and reversal of gender roles’. Therefore, ‘writing madness’, she implies, is potentially liberating, an idea which informs her subsequent focus on women writers. While deviant women are punished in folktales, unruly women seem driven to madness, Veit-Wild points out, in African women’s writing. Bessie Head’s A Question of Power is a prime example. Rebeka Njau’s Ripples in the Pool and Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Kare Kare Zvako are other instances of voicing or depicting gender violence (and resistance). The significance of ‘mad’ creative production, Veit-Wild optimistically suggests, is a possible ‘invocation of new gender roles’. Veit-Wild strikes the right balance in her assortment of male and female writers, colonial and post-colonial texts, oral and written literature, Anglophone and Francophone. That said, the book suffers somewhat from a loose, shifting, all-encompassing concept of madness. Because her canvas is so vast, VeitWild struggles to pull the many strands and vignettes she has to offer into a single over-arching distinctive argument. The analyses, though poignant, are somewhat scattered. Nonetheless, Veit-Wild deserves credit for a diverse, pioneering and useful compilation.
以及性别角色的逆转。”因此，她暗示，“疯狂写作”是一种潜在的解放，这一想法影响了她后来对女性作家的关注。维特-怀尔德指出，在民间故事中，越轨的女人会受到惩罚，而在非洲女性的作品中，不守规矩的女人似乎会被逼疯。贝西·海德的《权力问题》就是一个典型的例子。Rebeka Njau的《泳池里的涟漪》、Dangarembga的《神经状况》和Kare Kare Zvako是表达或描绘性别暴力(和抵抗)的其他例子。Veit-Wild乐观地认为，“疯狂”创意产品的意义在于可能“唤起新的性别角色”。维特-怀尔德在男女作家、殖民时期和后殖民时期的文本、口头文学和书面文学、英语和法语文学的分类中取得了恰当的平衡。也就是说，这本书在某种程度上受到了一个松散、多变、无所不包的疯狂概念的影响。因为她的画布是如此之大，VeitWild努力把她必须提供的许多线索和小插曲拉到一个单一的、包罗万象的、独特的论点中。这些分析虽然令人心酸，但多少有些零散。尽管如此，Veit-Wild的多样化、开拓性和有用的汇编值得称赞。
{"title":"The Languages and Literatures of Africa: the sands of Babel (review)","authors":"F. Ugochukwu","doi":"10.1353/AFR.2007.0078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AFR.2007.0078","url":null,"abstract":"and reversal of gender roles’. Therefore, ‘writing madness’, she implies, is potentially liberating, an idea which informs her subsequent focus on women writers. While deviant women are punished in folktales, unruly women seem driven to madness, Veit-Wild points out, in African women’s writing. Bessie Head’s A Question of Power is a prime example. Rebeka Njau’s Ripples in the Pool and Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Kare Kare Zvako are other instances of voicing or depicting gender violence (and resistance). The significance of ‘mad’ creative production, Veit-Wild optimistically suggests, is a possible ‘invocation of new gender roles’. Veit-Wild strikes the right balance in her assortment of male and female writers, colonial and post-colonial texts, oral and written literature, Anglophone and Francophone. That said, the book suffers somewhat from a loose, shifting, all-encompassing concept of madness. Because her canvas is so vast, VeitWild struggles to pull the many strands and vignettes she has to offer into a single over-arching distinctive argument. The analyses, though poignant, are somewhat scattered. Nonetheless, Veit-Wild deserves credit for a diverse, pioneering and useful compilation.","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114910743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flickering Shadows: cinema and identity in colonial Zimbabwe (review)","authors":"Lawrence S. Dritsas","doi":"10.1353/afr.2007.0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afr.2007.0080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116799740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An African Family Archive: the Lawsons of Little Popo/Aneho (Togo) 1841–1938 (review)","authors":"B. Lawrence","doi":"10.1353/AFR.2007.0073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AFR.2007.0073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127295557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Political History of The Gambia 1816–1994 (review)","authors":"Mark Davidheiser","doi":"10.1353/AFR.2007.