Maru Shete and Marcel Rutten); Local careers and mixed fortunes in Africa's globalizing food exports: the case of Nile perch from Lake Victoria, Uganda (Joost Beuving)); 3. Drivers of food production (Pressures and incentives: urban growth and food production at Tamale's rural-urban interface (Ghana) (Sebastiaan Soeters); The dynamics of urban and peri-urban agriculture (Diana Lee-Smith); From suitcase farmers to telephone farmers: agriculture and diversified livelihoods among urban professionals (Melle Leenstra)); 4. Institutional issues (National agricultural research systems in Africa (Olubunmi Abayomi Omotesho and Abraham Falola); Contributions of small- and large-scale farms and foreign and local investments to agricultural growth: the Nigerian example (Sheu-Usman Akanbi and Akinyinka Akinyoade); Loss and damage from droughts and floods in rural Africa (Kees van der Geest and Koko Warner); Agriculture and nutrition: linkages and complementarities (Inge D. Brouwer)). Two appendices provide statistical data on agricultural production and nutrition. [ASC Leiden abstract] SN - 978-90-04-28268-1 paperback AV - AFRIKA 47988 Y2 - 2014/11/21/ M1 - Ea;E5;I3 M3 - 383781515 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4704 T1 - Factors influencing military recruitment in South Africa: the voices of Cape Town high school learners A1 - Smith,Megan A1 - Heinecken,Lindy Y1 - 2014/// KW - armed forces KW - attitudes KW - military recruitment KW - South Africa RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 102 EP - 116 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.102-116 : graf., tab. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This research sets out to establish how the youth in South Africa view military service, and what factors affect the ability of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to attract suitable recruits to staff its modern, technologically advanced military. Due to high levels of youth unemployment, South Africa has sufficient persons volunteering for military service. The problem lies with recruiting sufficient quality personnel with the right profile and abilities. To establish what affects enlistment, focus group discussions were conducted with learners from eight schools to determine what influences their career choices, what deters them from or attracts them to military service, their perception of the military profession, their knowledge of the military, and the influence of factors such as race and gender. The conclusion is reached that the SANDF is not considered an employer of choice due to poor service conditions, a decline in the prestige of the military, unfavourable aspects associated with military culture, a growing 'knowledge gap' and disconnect between the military and South African society, the estrangement of certain race groups, and the masculine nature of the military. These aspects need to be addressed if the SANDF wishes to attract learners with good academic credentials. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Kf;D2 M3 - 375415017 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.902388 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4698 T1 - From millet to tomatoes : incremental intensification with high-value crops in contemporary Meru, Tanzania A1 - Hillbom,Ellen Y1 - 2014/// KW - agricultural innovations KW - agricultural intensification KW - agricultural productivity KW - crops KW - small farms KW - Tanzania RP - NOT IN FILE JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.400-419 : krt., tab. VL - 8 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - In Meru, Tanzania, changing land/labour ratios have, for over a century, been the main driving force in a farm intensification process. The construction and expansion of irrigation systems, increased use of farm inputs and transfer from low- to high-value agricultural crops have enabled smallholders to improve their land productivity. Technological change has been accompanied by institutional change, primarily in the form of changes to property right regimes and expanding markets. In the past few decades, increasing urban and rural demand has further enhanced smallholders' production strategies. By applying the induced innovation theory, this article captures and analyzes the long-term incremental processes of change whereby endogenous technological and institutional innovations have led to farm intensification in the contemporary local system of agricultural smallholder production. Further, it shows how this process has been reinforced by improved access to market opportunities. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - He;E5 M3 - 378083368 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.921013 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4702 T1 - Hat on - hat off : trauma and trepanation in Kisii, western Kenya A1 - Mahone,Sloan Y1 - 2014/// KW - folk medicine KW - Gusii KW - Kenya KW - psychiatry RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 331 EP - 345 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.331-345 : foto's. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - In 1957, Kenya's government psychiatrist and director of the colony's Mathari Mental Hospital, psychiatrist Edward Margetts, travelled to western Kenya to investigate the practice of trepanation among the Gusii people in Kisii District. Applied to relieve pressure on the brain by scraping away a portion of the skull with a hooked knife, trepanation was exceptionally rare by the 20th century, but remained common in Kisii where the operations are conducted by a group of skilled practitioners. This article uses materials from Margetts' personal papers, including photographs, diaries and clinical notes, to describe and examine the practice of trepanation in Kisii in the 1950s, concluding with a discussion of the social meaning of trepanation and trauma in modern Kenya. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Hc;I2 M3 - 378083325 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.900959 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4711 T1 - Homophobic legislation and its impact on human security A1 - Makofane,Keletso Y1 - 2014/// KW - homosexuality KW - human security KW - legislation KW - LGBT KW - Nigeria KW - Uganda RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 186 EP - 195 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.186-195. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - Despite sustained opposition, legislation criminalizing homosexuality persists and threatens human security in Africa in numerous ways. This paper explores the circumstances around the enactment of new anti-homosexual legislation in Nigeria and Uganda, examining five categories of insecurity faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the context of these laws: physical violence; extortion and blackmail; arbitrary arrest and detention; displacement from home; and loss of work. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Fn;Hf;C1;F1 M3 - 375414932 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.913832 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4695 T1 - Julius Rex : Nyerere through the eyes of his critics, 1953-2013 A1 - Brennan,James R. Y1 - 2014/// KW - heads of State KW - images KW - political opposition KW - Tanzania RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 459 EP - 477 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.459-477. