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Safiyya and Adamah: Punishing adultery with sharia stones in twenty-first-century Nigeria
Kalu, Ogbu U.
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In the year 2000, a new phase of the dysfunctional power of religion exploded into the modern public space in Nigeria. Some regional states in the north of the country exploited a loophole in the 1999 constitution to declare themselves as sharia states. Debate on the constitutional legality, political, socio‐economic and gender implications of this development became complicated by ethnicity and regionalism. Soon, a vast array of human rights organizations around the globe joined the affray and employed the power of the media to protest the death sentence by stoning on some women accused of adultery. This paper is a historical reconstruction of the phenomenon using a case study of Safiyyatu Husseini of Sokoto State and her beautiful daughter, Adamah. While the political and socio‐economic perspectives are salient, the conceptual scheme privileges the religious discourse as the core of the issue from which the other connections could be unravelled. It explores the interior of the sharia laws on adultery. The international community hailed the power of the global connections and of the media when Safiyya was acquitted on appeal but many Moslems claimed that the interior of the sharia is perfumed with justice and mercy and that critics are blinded by ignorance. The case is useful for analyzing the resurgence of religion in the politics of an African country. The irony of applying a medieval law in the twenty‐first‐century is not lost.
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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A wondrous God: Miracles in contemporary Africa
ter Haar, Gerrie
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Events or occurrences perceived as miracles are a feature of all religious traditions, although not to the same degree. The perception of a miracle is closely connected to ideas that are extant concerning the relations between the material world and the invisible world. Recent decades appear — at least from fragmentary evidence — to have seen an increase in the number of occurrences perceived as miracles in Africa, in Christian, Muslim and indigenous traditions. These can be of political as well as religious significance. This article discusses recent miracles among African Christians in particular, for two reasons: first, because their type of religiosity appears to be particularly susceptible to belief in miracles. Second, because there is more information available about Christian miracles than about other types.
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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A reconfiguration of political order? The state of the state in North Kivu (DR Congo)
Tull, Denis M.
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This paper argues that warlord or ‘non‐state’ politics have not brought about as fundamental a political transformation as recent discourses about violent ‘state collapse’ in Africa seem to suggest. In the context of the territorial break‐up of the central state in the DR Congo, it examines the reconfiguration of political power in North Kivu in the extreme weakness of formal state structures and looks at the strategies of local actors to deal with the violent transformation of the state. It demonstrates that the strategies of the ruling rebels and other strongmen reveal significant continuities with regard to the Mobutu era as the marketing of minerals provides the resources for the revisiting of time‐tested political strategies such as the construction of patronage‐based clientelistic networks. Similarly, the limited ambitions of ‘non‐hegemonic rule’ provide current rulers with powerful incentives to exercise power by drawing on the support of intermediary actors such as traditional authorities. Far from indicating the ‘end of politics’, these strategies mimic President Mobutu's political set up and thus contribute to the reproduction of the postcolonial state despite its institutional erosion.
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adg046
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Close encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bräutigam, Deborah
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Chinese business networks form an important (and well‐studied) component of transnational industrial capitalism in East and South‐east Asia. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the dynamics of the growing role of Chinese networks as catalysts for industrial development in sub‐Saharan Africa. This article explores two contrasting cases, in Mauritius and in Nigeria. In a hostile or indifferent policy environment such as that of Nigeria, and in a locale where there were no resident overseas Chinese, the Asia‐Africa linkages remained limited to information, input supply, consulting services, and technical assistance. In contrast, in the encouraging policy environment of Mauritius, which also had a sizeable overseas Chinese population, transnational Asian capitalists created strong connections with local capital (Asian and other), invested in joint ventures, and formed part of a successful export‐oriented industrialization. These cases suggest that, as Asian business networks expand their global reach to sub‐Saharan Africa, they can provide an important catalyst for local industrialization.
