African Affairs

Articles:

Ogbu U. Kalu

Safiyya and Adamah: Punishing adultery with sharia stones in twenty-first-century Nigeria
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 389-408; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg051 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gerrie ter Haar

A wondrous God: Miracles in contemporary Africa
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 409-428; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg048 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Denis M. Tull

A reconfiguration of political order? The state of the state in North Kivu (DR Congo)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 429-446; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg046 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah Bräutigam

Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 447-467; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg047 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Douglas Rimmer

Learning about economic development from Africa
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 469-491; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg017 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Bratton

Briefing: Islam, democracy and public opinion in Africa
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 493-501; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg049 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes and News:

Notes and News
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 503-506; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg164 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Articles:

Cedric Barnes

Sovereignty, identity and modernity — understanding Ethiopia
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 507-514; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg052 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

René Lemarchand

Le Rwanda ancien: Le royaume Nyiginya [Ancient Rwanda: The Nyiginya kingdom], by Jan Vansina. Paris: Karthala, 2001. 294 pp. Euro24.40, £17.95 paperback. ISBN 2845861451 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 515-517; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg053 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alphonse Maindo

République Démocratique du Congo, guerre et politique: Les trente derniers mois de L.D. Kabila (août 1998–janvier 2001) [DRC War and Politics: The last thirty months of L.D. Kabila (August 1998–January 2001)], edited by Gauthier de Villers, Jean Omasombo and Erik Kennes. Tervuren and Paris: Institut Africain CEDAF and L'Harmattan, 2001. 346 pp. ISBN 2-7475-1630-X (paperback), and Chasse au diamant au Congo/Zaire [The Hunt for Diamonds in Congo/Zaire], edited by Laurent Monnier, Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Gauthier de Villers. Tervuren and Paris: Institut Africain CEDAF and L'Harmattan, 2001. 240 pp. ISBN 2-7475-0972-9 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 517-520; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg054 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Meyns

A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, by Patrick Chabal with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert and Elisa Silva Andrade. London: Hurst & Co., 2002. xx + 339 pp. £14.95 paperback. ISBN 1-85065-589-8 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 520-522; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg055 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Pankhurst

Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The reformist intellectuals of the early twentieth century, by Bahru Zewde. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xii + 228 pp. £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-452-4 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 522-524; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg056 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nhlanhla Dlamini

Asbestos Blues: Labour, capital, physicians & the state in South Africa, by Jock McCulloch. Oxford: James Currey and Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. xx + 223 pp. £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-8662 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 524-525; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg057 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andreas Eckert

Deutsche Herrschaft über Afrikaner. Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia [German rule over Africans. State claims to power and reality in colonial Namibia] by Jürgen Zimmerer. Münster and Hamburg: LIT, 2001, 329 pp., Euro35.90 (hardback), ISBN 3-8258-5047-1 (hardback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 525-526; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg058 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah James

Restless Identities: Signatures of nationalism, Zulu ethnicity and history in the lives of Petros Lamula (c.1881–1948) and Lymon Maling (1889–c.1936), by Paul la Hausse de Lalouvière. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000. 317 pp. R195 £18.95. ISBN 1-85065-589-8 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 526-528; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg059 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John McCracken

Hero of the Nation: Chipembere of Malawi. An autobiography, by Masauko Chipembere, edited by Robert Rotberg. Blantyre: Kachere Series, Christian Literature Association of Malawi, 2002. Distributed by the African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford, UK. 464 pp. £23.95 paperback, ISBN 9990816250 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 528-530; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg060 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robin Palmer

Gathering Seaweed: African prison writing, edited by Jack Mapanje. Oxford, Portsmouth NH, and Johannesburg: Heinemann African Writers Series, 2002. xxii + 328 pp. £9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 435 91211 9 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 530-531; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg061 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leslie C. Gray

The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa, edited by Camilla Toulmin, Philippe Lavigne Delville and Samba Traoré. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xiii + 244 pp. £15.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-419-2 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 532-533; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg062 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bibliography:

T A Barringer

Bibliography
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 535-544; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg050 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

List of Articles:

R J Townsend

Africana in non-Africanist Periodicals
Afr Aff (Lond) 2003 102: 545-557; doi:10.1093/afraf/adg063 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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