In this Issue
Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Published as the journal of the International African Institute, editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving the social sciences, history, the environment and life sciences. Africa aims to give increased attention to historical trends, issues of development and links between local and national levels of society. At the same time, it maintains its commitment to the theoretically informed analysis of the realities of Africa's own cultural categories. Africa appears quarterly. Each issue contains four or five major articles, arranged thematically, extensive review essays and substantial book reviews. Special issues are frequent. Africa Bibliography A full subscription to Africa also provides an annual listing of published work in African studies from the previous year. Included with every fourth issue of Africa, the bibliography is now recognised as the authoritative guide to available literature. Covering the whole of Africa, and not confined to work in English, the work contains over five thousand items categorised by region, country and subject, with full indexes.
published by
Cambridge University Pressviewing issue
Volume 85, Number 3, August 2015Table of Contents
Histories of violence
-
View ‘Siyayinyova!’: Patterns of violence in the African townships of the Vaal Triangle, South Africa, 1980–86
-
Download
‘Siyayinyova!’: Patterns of violence in the African townships of the Vaal Triangle, South Africa, 1980–86
- Save ‘Siyayinyova!’: Patterns of violence in the African townships of the Vaal Triangle, South Africa, 1980–86
Pageants, play and passion
-
View Funerary comedies in contemporary Kinshasa: Social difference, urban communities and the emergence of a cultural form
-
Download
Funerary comedies in contemporary Kinshasa: Social difference, urban communities and the emergence of a cultural form
- Save Funerary comedies in contemporary Kinshasa: Social difference, urban communities and the emergence of a cultural form
-
View ‘Be graceful, patient, ever prayerful’: Negotiating femininity, respect and the religious self in a Nigerian beauty pageant
-
Download
‘Be graceful, patient, ever prayerful’: Negotiating femininity, respect and the religious self in a Nigerian beauty pageant
- Save ‘Be graceful, patient, ever prayerful’: Negotiating femininity, respect and the religious self in a Nigerian beauty pageant
Bushmen revisited
Reviews of books
-
View The Power to Name: a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa by Stephanie Newell (review)
-
Download
The Power to Name: a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa by Stephanie Newell (review)
- Save The Power to Name: a history of anonymity in colonial West Africa by Stephanie Newell (review)
-
View Out in Africa: same-sex desire in sub-Saharan literatures & cultures by Chantal Zabus (review)
-
Download
Out in Africa: same-sex desire in sub-Saharan literatures & cultures by Chantal Zabus (review)
- Save Out in Africa: same-sex desire in sub-Saharan literatures & cultures by Chantal Zabus (review)
-
View Citizenship between Empire and Nation: remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 by Frederick Cooper (review)
-
Download
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 by Frederick Cooper (review)
- Save Citizenship between Empire and Nation: remaking France and French Africa, 1945–1960 by Frederick Cooper (review)
-
View Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and corporate agency by Wale Adebanwi (review)
-
Download
Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and corporate agency by Wale Adebanwi (review)
- Save Yoruba Elites and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo and corporate agency by Wale Adebanwi (review)
-
View Oiling the Urban Economy: land, labour, capital and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana by Franklin Obeng-Odoom (review)
-
Download
Oiling the Urban Economy: land, labour, capital and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana by Franklin Obeng-Odoom (review)
- Save Oiling the Urban Economy: land, labour, capital and the state in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana by Franklin Obeng-Odoom (review)
-
View Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna: the origins of a West African political system by Stephen A. Dueppen (review)
-
Download
Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna: the origins of a West African political system by Stephen A. Dueppen (review)
- Save Egalitarian Revolution in the Savanna: the origins of a West African political system by Stephen A. Dueppen (review)
-
View The State and the Social: state formation in Botswana and its precolonial and colonial genealogies by Ørnulf Gulbrandsen (review)
-
Download
The State and the Social: state formation in Botswana and its precolonial and colonial genealogies by Ørnulf Gulbrandsen (review)
- Save The State and the Social: state formation in Botswana and its precolonial and colonial genealogies by Ørnulf Gulbrandsen (review)
-
View Global Nollywood: the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry ed. by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome (review)
-
Download
Global Nollywood: the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry ed. by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome (review)
- Save Global Nollywood: the transnational dimensions of an African video film industry ed. by Matthias Krings and Onookome Okome (review)
Previous Issue
Next Issue
| ISSN | 1750-0184 |
|---|---|
| Print ISSN | 0001-9720 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2015-07-30 |
| Open Access | No |
