Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, and Susan Kingsley Kent. The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 239 pp. List of Illustrations. Chronology of Major Events. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $150.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1843760115.
{"title":"Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, and Susan Kingsley Kent. The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 239 pp. List of Illustrations. Chronology of Major Events. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $150.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1843760115.","authors":"Kefas Lamak","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.21","url":null,"abstract":"Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, and Susan Kingsley Kent. The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 239 pp. List of Illustrations. Chronology of Major Events. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $150.00. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1843760115.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135034458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Patrick Nwosu, and Hassan M. Yosimbom, editors. Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs. Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2021. xx + 490 pp. $55.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-9956-551-47-7.
弗朗西斯·b·尼亚姆乔，帕特里克·努苏，哈桑·m·约辛博姆，编辑。作为一项正在进行的永久工作，成为和成为非洲人:来自奇努阿·阿契贝谚语的启示。喀麦隆巴门达曼肯:Langaaa Research &出版CIG, 2021年。Xx + 490页，55美元。纸。ISBN: 978-9956-551-47-7。
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Abstract Ethiopia has often been portrayed as a unique case of peaceful inter-religious relations. The country has, however, seen an increase in violence between religious communities over the last decades, something which has been interpreted within the prism of extremism. Analyzing inter-religious dynamics in Ethiopia, Østebø argues that the notion of extremism is an inadequate analytical tool, and proposes instead an alternative approach that explores how mutually constitutive developments within each of the main religious communities in Ethiopia together have contributed to exacerbate inter-religious tensions. In particular, Østebø suggests a typology consisting of the intersected processes of expansion, protection, and reclaiming of space.
{"title":"Religious Dynamics and Conflicts in Contemporary Ethiopia: Expansion, Protection, and Reclaiming Space","authors":"Terje Østebø","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ethiopia has often been portrayed as a unique case of peaceful inter-religious relations. The country has, however, seen an increase in violence between religious communities over the last decades, something which has been interpreted within the prism of extremism. Analyzing inter-religious dynamics in Ethiopia, Østebø argues that the notion of extremism is an inadequate analytical tool, and proposes instead an alternative approach that explores how mutually constitutive developments within each of the main religious communities in Ethiopia together have contributed to exacerbate inter-religious tensions. In particular, Østebø suggests a typology consisting of the intersected processes of expansion, protection, and reclaiming of space.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"721 - 744"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42211599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Akuol de Mabior, director. No Simple Way Home. 2022. 85 minutes. English. South Sudan. LBx Africa, streaming on Vimeo. No price reported.","authors":"Merethe Skårås","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"575 - 577"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43533117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Conversations around transitional justice often focus on concepts of victimhood and perpetration. Such has been the case in Rwanda in the decades following the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. However, even as Rwandans continue to observe state-led transitional justice reforms which divide them into victims and perpetrators, they simultaneously draw on state discourses of unity to carefully critique and re-work the language and practices which produce such divisions. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Berman illustrates how a new generation of Rwandan youth is transforming political ideology by creatively engaging the discourse of ubunyarwanda (Rwandanness) to forge inclusive post-genocide politics.
