ISSN: 215-2448
Special Issue on Truth & Reconciliation Commissions in Africa
Guest Editor: Kimberly Lanegran
Highlights: Transnational Justice, South Africa, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Apartheid, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Articles
Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in Africa: Issues and Cases
Lyn S. Graybill and Kimberly Lanegran | Abstract | PDF
Reconciling South Africa or South Africans? Cautionary Notes from the TRC
Tristan Anne Borer | Abstract | PDF
Searching for Answers: Sierra Leone’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Beth K. Dougherty | Abstract | PDF
After Arusha: Gacaca Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Alana Tiemessen | Abstract | PDF
At Issue
Establishing the Truth about the Apartheid Past: Historians and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Jacobus A. du Pisani and Kwang-Su Kim | Abstract | PDF
Book Reviews
Theory, Change, and Southern Africa’s Future.
Peter Vale, Larry A. Swatuk, and Bertil Oden, eds. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 300 pp.
Review by Bram Büscher | PDF
The Great Lakes of Africa : Two Thousand Years of History.
Jean-Pierre Chrétien (translated by Scott Straus). New York : Zone Books, 2003. 503 pp.
Review by Kevin C. Dunn | PDF
Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana c. 1850 to Recent Times.
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001. 244 pp.
Review by Heidi Glaesel Frontani | PDF
The Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone.
Mariane Ferme. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 287 pp.
Review by J. David Granger | PDF
Legends, Sorcerers, and Enchanted Lizards: Door Locks of the Bamana of Mali.
Pascal James Imperato. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 2001. 123 pp.
Review by Denise Martin | PDF
Accounting for Horror: Post-Genocide Debates in Rwanda.
Nigel Eltringham. London: Pluto Press, 2004. 232 pp.
Review by Kelli Moore | PDF
Historical Dictionary of South Africa, Second Edition.
Christopher Saunders, Nicholas Southey, and Mary-Lynn Suttie. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2000. 375 pp.
Review by Andrew Offenburger | PDF
The Decolonization Reader.
James D. Le Sueur, ed. New York : Routledge, 2003. 462 pp.
Review by Aaron Peron Ogletree | PDF
Rote Adler an Afrikas Küste: Die brandenburgisch-preußische Kolonie Großfriedrichsburg in Westafrika.
Ulrich Van der Heyden. Berlin: Selignow, 2001 [1993]. 105 pp.
Review by Helma Pasch | PDF
The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources, 3rd edition.
Hans M. Zell, ed. Lochcarron, Scotland: Hans Zell Publishing, 2003. 570 pp.
Review by Daniel A. Reboussin | PDF
Armed Conflict in Africa.
Carolyn Pumphrey and Rye Schwartz-Barcott, eds. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003. 313 pp.
Review by William Reno | PDF
Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa ‘s Transition to Democracy.
Princeton N. Lyman. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2002. 344 pp.
Review by Chris Saunders | PDF
Twilight on the Zambezi: Late Colonialism in Central Africa.
Eugenia W. Herbert. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. 196 pp.
Review by Carol Summers | PDF