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article examines political critics of Tanzania's first president, Julius K. Nyerere. While his detractors varied greatly in both ideological and sociological terms, the three major groups studied here shared a sharp intellectual frustration with Nyerere's effective utilization of humility as a political weapon to control debate, court international support, and silence opposition. Foreign critics, primarily European writers, were divided principally by their social proximity to Nyerere, older white "decolonizers" lamented their friend's embrace of authoritarian tactics to achieve utopian ends, while younger writers instead saw a distant and unworldly figure best understood in abstract philosophical terms. The most vocal Tanzanian critics, by contrast, were united by the heavy-handed actions they and their families had endured at the hands of the Tanzanian State, which in turn produced sharply personalized criticisms. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - He;D2 M3 - 378083392 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.916557 ER - TY - ADVS ID - 4667 T1 - Le Tchad - entre histoire & espoir : 1er partie A1 - Nour,Moubarack Idriss Y1 - 2014/// N1 - Frans gesproken KW - Chad KW - documentary films (form) KW - political history KW - videos (form) RP - NOT IN FILE CY - N'Djam‚na PB - Const-Com International Pictures [etc.] U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - Ce documentaire relate les points marquants de l'histoire tumultueuse du Tchad, illustr‚e d'images in‚dites et de fragments des archives de la RTF (Radio t‚l‚vision fran‡aise) notamment. Les diff‚rents t‚moignages apportent une version originale sur le d‚roulement des ‚vŠnements tels que les origines du problŠme de la bande d'Aouzou, le d‚rapage autoritaire du PPT-RDA (Parti progressiste tchadien - section tchadienne du Rassemblement d‚mocratique africain), la naissance du Frolinat, l'‚clatement et les cons‚quences de la 'guerre des Neuf-mois', la dictature sanglante de l'UNIR (Union nationale pour l'ind‚pendance et la r‚volution) de l'ancien pr‚sident HissŠne Habr‚, la naissance du MPS (Mouvement patriotique du salut) du pr‚sident Idriss D‚by, l'instauration du pluralisme politique ainsi que les diff‚rentes r‚centes guerres qu'a connues le pays. [R‚sum‚ extrait du dvd-vid‚o] AV - AFRIKA AVM1569 Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M3 - 383733898 L3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxp9oF0eXY4 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4690 T1 - Myths, gender, birds, beads: a reading of Iron Age hill sites in interior southern Africa A1 - Wilmsen,Edwin N. Y1 - 2014/// KW - Iron Age KW - myths KW - Southern Africa RP - NOT IN FILE JA - Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.3, p.398-423 : krt. VL - 84 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article examines homologous origin myths concerning the Tsodilo Hills in north-western Botswana, Polombwe hill at the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika in Zambia and Kaphiri-Ntiwa hill in northern Malawi. Parallels are drawn between the myths, where, in the process of creation, a primal pair in undifferentiated space and time passes through a series of liminal states, thereby bringing structure to the landscape and legitimacy to society in Iron Age Central and Southern Africa. These myths narrate the instituting of social legitimacy in their respective societies based on a resolution of the inherent contradiction between the concepts of authority and power, lineage and land. The article analyses the structure of rights to possession of land, and the role of sumptuary goods such as glass beads and metonymic signifiers such as birds within this structure. It further examines the prominence of hilltops as the residence of paranormal power and its association with human authority, and relates this to the archaeological interpretation of the Iron Age site Nqoma (Tsodilo Hills); this is compared with Bosutswe (eastern Botswana), Mapungubwe (Shashe-Limpopo basin), and the Shona Mwari myth recorded by Frobenius as used by Huffman in his analysis of Great Zimbabwe. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/20/ M1 - Ia;K2;L2 M3 - 378377000 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972014000370 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4706 T1 - Neglected but affected: voices from the oil-producing regions of Ghana and Uganda A1 - Bybee,Ashley Neese A1 - Johannes,Eliza Mary Y1 - 2014/// KW - communities KW - Ghana KW - petroleum industry KW - political stability KW - social conditions KW - Uganda RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 132 EP - 144 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.132-144. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - The 'resource curse' is the paradoxical theory frequently used to explain how a seemingly desirable asset, such as oil, can actually pervert an economy, erode governance, perpetuate conflict, and ruin local communities to the extent that it becomes a curse. New oil discoveries in western Ghana and western Uganda have raised concerns for the democratic prospects and future stability of these countries and their surrounding regions. Based on field interviews in these oil-producing regions, this report summarises how local communities have been affected thus far and their concerns for the future. The authors assess the extent to which each country is vulnerable to oil-induced instability, and identify groups or communities that would be most likely to perpetuate it. Lastly, it provides some assessment of the future trajectory of each country. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Ff;Hf;E6;D2 M3 - 375414991 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.894924 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4716 T1 - Nigerian oil palm industry, 1920-1950 : a study in imperialism A1 - Attah,Noah Echa Y1 - 2014/// KW - colonial period KW - imperialism KW - Nigeria KW - palm oil KW - plantations RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 1 EP - 21 JA - African Historical Review: (2014), vol.46, no.1, p.1-21. VL - 46 IS - 1 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article essentially examines the Nigerian oil palm economy in Nigeria between 1920 and 1950, using the widely accepted theory of imperialism. It argues that for the most part of the period under study, imperial and colonial governments accepted that metropolitan needs and conditions should dictate policies in the Nigerian oil palm industry. Nigeria was therefore incorporated into a vigorous extension of capitalism where its oil palm robustly serviced European industries. This was made possible through political and economic coercion, which will be articulated in this paper. Bibliogr., ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Fn;E6;L3 M3 - 375159053 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2014.911435 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4687 T1 - Parallel dilemmas: polio transmission and political violence in Northern Nigeria A1 - Renne,Elisha P. Y1 - 2014/// KW - Nigeria KW - Northern Nigeria KW - poliomyelitis KW - political violence KW - public health KW - vaccination RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 466 EP - 486 JA - Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.3, p.466-486. VL - 84 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - Nigeria is one of three countries where polio continues to be endemic. In Northern Nigeria, areas with low levels of polio immunization due to persistent parental opposition as well as implementation and infrastructural problems have contributed to wild poliovirus transmission. Furthermore, political violence associated with Islamic groups opposed to the federal government has also hampered the conclusion of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) efforts. This violence, which began in Borno state and has spread to other parts of Northern Nigeria, occurs precisely where poliovirus transmission continues. These two related aspects - parallel dilemmas of low immunization and political violence - confound the conclusion of GPEI efforts in Nigeria. This situation also raises ethical questions both about the final stages of eradication efforts and about military actions to contain ongoing violence. The Nigerian government's attempts to suppress opposition to the polio eradication campaign by threatening non-compliant parents with arrest and by closing down media outlets may frighten some parents into compliance but can also breed resentment and resistance, just as military and police activities, such as house-to-house sweeps and widespread arrests, may encourage sympathy for Islamic insurgents. This situation suggests that the possible solution of one problem - the ending of wild poliovirus transmission - depends upon a solution of an other, i.e. the cessation of violent anti-government activities. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/20/ M1 - Fn;I1 M3 - 378377035 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972014000369 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4686 T1 - Patterns of slaving and prey-predator interfaces in and around the Mandara mountains (Nigeria and Cameroon) A1 - David,Nicholas Y1 - 2014/// KW - Cameroon KW - Fulani KW - historical sources KW - Nigeria KW - slave trade KW - slavery RP - NOT IN FILE JA - Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.3, p.371-397 : krt., tab. VL - 84 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - While from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century there was a lasting and elastic demand for slaves in Central Africa, the practices by which they were acquired had to be adapted to the physical and human terrain, the technologies available and the socio-cultural postures of the predator and prey societies. In this paper, the author sketches the changing patterns of these variables in six slaving zones in and around the northern Mandara Mountains. Using historical sources, information from the diary of Hamman Yaji, a Fulani chief and active slaver, and data gathered in the course of ethnographic research in three of these zones by the author and his colleagues, he shows that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the extraction of slaves from particular sub-regions within these zones was highly variable, as is evident in the interfaces between the decentralized prey societies and the predatory states. Besides providing fresh perspectives on slaving and evidence for evaluating the constructions of historians, such studies open the way for research on the mutual accommodations to slaving affecting the societies and cultures of both prey and predators. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/20/ M1 - Fn;Gc;L3 M3 - 378377043 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972014000382 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4694 T1 - Recasting Julius Nyerere in Zanzibar: the Revolution, the Union and the Enemy of the Nation A1 - Fou‚r‚,Marie Aude Y1 - 2014/// KW - 1964 KW - authoritarianism KW - heads of State KW - images KW - revolutions KW - Tanzania KW - Zanzibar RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 478 EP - 496 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.478-496 : foto's. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - In Zanzibar, the figure of Julius Nyerere is being recast in debates over sovereignty, belonging and nationhood. Unlike in mainland Tanzania, where he is upheld as the Father of the Nation, the first president of Tanganyika and Tanzania is increasingly portrayed in Zanzibar as the Enemy of the Nation responsible for the Isles' predicament. This article gives insight into the terms, actors and circulation of this pejorative narrative in relation to two central historical events: the 1964 Revolution and the Union. It also shows how such anti-Nyererism mediates anxious concerns over cultural distinctiveness and Islam. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - He;D2 M3 - 378083406 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.918313 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4701 T1 - Religious freedom and the political order: the Ethiopian 'secular state' and the containment of Muslim identity politics A1 - Abbink,Jon Y1 - 2014/// KW - Ethiopia KW - Islam KW - protest KW - secularization KW - State RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 346 EP - 365 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.346-365. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - The 2011-2014 controversies between the Ethiopian Government and Muslim communities on the role of Islam in Ethiopia have highlighted the precarious nature of religious relations in Ethiopia. Statements by public figures and religious leaders recently have drawn attention to the nature and scope of the Ethiopian secular State order. This article describes the recent Muslim protest movement and the response to it by the government in the light of the secular State model. While the challenges to it also extend to the large Christian community in Ethiopia, the problems became prominent mainly in the case of the Muslims, who contest perceived "government interference" in their community life and self-organization. The author presents an overview of key recent events and of factors inducing conflict between State and religion. The discussion makes reference to more general debates on the "secular model" in Ethiopia and to the familiar though somewhat worn-out paradigm of "identity politics". State repression of Muslim civic protest in Ethiopia revealed insecurities of the State: rather than an instance of the process of "othering" a religious community, we see a case of political crisis, and a search for new modes of governance of diversity and communal religiosity in Ethiopia. As a result of the contestations, however, the secular order of the country will not be threatened, but modified. