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Mau Mau: Understanding Counter-Insurgency
Authors: Mamdani Mahmood
Published: August 2023

Imperial Reckoning, The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenyaby Caroline ElkinsHenry Holt, 2005, 475 pages, $27.50, ISBN-0-8050-7653-0.Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenyaand the End of Empireby David AndersonNorton, 2005, 406 pages, $25.95, ISBN 0-393-05986-3.
Who authored the atrocities linked with the Mau Mau? How did Mau Mau, which began as an armed movement against settler power in the White Highlands of Kenya, turn into a civil war among the Kikuyu of the Central Province? The Mau Mau killed only 32 white settlers. “More European civilians would die in road traffic accidents between 1952 and 1960,” notes Anderson. Other Mau Mau victims included some 200 British regimental soldiers and police and 1800 African civilians. The numbers explode when we come to count the Mau Mau dead. The official figure is that of 12,000. Anderson says it is “more than 20,000.” But Elkins presents a radical reappraisal of the counter- insurgency both in scale and human cost: “If the Kikuyu population figure in 1962 is adjusted using growth rates comparable to the other Africans, we find that somewhere between 130,000 and 300,000 Kikuyu are unaccounted for. … I now believe that there was in late colonial Kenya a murderous campaign to eliminate Kikuyu people”
Crusaders for Human Rights and Dignity
Authors: Hendricks Fred
Published: August 2023

Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In our Lifetimeby Elinor Sisulu:David Philip, 2003, 672pp, 0-86486-639-9
Elinor Sisulu has a written an epic and moving book on her parents-in law. It is different in two important respects to the flood of political biographies that have surfaced in South Africa since the demise of apartheid. In the first instance, Elinor Sisulu had unparalleled access to her subjects and secondly, it is the biography of two people rather than a single hero or heroine. These differences have profoundly shaped the nature of the biography. Elinor Sisulu was driven to write the book by a boundless admiration for her parents-inlaw, and by the urge to document the social history of black South Africans. Her admiration is not misplaced. Albertina and Walter and Sisulu lived exemplary lives together and the book does great justice to their monumental contribution to the ongoing struggle for justice in South Africa. But it does much more than that. It provides insight into the minutia of their political and personal decisions and it highlights the intended and unintended consequences of these. The political and personal are linked in powerful ways in this book largely becauseAlbertina and Walter Sisulu were jointly such a consummate embodiment of the struggle against apartheid. There are simply insufficient superlatives to describe their roles in the struggle and their lives as partners and it is possible to disentangle these only when offering a grossly distorted version of their lives.
Qu’est-ce que la Postcolonie? Contribution à un débat francophone trop afrocentré
Authors: B.Bamba Abou
Published: August 2023

«On ne sort pas indemne d’un siècle d’africanisme, même traversé de fécondes remises en causes successives. »Olivier Barlet, Africultures, ¹ 28
Cet essai n’a rien d’une élaboration philosophique. Même si la question du titre fait songer à un Kant du « Was ist Aufklärung ? », un Sartre de Qu’est-ce la littérature ? ou encore à un Foucault de « Qu’est-ce que les lumières? ». Il a moins la prétention d’être un exercice théorique. Encore que les discussions sur la postcolonialité ne le sont guère que très rarement. Plutôt, ce texte est la contribution d’un américaniste, observateur de surcroît des sociétés et espaces publics francoafricains de l’après Deuxième Guerre mondiale ; contribution à un débat initié— il y a quelques temps déjà, par A. Waberi dans la revue Notre librairie.1 De quoi s’agitil ? Dans sa tentative de caractérisation des écrivains africains francophones, l’écrivain cum critique littéraire djiboutien notait à propos de ce qu’il croit être la dernière génération de ces auteurs—ceux qu’il nomme les « enfants de la postcolonie »:
Civilisations et relations internationales
Authors: Laghmani Slim
Published: August 2023

Le rôle des civilisations dans le système international.Droit et relations internationalespar Yadh Ben AchourÉditions Bruylant, 2003, 324 pp, 60 Euros, ISBN 2-8027-1708-1
C’est à une question oubliée des spécialistes de droit international public que s’attaque Yadh Ben Achour dans cet ouvrage. Le nombre des travaux expressément consacré à cette question est dérisoire. Il y a bien un article de Maurice Flory sur «les relations culturelles et le droit international public» publié à l’Annuaire français de droit international (1971), mais il ne traite pas du coeur du sujet. Il y a, également,un colloque organisé en 1983 par l’Académie de Droit international alors dirigé par feu René Jean Dupuy qui porte sur «L’avenir du droit international dans un monde multiculturel» et un article de M.Virally sur «Le rôle du droit dans un conflit de civilisations: le cas Iran-USA» publié en 1988 par la revue des sciences morales et politiques, mais, à ma connaissance, guère plus.
De-Silencing the African Past
Authors: Wolde-Mariam Tekalign
Published: August 2023