{"title":"Ubunyarwanda and the Evolution of Transitional Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: “To Generalize is not Fresh”","authors":"Zoe Berman","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.12","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Conversations around transitional justice often focus on concepts of victimhood and perpetration. Such has been the case in Rwanda in the decades following the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. However, even as Rwandans continue to observe state-led transitional justice reforms which divide them into victims and perpetrators, they simultaneously draw on state discourses of unity to carefully critique and re-work the language and practices which produce such divisions. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Berman illustrates how a new generation of Rwandan youth is transforming political ideology by creatively engaging the discourse of ubunyarwanda (Rwandanness) to forge inclusive post-genocide politics.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"777 - 800"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49158277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cori Wielenga’s edited volume, African Feminisms and Women in the Context of Justice in Southern Africa, provides detailed accounts of women’s roles in “justice on the ground” in several contexts across Southern Africa. The book very clearly frames what it is and what it is not; it is focused on providing thoughtful descriptions of women’s roles in these justice systems. It is not meant to be overly theoretical, but rather to illustrate, by way of description, the complex, nuanced, and important roles women play in these systems. Wielenga lays out the reasoning for this approach: most of the works by Western researchers that focus on women and what others may refer to as “traditional” or “non-state” justice tend to prioritize “questions of inclusivity, gender justice, and human rights” (vi), while remaining distant from on-theground dynamics. This book highlights those on-the-ground processes, without a Western, neocolonial gaze. Through a close examination of “on the ground justice,” this book emphasizes women’s unique and often overlooked role in justice processes. In these chapters, the authors make clear that even if women do not always hold the seemingly most powerful roles as chiefs or mediators (although sometimes they do), they nevertheless play a crucial role in the provision of justice. Two important themes emerged from the volume: the diversity of ways in which women influence “justice on the ground” and women’s prioritization of relational dynamics of justice. I will address each in turn. First, Wielenga’s volume helps “reveal the complex and organic ways in which women have power and influence in relation to justice on the ground whichmay not be immediately obvious” (21). These roles can be as diverse as older female family members, such as aunts, serving as first points of conflict resolution (Matsimbe, Murambadoro), as well as women serving as community court messengers, secretaries, or assessors (Bae et al.), chiefs of ten households or blocks, and doing conflict resolution in churches and social affairs groups (Matsimbe). These roles can bemore or less “official,” but their impact on resolving disputes and supporting the community is reflected in all
{"title":"Cori Wielenga. African Feminisms and Women in the Context of Justice in Southern Africa. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. v + 117 pp. Index. $149.99. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-3030821272.","authors":"H. Dunn","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"Cori Wielenga’s edited volume, African Feminisms and Women in the Context of Justice in Southern Africa, provides detailed accounts of women’s roles in “justice on the ground” in several contexts across Southern Africa. The book very clearly frames what it is and what it is not; it is focused on providing thoughtful descriptions of women’s roles in these justice systems. It is not meant to be overly theoretical, but rather to illustrate, by way of description, the complex, nuanced, and important roles women play in these systems. Wielenga lays out the reasoning for this approach: most of the works by Western researchers that focus on women and what others may refer to as “traditional” or “non-state” justice tend to prioritize “questions of inclusivity, gender justice, and human rights” (vi), while remaining distant from on-theground dynamics. This book highlights those on-the-ground processes, without a Western, neocolonial gaze. Through a close examination of “on the ground justice,” this book emphasizes women’s unique and often overlooked role in justice processes. In these chapters, the authors make clear that even if women do not always hold the seemingly most powerful roles as chiefs or mediators (although sometimes they do), they nevertheless play a crucial role in the provision of justice. Two important themes emerged from the volume: the diversity of ways in which women influence “justice on the ground” and women’s prioritization of relational dynamics of justice. I will address each in turn. First, Wielenga’s volume helps “reveal the complex and organic ways in which women have power and influence in relation to justice on the ground whichmay not be immediately obvious” (21). These roles can be as diverse as older female family members, such as aunts, serving as first points of conflict resolution (Matsimbe, Murambadoro), as well as women serving as community court messengers, secretaries, or assessors (Bae et al.), chiefs of ten households or blocks, and doing conflict resolution in churches and social affairs groups (Matsimbe). These roles can bemore or less “official,” but their impact on resolving disputes and supporting the community is reflected in all","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":" ","pages":"560 - 561"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46104531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Informality is growing with Africa’s rapid urbanization. Much like residents of other types of informal housing, backyard dwellers face overall poor living conditions and political marginalization. However, backyard residents are in an ambiguous legal area and have been far less politically active and organized to pursue their rights to adequate housing. Using a qualitative case study of backyard residents in three Cape Town neighborhoods, Harris, Scheba, and Rice bridge theories of infrastructural citizenship and collective action to shed light on how informality may undermine collective action, and they identify four factors influencing collective action.
