Most Recent Articles from African Studies Quarterly

• 'We want to belong to our roots and we want to be modern people': New farmers, old claims around lake Mutirikwi, Southern Zimbabwe 

  Introduction Gore rino ndinoda kusadza GMB nechibage changu! [This year I want to fill up the Grain Marketing Board with my own maize!]...

  03/22/09 by Joost Fontein · More from publication

• Alternative electoral systems and the 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary election 

  Introduction As many scholars have noted, electoral systems exert a powerful influence on the process of democratization. [1] Indeed first...

  03/22/09 by John Ishiyama · More from publication

• The 2007 General Election in Lesotho: The Application and the Challenges of the Electoral System 

  Introduction Elections are events intrinsic to democracy--building but do not determine whether the country is a democracy or not. The delivery...

  03/22/09 by Fako Johnson Likoti · More from publication

• Kwasi Konadu. Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society 

  Kwasi Konadu. Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society. New York: Routledge, 2007. 240p. The historical analysis of conceptions of...

  03/22/09 by Sandra Amponsah · More from publication

• Donald A. Yerxa, ed. Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation 

  Donald A. Yerxa, ed. Recent Themes in the History of Africa and the Atlantic World: Historians in Conversation. Columbia, SC: University of South...

  03/22/09 by Sandra Amponsah · More from publication

• Roy Armes. African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara 

  Roy Armes. African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006. 214p. African Filmmaking North and...

  03/22/09 by Helena Cantone · More from publication

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