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Dd;B1;D2 M3 - 378083333 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.917855 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4691 T1 - State policing and invisible forces in Mozambique A1 - Kyed,Helene Maria Y1 - 2014/// KW - legal pluralism KW - Mozambique KW - police KW - witchcraft RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 424 EP - 443 JA - Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.3, p.424-443. VL - 84 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article explores how the State police in Mozambique tried to (re)encroach upon a former war zone and what its methods implied for State authority more generally. Post-war reform efforts to professionalize the police in accordance with the rule of law and human rights have had apparently paradoxical results. This is in part because efforts to constitute State authority have relied on both embracing and taming 'tradition' as an alternative domain of authority, order and law. Ethnographic fieldwork at police stations shows that the police increasingly handle witchcraft cases and spiritual problems. This, the article argues, does not only reflect a tension between local/customary and State/legal notions of order and justice. Equally significant is the existence of partial sovereignties. A spiritual idiom of power and evildoing constitutes an alternative articulation of sovereignty due to the capacity of invisible forces to give and take life. This is an idiom mastered by chiefs and healers. Police officers engage with invisible forces to gain popular legitimacy and manifest state power, and yet they never manage to fully master those forces. Consequently, State police authority remains uncertain, and must be continually reinforced by enacting hierarchies and jurisdictional boundaries and by using force. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/20/ M1 - Jc;D1;F1 M3 - 378376993 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972014000345 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4692 T1 - Tanzanian newspaper poetry : political commentary in verse A1 - Askew,Kelly Y1 - 2014/// KW - heads of State KW - newspapers KW - poetry KW - Swahili language KW - Tanzania RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 515 EP - 537 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.515-537. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - By the 1910s, swahiliphone newspapers in what was then Deutsch-Ostafrika featured poetry as a mainstay of the newspaper form. Swahili poetry, mostly written by nonprofessional poets, remains a standard element of contemporary Swahili language newspapers throughout Tanzania today. This article, featuring numerous newspaper poems translated by the author in collaboration with master Kenyan poet Abdilatif Abdalla, offers an overview of the genre from its emergence in the colonial era to the end of the twentieth century with an emphasis on praise poems about three political rulers: (1) German colonial-era poems about Kaiser Wilhelm II; (2) British colonial-era poems about King George V; and (3) post-independence poems about first president Julius Nyerere published at various points in his political career and following his death. By examining these poems within their political and historical contexts, the author seeks to construct a poetry-driven, citizens' narrative of Nyerere's political career and explore the poetics of popular expectations and assessments of governance. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - He;A4;E4 M3 - 378083422 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.918312 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4689 T1 - Telling the tale of Osei Bongu: an essay on the making of Asante oral history A1 - McCaskie,Tom Y1 - 2014/// KW - Ashanti KW - Ashanti polity KW - Ghana KW - oral history KW - praise poetry KW - traditional rulers RP - NOT IN FILE JA - Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.3, p.353-370 : krt., tab. VL - 84 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This paper is about the Asante perception and understanding of Asante history as expressed in the "apae" or 'praise songs' of Asantehene (King of the Asante) Osei Tutu Kwame, known as Osei Bonsu (1804-1823). As such, it offers an indigenous portrait of kingship and the expectations and behaviours attaching to it in Asante thought. The core of the paper is centred on the role of Osei Tutu Kwame as a leader in war, against the Fante of the southern Gold Coast in 1806-1807 and against the Abron of Gyaman (today in the eastern C“te d'Ivoire) in 1818-1819. Both campaigns are interpreted from the point of view of Asante thinking about their own historical goals and understandings, and of the fit and proper role of an Asantehene in such matters. Throughout, extensive oral historical materials are used in conjunction with the "apae", and a rich range of European sources are deployed as a counterpoint. The paper's claim to originality is that it offers an Asante view, at once intellectual and ideological, of their own constructions of their past and of the nature of their history as they themselves chose to understand it. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/20/ M1 - Ff;L2 M3 - 378377019 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972014000394 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4707 T1 - Terrorism in Nigeria: implications of Boko Haram's movement for security and stability in the ECOWAS sub-region A1 - Ogbonnaya,Ufiem Maurice A1 - Ogujiuba,Kanayo A1 - Stiegler,Nancy Y1 - 2014/// KW - Islamic movements KW - Nigeria KW - regional security KW - terrorism KW - West Africa RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 145 EP - 160 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.145-160 : graf., tab. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - Using the Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria as a point of departure, this paper examines the implications of the operations of terrorist groups on the security and stability of States in West Africa. It predominantly utilises secondary sources of data. Findings indicate that the membership and operations of this terrorist group are spreading across the sub-region. This spread is consequent upon Boko Haram's collaboration with other terrorist groups within West Africa and beyond. This constitutes threats to the security and stability of States in the sub-region. Thus, the paper recommends, among other things: a thorough understanding of the operational strategies of terrorist groups by States and those involved in security policymaking in the sub-region; and for agreements to be reached among Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member States and their governments for collaboration in various areas in order to curtail transnational crime and terrorism, and reduce socio-economic inequality that generates aggressive behaviours among the less privileged. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Fa;D2 M3 - 375414983 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.903378 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4709 T1 - The African capacity for immediate response to crisis: conceptual breakthrough or anti-imperialist phantom? A1 - Esmenjaud,Romain Y1 - 2014/// KW - Africa KW - African peacekeeping forces KW - African Union KW - military intervention RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 172 EP - 177 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.172-177. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - The decision by the African Union in 2013 to create an African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crisis (ACIRC) is a sign of Africa's willingness to take its destiny into its own hands. Presented as a reaction to the slowness of the development of the African Standby Force (ASF), it is also a response to some of the ASF's conceptual weaknesses. This decision reflects a wish to establish an instrument better equipped to deal with the challenges Africa is facing. Departing from the (sub)regional logic of the ASF results from a desire to take into account the transnational nature of threats, while its enlarged mandate is meant to offer Africa the capacity to intervene in all kinds of conflicts, including by undertaking peace enforcement activities. But the obstacles on the road towards the actual creation and mobilisation of an ACIRC should not be underestimated. These include material difficulties, but also political tensions, between 'small' and 'big' States as well as between the African Union and subregional organisations. The risk then is high that the ACIRC, whose announcement came as a reaction to France's intervention in Mali, ends up joining the ranks of the many 'anti-imperialist' phantoms haunting the history of the Organization of African Unity/African Union (OAU/AU). Confronted by events considered 'neocolonial' initiatives, African actors have indeed traditionally reacted by launching grand projects that never got off the ground. However, by actually establishing this new instrument, they may also demonstrate that times have definitively changed. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Ba;D4 M3 - 375414959 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.898589 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4693 T1 - The poetry of an orphaned nation : newspaper poetry and the death of Nyerere A1 - Mhina,Mary Ann Y1 - 2014/// KW - heads of State KW - images KW - in memoriams KW - newspapers KW - poetry KW - Tanzania RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 497 EP - 514 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.497-514. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article takes as its starting point readership poetry published in Tanzanian newspapers following the death of Julius Nyerere in October 1999, taking these as an incidence in which popular literature can help us to explore political phenomena. Through analysis of these poems it explores the "Father of the Nation", as Nyerere was often known, as both narrative and discoursive. Using this particular manifestation of mourning for his death as a starting point, it explores some of the ways in which the powerful discourse about Nyerere functioned both during his life and immediately after his death. In doing so, it illuminates both the power and salience of the familiar discourse which surrounded him and the extent to which at the same time readers, and the public at large, might chose their own interpretations despite the powerful narrative surrounding him. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - He;D2 M3 - 378083414 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.917857 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4705 T1 - They protect us, but are they using protection? The potential impact of HIV on the South African Police Service A1 - George,Gavin A1 - Gow,Jeff Y1 - 2014/// KW - AIDS KW - police KW - South Africa RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 117 EP - 131 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.117-131 : fig., graf. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - The drivers of HIV/AIDS in the South African Police Service (SAPS) and impact of the disease on this workforce are neglected areas of research. Existing evidence suggests that while the occupational risk for contracting HIV is low, there are factors associated with the profession that, if left unmanaged, place police officers at risk of contracting HIV. This study's two aims are to identify the potential pathways of HIV infection within policing services and determine the probable impact of HIV/AIDS on SAPS. Through a systematic literature review on HIV/AIDS within police services, and by analysing selected SAPS human resource data, the causal pathways and impact of HIV/AIDS on police services are explored. The study finds that police officers (particularly male officers) are likely to be highly susceptible to HIV infection as a result of risky sexual behaviours born out of occupational characteristics such as high levels of stress, difficult working conditions, living away from home and interactions with sex workers. The problem is exacerbated by the 'macho' culture that often prevails among police officers. HIV/AIDS interventions within SAPS must focus on sustained behaviour change. Further, HIV programmes must equip officers with the knowledge and awareness to avoid engaging in high-risk sexual practices that may compromise their health and the effectiveness of the policing service. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Kf;D2 M3 - 375415009 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.902387 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4688 T1 - Thugs, spies and vigilantes: community policing and street politics in inner city Addis Ababa A1 - Di Nunzio,Marco Y1 - 2014/// KW - community participation KW - crime prevention KW - Ethiopia KW - neighbourhoods KW - police RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 444 EP - 465 JA - Africa / International African Institute: (2014), vol.84, no.3, p.444-465. VL - 84 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - The implementation of community policing schemes and development programmes targeting street youth in inner city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, intended to prevent crime and unrest, has resulted in an expansion of structures of political mobilization and surveillance of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the party that has ruled the country since 1991. Yet the fact that the government managed to implement its programmes does not imply that the ruling party was entirely successful in tackling ordinary crime as well as political dissent. As neighbourhoods continued to be insecure, especially at night, the efficacy of the ruling party's politicized narratives on community policing and crime prevention was questioned. An appreciation of the shortcomings of government action on the streets of the inner city raises questions about the extent of the reach of the EPRDF State into the grass roots of urban society as well as about the ways in which dissent is voiced in a context where forms of political surveillance and control are expanding. This paper, which is based on eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2009 and 2013, on the street economy in inner city Addis Ababa, investigates these issues in order to contribute to the study of the Ethiopian State and to the broader debate on community policing and crime prevention on the African continent. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/20/ M1 - Dd;C5;D1 M3 - 378377027 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0001972014000357 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4699 T1 - Trade networks and the practical norms of taxation at a border crossing between South Sudan and Northern Uganda A1 - Twijnstra,Rens A1 - Hilhorst,Dorothea A1 - Titeca,Kristof Y1 - 2014/// KW - border control KW - social networks KW - South Sudan KW - tariffs KW - traders RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 382 EP - 399 JA - Journal of Eastern African Studies: (2014), vol.8, no.3, p.382-399 : tab. VL - 8 IS - 3 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This article provides an ethnographic insight into how the daily realities of State performance along the most Southern border of Magwi County, South Sudan, are an outcome of negotiations between traders and State officials. It is argued that the "practical norms" of taxation, meaning the actual rules that govern the actions of State officials, are largely framed by the way in which State officials and traders are embedded in different networks. The analysis distinguishes between regional trade networks of accumulation based on associative ties that appropriate elements of State performance and SPLM/A authority into their business practices, and local trade networks of survival based on communal ties that relate to State performance more through the informal institutions of kinship and subsistence security. It is demonstrated that the types of network ties and their embedded institutional content that connect traders and State officials yield very different practical norms with different implications for South Sudan's State-building process "from below". Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M1 - Di;D2;E7 M3 - 37808335X L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2014.899139 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4712 T1 - Unemployed youth: 'time bombs' or engines for growth? A1 - Burnett,Scott Y1 - 2014/// KW - employment creation KW - South Africa KW - youth policy KW - youth unemployment RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 196 EP - 205 JA - African Security Review: (2014), vol.23, no.2, p.196-205 : tab. VL - 23 IS - 2 U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - While popular narratives about success in South Africa focus on individual effort, accidents of birth continue to determine life prospects. Inequalities in early childhood development, health, and education narrow the range of possibilities that young people have available to them, and this impacts on their risk appetite, including, through the workings of the maturing brain, a propensity to violence, substance abuse, and unsafe sex. New technology offers young people an unprecedented ability to organise and network. This fact, combined with high levels of youth dissatisfaction, unemployment, and marginalisation, leads many to worry that the young are 'ticking time bombs'. While there certainly are risks, great unused pools of youth labour also present an opportunity for engaging them in social advancement programmes. Structured youth service is a tried and tested policy option that, when implemented as part of an integrated youth development strategy, can enlist thousands of young people in devoting their considerable energies to leadership for the public good. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] AV - Elektronisch artikel Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Kf;E4 M3 - 375414924 L3 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10246029.2014.913833 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4668 T1 - Voices of Zimbabwean orphans : a new vision for project management in Southern Africa A1 - Dzirikure,Manasa A1 - Allen,Garth Y1 - 2014/// N1 - Achterzijde omslag vermeldt tevens: Savusa Met index, literatuuropgave KW - child care KW - orphans KW - social integration KW - social work KW - Southern Africa KW - Zimbabwe RP - NOT IN FILE EP - XI, 291 CY - Leiden PB - Brill U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available T3 - Afrika-Studiecentrum series ISSN 1570-9310 ; volume 33 N2 - The most vulnerable children and young people in the fifteen countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been ill-served by round after round of well-intentioned but weak, often inadequate, poorly desgined and delivered, policy and planning approaches to improving their welfare. Chronically poor children and their carers can be corrupted or silenced by management systems which fail to recognise their basic human needs. Resilience in the face of such adversity is celebrated by the dominant project management ideology and practice, but is a major barrier to achieve genuine sustainable improvements in the lives of vulnerable children. This study, an example of practitioner research combining a professional and an academic commitment to the topic, proposes a new person-centred project management approach aimed at delivering comprehensive services for orphans, which explicitly recognises the needs of orphans and other poor children to be fully socially, politically and economically included within their communities and which avoids the reinforcement of power based inequalities. The moral bankruptcy of much social development work in Zimbabwe and elsewhere is described and the authors delineate an alternative project management policy and practice. [ASC Leiden abstract] SN - 978-90-04-28247-6 paperback AV - AFRIKA 47987 Y2 - 2014/11/21/ M3 - 383650992 ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4664 T1 - Women's perspectives on patrilineality in southern Ethiopia A1 - Thubauville,Sophia A1 - Gabbert,Echi Christina Y1 - 2014/// N1 - ill KW - Arbore KW - Ethiopia KW - gender relations KW - Hadiya KW - Hamar KW - Maale KW - patriarchy KW - women RP - NOT IN FILE SP - 139 EP - 204 JA - Paideuma / Frobenius-Institut: (2014), Bd.60, p.139-204. U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This collection of articles provides insights into the category of patrilineality by providing case studies from patrilineal societies in southern Ethiopia that show the flexible and particular interpretations and multiple identities that women create within and around the conceptual framework of patrilineality. Contributions: Gender and identification in patrilineal and patriarchal societies: case studies from southern Ethiopia (Sophia Thubauville and Echi Christina Gabbert); Mobile women, immobile men? Gender and identification of women among the Maale of southern Ethiopia (Sophia Thubauville); Marrying into an age-set: the redefinition of social relations and extension of women's social networks in Bashada (Susanne Epple); Powerful mothers - radical daughters: tales about and cases of women's agency among the Arbore of southern Ethiopia (Echi Christina Gabbert); Approaching abduction through narratives: love and violence in a Hadiya village, southwestern Ethiopia (Valentina Peveri). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] AV - AFRIKA article Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M3 - 383791618 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4727 T1 - Media and information literacy, informed citizenship and democratic development in Africa : a handbook for media information producers and users A1 - Tettey,Wisdom Y1 - 2013/// N1 - Bibliogr.: p. 39-46 KW - Africa KW - handbooks (form) KW - information literacy KW - journalism KW - mass media RP - NOT IN FILE CY - Harere PB - The African Capacity Building Foundation U1 - Free access. U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - "At the heart of any successful democracy is the ability of citizens and state institutions to have access to accurate information, to freely express themselves, to contribute intelligently to public discourse, and to shape public policy on the basis of reliable information. As Wilson et al. (2011, p. 11) point out, "we live in a world where the quality of information we receive largely determines our choices and ensuing actions, including our capacity to enjoy fundamental freedoms and the ability for self-determination and development." In order to ensure that such an