1. Introductory Articles
1.1 Curtis Keim – Selections from Mistaking Africa
“Africans Live in Tribes, Don’t They?”
1
2. Environment
2.1 Julius Nyang’oro – “Africa’s Environmental Problems”
9
2.2 L. Thrupp and J. Green –
“Reflections on Gender in Natural Resource Management”
23
2.3 C. Adzobu and O. Ampadu-Agyei – “Women in the Goviefe-Agodome…”
30
3. Food and Agriculture
3.1 Rebecca Huss-Ashmore- “Perspectives on the African Food Crisis”
37
3.2 Mary Theresa Picard“Listening to and Learning from African Women Farmers”
3.3 Global Studies Africa- Ilean Prusher- “Inside an African Famine”
3.4 J. du Guerny-“AIDS and Agriculture in Africa:
Can Agricultural Policy Make a Difference?”
3.5 J. du Guerny-“HIV/AIDS and Nutrition:
Helping Families and Communities Cope”
58
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75
83
3.6 Spring- “Agricultural Commercialization and Women Farmers in Kenya”
88
4. Religion
4.1 Ambrose Moyo – “Religion in Africa”
4.2 Mary Ntukula – “The Initiation Rite”
101
117
4.3 Adeline Masquelier- “Identity, Alterity and Ambiguity in a Nigerian Community:
Competing, Definitions of ‘True’ Islam”
129
4.4 Cyprian Fisiy and Peter Geschiere- “Witchcraft, Violence and Identity:
Different Trajectories in post-Colonial Cameroon”
141
4.5 Nimi Wariboko- “The Intersection of Religion and Business Behavior”
5. Kinship and Aging
156
5.1 Carolyn Edwards- “Morality and Change: Family Unity and Paternal
Authority Among Kipsigis and Abaluyia Elders”
174
5.2 Michael Whyte- “The Social and Cultural Contexts of Food Production in Uganda
and Kenya”
195
5.3 Maria Cattell- “The Discourse of Neglect:
Family Support for the Elderly in Samia”
201
5.4 N. Hakansson and Robert LeVine- “Gender and Life:
Course Strategies among the Gusii”
215
5.5 Joseph Ssennyonga- “Polygyny and Resource Allocation the Lake Victoria Basin”
223
6. Women
6.1 April Gordon – “Women’s Responses to Capitalist
Development and Patriarchy”
231
6.2 Jessica Ogden- “’Producing’ Respect:
The ‘Proper Woman” in Postcolonial Kampala”
247
6.3 B. Komba-Malekela and R. Liljestrom – “Looking for Men”
262
6.4 Ifi Amadiume- “Class Corruption and Women’s Mobilization:
the Cults of First Lady”
271
7. Population, Health, HIV/AIDS
7.1 April Gordon – “Population, Urbanization, and AIDS”
283
7.2 Patricia McFadden – “Sex, Sexuality and the Problems of AIDS in Africa”
8. The State/ Governance War, Corruption
8.1 John Mbaku – Selections from Institutions and Reform in Africa
Ch. 7: “Bureaucratic and Political Corruption”
318
8.2 Donal O’Brien- “A Lost Generation?
Youth Identity and State Decay in West Africa”
8.3 Elizabeth Eames – “Navigating Nigerian Bureaucracies…”
8.4 Selections from Global Studies Africa:
344
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298
Marina Ottaway – “Africa’s ‘New Leaders’…”
348
Dan Connell – “From Alliance to the Brink of All Out War”
Abdi Ismail Samatar – “Warlord Games”
“Rwanda – Return to Hope?”
“Sharing Seed”
352
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358
359
9. Refugees, Conflict, and Violence
9.1 Jonathan Baker and Roger Zetter – “Refugee and Labour Movements in SubSaharan Africa”
361
9.2 B. Thompson- “Coping with Chronic Complex Emergencies:
Bahr al-Ghazal, Southern Sudan”
383
10. South Africa
10.1 Patrick Furlong – “South Africa”
389
10.2 Lindsay Eades- “Challenges of a New Democracy”
10.3 Global Studies: Michael Bratton“After Mandela’s Miracle in South Africa”
408
420
11. Entrepreneurship, Business, and Globalization
11.1 Alusine Jalloh- “African Muslim Business in Post- Colonial West Africa”
11.2 Anita Spring- “Gender and the Range of Entrepreneurial Strategies”
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Maps
437
426
1. Political Map
1
2. Countries and Capitals
3
3. Geographical Points
4
4. Basic Data
5
5. Partition of Africa
7
6. Murdock’s “Tribal” Map
8
7. Herskovits’ Culture Areas Map and Murdock’s Vegetation Map
8. Language Families
10
9. Origins of Food Crops
11
10. Civilizations of Black Africa
12
11. African Film and Film Makers
13
12. Africana Bibliography
17
Multimedia Lectures (Partial Selection)
1. Africanity
22
2. Geography Lecture 1: African Landscapes and Their Formations
3. Geography Lecture 2: Climate and Soil
42
4. Geography Lecture 3: Farming and Environment
50
5. Kinship and Family
53
Genealogy Chart
59
Residence Rules
60
6. Traditional African Religion
61
7. Christianity in Africa
68
8. Islam in Africa
72
9. Refugees
75
9
33
News Articles
A. South Africa
1. Bantu Homelands
82
2. Laws of South Africa (During Apartheid)
83
3. Black Yuppies Carving Out Their Niche in South Africa
84
4. American Blacks Find a Chill in South Africa
86
5. In a New South Africa, Old Anti-Gay Bias Persists
87
6. South Africa’s Poorest are Adrift in the Post-Apartheid Economy
7. Workers Free Wine Ends, but South Africans Still Pay
92
8. South Africa Confronts Another Health Problem: Obesity
95
B. Human Rights
9. Move to Redefine Gender Relations
98
10. Slavery Grows Out of War
100
11. Age-Old Curse of Slavery Alive in Ivory Coast
12. African Children Shackled to Fields
102
13. What it Takes to Stop Slavery
103
14. An Awful Human Trade
104
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89
C. Family, Sexuality, Gender, and Health
1. U.N. Agency Sets its Sights on Curbing Child Marriage
106
2. 31% Girls Give Sex For Cash
107
3. Ethiopian Women Rally Against Rape and Violence
108
4. Ivory Coast Beauty on a Different Scale
109
5. African First Ladies Launch AIDS Campaign
110
6. Nation Study Says Combating Malaria Would Cost Little
113
7. First Lady in a Wig Mirrors a Corrupt
112
8. New Drugs for Malaria Pits US against Africa
114
D. Politics and the Economy
1. Nigeria’s Press Bounces Back from Military Rule
115
2. Gulf Grows Over the Use of Islamic Law in Nigeria
117
3. Nigeria: Sharia Update
119
4. Nigeria Request for Assistance
123
5. Africa Bloc Hoping to Do Better as the ‘African Union’”
124
6. New Famine, New Response
126
7. Playing the Bad Cop in Africa
127
8. African Democracies Reverting to Old Ways
128
9. Town Knows Where it is but Hague Panel Doesn’t
129
10. First Night in Senegal
130
11. Angolans Cheer the Peace
131
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Table of Contents
1. Preface
2
2. Chapter 2: Social Organisation
4
3. Chapter 4: Differentiation
13
4. Chapter 5: Families
33
5. Chapter 6: Education
50
6. Chapter 8: Economic Activities
64
7. Chapter 9: Cities
76
8. Bibliography
101