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AFR.2007.0074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":"915 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132867454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Portuguese explorers and fragments of Germany’s early military presence in Southwest Africa. A long excursion into the life and (mostly domestic) politics of German Reich Chancellor von Caprivi leads into the negotiations that resulted in the 1890 Anglo-German territorial swap that created the German access corridor to the Zambezi known as the ‘Caprivi Zipfel’. Okupa has some interesting points to make here, and with issues of international law she is clearly on more familiar scholarly ground. The next 150 pages are concerned with the scandalous atrocities and war of extermination committed by the German colonial military against the Herero, Nama and other indigenous groups between 1904 and 1908. Much of this has already been covered extensively by various other scholars more capable of working with the available archival material. Long sections are taken up by details of, for example, German colonial military award medals, railway and firearms technology, Herero social organization and chiefly genealogy, polygamy and Christianity. Okupa’s key contribution here lies in her emotional and engaging narrative of the Herero’s ordeal in the Omaheke Desert following the appalling Waterberg massacre of 1904. But while the acknowledgements indicate she has collected interview material from recently repatriated descendants of survivors, the author neither names nor quotes her Herero sources directly. The book then shifts to another legacy of German colonialism in Namibia: the Caprivi Strip. Okupa’s discussion of the pre-colonial and colonial administration of Caprivi, the history of the area and its people again contains little new material, while failing to exclude unnecessary excursions and various inaccuracies. The last two chapters are concerned with the colonial origins and 1999 settlement by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the boundary dispute between Namibia and Botswana over the Kasikili/Sedudu island. Long sections of treaty texts, official communications and hearing transcripts appear with little analysis. Scholars interested in Caprivi or working on the historical origins and current disputes over African boundaries, international and African customary law may find some interesting leads to further material here, but the ICJ website provides most of this in a well-organized manner. While the appearance of the book is neat and balanced most of the maps, diagrams and photographs add little value. The main title and some chapter headings offer no clue regarding the contents. There are countless mistakes, inconsistencies and omissions in references, footnotes and quotations throughout the book. The same lengthy section of text from the 1890 AngloGerman agreement appears in full no less than three separate times. That the publisher should have sent a manuscript in this under-edited and uncorrected form to the printers is utterly surprising.
{"title":"The Nile in Darkness: a flawed unity, 1863–1899 (review)","authors":"Cherry Leonardi","doi":"10.1353/afr.2007.0079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/afr.2007.0079","url":null,"abstract":"Portuguese explorers and fragments of Germany’s early military presence in Southwest Africa. A long excursion into the life and (mostly domestic) politics of German Reich Chancellor von Caprivi leads into the negotiations that resulted in the 1890 Anglo-German territorial swap that created the German access corridor to the Zambezi known as the ‘Caprivi Zipfel’. Okupa has some interesting points to make here, and with issues of international law she is clearly on more familiar scholarly ground. The next 150 pages are concerned with the scandalous atrocities and war of extermination committed by the German colonial military against the Herero, Nama and other indigenous groups between 1904 and 1908. Much of this has already been covered extensively by various other scholars more capable of working with the available archival material. Long sections are taken up by details of, for example, German colonial military award medals, railway and firearms technology, Herero social organization and chiefly genealogy, polygamy and Christianity. Okupa’s key contribution here lies in her emotional and engaging narrative of the Herero’s ordeal in the Omaheke Desert following the appalling Waterberg massacre of 1904. But while the acknowledgements indicate she has collected interview material from recently repatriated descendants of survivors, the author neither names nor quotes her Herero sources directly. The book then shifts to another legacy of German colonialism