{"title":"David L. Schoenbrun. The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. 339 pp. 4 maps.16 illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth. ISBN: 9780299332501.","authors":"Holly Hanson","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"21 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140084618","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":"Elizabeth A. Foster. African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2019. 369 pp. Photos. Maps. Tables. Bibliography. Index. $49.00. Cloth. ISBN: 9780674987661.","authors":"Artaud de la Ferrière","doi":"10.1017/asr.2024.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2024.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"48 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140408420","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}
This review essay focuses on electoral politics and the African accountability struggle, which has gained interest and scholarly attention following the third wave of democratization. Before the Namibia Constituent Assembly elections in November 1989, many would agree that elections were neither acknowledged nor considered appropriate for selecting governmental and national leaders. However, the democratic wave in the early 1990s marked a substantial political shift in Africa. Elections, once rare, are now frequent, serving as a crucial tool for both development and accountability. In this new era, citizens have a rare opportunity to hold their leaders accountable and exert control over their behavior. This review specifically addresses two volumes: Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana by Noah L. Nathan and Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa, edited by Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock. Specifically, these volumes delve into topics concerning electoral politics and Africa’s challenges in achieving accountability.
这篇评论文章的重点是选举政治和非洲的问责斗争，在第三次民主化浪潮之后，选举政治和非洲的问责斗争引起了人们的兴趣和学术界的关注。在 1989 年 11 月纳米比亚制宪会议选举之前，许多人都认为选举既不被承认，也不被认为适合用来选择政府和国家领导人。然而，20 世纪 90 年代初的民主浪潮标志着非洲政治的重大转变。选举曾经很少，但现在却频繁举行，成为促进发展和问责制的重要工具。在这个新时代，公民有了一个难得的机会让他们的领导人承担责任，并对他们的行为进行控制。本评论特别讨论了两本书：选举政治与非洲城市转型》（Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition：诺亚-内森（Noah L. Nathan）所著的《选举政治与非洲城市转型：加纳的阶级与种族》（Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana）以及瓦莱-阿德班维（Wale Adebanwi）和罗杰斯-奥罗克（Rogers Orock）所编的《非洲精英与问责政治》（Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa）。具体而言，这两本书深入探讨了有关选举政治和非洲在实现问责制方面所面临挑战的主题。
{"title":"Electoral Politics and Struggles for Accountability","authors":"E. B. Tambe","doi":"10.1017/asr.2024.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2024.19","url":null,"abstract":"This review essay focuses on electoral politics and the African accountability struggle, which has gained interest and scholarly attention following the third wave of democratization. Before the Namibia Constituent Assembly elections in November 1989, many would agree that elections were neither acknowledged nor considered appropriate for selecting governmental and national leaders. However, the democratic wave in the early 1990s marked a substantial political shift in Africa. Elections, once rare, are now frequent, serving as a crucial tool for both development and accountability. In this new era, citizens have a rare opportunity to hold their leaders accountable and exert control over their behavior. This review specifically addresses two volumes: Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition: Class and Ethnicity in Ghana by Noah L. Nathan and Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa, edited by Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock. Specifically, these volumes delve into topics concerning electoral politics and Africa’s challenges in achieving accountability.","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"19 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140429904","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":"Christoph N. Vogel. Conflict Minerals Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviorism in Eastern Congo. London: C. Hurst & Co, 2022. 224 pp. List of Figures and Tables. Bibliography. Index. $22.78. Paper. ISBN: 9781787387065.","authors":"James H. Smith","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.77","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140436219","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":"Knut Christian Myhre. Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro. Oxford: Berghahn, 2023. xvii + 319 pp. Map. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. £27.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-80073-947-5.","authors":"Timothy Clack","doi":"10.1017/asr.2024.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2024.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"35 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140443312","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}
Sesay draws from three hinterland protests against multinational corporations in the mining and agricultural sectors to examine how global capital influences central/local politics in postcolonial Sierra Leone. Focusing specifically on the mediating role of traditional rulers—a strong legacy of British colonial indirect rule—Sesay argues that hinterland protests not only enable the relative autonomy of rural citizens to (re)negotiate with the state outside existing political arrangements but also challenge the broker authority of these rulers in center/peripheral relations. While some protests form new alignment of interest with traditional rulers, others allow rural citizens to bypass their chiefs to summon the attention of central authorities. In either of these processes, the local constituents question the position of chiefs in the indirect governance system and shape the governing strategies adopted by the central government to rule over the hinterland.
{"title":"(Re)negotiating State Authority: How Hinterland Protests against Global Capital Impact the Mediating Role of Traditional Rulers in Postcolonial Sierra Leone","authors":"Mohamed Sesay","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.114","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Sesay draws from three hinterland protests against multinational corporations in the mining and agricultural sectors to examine how global capital influences central/local politics in postcolonial Sierra Leone. Focusing specifically on the mediating role of traditional rulers—a strong legacy of British colonial indirect rule—Sesay argues that hinterland protests not only enable the relative autonomy of rural citizens to (re)negotiate with the state outside existing political arrangements but also challenge the broker authority of these rulers in center/peripheral relations. While some protests form new alignment of interest with traditional rulers, others allow rural citizens to bypass their chiefs to summon the attention of central authorities. In either of these processes, the local constituents question the position of chiefs in the indirect governance system and shape the governing strategies adopted by the central government to rule over the hinterland.","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"8 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139958588","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}
Francis Abonga, Jacky Atingo, Jacob Awachango, Akena Denis, Julian Hopwood, Ocitti James, Opiyo Dick Kinyera, Susan Lajul, Auma Lucky, Joseph Okello
Collaborative autoethnography can function as a means of reclaiming certain African realities that have been co-opted by colonial epistemes and language. This can be significant in very concrete ways: northern Uganda is suffering a catastrophic loss of tree cover, much of which is taking place on the collective family landholdings that academia and the development sector have categorized as “customary land.” A collaboration by ten members of such landholding families, known as the Acholi Land Lab, explores what “customary ownership” means to them and their relatives, with a view to understanding what may be involved in promoting sustainable domestic use of natural resources, including trees.
{"title":"Collaborative Autoethnography and Reclaiming an African Episteme: Investigating “Customary” Ownership of Natural Resources","authors":"Francis Abonga, Jacky Atingo, Jacob Awachango, Akena Denis, Julian Hopwood, Ocitti James, Opiyo Dick Kinyera, Susan Lajul, Auma Lucky, Joseph Okello","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.112","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Collaborative autoethnography can function as a means of reclaiming certain African realities that have been co-opted by colonial epistemes and language. This can be significant in very concrete ways: northern Uganda is suffering a catastrophic loss of tree cover, much of which is taking place on the collective family landholdings that academia and the development sector have categorized as “customary land.” A collaboration by ten members of such landholding families, known as the Acholi Land Lab, explores what “customary ownership” means to them and their relatives, with a view to understanding what may be involved in promoting sustainable domestic use of natural resources, including trees.","PeriodicalId":505095,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"42 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139595026","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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