African Affairs

Articles:

Paul Richards

To fight or to farm? Agrarian dimensions of the Mano River conflicts (Liberia and Sierra Leone)
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 8, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 571-590; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi068 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anthony Butler

South Africa’s HIV/AIDS policy, 1994–2004: How can it be explained?
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 8, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 591-614; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi036 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Ballard, Adam Habib, Imraan Valodia, and Elke Zuern

Globalization, marginalization and contemporary social movements in South Africa
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 1, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 615-634; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Omar A. Touray

The Common African Defence and Security Policy
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 1, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 635-656; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Penny Jackson

Briefing: The Commission for Africa, Gleneagles, Brussels and beyond
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 19, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 657-664; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi083 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary:

Percy S. Mistry

Reasons for sub-Saharan Africa’s development deficit that the commission for Africa did not consider
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 23, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 665-678; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Conference Reports:

Nathalie Wlodarczyk

Aspects of violence and the logic of conflict and peace in Africa
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 27, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 679-681; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi082 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher J. Lee

‘Bandung and beyond’: Rethinking Afro-Asian connections during the twentieth century
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 14, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 683-684; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi065 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review Articles:

Mark Leopold

Violence in contemporary Africa reassessed
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 23, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 685-695; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi072 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes and News:

Notes and News
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 697-700; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi070 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Robert P. Marlin

A Democracy of Chameleons: Politics and culture in the New Malawi, edited by Harri Englund. Afterword by Jack Mapanje. Uppsala: The Nordic African Institute, 2002. 210 pp. $29.95 paperback. ISBN 9171064990 (paperback).
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 701-703; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi073 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alphonse Maindo

Reinventing Order in the Congo: How people respond to state failure in Kinshasa, by Theodore Trefon (ed.), London: Zed Books, 2004. 224pp. $75.00 hardback. ISBN 1842774905 (hardback); xxii+222pp. £17.95 paperback. ISBN 1842774913 (paperback).
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 703-704; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi074 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Malyn Newitt

Slavery and Beyond: The making of men and Chikunda ethnic identities in the unstable world of south-central Africa 1750–1920, by Allen Isaacman and B. Isaacman. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2004. 384pp. $99.95 hardback. ISBN 0325002614 (hardback); xii + 370pp. $26.95 paperback. ISBN 0325002606 (paperback).
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 704-706; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi075 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Ellis

The Phantom Voyagers: Evidence of Indonesian settlement in Africa in ancient times, by Robert Dick-Read. Winchester: Thurlton Publishing, 2005. 251 pp. £15.99 paperback. ISBN 0-9549231-0-3 (paperback).
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 706-709; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi076 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Murray Last

Poison and Medicine: Ethnicity, power and violence in a Nigerian city, 1966–1986, by Douglas A. Anthony. James Currey, Oxford 2003. 288pp. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0852559593 (hardback); 272pp. £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0852559542 (paperback).
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 710-711; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi077 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan N. C. Hill

Islamism and its Enemies in the Horn of Africa, edited by Alex de Waal. London: Hurst & Company, 2004. 279pp. £16.50 paperback. ISBN 1850657319 (paperback).
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 711-712; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi078 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Chris Dunton

Hungochani: The history of a dissident sexuality in southern Africa, by Marc Epprecht. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004. xxvi + 317 pp. £18.95 paperback. ISBN 0-7735-2715-6 (paperback).
African Affairs Advance Access published on September 29, 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 712-713; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi079 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bibliography:

T A Barringer

Bibliography
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 715-721; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Periodicals:

T A Barringer

A select list of articles on Africa appearing in non-Africanist periodicals: April–June 2005
Afr Aff (Lond) 2005 104: 723-728; doi:10.1093/afraf/adi064 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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