Silences in African History: Between the Syndromes of Discovery and Abolition by Jacques DepelchinMkuki Na Nyota Publishers (Dare-es Salaam), 256pp., 20 or $34.95.
“The history of victims, conceptualized and produced by those who have never been victims, must be looked at with suspicion”,so declares Jacques Depelchin in stating the central idea that informs this collection of essays. The book starts off by assertingdirect and strong connection between the themes and methods of professional historical writing on Africa and the cultural and political bias of the practitioners, particularly of Western scholars who have dominated the enterprise for slightly over half a century now. The author charges that Africanist history is tainted by cultural baggage carried over from historical learning in the West suffused with racist notions of Africa as well as by poorly disguised political endorsement of Capitalism. It is for this reason, he argues, that Africanist history not only failed to tap into indigenous conceptions and interpretations of the past but actually aided and abetted in their suppression and silencing. Worse still, according to Depelchin, the luminaries of Africanist history sought to steal the moral high ground from victims of such abominations as Slavery, Colonialism and Apartheid byclaiming for themselves the mantle of “discovering” the oppressiveness of these arrangements and of championing the causeof “abolishing” them. These “syndromes of discovery and abolition” are the core ideas around which Depelchin attempts to weave the story of Africanist historiography. Depelchin does not have kinder words for legions of Western scholars who followed in the footsteps of the founding fathers, but reserves his harshest rebuke for their African disciples. In a paraphrase of Fanon’s admonition of native intellectuals back in the 1960s, he finds the latter as being “incapable of recognizing knowledge coming … from their own backyard because they had been trained to despise it” (p. 12).
Paris noir, Paris arabe : le Paris africain
Authors: Remaoun Hassan
Published: August 2023

Le Paris noir de Pascal Blanchard, Eric Deroo, Gilles Manceron, Edition Hazan, 2001, 239 pages. ISBN 2-85025-7613, 48.95 EuroLe Paris Arabe, deux siècles de présence des Orientaux et des Maghrébins par Pascal Blanchard, Éric Deroo, Driss El Yazami, Pierre Fournié, Gilles Manceron, La Découverte, 2003, 247 pages, ISBN 2-701 3904-1, 39.90 Euro.
Existe-t-il un Paris africain ? Il semble bien en tout cas que les Africains, Noirs ou Arabo-berbères soient suffisamment incrustés dans la capitale française pour que le paysage humain, de la ville et son histoire au moins contemporaine, en aient été largement imprégnés. Réflexion faite, il n’y a pas de quoi être étonné : Paris est certes la ville de la Révolution de 1789 et de la déclaration universelle des Droits de l’homme et du citoyen, mais fût aussi jusqu’au siècle dernier une des principales métropoles coloniales d’un monde oppressif où nous vivions, (a-t-il complètement disparu ?). Ces deux facteurs a priori antagoniques vont se conjuguer pour marquer l’histoire de la Ville lumière, dans sa relation au Sud de la planète.
In Search of an Explanation for the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974
Authors: Shiferaw Bekele
Published: August 2023

Haile Selassie, Western Education and Political Revolution in Ethiopia by Paulos Milkias. Cambria Press, 2006, xxii + 364 pp. ISBN: 1-934043-41-9
Ethiopia had more than its due share of wars and social turbulence through most of the known periods of its long history (upwards of two thousand years). Perhaps only one century (the 16th) compares with the 20th for the extent and intensity of the external and internal wars that the country fought, the population displacements and movements, and the massive destructions of property and national heritage. A considerable proportion of this turbulence and these wars were generated by a veritable and bloody social revolution that scholars have compared with the great social revolutions of the world – the French, the Russian and the Chinese. It is argued that social revolutions are rare phenomena in world history and that they are even rarer in the African context. It is therefore a matter of great intellectual importance to explain this phenomenon when it occurred in Ethiopia.
The revolutionary intellectuals did not by any means find it difficult to ‘understand’ it or to account for it. They saw a feudal monarchy in the kingship of Haile Selassie, a feudal nobility in the ruling class of the country, a subject peasantry in the rural producers akin to the French or the Russian ones before their respective revolutions, the petty bourgeoisie in the social group of teachers and students who agitated for the coming of the revolution and then provided the cadre (or the rebels) when it came. They characterised the country as backward, the economy as stagnant and the regime as oppressive. Thus, they concluded that this was a classic case of feudal oppression leading to revolution. This summary may sound like a caricature but it carries the essential arguments. The military government, which very quickly assumed the revolutionary mantle, went on to embrace the Marxist Leninist ideology and launched a massive propaganda that offered the above explanation, albeit in a much cruder form, to the people...
Africa’s Avuncular Saint
Authors: ADEKEYE ADEBAJO
Published: August 2023

Mandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge Oxford University Press, 2006
Tom Lodge, a former politics profes sor at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand, has written a biography of South Africa’s first democratically-elected president, Nelson Mandela, that follows three earlier biographies by Fatima Meer, Anthony Sampson, and Martin Meredith. Lodge seeks to shed more light on the role of Mandela’s childhood in shaping his leadership qualities; he assesses Mandela’s role in ‘leading from prison’, examines the mythical cult that was consciously developed around his iconic status, and analyses Mandela’s ‘messianic’ leadership of South Africa’s democratic transition...
Beyond Urban Socio-anthropology
Authors: Owen Sichone
Published: August 2023

The Management of Urban Development in Zambia by Emmanuel Mutale. Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2004, xv + 268 pp., ISBN 0 7546 3596 1
Zambia is said to be one of the most urbanized countries in Africa and is known in the social sciences as one of the main research sites for the study of urbanization. Anthropologists, for example, recognize the research conducted on the Copperbelt in the colonial period as being on par with that produced by the Chicago school of urban anthropology. Mutale's study however does not build on that colonial tradition directly. This book is not very sociological and pays little attention to the pioneering ethnographic studies of James Clyde Mitchell, A.L Epstein or any of the other anthropologists who worked on the Copperbelt. Mutale's field is classified as urban management and his book is one of Ashgate's International Land Management series. It provides a fresh way of looking at the urbanization process - one that encompasses "...a range of traditional disciplines, for example, town planning; civil engineering, architecture, surveying, economics, law, sociology, public administration, management and others." (p.3) But is it possible for one researcher to employ all these different analytic frameworks and disciplinary skills? Can urban policy ignore urban anthropology? Mutale's book suggests that the answer to both questions is possibly yes...
L’identité africaine serait-elle moins soluble que les autres dans l’occidentalité ?
Authors: Aïcha Benamar
Published: August 2023

Identité africaine et occidentalité de José Kaputa Lota L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006, 195 pages, ISBN 2-296-00285-4, Prix : 17,50 €
Le problème du rapport entre l’identité africaine et l’Occident est au centre d’un ancien débat dont les termes sont ravivés par José Kaputa Lota, qui s’interroge dès l’incipit sur l’existence d’une culture africaine et partant de là d’une civilisation africaine ; la culture entendue comme un « sens collectif de la conscience qui est suffisamment bavard pour révéler son sens de l’histoire et de la langue, mais suffisamment silencieux pour rendre neutres et banales ses structures, valeurs et relations ». Si nous admettons avec l’auteur que la rencontre entre l’Européen et l’Africain est caractérisée par une relation dialectique de dominant à dominé, nous pouvons sans doute formuler l’hypothèse d’une négation multidimensionnelle de l’Africain surtout lorsque nous pensons au discours habituel des sciences sociales sur la culture et l’identité des Africains ; discours généralement articulé autour du refus de vouloir comprendre ce que cette culture africaine peut apporter à la construction de la société moderne. Ce type de relation, poursuit-il, constitue un handicap sérieux à son progrès et à son développement harmonieux. La situation d’asservissement et d’apathie que connaît l’Africain a pu bénéficier, d’après José Kaputa, de la complicité du Nègre luimême. Et pourtant, pense-t-il, le Nègre reste le créateur de la première civilisation et son continent, le berceau de l’humanité...
Sembène le Magnifique (1923-2007)
Authors: Mohamed Bensalah
Published: August 2023

Cette confidence du grand maître africain du cinéma résume en fait toute son oeuvre. Comment, en quelques lignes, faire l’éloge de cet homme de talent qui, par son engagement irréprochable, la pertinence de ses travaux, la cohérence de ses écrits et de ses images et l’originalité de son style qui, bien malgré lui, s’est trouvé propulsé en tête du peloton des créateurs africains. Se revendiquant idéologiquement du marxisme-léninisme, le citoyen rebelle n’a jamais renié ses convictions politiques, ni renoncé à son militantisme. Ses préoccupations, les drames et les souffrances endurés par les Africains se reflètent parfaitement à travers une oeuvre littéraire et cinématographique1 très riche qui a fertilisé et nourri la conscience politique de plusieurs générations de cinéastes et d’écrivains.
Indexing Child-Friendliness
Authors: Assefa Bequele
Published: August 2023

