ISSN: 215-2448
Highlights: Ghanian Politics, Feminist Reading of Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” Civil-Military Relations in Botswana, Japan-African Relations, East African Pastoralism
Articles
The Legacy of J.J. Rawlings in Ghanaian Politics, 1979-2000
John L. Adedeji | Abstract | PDF (1-27)
Reading as a Woman: Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ and Feminist Criticism
Linda Strong-Leek | Abstract | PDF (29-35)
Civil-Military Relations in Botswana’s Developmental State
Mpho G. Molomo | Abstract | PDF (37-59)
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Emerging Trends in Japan-Africa Relations: An African Perspective
Seifudein Adem | Abstract | PDF (61-69)
Review Article
Contemporary Perspectives on East African Pastoralism
George L. Simpson Jr. | PDF (71-74)
The Pastoral Continuum: The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa. Paul Spencer. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. 302.
The Poor are Not Us: Poverty & Pastoralism. David M. Anderson & Vigdis Broch-Due (eds.). Oxford: James Currey, 1999. Pp. 276.
Book Reviews
“I Will Not Eat Stone”: A Women’s History of Colonial Asante.
Jean Allman and Victoria Tashjian. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2000. Pp. 312.
Jeremy Rich | PDF (74-76)
Traditional Cures for Modern Conflicts, African Conflict ‘Medicine’
William I. Zartman (ed.). Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000. Pp. 230.
Saskia Van Hoyweghen | PDF (76-78)
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women Struggle for Culture, Power and Democracy.
Amadiume Ifi. New York: Zed Books, 2000. Pp. 300.
Ong’wen Okuro Samwel | PDF (78-80)
Beyond Rights Talk and Culture Talk.
Mahmood Mamdani (ed). New York: St. Martins’s Press, 2000. Pp.170.
Seyoum Hameso | PDF (81-82)
The Midfielder’s Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa.
Grant Farred. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. 178.
Ann Langwadt | PDF (82-84)
United States Interests and Policies in Africa: Transition to a New Era.
Karl P. Magyar (ed). New York: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 193.
Sean Patrick Murphy | PDF (84-86)
Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood.
Philip Kilbride, Collete Suda, Enos Njeru. Westport: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 2000. Pp. 184.
Patrick Wachira and Beth Blue Swadener | PDF (86-89)
Fire from the Ashes: A Chronicle of the Revolution in Tigray, Ethiopia, 1975-1991.
Jenny Hammond. Lawrenceville and Asmara: The Red Sea Press, 1999, Pp. 456.
Seifudein Adem | PDF (89-90)