Africa Today

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Articles in December 2001 issue of Africa Today

• Preface to the special issue on musical performance in Africa. (From the Editor).
  by Stone, Ruth M.
• Duffy, Rosaleen. 2000. Killing for Conservation: Wildlife Policy in Zimbabwe.
  by Coger, Dalvan M.
• Ranger, Terrence. 1999. Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture & History in the Motopos Hills of Zimbabwe.
  by Scaritt, James R.
• Farred, Grant. 2000. Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa.
  by Breitinger, Eckhard
• Old music and dance for new needs: local performative responses to new African realities.
  by Reed, Daniel B.
• Fabian, Johannes. 2000. Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa.
  by Roberts, Allen F.
• Rathbone, Richard. 2000. Nkrumah & the Chiefs: the Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana 1950-60.
  by Skinner, David E.
• "When hearts beat like native drums:" music and the sexual dimensions of the notions of "savage" and "civilized" in Tarzan and His Mate, 1934.
  by Henderson, Clara
• From "dancing with porcupines" to "twirling a hoe": musical labor transformed in Sukumaland, Tanzania.
  by Gunderson, Frank
• Schubert, Benedict. 2000. A Guerra e as Igrejas: Angola 1961-1991.
  by Malaquias, Assis
• Pop goes the sacred: Dan mask performance and popular culture in postcolonial Cote d'Ivoire.
  by Reed, Daniel B.
• The death of mganda?: continuity and transformation in Matengo music.
  by Hill, Stephen
• Forster, Peter G., Michael Hitchcock, and Francis F. Lyimo. 2000. Race and Ethnicity in East Africa.
  by Jalata, Asafa
• Zoubir, Yahia H. 1999. North Africa in Transition: State, Society and Economic Transformation in the 1990s.
  by Deegan, Heather
• Purchasing praise: women, dancing, and patronage in Malawi party politics.
  by Gilman, Lisa
• Kriger, Colleen. 1999. Pride of Men: Ironworking in 19th Century West Central Africa.
  by Rich, Jeremy
• Comments: uncoupling the "traditional" vs. "modern" opposition.
  by Kisliuk, Michelle
• Mshomba, Richard E. 2000. Africa in the Global Economy.
  by Emizet, Kisangani
• Nwaubani, Ebere. 2001. The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960.
  by Clark, Andrew F.
• Bowen, Merle L. 2000. The State Against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique.
  by Sparks, Donald L.
• Ottaway, Marina. 1999. Africa's New Leaders: Democracy or State Reconstruction?
  by Harsch, Ernest
• Books received.
• Chanock, Martin. 2001. The Making of South African Legal Culture, 1901-1936: Fear, Favour and Prejudice.
  by Salamone, Frank A.
• Parker, John. 2000. Making the Town: Ga State and Society in Early Colonial Accra.
  by Rich, Jeremy
• Langa, Mandla. 2000. The Memory of Stones.
  by Graham, Shane