{"title":"Making Demands on Government: Theorizing Determinants of Backyard Residents’ Collective Action in Cape Town, South Africa","authors":"Adam S. Harris, Andreas Scheba, L. Rice","doi":"10.1017/asr.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Informality is growing with Africa’s rapid urbanization. Much like residents of other types of informal housing, backyard dwellers face overall poor living conditions and political marginalization. However, backyard residents are in an ambiguous legal area and have been far less politically active and organized to pursue their rights to adequate housing. Using a qualitative case study of backyard residents in three Cape Town neighborhoods, Harris, Scheba, and Rice bridge theories of infrastructural citizenship and collective action to shed light on how informality may undermine collective action, and they identify four factors influencing collective action.","PeriodicalId":7618,"journal":{"name":"African Studies Review","volume":"66 1","pages":"698 - 720"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44801638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In 1854, the Bank of Senegal was established using part of the compensation paid to former slave owners. The bank issued banknotes and provided modern financial services. Masaki analyzes the bank’s management and interrogates the widely accepted argument that merchants from Bordeaux controlled the bank to marginalize African merchants, concluding that the bank largely provided equitable service to this colony. Additionally, Masaki shows that the bank was a site of political struggles for the métis elites and suggests that the complexities of Senegalese society at the time made it difficult to assess the full scope of the bank’s operations.
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This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection was shot by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese in his native Lesotho. The mountainous and landlocked country, entirely surrounded by South Africa, is given an international exposure through the artistic and aesthetic commitment of thefilmdirector. Thefilm gained awide visibility through screening at several international film festivals (including winning the Sundance special jury prize in 2020 for visionary filmmaking) as well as receiving Lesotho’s first Academy Awards nomination for Best International Feature Film. The film is narrated by a lesiba player (the lesiba is an instrument traditionally played by Lesotho shepherds), who starts by telling the story of Nazaretha, called the “valley of tears,” prior to the arrival of French missionaries in Lesotho. Nazaretha’s story revolves around the pain of its people and their land. More accurately, the pain of the land is materialized through the personal suffering and sacrifice of the main character, Mantoa, an eighty-year-old Mosotho widow who is confronted with her son’s death at the beginning of the narrative. But Mantoa’s grief is also presented as an integral part of the cataclysmic experiences brought by the processes of colonialism, postcolonialism, and global capitalism and the effects of their extractivist logic on Lesotho society. The pace of the film allows for a reflective and engaged viewing. The combination of cinematography, mise-en-scène, and dissonant soundscapes interrupts what could have been a traditional linear storyline, creating instead a multilayered and symbolically rich narrative. The narrative devices are open for numerous readings around such themes as identity, death (physical and spiritual), grief, and resilience (but also acceptance and defeat), intertwined into a complex critical ode to the land and a presentation of land as Mother. One underlying theme that links the land and the pain of the woman is labor migration to South African mines. Mantoa’s son never came back from his shift in the mines, and this allows the film to examine a practice that has
《这不是埋葬，这是复活》是莱莫汉·杰里迈亚·莫塞斯在他的家乡莱索托拍摄的。这个多山的内陆国家，完全被南非包围，通过电影导演的艺术和美学承诺，在国际上曝光。这部电影在多个国际电影节上放映（包括2020年凭借富有远见的电影制作获得圣丹斯特别评审团奖），并获得莱索托首个奥斯卡最佳国际故事片提名，从而获得了广泛的关注。这部电影由一名lesiba演奏者（lesiba是莱索托牧羊人传统上演奏的乐器）讲述，他首先讲述了法国传教士抵达莱索托之前被称为“眼泪谷”的Nazaretha的故事。拿撒勒的故事围绕着人民和土地的痛苦展开。更准确地说，这片土地的痛苦是通过主人公曼托亚的个人痛苦和牺牲来实现的，曼托亚是一位80岁的莫索托寡妇，在故事开始时面临着儿子的死亡。但曼托亚的悲伤也被视为殖民主义、后殖民主义和全球资本主义进程带来的灾难性经历的一个组成部分，以及它们的榨取主义逻辑对莱索托社会的影响。影片的节奏使人能够进行反思和专注的观看。电影摄影、mise en scène和不和谐的声景的结合打断了原本可以是传统的线性故事情节，取而代之的是创造了一个多层次、象征性丰富的叙事。围绕身份、死亡（身体和精神）、悲伤和韧性（以及接受和失败）等主题，叙事手段可供大量阅读，交织成对土地的复杂批判颂歌和对土地作为母亲的呈现。将土地和妇女的痛苦联系在一起的一个潜在主题是劳动力向南非矿山的迁移。曼托亚的儿子在矿井里轮班后再也没有回来，这让电影得以审视
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