environment exists, various stakeholders, including state institutions, civil society organizations, and the family must facilitate access to appropriate and credible information and must not curtail the right of citizens to access that information or their right to express themselves. It is only when these conditions exist that we can enhance progressive change for the collective good"-- Book abstract SN - 978-1-7793-7043-3 AV - Elektronisch document Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M3 - 383364531 L3 - http://elibrary.acbfpact.org/acbf/collect/acbf/index/assoc/HASHf9e1.dir/ Media%20handbook.pdf ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4732 T1 - The constitution of Kenya : contemporary readings A1 - Mbondenyi,Morris Kiwinda A1 - Lumumba,Patrick L.O. A1 - Odero,Steve O. Y1 - 2013/// N1 - Oorspr. uitg: 2011 Bibliogr.: p. [307]-340 - Met noten KW - 2010 KW - constitutional law KW - constitutionalism KW - constitutions KW - government KW - Kenya RP - NOT IN FILE EP - XXXVII, 340 CY - Nairobi PB - LawAfrica Publishing U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - The Constitution of Kenya: Contemporary Readings provides assessments of the interface between constitutionalism and Kenya's new Constitution. With an Introduction by Morris Kiwinda Mbondenyi ; Chapter One: A journey through time in search for a new Constitution by P.L.O. Lumumba; Chapter Two: Constitutionalism and the rule of law under the new constitutional order by Dennis Ben Mosota; Chapter Three: The Bill of Rights by Morris Kiwinda Mbondenyi; Chapter four: Gender equality by Ruth Aura Odhiambo & Maurice Oduor; Chapter Five: Land and the environment by Tom Ojienda & Mathews Okoth; Chapter Six: Separation of powers by Elisha Z. Ongoya; Chapter Seven: Devolved government by Steve O. Odero; Chapter Eight: Constitutional regulation of international law in Kenya by Luis G. Franceschi; Chapter Nine: Constitution implementation in Kenya by Victor Odhiambo. [ASC Leiden abstract] AV - AFRIKA 47699 Y2 - 2014/11/21/ M3 - 378124676 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4743 T1 - Sure road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique A1 - Morier-Genoud,Eric Y1 - 2012/// N1 - Met index, lit. opg KW - 2007 KW - Angola KW - conference papers (form) KW - Frelimo KW - Guinea-Bissau KW - Mozambique KW - nation KW - national liberation struggles KW - nationalism KW - UNITA RP - NOT IN FILE EP - XXV, 270 CY - Leiden [etc.] PB - Brill U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available T3 - African social studies series, ISSN 1568-1203 ; vol. 28 N2 - This collective volume brings together research on the subject of nations and nationalisms in Portuguese-speaking Africa. It explores the history and politics of diverse nationalist discourses and ideologies, and it revisits the formation and contemporary developments of national imagined communities in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It does so by drawing on several disciplines and by exploring themes ranging from Frelimo's liberation literature to UNITA's moral economy and the disaggregation of Guinea-Bissau. By looking at the nature and dynamics of 'marginal' nationalisms, the role of culture, the way nationalist movements fitted into international networks, or how particular nationalist movements failed, the authors aim to restore the uncertain, conflictual trajectories of nationalisms and nations before and after independence. The collection originates in a workshop held at the University of Oxford in December 2007. Contributors: Maria Benedita Basto, David Birmingham, Michel Cahen, Georgi Derluguian, Philip J. Havik, Eric Morier-Genoud, Justin Pearce, Didier P‚clard, Fernando Tavares Pimenta, Jason Sumich, and Gavin Williams. [ASC Leiden abstract] SN - 978-90-04-22261-8 AV - AFRIKA 47457 Y2 - 2014/11/20/ M1 - Ea;D2 M3 - 34025355X ER - TY - JOUR ID - 4733 T1 - Women in Nigerian theatre A1 - Udengwu,Ngozi A1 - Ukaegbu,Victor Y1 - 2012/// KW - drama KW - gender KW - Nigeria KW - theatre KW - women KW - writers RP - NOT IN FILE PB - African Theatre Association U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available T3 - African performance review, ISSN 1753-5964 ; vol. 6. no. 1 N2 - This special issue of 'African Performance Review' deals with women in Nigerian theatre, both as playwrights and directors, and as subjects in Nigerian drama. It highlights the changing roles of women in Nigerian society as represented in theatre and drama. Contributions: Introduction: Whose theatre? Women in Nigeria theatre (Ngozi Udengwu & Victor Ukaegbu); Performing freedom: strategies of gender balancing in modern African writing (Osita C. Ezenwanebe); Femi-nism: woman as narrative ligament in Femi Osofisan's plays (Ndubuisi Nnanna); Non-literary mode of communicating gender differences in Igbo plays (Enyinnaya Samuel Ikeokwu); The paradox of gender discourse in rural-urban spaces of postcolonial Northern Nigeria: the case of Zaynab Alkali's 'The initiates' (Abubakar Aliyu Liman); Nigerian female playwrights and the evolution of a literary style: gendered discourse in the plays of Onwueme, Salami- Agunloye and Utoh-Ezeajugh (Tracie Chima Utoh- Ezeajugh); To sack a city or to breach a woman's chastity: Euripides' 'Trojan women' and Osofisan's 'Women of Owu' (Olakunbi O. Olasope). Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] AV - AFRIKA article Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M1 - Fn;C4;K2;K3 M3 - 383794498 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4749 T1 - Musique(s) traditionnelle(s) d'Afrique : lien entre g‚n‚rations : actes du colloque international de Brazzaville (R‚publique du Congo), ao–t 2010 A1 - Binam Bikoi,Charles Y1 - 2011/// N1 - Bibliogr., noten KW - 2010 KW - Africa KW - Algeria KW - community education KW - conference papers (form) KW - Congo (Brazzaville) KW - C“te d'Ivoire KW - Senegal KW - songs KW - traditional music RP - NOT IN FILE EP - 169 CY - Yaound‚ PB - ditions du CERDOTOLA U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - Les actes rassembl‚s dans cet ouvrage sont issus du colloque 'Musique(s) traditionnelle(s) d'Afrique : lien entre g‚n‚rations' organis‚ … Brazzaville (R‚publique du Congo) en ao–t 2010. Ils sont regroup‚s autour de trois axes: 1. La musique dans la vie des peuples et des communaut‚s; 2. Art traditionel, cr‚ativit‚ et m‚tissage; 3. Industries culturelles et strat‚gies de p‚rennisation de l'art musical africain. ThŠmes des contributions autour de l'axe 1: le 'n'de', pratique musicale des femmes du pays akye (C“te d'Ivoire) (Adepo Yapo); musique traditionelle et musique "moderne" (Aime Eyengue); musiques traditionelles et reproductions sociales (Achille Toudika); le r‚cit ‚pique ('mvet') et construction identitaire chez les pahouins dans la soci‚t‚ beti-bulu-fang (Joseph Owono Ntsama). ThŠmes des contributions autour de l'axe 2: berceuses traditionnelles et d‚veloppement affectif et social de l'enfant au Congo (Emmanuel Kaya-Boufala); fonction ‚ducative dans la musique traditionelle mbosi au Congo (Didier Ngalebaye); chansons et danses traditionnelles kongo (Congo) (Jean Felix Yekoka); ‚volution historique et th‚matique du cantique chr‚tien africain (Antoine G. Makani). ThŠmes des contributions autour de l'axe 3: 'sandagaisation' ou 'son baol-baol' de la musique s‚n‚galaise (Saliou Ndour); productions des musiques actuelles comme modŠle d'industrie culturelle (Alg‚rie) (Mohamed R‚da Chikhi); instruments de musique traditionnels d'Afrique et interculturalit‚ afroam‚ricaine (Isabela de Aranzadi). [R‚sum‚ ASC Leiden] AV - AFRIKA 47390 Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M3 - 377564729 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4753 T1 - La gestion participative des forˆts d'Afrique centrale : un modŠle … l'‚preuve de la r‚alit‚ A1 - Joiris,Daou V‚ronique A1 - Bigomb‚ Logo,Patrice Y1 - 2010/// N1 - Bibliogr.: p. 211-221. - Met bijl., noten KW - Cameroon KW - Central Africa KW - Central African Republic KW - Chad KW - forest management KW - forest policy KW - Gabon KW - national parks and reserves KW - popular participation RP - NOT IN FILE EP - 236 CY - Versailles PB - Quae U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available T3 - SynthŠses, ISSN 1777-4624 N2 - Comment concevoir et r‚ussir des projets de gestion participative? Les populations locales participent-elles … la gestion des forˆts en Afrique centrale? Cet ouvrage collectif fournit des recommandations pour mener des politiques participatives efficientes. Il apporte, dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, un ‚clairage document‚ et dresse un bilan des r‚formes exp‚riment‚es dans la sous-r‚gion depuis les ann‚es 1980. Les auteurs montrent que les pratiques participatives, fondamentalement impregn‚es du contexte colonial et postcolonial, fa‡onnent un mode de gouvernance antiparticipatif au sein des concessions forestiŠres, des zones de chasse, des aires prot‚g‚es et des espaces … vocation communautaire. De plus, … travers des ‚tudes de cas ethnographiques, les auteurs mŠnent leurs investigations du point de vue des modalit‚s d'appropriation de la gouvernance dite participative. La premiŠre partie de l'ouvrage pr‚sente une revue historique de l'engagement social des compagnies forestiŠres, puis une ‚tude des m‚canismes participatifs au Cameroun et au Gabon. La deuxiŠme partie traite de la gestion participative dans les zones cyn‚g‚tiques et les aires prot‚g‚es au Cameroun, en R‚publique centrafricaine et au Tchad. [R‚sum‚ extrait du livre] SN - 2-7592-0846-X AV - AFRIKA 46520 Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M3 - 382003705 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4762 T1 - Growth and development in Africa A1 - Seck,Diery A1 - Busari,Dipo Y1 - 2009/// N1 - Met bibliogr., bijl., noten, index KW - Africa KW - agricultural development KW - civil wars KW - economic development KW - energy resources KW - gender inequality KW - globalization KW - industrial development KW - international trade KW - labour market KW - poverty KW - structural adjustment KW - technological change KW - urban development KW - youth employment RP - NOT IN FILE EP - VIII, 507 CY - Trenton, N.J PB - Africa World U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - This book is a collective effort of leading African social science research and academic institutions that seek to advance the current debate on development in Africa. It includes scholarly studies on diverse and complementary development challenges facing Africa. Contributions: Globalization, equity, and development: some reflections on the African experience (Adebayo Olukoshi); The missing link in growth and sustainable development: closing the gender gap (Alfred Latigo and Duncan Ironmonger); Investigating sources of growth in Africa's economies (Dipo Busari, Aloysius Ajab Amin and Tharcisse Ntilivamunda); Poverty, inequality and labor markets in Africa: a descriptive overview (Haroon Bhorat); Technology transfer and economic growth in Africa (Osita Ogbu, Moses Ikiara and Eliud Moyi); Energy resources in Africa: uses and potentialities (Ragia Abdin Kheiralla); Prospective issues of industrial growth and development in African countries (Mamdouh Fahmi El-Sharkawy); Prospective of agriculture development in Africa (Mahmoud Abd El-Hai, Abdel-Kader Diab and Sayed Hussein Ahmed); Youth in Sub-Saharan labor markets (Murray Leibbrandt and Cecil Mlatsheni); Can current market access proposals really stop marginalization of Africa in global trade? A review of African countries' market access (Hakim Ben Hammouda, Mustapha Sadni-Jallab, R‚mi Lang, Nassim Oulmane and Romain Perez); Management and governance issues in the urban development process in Sub-Saharan Africa (D.S. Tevera); Africa's enduring development challenges: growth after "modernization" and "adjustment"? (Assis Malaquias); Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa (John Akokpari); An economic theory of civil war in Africa (Diery Seck); Harnessing energy resources for sustainable development in Africa (Pancrace Niyimbnona). [ASC Leiden abstract] SN - 1-592-21685-4 AV - AFRIKA 47829 Y2 - 2014/11/18/ M3 - 320095797 ER - TY - BOOK ID - 4770 T1 - Internationalisation and economic growth strategies in Ghana : a business perspective A1 - Kuada,John Y1 - 2007/// N1 - Bibliogr.: p. 213-241. - Met index KW - economic development KW - economic policy KW - exports KW - foreign investments KW - Ghana KW - globalization KW - private enterprises RP - NOT IN FILE EP - VII, 248 CY - London PB - Adonis & Abbey U2 - w47 U3 - Abstracts available N2 - The design and implementation of business development policies remains a major challenge in most African countries. This entails supporting businesses to be integrated within the global economic structure without being easy victims of unscrupulous and opportunistic investors. During the past two decades successive Ghanaian governments have implemented private sector development policies aimed at stimulating growth through internationalization of local enterprises and attracting foreign investors. Contributors to this book provide an overview of the impact of these policies on the Ghanaian business environment and the strategic orientations of managers. They also offer an insight into the productivity and performance of exporting firms, the financial and knowledge acquisition strategies they adopt, their degree of market orientation and corporate social responsibility and the challenges faced by African policy makers and managers learning to operate within an increasingly turbulent global economy. Contents: Introduction: internationalisation and economic growth strategies in Ghana (John Kuada); Routes of integration of Ghanaian firms into the world economy (John Kuada); Export marketing and economic development: Porter's Diamond Model revisited (Adelaide Kastner); Financial performance: are Ghanaian exporters doing better than non-exporters? (A.Q.Q. Aboagye and Dorthe Serles); Are exporting firms really productive? Evidence from Ghana (Charles K.D. Adjasi); Comparison of debt financing between exporting and non-exporting firms: evidence from Ghana (Joshua Abor); Market orientation and export performance: a Ghanaian study (Robert Hinson, Dan Ofori, Adelaide Kastner and Mahmoud Mohammed); Risk attitudes and risk management practices of Ghanaian exporters (Albert Gemegah); The role of top management in strategic alliances: an insight from Danish-Ghanaian strategic alliances (Bedman Narteh); Foreign direct investment, learning and firm upgrading in Ghana (Olav Jull S›rensen, John Kuada and Bedman Narteh); Business' corporate social responsibility: theory, opinion and evidence from Ghana (Daniel Ofori). [ASC Leiden abstract] SN - 978-1-905068-70-8 pbk AV - AFRIKA 47824 Y2 - 2014/11/17/ M3 - 312975449 ER -