Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000244
Mélanie Lindbjerg Machado-Guichon
Abstract This article provides the first systematic exploration of the ideas on inequality of the two Ghanaian women’s rights advocates Annie Jiagge and Florence Dolphyne, who were both part of the Ghanaian National Council on Women and Development during the 1970s and 1980s. Zooming in on their work and writings during this time, I challenge the view offered by some scholars that these decades were ‘apolitical’ and shaped by ‘quiet activism’ with regard to the Ghanaian women’s front. I show how Jiagge and Dolphyne actively rearticulated womanhood in postcolonial Ghanaian and African societies, placing women’s ‘issues’ and rights within the framework of an unequal world order. In doing so, I argue that they vernacularized the contemporary global discourse on women’s rights, shaped by the UN Decade for Women (1976–85), in a Ghanaian context, evoking what postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha has called an in-between ‘third space’ through which the many intersecting and ambivalent aspects affecting the lives of women in postcolonial Africa, and the so-called Third World at large, could be articulated.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972023000323
Cresa L. Pugh
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000268
R. Rahman
Abstract Muslim aid organizations are relatively new actors in the Western aid industry. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research with the UK-based NGO Islamic Relief, I explore the organization’s engagement with a school in need of repair in southern rural Mali that is also the site of a sacred shrine of importance to locals. I examine the contextual global logics of racialization that undergird different interpretations and practices of what it means to ‘do good’. Situating an understanding of ‘development’ in an analysis of global racial capitalism, I argue that, as an Islamically inspired aid organization based in the UK, Islamic Relief is both subject to anti-Muslim racism and complicit in a white-adjacent racialized project of ‘development’ in Africa. I foreground the whiteness of development to show how modernist development practice makes it impossible to see other ways of conceptualizing ‘doing good’ that are also deeply grounded in Islam.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000384
Anne Alexander
This impressively detailed work of scholarship represents a rich resource for anyone looking to understand the political dynamics of the revolution and counterrevolution in Egypt. Bishara draws on a wide array of sources, including interviews and focus groups with protagonists as well as news reports, books and reports in English and Arabic. The text is clearly and directly written, engaging thoroughly with the academic literature around democratic transitions without drowning in jargon or descending into scholasticism. Evidently any short review of a work of 700 pages is going to miss out on a great deal, so I will concentrate here on the crux of Bishara’s argument and its political implications. His core concern is to assess what went wrong in the ‘failed transition’ and draw up a balance sheet of the role of key protagonists. The act of revolutionary drama that culminated in the removal of Mubarak by his own generals on 11 February 2011 had a dual nature, Bishara argues:
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972023000372
John N. Lechner
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000359
Nabil Ferdaoussi
the image of erstwhile brutal Russian kings. When the protest proper begins in Mary Ann Olaoye’s ‘The Beads to this Prayer’, protesters are envisioned as lambs, as the number of deaths becomes memorable and traumatizing. In ‘Elegy for 20-10-2020 Meteors’, Tayo Aluko could hear ‘[t]he sordid outcry’ by many youths from varied backgrounds, protesting against the brutality of the police with ‘a mounting roar’ (p. 66), but the ‘Dracula Lords’ (p. 67) were on hand to derail the movement. Samuel Ogunkoya’s ‘Redeeming Home’ narrates how, at the point of being killed, protesters’ songs became screams, while the word ‘amen’ could be heard from the bodies of shot youth, signifying how their country had let them down. In ‘Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria’s Call, Obey’, Chinonyelum Anyichie chooses the first line of Nigeria’s national anthem to espouse the unity and comradeship that existed among the protesters until the bullets rained down on them. Tayo Aluko’s ‘Looters on High (#EndSARS)’ describes a rain of bullets that felled young protesters sitting on the tarmac. However, Aluko is convinced that the bloodshed was not in vain. Ibiene Bidiaque’s ‘Bullets’ mourns the dead who were killed by ‘blood-thirsty soldiers’ guns cocked to battle against unarmed singing flag-waving civilians’ (p. 54). Many of the poems also tackle the mourning of lost lives and the aftermath of the protests. Gbenga Adeoba’s ‘Retrospection’ recounts the missing names of people killed by agents of the state. In ‘Fevered Children’, Oladimeji Ogunoye relives the inescapably poignant scenes, describing Nigeria as a nation that ‘feeds on her inhabitants’ (p. 40), with no one inquiring why these deaths took place in the first instance. In a lucid, fevered language that aches over the events of that fateful October day, Sọ̀rọ̀sókè reflects on the consequence of negligence of care. I recommend it not just to literary scholars, but also to Africanists and anyone desiring to know what the heart felt going through that dark period.
