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September 30, 2008 Time: 03:24pm 056.tex Africa 78 (4), 2008 GENERAL INDEX VOLUME TO 78 Aawambo people, history and cultural change 312–14 Abacha, Sani 31, 326 Abayomi, Oyinkan 91 Abety, Peter 547 Abiola, Moshood 88 Achebe, Chinua 623–4 Action Group (AG) 27, 91 Adams, Gani 88–90, 93–4 Adamu, Fatima L. 136–52 Adebowale, Idowu 88 Adejumobi, Saheed A. 612–14 Africa (1928–2008), editorial 327–33 Africa affective economies in 291–2, 293 African alternatives 611–12 African Renaissance 294–5 ‘African system of sexuality’ theory 518 Africanist agenda 609–19 Afro-Atlantic cultures 316–17 ‘Afro-pessimism’ 335, 603–610 African response to AIDS 496, 501–2, 504, 513 agency in 603, 611–12 autochthony in 540–1, 546–7, 611, 618 ‘basic cosmologies’ in 246, 256–9 ‘big men’ 338, 433 civil war in 2, 18–19, 461–2 clerks, interpreters and intermediaries in 384–409, 462–3 Cup of Nations (football) 460 facile Western critiques/solutions 455–7, 608 First World War and 385–9, 461–3 gated communities in 436 imported consumer goods 410, 428–30, 451, 483, 582–99 passim intellectuals and development in 321–2 intra-African migration 604, 611 liberation struggles 245, 247, 252–3, 256–9, 346, 350, 411, 461 literary history and new directions 322–6, 390–7, 471–4, 611, 621–5 local intellectuals 308–9, 334–409 passim négritude and dance 318–19 and new global trade networks 410–11, 416–19, 426–30 ‘new wars’ in 245, 252 newspapers 384–9 oral tradition 471–2 poorest countries and why they fail 455–7 traditional forms of accountability 604, 608, 609 ‘Voice of Africa’ project 328–33 warrior queens in 322–4 African National Congress (ANC) 499, 501 African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 247– 50, 252–5 Agary, Kaine 325–6 agriculture commercial 154, 171, 184, 190–1, 197, 200–8, 215, 235 communal 195–205, 225–6, 235–6 ecological effects in South African Karoo 157–216 indigenous knowledge in 225 peasantry in South African Karoo 195–8 rice growers in Guinea-Bissau 245 survival farming and labour migration in South African Karoo 198–205 sustainable 224 Ahidjo, Ahmadou 546 AK-47 435–40, 445–6, 450–1 Akintola, Samuel Ladoke 27–8 Akinyeye, Yemisi (‘Lady B’) 88–90 Akoto, Baffour 439–40 Aku people 542–5, 548 Akuffo regime 339 Alavanyo people 436 Alexander, Jocelyn 457–8 Amnesty International 550 Amoah, Michael 458–9 Angola, elite consumption in 412, 418, 428 international commodity flows and new trade networks with Namibia 410–30 redirection of oil wealth 412, 418 trade liberalization in 412 Anini, Nigerian bandit 2, 28 Annang people 3, 6, 9, 64–81 apartheid 153, 201, 223, 226, 290, 347, 411, 502 Armah, Ayi Kwei 623 arms in Africa 10, 120–1, 128, 131–2, 250, 433–50 Asante people 437, 439–43, 446–9 Atoubi, Patrick 315–16 Awah, Pascal Kum 475–95 Awolowo, Obafemi 27, 87–8, 91 Awowolo, Hannah 91 Babangida, General 28, 31, 33 Babou, Cheikh Anta 465–7 Baganda people, renegotiating ‘ritual sex’ in Masaka District 518–36 Bagyeli people 551–3 September 30, 2008 Time: 03:24pm 056.tex 628 INDEX Baka people 551–3 Bakassi Boys 1, 3, 5, 7, 33–5, 41, 64, 125 Bakola people 551–3 Balanta people 245–63 Bamba, Amadu 465–7 Barber, Karin 327–33 Bechuana people 163 Bedzang people 551–3 Benin, cattle trading in 564, 566 Benjaminsen, Tor A. 223–44 Biya, Paul 546 Bjôrn, Beckman 321–2 Boamah, Anthony Obeng 315–16 Boddy, Janice A. 614–15 Boesen, Elizabeth 482–602 Boghom people 110, 113–14, 117–18, 129–30 Botswana AIDS in 289–90, 295 affective economies in 291–2, 293 ‘African miracle’ 295, 456, 609 botho (humanity, respect) in 288, 292–7, 299, 301–4 ethnicity in 295 humanism, disgust, and aesthetically impaired bodies in 288–304 inequality widens in 295 Kalanga elites in 603–10 participatory democracy in the kgotla 297–8 post-colonial politics in 607–8 public anthropology in 606–7, 609 public space in 290, 292, 302 reasonable radicalism and...

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