Human rights and NGO 'wrongs': conflict diamonds, culture wars and the 'Bushman question'
ABSTRACT I examine the struggle surrounding the relocations of Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana.
Response to ter Haar and Ellis
In his review article, Terence Ranger raises two major issues. First, he is concerned about the relation between exoticizing ideas about an 'African occult' in Western societies
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Fast food in Ibadan: an emerging consumption pattern
ABSTRACT In its modernization garb, development has come to mean the inculcation of foreign values resulting in the fundamental transformation of modernizing nations.
Patricia Tang, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof percussionists of Senegal
PATRICIA TANG, Masters of the Sabar: Wolof percussionists of Senegal. Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press (pb $27.95--978 1 59213 420 5; hb $79.50--978 1 59213 419 9).
Introduction: knowledge in practice
To demarginalize Africa and the Third World with regard to knowledge as well as in all other respects, to ensure ...
Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel and Leo De Haan (eds), African Alternatives
PATRICK CHABAL, ULF ENGEL and LEO DE HAAN (eds), African Alternatives. Leiden and Boston MA: Brill (pb $63/42 [euro]--978 9 00416 113 9).
On reason and Afro-Pessimism
RICHARD WERBNER, Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana: the public anthropology of Kalanga elites.
Gun culture in Kumasi
ABSTRACT This article is about gun culture in Kumasi today. Gun use in Asante, and elsewhere in Ghana, has increased significantly in the last decade.
An extract from 'my experience in Cameroons during the war'
I. THE GOLD COAST LEADER, 14 OCTOBER 1916, p. 6 It was on the night of the 11th August 1914, when news of a great war in Europe reached us at Mbua (2) (a town in the
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Axel Harneit-Sievers, Constructions of Belonging: Igbo communities and the Nigerian state in...
AXEL HARNEIT-SIEVERS, Constructions of Belonging: Igbo communities and the Nigerian state in the twentieth century.
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