The African Report on Child Well-being 2008: How Child-Friendly are African Governments? by The African Child Policy ForumAfrican Child Policy Forum, 2008, 192 pp. with annexes and statistical tables. ISBN: 978-1-9047
For well-known historical, political and developmental reasons, the State is central for the realization of child rights and child wellbeing, more so in Africa than anywhere else in the world. Our governments have an impressive record in their formal accession to the relevant international treaties on children. But the extent of their commitment varies widely, and the gap between promises and reality remains wide in many countries. Why? How well are African governments doing in meeting their repeated commitments to protect, promote and respect the rights and wellbeing of children? Which governments are doing well and which ones are not? How do African governments rank in relation to each other? What is it that relatively ‘poorly-performing’ countries can emulate from ‘well-performing’ ones? ...
Un manuel pour la collecte des contes et récits subsahariens : sa méthode, ses principes et ses résultats
Authors: Dominique J. M. Soulas de Russel
Published: August 2023

L’oeil et la plume. Initiation pratique à l’ethnographie à l’intention des étudiants, Niamey-Eschborn, GTZ-INDRAP, 1996, rééd. Nürtingen 2008, 95 pages
L’agriculture manque de bras, disaiton dans les années soixante. Aujourd’hui c’est l’ethnographie qui souffre du manque de personnel, particulièrement au Sud du Sahara. En effet, la tâche à laquelle il faut s’atteler y apparaît plus lourde que jamais. D’une part, les connaissances et les méthodes dont nous disposons de nos jours ont considérablement élargi le champ d’investigation. De l’autre, il convient d’agir sans retard car, partout sur le continent noir, des données culturelles populaires disparaissent quotidiennement. C’est à ces thèmes que se consacre l’ouvrage de ce compte rendu...
Un procès à Bamako
Authors: Brahim Hadj Slimane
Published: August 2023

La crise financière internationale et ses conséquences particulières sur les économies des pays du Sud (en particulier celles de l’Afrique) viennent de redonner une actualité étonnante au film Bamako du cinéaste d’origine mauritanienne Abderrahmane Sissako. Plus que jamais ce long-métrage de fiction-réalité prend un sens, malheureusement douloureux, par rapport au destin des sociétés et des peuples africains...
Revolution as Warfare in the Horn of Africa
Authors: Jon Abbink
Published: August 2023

The Ethiopian Revolution. War in the Horn of Africa by Gebru Tareke. Yale University Press, 2009, xx + 437 pp., ISBN 978-0-300-14163-4. Hb, U$ 45.00
This study on war and revolution in Ethiopia and Eritrea is the magnum opus of historian Gebru Tareke and presents a wide-ranging and detailed overview of the emergence of revolution, insurgency and war in Eritrea and Ethiopia over the past four decades. These are familiar themes, studied in many books and papers, but the merit of this book is its comprehensive character, its sustained focus on the military engagements resulting from the revolutionary turmoil in the Horn, its solid basis in new archival materials unearthed from the Ethiopian Ministries of National Defence and of Internal Affairs, and its bold but often controversial interpretations of Ethiopia’s recent political history. The author has also augmented his research with many interviews held with eye-witnesses and protagonists...
The Reinvention of the Theory of Failed Morality in Kenya and Africa
Authors: Tom Odhiambo
Published: August 2023

It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistleblower by Michela WrongFourth Estate (London), 2009, ISBN 9-0-00-724196-5
Michela Wrong’s book arrived in Kenya in a very clandestine manner in the early months of 2009. It did not come via the usual route of the bookshops. Rather, excerpts from it were serialized in the leading Kenyan newspaper, The Daily Nation. When the real copies of the book reached Nairobi, they were being sold by newspaper vendors on the streets and free copies were being given out by a Kiss Frequency Modulation (FM) radio station. Callers were asked to state why they wanted to read the book; they would then be offered free copies. But why was this book not being sold in the bookshops, as one would have normally expected? ...
Des migrants si proches et si loin de nous
Authors: Brahim Hadj Slimane
Published: August 2023

