AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY

African Studies Quarterly

Previous Issues

ASQ is indexed in Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) and by the Gale Group.


Volume 1

    Issue 1 (1997)
    Highlights: Livelihoods and Security in AfricaJudicial Responses to GenocideCreating Peace in an Armed SocietyBook Reviews

    Issue 2 (Special Issue: Tanzania) (1997)
    Highlights: Justice Administration Outside the Ordinary Courts of LawEconomic Reforms and Health Conditions of the Urban PoorBook Reviews

    Issue 3 (Crisis in the Great Lakes) (1997)
    Highlights: Introduction...State Collapse and Reconstruction in Central AfricaKabila ReturnsSovereignty and Personal Rule in Zaire…At Issue--Conventional Wisdom and Rwanda's GenocideBook Reviews

    Issue 4 (Religion and Philosophy in Africa)(1998)
    Highlights: Exorcising Hegel's GhostToward Decolonizing African Philosophy and ReligionThe Africanized Queen…At Issue-- US & the UN Criminal Tribunal for RwandaBook Reviews


Volume 2

    Issue 1 (1998)
    Highlights: God In Yoruba BeliefDecentralization, Local Governance and the Democratic Transition…At Issue--Reflections on African CinemaBook Reviews

    Issue 2 (1998)
    Highlights: Development Fund ModelCritique and Suggestions for Modification…At Issue--U.S. Foreign Policy Toward AfricaBook Reviews

    Issue 3 (Special Issue: Human Rights & Governance in Africa) (1998)
    Highlights: Women's Human RightsPolitical Cultures and the Problems of GovernmentLawgiving and the Administration of JusticeUN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: A Monumental Step Towards Truth… At Issue--Can the Department of State Surrender Rwandan RefugeesBook Reviews

    Issue 4 (Special Issue: Roundtable on Reparations) (1999)
    Highlights: Issues and IdeasFrom Slave Ship to Space ShipPolitical Versus Legal StrategiesThe Debt Has Not Been Paid…At Issue--Development Fund Model: A ReplyBook Reviews


Volume 3

    Issue 1 (1999)
    Highlights: Nigeria: PrivatizationChoices in the Kalabari Life Cycle…At Issue--Africa Versus the West in the Court of ReparationsBook Reviews

    Issue 2 (Special Issue: Politics of Conservation in Madagascar) (1999)
    Highlights: Setting the StageAgroforestry and ConservationUne Vue d'Ensemble du Droit Environnemental MalgacheLe Boisement, le bail, et la législation environnementale à Madagascar…At Issue- Coordinating Traditional Values, Scientific Research and Practical ObservationsEnvironmental Policies and Landscape Burning StrategiesBook Reviews

    Issue 3 (2000)
    Highlights: African Culture and Personality...Comment...At Issue- Language in Development Research...Challenges facing Nigeria's Foreign Policy...Book Reviews


Volume 4

    Issue 1 (2000)
    Highlights: Editor's NoteECOMOG Intervention in LiberiaBreakdown of International Order in Central AfricaAfrican Culture and Personality: A ReplyBook Reviews

    Issue 2 (2000)
    Highlights: Africa in a Global Network Society...Achieving Human Rights in Africa...Governance, Wealth Creation...Book Reviews

    Issue 3(2000)
    Highlights: The Crisis of Cultural Memory ... Human Rights and State Transition ... The Land of Jilali... The State and Economic Reform in Africa ... Justice and Morality in South Africa... Book Reviews


Volume 5

    Issue 1 (2001)
    Highlights: Human Rights Abuse in KenyaThe Public Sector, Privatization, and DevelopmentThe State and Development in Southern AfricaBook Reviews

    Issue 2 (2001)
    Highlights: The Legacy of J.J. RawlingsReading as a Woman: Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'Civil-Military Relations in BotswanaEmerging Trends in Japan-Africa Relations...Book Reviews

    Issue 3 (Special Issue: Natural Resources Management in Africa) (2001)
    Highlights: Transforming Traditional InstitutionsParticipation and Stakeholder Dynamics in the Water Reform Process in Zimbabwe ...Challenges Facing a Community Structure to Implement CBNRMCan We Be Engineers of Property Rights to Natural Resources?...The Organizational Structures for CBNRM...What Role for Customary Law?...Evolving Institutional Framework for CBNRM in Mozambique...Election Observation and Democratization in Africa...Book Reviews


Volume 6

    Issue 1&2 (Special Issue: Gender and Soil Fertility in in Africa) (2002)
    Highlights: Introduction to Gender and Soil Fertility in AfricaGender and Soil Fertility in Uganda ...Gender and Soil Fertility Management in Mbale District, Southeastern UgandaDiminishing choices: Gender and Household Food Security Decisions in Malawi...Gendered Scripts and Declining Soil fertility in Southern Ethiopia...Gender, Adoption of Soil Fertility Technologies...in Southern Senega...The Effect of Cash Cropping, Credit, and Household Composition on Food Security in Southern Malawi...Vouchers versus Grants: Evidence from Malawi’s Starter Pack Program
    ...Gender Analysis of a Nationwide Cropping System Trial Survey in Malawi...Agroforestry Innovations in Africa: Can they Improve Soil Fertility on Women Farmers’ Fields?...Modeling Agroforestry Adoption and Household Decision Making in Malawi...Gender-Sensitive LP Models in Soil Fertility Research..Is Fertilizer a Public or Private Good in Africa?...Book Reviews

