Africa – April 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 30, 2012|Africa|0 comments

• The cash dividend : the rise of cash transfer programs in Sub-Saharan Africa / Marito Garcia and Charity M. T. Moore.
• Prisoners of Prester John : the Portuguese mission to Ethiopia in search of the mythical king, 1520-1526 / Cates Baldridge.
• Gender and power in Sierra Leone : women chiefs of the last two centuries / by Lynda Day.
• The state and the social : state formation in Botswana and its pre-colonial and colonial genealogies / Ørnulf Gulbrandsen.
• La légitimation du pouvoir au Maghreb médiéval : de l’orientalisation à l’émancipation politique / eds., Annliese Nef, Élise Voguet.
• From civilians to soldiers and from soldiers to civilians : mobilization and demobilization in Sudan / Saskia Baas.
• Psychiatry, mental institutions, and the mad in apartheid South Africa / by Tiffany Fawn Jones.
• The reasons for underdevelopment : the case of decolonisation in Somaliland / Donatella Strangio.
• Seydou Keïta : photographs, Bamako, Mali 1948-1963 / introduction by Kathy Ryan ; Seydou Keïta in conversation with André Magnin.
• Linguistic landshapes : a comparision of official and non-official language management in Rwanda and Uganda, focusing on the position of African languages / Tove Rosendal.
• Nationalism and politics in post-colonial Nigeria / edited by Aderemi Suleiman Ajala.
• The problem of violence : local conflict settlement in contemporary Africa / edited by Georg Klute & Birgit Embaló.
• North-South contributions to African languages / edited by Christina Thornell & Karsten Legère.
• Wege durch Accra : Stadtbilder, Praxen und Diskurse / Kerstin Pinther.
• African languages in global society : papers read at the symposium “Text in context: African languages between orality and scripturality” : University of Zurich, October 18-20, 2001 = Les langues africaines à l’heure de la mondialisation : communications présentées au symposium “Textes en contexte: langue et écrit face à l’oralité africaine” = Lugha za Kiafrika kwenye enzi ya utandawazi : Makala zilizotolewa kwenye kongamano “Matini katika muktadha: lugha za Kiafrika kati ya kusemwa na kuandikwa” / edited by Thomas Bearth, Jasmina Bonato, Karin Geitlinger, Lorenza Coray-Dapretto, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig, Thomas Olver.
• Staying Roman : conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700 / by Jonathan Conant.
• Islam and ethnicity in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia / Günther Schlee & Abdullahi A. Shongolo.
• London recruits : the secret war against Apartheid / compiled and edited by Ken Keable ; with an introduction by Ronnie Kasrils and a foreword by Z. Pallo Jordan.
• Tropical forest conservation and industry partnership : an experience from the Congo Basin / edited by Connie J. Clark, John R. Poulsen.
• The African Union legal and institutional framework : a manual on the pan-African organization / edited by Abdulqawi A. Yusuf and Fatsah Ouguergouz.