in Namibia: the Caprivi Strip. Okupa’s discussion of the pre-colonial and colonial administration of Caprivi, the history of the area and its people again contains little new material, while failing to exclude unnecessary excursions and various inaccuracies. The last two chapters are concerned with the colonial origins and 1999 settlement by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of the boundary dispute between Namibia and Botswana over the Kasikili/Sedudu island. Long sections of treaty texts, official communications and hearing transcripts appear with little analysis. Scholars interested in Caprivi or working on the historical origins and current disputes over African boundaries, international and African customary law may find some interesting leads to further material here, but the ICJ website provides most of this in a well-organized manner. While the appearance of the book is neat and balanced most of the maps, diagrams and photographs add little value. The main title and some chapter headings offer no clue regarding the contents. There are countless mistakes, inconsistencies and omissions in references, footnotes and quotations throughout the book. The same lengthy section of text from the 1890 AngloGerman agreement appears in full no less than three separate times. That the publisher should have sent a manuscript in this under-edited and uncorrected form to the printers is utterly surprising.","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131164817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le Malaise Créole: ethnic identity in Mauritius (review)","authors":"L. Jeffery","doi":"10.1353/AFR.2007.0086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AFR.2007.0086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":"132 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130861191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
to operate in Djibouti. Given the involvement of several contributors with a background in the US government, as well as the customary American academics, this collection looks rather like the informed and semi-official view from Washington. After Rotberg’s opening overview the book proceeds through Somalia and Somaliland with Kenneth Menkhaus, which is appropriate since it is the stateless character of the former area (as well as the US having got it spectacularly wrong in the 1990s) that has been the main concern with regard to the problems of addressing terrorism. He is of the view, however, that statelessness is not necessarily that helpful for Al Qaeda because of the ‘danger of betrayal and extortion’. Lange Schermerhorn is next up on Djibouti, a country that has hitherto attracted limited attention, but is once more at ‘the eye of the storm’. Created as a French outpost on the Bab Al Mandeb straits, it now has a similar purpose for the US as well. Dan Connell discusses the ever-growing authoritarianism of Eritrea, once so beloved of western AfroMarxists, and still trying to punch above its weight across the Horn – rivalry with Ethiopia always at the forefront of its moves. David Shinn gives a very full and balanced account of Ethiopia. In addition to its ethnic tension, the position of the large Muslim population always needs careful political as well as security understanding. Tim Carney gives a brief and straightforward view of Sudan, the place where Osama bin Laden resided from 1991 to 1996 and where he was encouraged in his building of Al Qaeda. The same people are still largely in power, though now proclaiming their cooperation with the US on terrorism (though not on Darfur). The book rightly includes Yemen, for the Horn has long been almost as Arabian as African. Robert Burrowes feels that though Al Qaeda has been a threat there, the more conservative traditions of Yemeni Islam are still firmly in place. Finally Johnnie Carson considers Kenya, where Al Qaeda attacks have been mounted, and particularly the Muslim community on the coast. This brings us back to Kenya’s recent efforts to intercept the fleeing supporters of the Islamic Courts in the latest strike on possible terrorists from Mogadishu. What is most noticeable is the extent to which all the governments of the region have gone out of their way to join in cooperation with the US in the ‘war on terror’ – even to the point of rivalling each other, as with Eritrea and Ethiopia. But that is also the real point, for their motives have less to do with this ‘global’ war than their domestic and regional politics. The US is too powerful for them to resist supporting it in its self-proclaimed struggle, but the issues for the governments of the Horn are much nearer home, while overt cooperation with the US may be damaging domestically. Only when the US understands the many and varied local problems of the Horn will it really contribute to a more secure environment. Security cooperation m
