Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2007.10751356
O. Adeboye
AbstractSuicide is generally regarded as an anti-social behavior. It is, perhaps, for this reason that sociologists and psychologists, among other experts, have been interested in studying the incidence of suicide in many societies. Most modern theories on suicide, however, do not emphasize the idea of “heroic suicide.” Epitomizing this “genre” of suicide are the high profile, politically motivated suicides in early colonial Ibadan examined here. This article suggests that the key to understanding these suicide cases is to be found not only in these people’s multilayered pasts — the general Yoruba past and Ibadan’s nineteenth-century military heritage — but also in their conception of honor and in their social norms. The ideals of honor thus carried over into the twentieth century were so strong that they survived the first three decades of colonial rule despite the intrigue-laced nature of Ibadan chieftaincy politics and the official interference of the colonial authorities. This article concludes that p...
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Robert O. Collins is one of the most prolific authors on Africa, the Sudan,and the Nile. The Southern Sudan in Historical Perspective, based on a seriesof lectures he gave in 1973 to the Department of Middle Eastern and AfricanHistory and the Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies atTel Aviv University, is a succinct and engaging study of the Southern Sudan,from its origins in antiquity, the British occupation of the early twentiethcentury, the civil disturbances of 1955, its independence in 1956, to theviolence of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Pub Date : 2006-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2006.10751338
Andreas Dafinger, M. Pelican
Résumé Les changements dans les droits fonciers et les modèles d’utilisation de la terre qui s’y rattachent sont une force essentielle dans les relations entre fermiers et bergers. La transformation des lois foncières est au centre des processus de restructuration et de décentralisation dans la majeure partie de l’Afrique sub-saharienne et la question des droits fonciers est donc devenue de plus en plus importante dans la recherche anthropologique. Cet article compare les relations entre fermiers et bergers au Burkina-Faso et dans le nord-ouest du Cameroun où les bergers agriculteurs forment une minorité ethnique dans les sociétés dominées par les fermiers. Il y a de grosses différences entre les groupes pour ce qui est de l’intégration et du conflit. Si les relations au Burkina se distinguent par une intégration pacifique, en revanche au Cameroun, elles se caractérisent par d’occasionnels violents conflits. Ces différences s’expliquent du fait des différences mêmes entre les systèmes judiciaires et les modèles d’utilisation des terres dans les deux pays. Une utilisation partagée de la terre et des “ressources agricoles” encourage l’intégration grâce à des conflits permanents peu sérieux, tandis qu’un paysage divisé et une allocation de titres fonciers exclusifs augmentent la possibilité de conflits violents. Au Burkina, l’organisation historique et politique encourage la pratique et l’idéologie d’un paysage partagé, tandis qu’au nord-ouest du Cameroun, la législation coloniale et post-coloniale promeut la division des ressources entres fermiers et bergers.
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Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2005.10751322
Ferdinand de Jong
Résumé Le conflit qui oppose le Mouvement des forces démocratiques de Casamance et l’État sénégalais a fait l’objet de médiation par diverses institutions, chacune ayant pour but de mettre fin au conflit. Cet article porte sur l’une de ces interventions qui se prétend issue de la tradition de la parenté à plaisanterie entre les Diolas et les Sérères. Il examine comment la parenté à plaisanterie entre les Jolas et les Sérères devient “instrumentalisée” en tant que méthode de gestion du conflit armé. L’article montre comment une pratique culturelle est transformée pour devenir un instrument de politique et donc, comment la tradition devient politisée. En passant, l’auteur montre qui la logique de l’instrumentalisation s’inscrit dans un imaginaire sénégalais portant sûr l’état-nation. L’action inscrit le conflit dans un discours nationaliste et fait l’impasse sur l’économie politique qui est au fond du conflit. Il s’agit donc d’une contribution au débat actuel sur la résolution autochtone des conflits. Les méthodes traditionnelles de résolution des conflits ne devraient pas être comprises en tant que tradition a-historique mais plutôt en tant que geste de ré-interprétation du conflit par les organisations non-gouvernementales et l’État.
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Introduction: History, Culture, Politics of the Nation 1. Algeria/Morocco: The Passions of the Past, Representations of the Nation that Unite and Divide 2. Ideologies of the Nation in Tunisian Cinema 3. Bendana: Stories on the Road from Fez to Marrakesh - Oral History on the Margins of National Identity 4. Echoes of National Liberation: Turkey Viewed from the Maghrib in the 1920s 5. Libya's Refugees, their Places of Exile and the Shaping of their National Idea 6. Martyrs and Patriots: Ethnic, National and Transnational Dimensions of Kabyle Politics 7. Moroccan Women's Narratives of Liberation: A Passive Revolution? 8. Citizens and Subjects in the Bank: Corporate Visions of Modern Art and Moroccan Identity 9. The Nations "Unknowing Other": Three Intellectuals and the Culture(s) of being Algerian, or the Impossibility of Subaltern Studies in Algeria
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{"title":"Uniting a Divided City: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg","authors":"F. Ross, J. Beall, O. Crankshaw, S. Parnell","doi":"10.2307/4107273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107273","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68799019","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":"The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photographic Exhibition","authors":"Aimée Bessire, Corinne A. Kratz","doi":"10.2307/4107282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107282","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68799834","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}
Part I Overview and Retrospective: 1. Introduction - Comparing State Crises Across Two Continents, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young 2. Convergence to Crisis - Pre-Independence State Legacies and Post-Independence State Breakdown in Africa and Eurasia, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young. Part II Sovereignty, Violence, and War: 3. At the Edge of the World - Boundaries, Territoriality, and Sovereignty, Achille Mbembe 4. Who is Strong When the State is Weak? - Violent Entreprenuership in Russia's Emerging Markets, Vadim Volkov 5. Mafiya Trouble, Warlord Crises, Will Reno 6. Weak State and Private Armies, Charles Fairbanks 7. Civil Wars and State-Building in Africa and Eurasia, David Holloway and Stephen Stedman 8. The Effects of Interstate Crisis on African Interstate Relations (With Eurasian Comparisons), Donald Rothchild. Part III Democratization and Political Economy: 9. Russia - Unconsolidated Democracy, Creeping Authoritarianism, or Unresolved Stagnation? Lilia Shevtsova 10. War, State Making, and Democratization in Africa, Richard Joseph 11. The East Goes South - International Aid and the Production of Convergence in Africa and Eurasia, Peter J. Stavrakis 12. Economic Reform and the Discourse of Democracy in Africa - Resolving the Contradictions, Peter M. Lewis. Part IV State and Society: 13. Accomodating Ethnic Differences in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Gail W. Lapidus 14. Beyond Cultural Domination - Institutionalizing Equity in the African State, Francis M. Deng 15. Women and Political Change in Eurasia and Africa, Aili Mari Tripp. Part V Beyond State Crisis?: 16. Putting the State Back Together in Post-Soviet Georgia, Ghia Nodia 17. After the Fall - State Rehabilitation in Uganda, Crawford Young 18. Transcending the Crisis of the State in Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia - Hopeless Chimera or Possible Dream?, Mark Beissinger and Crawford Young.
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{"title":"Groupes Serviles au Sahara. Approche comparative a partir du cas des arabophones de Mauritanie","authors":"E. A. Mcdougall, M. V. Beauvais","doi":"10.2307/4107297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107297","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107297","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68801341","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":"Hostels, Sexuality, and the Apartheid Legacy: Malevolent Geographies","authors":"Tiffany F. Jones, G. Elder","doi":"10.2307/4107276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4107276","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4107276","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68799902","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}
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