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BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: 'TRADITIONAL AUTHORITY' AND DEMOCRATIC DECENTRALIZATION IN POST-WAR MOZAMBIQUE
WEST, HARRY G
KLOECK-JENSON, SCOTT
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The end of civil war in Mozambique has been accompanied by democratization of political processes, as exemplified by the 1994 multi-party presidential and parliamentary elections. Under the rubric of democratization, the issue of state decentralization has also been raised. Current political debates focus on what role ‘traditional authority’ might play in local governance. Advocates argue that ‘traditional authority’ constitutes a genuinely African form of local governance, while detractors suggest that these institutions were irrevocably corrupted by their involvement with the colonial administration. This article challenges not only the black-and-white framework in which the present-day ‘legitimacy’ of ‘traditional authority’ has been debated, but also questions the value of the term ‘traditional authority’ itself. The article explores the diverse histories of kin-based political institutions in Mozambique, arguing that the meaning and function of ‘traditional authority’ has been transformed many times over with changes in the larger political contexts in which local institutions have existed. As a result of historical events, the issue of ‘traditional authority’ is, today, intimately bound up with the divide between the ruling FRELIMO party and the opposition, RENAMO. Only by approaching the issue of ‘traditional authority’ through an understanding of its variegated and contentious history will policy-makers and Mozambican residents alike be able to transcend existing political divides on issues of local governance.
Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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THE PRODUCTION OF ISLAMIC IDENTITIES THROUGH KNOWLEDGE CLAIMS IN BOUAKE, COTE D'IVOIRE
LEBLANC, MARIE NATHALIE
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In the past 30 years, in Côte d'Ivoire, Islamic institutions have significantly changed in scope and magnitude, leading to the emergence of new practices and definitions of Islam. In the context of these transformations, young Muslims have acquired a growing public voice in the definition of Muslimhood through the growth of neighbourhood-based Islamic youth associations and Franco-Arabic schools (<it>madersas</it>). In the city of Bouaké, Islamic practices are divided between Wahhabiyya and non-Wahhabiyya, as well as between ‘syncretic’ and ‘Arabized’ notions. In a context of competing sources and notions of Islamic knowledge, young Muslim men and women's claims of legitimacy are made through modalities of schooling. These young people assert an Arabized version of Islam based on the formal acquisition of the Arabic language, allowing for the reading and understanding of the Qur'an in Arabic. This article argues that knowledge claims made by young Muslims allow them to reckon with local power relations embedded in gerontocracy, as well as the social divisions brought about by ancestral ties and ethnicity. This argument needs to be connected with the history of Qur'anic and Western-style schooling in Côte d'Ivoire, highlighting the differing locales of knowledge acquisition as well as the competing forms of knowledge, ranging from mnemonic knowledge to Western-style classroom teaching. The empirical data presented here were gathered in neighbourhood-based Islamic youth associations and <it>madersas</it> between 1992 and 1995, and in 1998.
Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008064
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FROM 'NATIONHOOD' TO REGIONALISM TO THE NORTH WEST PROVINCE: 'BOPHUTHATSWANANESS' AND THE BIRTH OF THE 'NEW' SOUTH AFRICA
JONES, PERIS SEAN
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Although majority rule has been achieved in South Africa, the final years of one ‘independent’ bantustan, namely Bophuthatswana, and their aftermath, illustrate the problems of creating a unified identity. Ironically, in the death throes of apartheid, a Pandora's box of ethnic and regionalist claims was opened. Although these claims were tied to the maintenance of privileges gained by a tiny minority created through apartheid policy, Bophuthatswana had also been sustained by an ideology which, although at times highly contradictory, was also indicative of the space given to twenty years of bantustan nation-building. This article provides a reinterpretation of these complex territories by showing how, in the 1990s, in the wake of fundamental political changes in South Africa, the Bophuthatswana regime reshaped its nation-building discourse into a distinctive regionalist coalition based upon socio-economic and ethnic criteria. Moreover, unlike previous approaches to the region, it shows how contested territorial claims were integral to this regionalist movement. Whilst the Bophuthatswana regime finally imploded and its regionalist coalition was absorbed into South Africa's North West Province, the legacy of the bantustans for South Africa is replete with ambiguity. In the post-apartheid era of transition to the North West Province, some of these fault lines, termed ‘Bophuthatswananess’, are discussed. The continuing influence of their core of ‘Batswana arbiters’ raises pertinent questions concerning the obstacles to inclusive nation-building.
Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008065
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CAN THE ETHIOPIAN CHANGE HIS SKIN? THE BETA ISRAEL (ETHIOPIAN JEWS) AND RACIAL DISCOURSE
KAPLAN, STEVEN
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The arrival of over 55,000 Ethiopian immigrants in Israel has produced a situation whose social implications extend beyond the borders of a single state. The arrival of a black African group in a predominantly white country with virtually no previous experience with such a population is unusual, if not unique, in the second half of the twentieth century. This article seeks to examine the Ethiopian encounter with Israeli society through the exploration of racial concepts. It is argued that Ethiopian Jews have been characterized as ‘black’ to a (for them) unprecedented degree and have also been depicted as ‘not black’ in a number of subtle and significant ways. The exploration of the racial discourse about this specific population is used to demonstrate the way in which global and local racial categories exist side by side. Since Israel, like other countries including South Africa and Brazil, has been shaped by, but is not at the centre of Euro-American culture, this example also offers interesting insight into the cultural determinants of racial discourse.
Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008066
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COMMENTARY: MAURITTUS--QUO VADIS?
MISTRY, PERCY S
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Mauritius—although situated in the Indian Ocean—has often been accounted one of Africa's economic success stories over the last 15 years. Certainly by comparison with many African countries, as well as with other island-states such as those of the Caribbean and South Pacific, Mauritius has witnessed impressive economic growth over that period. Its performance is less remarkable, however, if it is compared with that of other island city-states like Hong Kong or Singapore. There are many indications that the conditions which sustained Mauritius's economic success between 1982 and 1998 are no longer so favourable. This article considers this state of affairs and makes a number of suggestions as to ways in which Mauritians may consider reacting to the international environment with a view to ensuring a future based on further economic growth.
Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/551
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008067
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BRIEFING: SOMALIA
GILKES, PATRICK
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008068
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REVIEW ARTICLE: WAR OR PEACE IN AFRICA?
WOODWARD, PETER
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008069
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Imperial Cities: Landscape, display and identity
CUSACK, TRICIA
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008070
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On Crown Service: A history of HM Colonial and Overseas Civil Services, 1837-1997
GARDINER, NILE
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/586
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008071
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Halfway to Paradise: African Christians in Europe
VAN DONGE, JAN KEES
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/587
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008072
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Aid to Africa: So much to do, so little done
RIMMER, DOUGLAS
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008073
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Hoe and Wage: A social history of a circular migration system in West Africa
BATTERBURY, SIMON
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/591
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008074
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People Are Not The Same: Leprosy and identity In twentieth century Mali
PARRY, ELDRYD
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008075
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Developing Uganda
VAN DONGE, JAN KEES
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008076
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The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda
KROSLAK, DANIELA
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008077
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Herero Heroes: A socio-political history of the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923
FLINT, LAWRENCE
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/597
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008078
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Tales from the King's African Rifles
PARSONS, TIMOTHY
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008079
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Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa: Studlies presented to Professor Harold G. Marcus
CLAPHAM, CHRISTOPHER
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008080
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War and Peace in Mozambique
HALL, MARGARET
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/98/393/602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008081
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
BARRINGER, T A
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008082
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A SELECT LIST OF ARTICLES ON AFRICA APPEARING IN NON-AFRICANIST PERIODICALS
TOWNSEND, R J
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Oxford University Press
1999-10-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008083
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