{"title":"Joris Schapendonk, Finding Ways Through Eurospace: West African Movers Re-viewing Europe from the Inside. New York NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books (hb US$135/£99 – 978 1 78920 680 7). 2020, 221 pp.","authors":"Nabil Ferdaoussi","doi":"10.1017/S0001972023000359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972023000359","url":null,"abstract":"the image of erstwhile brutal Russian kings. When the protest proper begins in Mary Ann Olaoye’s ‘The Beads to this Prayer’, protesters are envisioned as lambs, as the number of deaths becomes memorable and traumatizing. In ‘Elegy for 20-10-2020 Meteors’, Tayo Aluko could hear ‘[t]he sordid outcry’ by many youths from varied backgrounds, protesting against the brutality of the police with ‘a mounting roar’ (p. 66), but the ‘Dracula Lords’ (p. 67) were on hand to derail the movement. Samuel Ogunkoya’s ‘Redeeming Home’ narrates how, at the point of being killed, protesters’ songs became screams, while the word ‘amen’ could be heard from the bodies of shot youth, signifying how their country had let them down. In ‘Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria’s Call, Obey’, Chinonyelum Anyichie chooses the first line of Nigeria’s national anthem to espouse the unity and comradeship that existed among the protesters until the bullets rained down on them. Tayo Aluko’s ‘Looters on High (#EndSARS)’ describes a rain of bullets that felled young protesters sitting on the tarmac. However, Aluko is convinced that the bloodshed was not in vain. Ibiene Bidiaque’s ‘Bullets’ mourns the dead who were killed by ‘blood-thirsty soldiers’ guns cocked to battle against unarmed singing flag-waving civilians’ (p. 54). Many of the poems also tackle the mourning of lost lives and the aftermath of the protests. Gbenga Adeoba’s ‘Retrospection’ recounts the missing names of people killed by agents of the state. In ‘Fevered Children’, Oladimeji Ogunoye relives the inescapably poignant scenes, describing Nigeria as a nation that ‘feeds on her inhabitants’ (p. 40), with no one inquiring why these deaths took place in the first instance. In a lucid, fevered language that aches over the events of that fateful October day, Sọ̀rọ̀sókè reflects on the consequence of negligence of care. I recommend it not just to literary scholars, but also to Africanists and anyone desiring to know what the heart felt going through that dark period.","PeriodicalId":80373,"journal":{"name":"Africa : notiziario dell'Associazione fra le imprese italiane in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"321 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77242795","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}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/s0001972023000414
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1017/S0001972023000219
Youssef J. Carter
Abstract In this article, I consider how migration practices around the Black Atlantic and discourses of repatriation mobilize Black African diasporic Muslim identities in present-day Senegal and in a mosque in South Carolina that is situated on land that was formerly a slave plantation. I use the term ‘reversion’ as a vocabulary of ‘diasporic becoming’ to signal how notions of Islamic piety are coupled with a politics of Black Atlantic Muslimness in the context of a West African Sufi tariqa – or ‘Black Atlantic Sufism’. Moreover, I consider how identity formation and African Muslim ancestry are impacted by discourses of geographic return and repatriation that are linked to spiritual tourism.
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