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a138824
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Learning about economic development from Africa
Rimmer, Douglas
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This article reviews the author's acquaintance with the literature of economic development, with particular reference to Africa, over the last 50 years. The belief that this development is propelled by the supply of capital, effectively of international aid, is criticized, and emphasis put instead on the effective demand for capital. This demand has been low in Africa; hence much capital investment has been of low or no productivity, and aid has generally failed to fulfil expectations. Aid continues nonetheless, since it serves donor as well as recipient interests and political opposition to it is weak. Free trade and free migration would be more effective means of raising African living standards but, in contrast to aid, they do encounter strong political opposition, in the one case from producer interests, in the other from nationalist ideology and racial bigotry.
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adg017
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Briefing: Islam, democracy and public opinion in Africa
Bratton, Michael
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Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Notes and News
Notes and News
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adg164
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Sovereignty, identity and modernity -- understanding Ethiopia
Barnes, Cedric
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Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Le Rwanda ancien: Le royaume Nyiginya [Ancient Rwanda: The Nyiginya kingdom], by Jan Vansina. Paris: Karthala, 2001. 294 pp. Euro24.40, {pound}17.95 paperback. ISBN 2845861451 (paperback)
Lemarchand, René
Book Reviews
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Republique Democratique du Congo, guerre et politique: Les trente derniers mois de L.D. Kabila (aout 1998-janvier 2001) [DRC War and Politics: The last thirty months of L.D. Kabila (August 1998-January 2001)], edited by Gauthier de Villers, Jean Omasombo and Erik Kennes. Tervuren and Paris: Institut Africain CEDAF and L'Harmattan, 2001. 346 pp. ISBN 2-7475-1630-X (paperback), and Chasse au diamant au Congo/Zaire [The Hunt for Diamonds in Congo/Zaire], edited by Laurent Monnier, Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Gauthier de Villers. Tervuren and Paris: Institut Africain CEDAF and L'Harmattan, 2001. 240 pp. ISBN 2-7475-0972-9 (paperback)
Maindo, Alphonse
Book Reviews
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, by Patrick Chabal with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert and Elisa Silva Andrade. London: Hurst & Co., 2002. xx + 339 pp. {pound}14.95 paperback. ISBN 1-85065-589-8 (paperback)
Meyns, Peter
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The reformist intellectuals of the early twentieth century, by Bahru Zewde. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xii + 228 pp. {pound}16.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-452-4 (paperback)
Pankhurst, Richard
Book Reviews
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Asbestos Blues: Labour, capital, physicians & the state in South Africa, by Jock McCulloch. Oxford: James Currey and Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002. xx + 223 pp. {pound}12.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-8662 (paperback)
Dlamini, Nhlanhla
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Deutsche Herrschaft uber Afrikaner. Staatlicher Machtanspruch und Wirklichkeit im kolonialen Namibia [German rule over Africans. State claims to power and reality in colonial Namibia] by Jurgen Zimmerer. Munster and Hamburg: LIT, 2001, 329 pp., Euro35.90 (hardback), ISBN 3-8258-5047-1 (hardback)
Eckert, Andreas
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Restless Identities: Signatures of nationalism, Zulu ethnicity and history in the lives of Petros Lamula (c.1881-1948) and Lymon Maling (1889-c.1936), by Paul la Hausse de Lalouviere. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000. 317 pp. R195 {pound}18.95. ISBN 1-85065-589-8 (paperback)
James, Deborah
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Hero of the Nation: Chipembere of Malawi. An autobiography, by Masauko Chipembere, edited by Robert Rotberg. Blantyre: Kachere Series, Christian Literature Association of Malawi, 2002. Distributed by the African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford, UK. 464 pp. {pound}23.95 paperback, ISBN 9990816250 (paperback)
McCracken, John
Book Reviews
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2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Gathering Seaweed: African prison writing, edited by Jack Mapanje. Oxford, Portsmouth NH, and Johannesburg: Heinemann African Writers Series, 2002. xxii + 328 pp. {pound}9.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 435 91211 9 (paperback)
Palmer, Robin
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa, edited by Camilla Toulmin, Philippe Lavigne Delville and Samba Traore. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xiii + 244 pp. {pound}15.95 paperback. ISBN 0-85255-419-2 (paperback)
Gray, Leslie C.
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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Bibliography
Barringer, T A
Bibliography
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Africana in non-Africanist Periodicals
Townsend, R J
List of Articles
Oxford University Press
2003-07-01 00:00:00.0
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