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Brotherhood solidarity, education and migration: The role of the Dahiras among the Murid muslim community of New York
Babou, Cheikh Anta
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The recent history of the Muridiyya is marked by an increasing urbanization of the brotherhood. Mostly confined to the Peanut Basin of Senegal until the end of the Second World War, the brotherhood experienced an important migratory movement that sent Murid disciples first to the cities of Senegal and Africa, and then to Europe and the United States in the early 1980s. While scholars have noted and described the changes in the economy and constitution of the brotherhood, no attempt has been made to provide an alternative analysis of its development that integrates these transformations. A major contention of this article is that the recent evolution of the Muridiyya is best explained by characteristics internal to the brotherhood. Taking the Murid community of New York as a case study, it puts forward a framework for understanding the source of the cohesion and development of Murid migrant communities in an urban setting. This study has revealed that education, through the mediation of the <it>dahiras</it>, constitutes an important source of social capital among Murid migrants. The exploitation of networks of solidarity and brotherhood through <it>dahira</it> membership is critical to the survival of the Murids as a group and to their relative economic success in the urban context.
Oxford University Press
2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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The neo-colonial context of the democratic experiment of Congo-Brazzaville
Clark, John F.
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This article examines the failure of the democratic experiment in Congo‐Brazzaville in the context of the country's dependent relationship with its former colonizer, France. Congo's experiment with multiparty politics began in 1991, endured a series of crises from 1992 to 1994, then collapsed in the civil war of 1997. Meanwhile, the transitional regime (1991–92) and the elected regime of Pascal Lissouba (1992–97) experienced much more troubled relations with France than did the dictatorial regime of Denis Sassou‐Nguesso, which preceded them. When Sassou‐Nguesso returned to power by force of arms with French support in 1997, many concluded that France bore the primary responsibility for the failure of the democratic experiment. This study finds, however, that, while both French government officials and Elf operatives sought systematically to maintain their influence in Congo, neither bears primary responsibility for the failure of the multiparty experiment.
Oxford University Press
2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/101/403/171
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Traditional protest media and anti-military struggle in Nigeria 1988-1999
Olukotun, Ayo
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This article, derived from an extensive research report sponsored by the Ford Foundation — through a grant administered by the African Centre for Democratic Government, Nigeria — documents the deployment of traditional media — theatre, oratory, folk music — in the anti‐military struggle of 1988–99 in Nigeria. These resources were used successfully by civil society to engage the authoritarian state in this period, notwithstanding the state's use of them to bolster its hegemony. Most of the protest artists were persecuted, but maintained their position and thereby deepened social anger against the military.
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Globalization and the future of anthropology
Amselle, Jean-Loup
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Globalization of the world's financial systems in particular has given rise to an extensive literature on other aspects of the phenomenon, including its effects on culture and political behaviour. This article argues that globalization itself is not as new as is sometimes supposed, not least in that even the world's most isolated societies have always been constituent, permeable, parts of wider networks. Hence, the notion that anthropology is challenged by globalization because of its tradition of viewing local societies as ‘closed’, to be viewed by specialists in the role of participant observers, is to forget that anthropology, before the influence of Malinkowski, was itself once comparative and diffusionist. The discipline needs simply to recover its earlier bearings and to rethink an emphasis that made a far too emphatic distinction between the universalizing force of the ‘modern’ and the isolation of ‘primitive’ societies.
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/101/403/213
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Uganda's referendum 2000: The silent boycott: A comment
Therkildsen, Ole
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In the June 2000 referendum, Ugandans were asked to choose between the existing ‘movement’ system and a multiparty system. Bratton and Lambright (BL) did a survey of people's attitudes to democracy and argued that there was an ‘extensive “silent” boycott’ of the referendum ‘among persons who sympathized with the idea of multiparty competition’. Such people did not like the referendum choice ‘which they interpreted as being between a hegemonic movement and an unacceptable set of old political parties’. This main finding is questioned. Apart from methodological problems, it is argued that more context‐specific analyses of the referendum results are needed to understand public opinion in Uganda about democracy and the movement system. More importantly, BL ignore the fact that the movement system is a combination of no‐party political arrangements <it>and</it> devolution, implicitly assuming that the latter has no impact on present attitudes to government systems and democracy. There is a need to conceptualize and assess the significance of devolution in democratization processes in Africa and how it may influence public opinion on democracy.