    Issue 3 (2002)
    Highlights: King or Knave?: Félix Adende Rapontchombo and Political Survival in the Gabon EstuaryChanges in Official Attitudes Towards Urban Agriculture in AccraDomestic, Regional, and International Protection of Nigerian Women Against Discrimination: Constraints And PossibilitiesGlobalisation, NEPAD and the Governance Question in Africa...Review Articles: Diamonds: De Beers; Sierra Leone...Regionalization/Security in Southern Africa...Book Reviews


Volume 7

Issue 1 (2003)
Highlights: Trop De Soleil tue L'amour et en Attendant Le Vote Des Betes Sauvages...Delimitation of the Elastic Ilemi Triangle...Morocco in Transition ...At Issue: On the Subject of Kings and Queens: Traditional African Leadership...Review Article: Ethnicity and Burundi's Refugees...Book Reviews

Issue 2 & 3 (Special Issue: Zimbabwe: Looking Ahead (2003)
Highlights: Editor's Note... The Dualities of Contemporary Zimbabwean Politics: Constitutionalism versus the Law of Power and the Land, 1999-2002 .... Zimbabwe's Triple Crisis: Primitive Accumulation, Nation-State Formation and Democratisation in the Age of Neo-liberal Globalisation ....Industry and the Urban Sector in Zimbabwe's Political Economy .... Narratives on Land: State-Peasant Relations Over Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe .... The Experience of Resettled Farmers in Zimbabwe .... Opposition Politics in Independent Zimbabwe .... War Veterans: Continuities Between the Past and the Present .... Crisis in the State and the Family: Violence Against Women in Zimbabwe ..... Press and Politics in Zimbabwe..... Globalizing Land and Food in Zimbabwe: Implications for Southern Africa .....At Issue: Responding to Kitching's "Why I Left African Studies... Africanists and Responsibility: Some Reflections .... Eyes Wide Shut: Africanists and the Moral Problematics of Postcolonial Societies .... Academic Melancholy, Romantic Cynicism and the Road Not Taken .... Beyond Blame? .... Colonial and Post-colonial Latin America ..... Why I Love African Studies .... Jagged Fragments: Imperialism, Racism, Hurt, and Honesty
Book Reviews


Issue 4 (2004)
Highlights: Women's Movements, Customary Law, and Land Rights in Africa: The Case of Uganda ... The Languages of Childhood: The Discursive Construction of Childhood and Colonial Policy in French West Africa ... At Issue: The Cultural Identity of Africa and the Global Task of Africana Studies
Book Reviews


Volume 8

Issue 1 (Special Issue: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Africa) (2004)
Highlights: Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in Africa: Issues and Cases ... Reconciling South Africa or South Africans? Cautionary Notes from the TRC ...Searching for Answers: Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission ... After Arusha: Gacaca Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda ... At Issue: Establishing the Truth about the Apartheid Past: Historians and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Book Reviews

Issue 2 (2005)
Highlights: Neither Peace nor Justice: Political Violence and the Peasantry in Northern Uganda, 1986 -1998.... Determinants of Rural Labor Market Participation in Tanzania ... Small Towns in Ghana: Justifications for their Promotion under Ghana's Decentralization Programme ... At Issue: Taking American Race Relations on the Road...to Africa
Book Reviews

Issue 3 (2006)
Highlights: Colonial Policies and Women's Participation in Public Life: The Case of British Southern Cameroons ... The Political Economy of Oil in Equatorial Guinea ... At Issue: Markets and Morality: American Relations with Tanzania
Book Reviews

Issue 4 (2006)
Highlights: Effectiveness of Maize Cob Powder in Controlling Weevils in Stored Maize Grain ... Dim Delobsom: French Colonialism and Local Response in Upper Volta ... Causes of Small Business Failure in Uganda: A Case Study from Bushenyi and Mbarara Towns ... At Issue: Urban Renewal through Labour-Intensive Construction Technology in South Africa: Problems and Potentials
Book Reviews


Volume 9

Issues 1 &2 (Special Issue on Africa's Moral and Affective Economy) (2006)
Highlights: Introduction and Overview ...
Moral Economy as Emotional Interaction: Food Sharing and Reciprocity in Highland Ethiopia ... “Earning among Friends”: Business Practices and Creeds among Petty Traders in Tanzania ... From Beer to Money: Labor Exchange and Commercialization in Eastern Uganda ... Labor Exchange Systems in Japan and DR Congo: Similarities and Differences ... The Changing Practices of Kibarua Employment: A Case Study of the Sagara, Tanzania ... The Economy of Affection and Local Enterprises in Africa: Empirical Evidence from a Network Study in Burkina Faso and Senegal ... African Imaginations of Moral Economy: Notes on Indigenous Economic Concepts and Practices in Tanzania
Book Reviews

Issue 3 (2007)
Highlights: The Persistence of the CommonsCompeting Regionalisms in AfricaTradition and Educational Reconstruction in Africa in Postcolonial and Global TimesComparative Assessment of Indigenous Methods of Sweet Potato Preservation among Smallholder Farmers
Book Reviews

Issue 4 (Special Issue: The Politics of Inequality: South Africa Then and Now) (2007)
Highlights: Introduction ... Invisible Resurrection: The Recreation of a Communist Party in South Africa in the 1950's ... “Mannenberg”: Notes on the Making of an Icon and Anthem ... The Ash Heap of History: Reflections on Historical Research in Southern Africa ... South African Land Reform and the Global Development Industry ... Patrolling the Resource Transfer Frontier: Economic Rights and the South African Constitutional Court's Contributions to International Justice ... Contesting Liberal Legality: Informal Legal Cultures in Post-Apartheid South Africa's Privatizing Seafood Fishery ... Media, Social Movements and the State: Competing Images of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Book Reviews

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