African Affairs

Articles:

Alex de Waal

Who are the Darfurians? Arab and African identities, violence and external engagement
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 181-205; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi035 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lotte Hughes

Malice in Maasailand: The historical roots of current political struggles
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 207-224; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi033 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joyce Nyairo and James Ogude

Popular music, popular politics: Unbwogable and the idioms of freedom in Kenyan popular music
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 225-249; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi012 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Jude Fokwang

Entertaining repression: Music and politics in postcolonial Cameroon
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 251-274; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi007 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Piet Konings

The Anglophone Cameroon-Nigeria boundary: Opportunities and conflicts
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 275-301; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi004 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christian John Makgala

The relationship between Kenneth Koma and the Botswana Democratic Party, 1965–2003
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 303-323; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi003 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Daniel Branch and Nic Cheeseman

Briefing: Using opinion polls to evaluate Kenyan politics, March 2004–January 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 325-336; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi037 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Articles:

Lansana Gberie

Africa: The troubled continent
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 337-342; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi038 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Benjamin F. Soares

Muslim Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria: A study of the Society for the Removal of Innovation and Reinstatement of Tradition, Islam in Africa, volume 1, by Ousmane Kane. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill, 2003. xxi + 283 pp. US$129 hardback. ISBN 90 04 12588 4 (hardback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 343-344; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi039 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Johan Pottier

Brickyards to Graveyards: From production to genocide in Rwanda, by Villia Jefremovas. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. xi + 162 pp. £15.99 paperback. ISBN 0791454886 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 344-345; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi040 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jon Abbink

Blood, Land and Sex: Legal and political pluralism in Eritrea, by Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2003. xvi + 352 pp. £32.95 hardback. ISBN 0-253-34205-8 (hardback); £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0-253-21577-3 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 346-347; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi041 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John McCracken

A History of Prison and Confinement in Africa. Edited by Florence Bernault. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. x + 283 pp. £16.99 paperback. ISBN 0-325-07125-X (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 347-349; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi042 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dorothy L. Hodgson

Time, Space, and the Unknown: Maasai configurations of power and providence, by Paul Spencer. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xvi + 287 pp. £55 hardback. ISBN 0-415-31724-X (hardback).
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 349-351; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi043 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stefan Andreasson

Governance in the New South Africa: The challenges of globalisation, edited by Guy Mhone and Omano Edigheji. Lansdowne: University of Cape Town Press, 2004. 384 pp. £13.58 paperback. ISBN 0-191713-875 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 351-352; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi044 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oladipo Olubomehin

Nigeria's Defunct Slave Ports: Their cultural legacies and touristic value, by Hakeem Harunah. Lagos: First Academic Publisher, 2000. 173 pp. ISBN 978-34902-3-0 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 353-354; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi045 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James H. Meriwether

Brothers and Strangers: Black Zion, black slavery, 1914–1940, by Ibrahim Sundiata. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2003. xiii + 340 pp. $19.95 paperback. ISBN 0-8223-3247-7 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 354-355; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi046 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sue Krige

History after Apartheid:Visual culture and public memory in a democratic South Africa, by Annie Coombes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 366 pp. $27.95 paperback. ISBN 0-8223-3072-5 (paperback)
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 355-357; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi047 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terence Ranger

Simon Vengayi Muzenda and the Struggle for and Liberation of Zimbabwe, by Ngwabi Bhebe. Gweru: Mambo Press, 2004. xi + 297 pp. ISBN 086922-780-7
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 357-359; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi048 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book:

T A Barringer

Bibliography
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 361-366; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi032 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T A Barringer

A select list of articles on Africa appearing in non-Africanist periodicals
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 367-373; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi031 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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