Oxford University Press
2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/101/403/231
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Briefing: The September 2001 events in Jos, Nigeria
Danfulani, Umar Habila Dadem
Fwatshak, Sati U.
Briefing
Oxford University Press
2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/101/403/243
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Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000, by Frances Christie and Joseph Hanlon. Oxford: James Currey and Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001. xvi + 176 pp. {pound}40.00 hardback; {pound}11.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-858-9 (hardback); 0-85255-857-0 (paperback)
Schafer, Jessica
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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The Fall of Apartheid: The inside story from Smuts to Mbeki, by Robert Harvey. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. xv + 257 pp. {pound}45.00 hardback. ISBN 0333802470
Williams, Paul
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Striking Back: The labour movement and the post-colonial state in Zimbabwe 1980-2000, edited by Brian Raftopoulos and Lloyd Sachikonye. Harare: Weaver Press, 2001 (distributed by the African Books Collective, Oxford). xvii + 361 pp. Z$1242.00 paperback. ISBN 0-7974-2286-2
Kriger, Norma
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Making a Living: Changing livelihoods in rural Africa, by Elizabeth Francis. London and New York: Routledge. 2000. x + 212 pp. {pound}50.00 hardback; {pound}16.95 paperback. ISBN 0-415-14495-7 (hardback); ISBN 0-415-14496-5 (paperback)
Cleaver, Frances
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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African Enclosures? The social dynamics of wetlands in drylands, by Philip Woodhouse, Henry Bernstein and David Hulme, with Pippa Trench, Andrew Clayton, Edward Lahiff, Christopher Southgate, and Moussa Dit Martin Tessougue. Oxford: James Currey; Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press; Cape Town: David Philip, and Nairobi: EAEP, 2000. xviii + 238 pp. {pound}40.00 hardback; {pound}14.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-416 X (hardback); 0-85255-416-8 (paperback)
Schroeder, Richard A.
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Evolving Land Rights, Policy and Tenure in Africa, edited by Camilla Toulmin and Julian Quan. DFID Issues Series. London: IIED and Natural Resources Institute, 2000. 324 pp. {pound}12.50 paperback. ISBN 1-899825-51-7 (paperback)
Bruce, John W.
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Land Management in Africa: An environmental balancing act, by Kathleen Baker. Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii + 271 pp. {pound}42.50 hardback. ISBN 0-19823393-0 (hardback)
Batterbury, Simon P. J.
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Heading Towards Extinction? Indigenous Rights in Africa: The Case of the Twa of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, by Albert Kwokwo Barume. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 2000. 142 pp. $14 paperback. ISBN 87-90730-31-3 (paperback)
Peterson, Richard
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Storyteller: The many lives of Laurens Van der Post, by J. D. F. Jones. London: John Murray Publishers, 2001. x + 505 pp. {pound}25.00 hardback. ISBN 0-7195-5580-9 (hardback)
Gordon, Robert J.
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Glimpses of Empire: A Corona anthology, edited by Anthony Kirk-Greene. London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. xxvi + 302 pp. {pound}24.50 hardback. ISBN 1-86064-3981 (hardback)
Jackson, Ashley
Book Reviews
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2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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Bibliography
Barringer, T A
Bibliography
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A Select List of Articles on Africa Appearing in non-Africanist periodicals
Townsend, R J
List of Articles
Oxford University Press
2002-04-01 00:00:00.0
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