在吉布提开展行动考虑到几位具有美国政府背景的撰稿人的参与，以及美国学术界的惯例，这本合集看起来更像是来自华盛顿的知情和半官方观点。在Rotberg的开篇概述之后，这本书继续与Kenneth Menkhaus一起讨论索马里和索马里兰，这是合适的，因为前一个地区的无国家特征(以及美国在20世纪90年代犯下的严重错误)一直是解决恐怖主义问题的主要关注。然而，他认为，无国籍状态对基地组织来说并不一定有帮助，因为有“背叛和勒索的危险”。兰格·舍默霍恩的下一个节目是吉布提，这个国家迄今为止吸引的关注有限，但又一次处于“风暴中心”。作为法国在曼德海峡的前哨基地，它现在对美国也有类似的目的。丹·康奈尔讨论了厄立特里亚日益增长的威权主义，这个曾经深受西方非洲马克思主义者喜爱的国家，仍然试图在非洲之角发挥其影响力——与埃塞俄比亚的竞争一直是其行动的前沿。大卫·希恩对埃塞俄比亚进行了全面而均衡的描述。除了民族关系紧张之外，庞大的穆斯林人口的处境总是需要仔细的政治和安全理解。蒂姆·卡尼(Tim Carney)简要而直接地介绍了苏丹，奥萨马·本·拉登(Osama bin Laden)从1991年到1996年一直居住在苏丹，并在那里受到鼓励建立了基地组织。这些人基本上仍然掌握着权力，尽管他们现在宣布与美国合作打击恐怖主义(尽管不是在达尔富尔问题上)。这本书正确地将也门包括在内，因为长久以来，“之角”几乎既是阿拉伯的，也是非洲的。罗伯特·伯罗斯认为，尽管基地组织在也门一直是个威胁，但也门伊斯兰教更保守的传统仍然牢固地存在着。最后，约翰尼·卡森谈到了肯尼亚，基地组织在那里的袭击不断增加，尤其是沿海的穆斯林社区。这使我们回到肯尼亚最近在最近一次对来自摩加迪沙的可能的恐怖主义分子的袭击中拦截伊斯兰法院逃离的支持者的努力。最值得注意的是，该地区所有政府都不遗余力地与美国在“反恐战争”中合作，甚至达到了相互竞争的程度，就像厄立特里亚和埃塞俄比亚一样。但这也是真正的问题，因为他们的动机与这场“全球”战争关系不大，而与他们的国内和地区政治关系更大。美国太强大了，它们无法抗拒支持它的自吹自擂，但非洲之角各国政府面临的问题要近得多，而与美国的公开合作可能会损害它们的国内利益。只有当美国了解了非洲之角许多不同的地方问题，它才会真正为一个更安全的环境做出贡献。安全合作可能会在短期内保护非洲之角各国政府，但其本身对解决促成“反恐战争”的根本问题作用不大:只把盖子盖住是不够的。
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{"title":"Les Trajectoires d'un Etat-frontière: espaces, évolution politique et transformations sociales en Mauritanie (review)","authors":"Laurence Marfaing","doi":"10.1353/AFR.2007.0085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AFR.2007.0085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122011125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy and Elections in Africa (review)","authors":"N. Cheeseman","doi":"10.1353/AFR.2007.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/AFR.2007.0071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":337749,"journal":{"name":"Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute","volume":" 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120828866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this original interdisciplinary study of Togo and African colonial history, Benjamin Lawrance synthesizes political, gender, and social history by documenting the contributions of rural-dwelling populations in anti-colonial struggles. Anchoring his arguments on the premise that nationalist historiographies have overstated the role of urban and elite power while undervaluing the strategic place of rural constituencies, Lawrance uses the Ewe nationalist movement of southern Togo as a case study in what he terms "periurban colonialism" - a historical paradigm that reunites the urban and rural experiences of post-World War I colonialism. By reconciling the marginal and non-elite communities and the social upheavals of the two World War periods, Lawrance offers a new perspective on the colonial experience and the anti-colonial struggle.In focusing on an African country uniquely colonized by the Germans, British, and French, he provides a wealth of information not readily available to the English-language audience. Accessible to scholars of African social history and African culture in general, "Locality, Mobility, and "Nation"" will occupy a distinguished place among studies of African colonial history and anti-colonial struggles. Benjamin N. Lawrance is an assistant professor of African history at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate African and World history. He is the editor of "The Ewe of Togo and Benin" (2005) and the co-editor of "Intermediaries, Interpreters and Clerks" (2006).
在这本对多哥和非洲殖民历史的跨学科研究中，本杰明·劳伦斯通过记录农村居民在反殖民斗争中的贡献，综合了政治、性别和社会历史。劳伦斯以民族主义史学夸大了城市和精英权力的作用，而低估了农村选区的战略地位为前提，将他的论点固定在这一前提上，他以多哥南部的Ewe民族主义运动为例，研究他所谓的“城市周边殖民主义”——一种将一战后殖民主义的城市和农村经验重新统一起来的历史范式。通过调和边缘和非精英群体与两次世界大战时期的社会动荡，劳伦斯为殖民经验和反殖民斗争提供了一个新的视角。在关注一个独特的被德国、英国和法国殖民的非洲国家时，他提供了丰富的信息，这些信息对于英语读者来说是不容易获得的。对于研究非洲社会历史和非洲文化的学者来说，《地方性、流动性和民族》将在非洲殖民历史和反殖民斗争的研究中占据重要地位。本杰明·n·劳伦斯(Benjamin N. lawrence)是加州大学戴维斯分校非洲历史助理教授，在那里教授本科生和研究生非洲和世界历史。他是《多哥和贝宁的母羊》(2005年)的编辑，以及《中间人、口译员和书记员》(2006年)的共同编辑。
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