La nuit sur la figure réalisé avec le soutien du C.I.S.P, de la C.E et du H.C.R aux éditions Barzakh. Alger, 2008, 93 pages, ISBN : 978-9947-851-14-2
Yakoulna el hout ou mayakoulneche eddoud » (plutôt être dévoré par les poissons que par les vers) : c’est le credo des harraga qu’on peut lire, repris en exergue, dans l’ouvrage La nuit sur la figure (portraits de migrants), terrible métaphore sur un désespoir préférable à un autre désespoir...
Hegemonic Regime Survival and Legitimation in Uganda: A Review Essay
Authors: Moses Khisa
Published: August 2023

Uganda has been of immense interest to what Mahmood Mamdani uncharitably refers to as ‘stargazing academics in distantivory towers’2 who produce a plethora of commentaries and scholarly work on the country’s politics, culture, economy, etc. At the peak of political decay and societal dysfunction – especially in the 1970s and 1980s – the country suffered stupendous deficiency of long-term intellectual commitment on the part of its citizens, leaving the task of knowledge production to foreign nationals in the ivory towers of the Western (especially the American) academe. To fill this void, a few initiatives came to the fore in the mid/late 1980s, including the founding of Fountain Publishers to support and promote local scholarly publishing, and the Centre for Basic Research (CBR). Both Fountain Publishers and CBR are based in the Ugandan capital, Kampala...
Burundi History at a Glance
Authors: Joseph Gahama
Published: August 2023

Nigel Watt, the author of this book, is a humanitarian ‘expert’ who worked in Burundi between 1998 and 2002 under the auspices of the two well known NGOs, Christian Aid and CARE International. Prior to that, he had a long stay in Zambia, where he taught at and directed a secondary school in the second half of the 1960s. His objective in writing this book, as he makes it clear in the preface, is to introduce Burundi to the Anglophone world in general and the British public in particular. His thesis isthat Burundi is not as well known as its twin brother, Rwanda...
Le climat aujourd’hui et demain: l’Afrique peut-elle réagir?
Authors: Bachir Senouci
Published: August 2023

Ce livre se présente, comme l’entend le second titre, comme un « manifeste pour l’Afrique ». En effet, dans leur péroraison, les auteurs entendent apporter la démonstration que si l’Afrique est la principale victime du réchauffement climatique et des conséquences désastreuses de ce phénomène pour un continent déjà lourdement éprouvé, il n’en reste pas moins qu’une partie non négligeable de la solution et d’un avenir plus radieux pour la vie sur terre est en Afrique...
‘Saving Africa From Dangerous Ideas’
Authors: Mutuma Ruteere
Published: August 2023

In the last two decades, no other ideas have gained the totemic status that ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’ have attained in global and African public policy and political discourses. From Cameroon to Kenya, democracy and human rights were the rallying cries of the 1990s reform movements that have radically reshaped the politics of most African states. While ridiculed and rejected as Western impositions by many African leaders (many of them relics of the Cold War), the indigeneity of the voices for democracy and human rights were never in doubt, particularly among the victims of injustice and misrule in Africa...
Celebrating a Knight of Clio: Robin Law and the Merry-Go-Round of Atlantic Africa
Authors: Anselme Guezo
Published: August 2023

Since the celebration a few decades ago of the life and work of Raymond Mauny, African historians have routinely withdrawn,almost every decade, from the busy schedule of their daily occupation to pay homage to one of the best among them. Robin Law’s is the latest in an already impressive string of celebrations dotting like memory signposts the tortuous path leading to the growth of an authentically African approach to history...
Un dialogue politique pour l’Afrique
Authors: Sidi Mohammed Mohammedi
Published: August 2023

L’Afrique, c’est connu. C’est la pauvreté, les guerres, les génocides, les réfugiés, le sida, la dictature, les coups d’État et la liste est longue de fléaux qui marquent encore l’histoire contemporaine du continent. Et les facteurs responsables ? Une autre liste peut être établie : l’esclavage, le colonialisme, l’impérialisme, la corruption, etc...
Voiles, identités et visibilité des femmes musulmanes dans l’espace public
Authors: Khedidja Mokeddem
Published: August 2023

L’intérêt de Mohamed Kerrou pour le hijâb est récent. C’est la médiatisation et la politisation de ce phénomène, non en Tunisie, son pays, mais en Europe et notamment en France, qui l’a amené à réfléchir sur la question. Il convient de souligner que l’objet d’étude de M. Kerrou est le hijâb et non le niqâb (le voile intégral). Ce qui intéresse M. Kerrou, ce n’est pas le hijâb classique mais les nouvelles manifestations vestimentaires du hijâb qu’il appelle clairement « nouveaux voiles » et les enjeux politiques et de société qu’elles impliquent. Dans ce livre, l’auteur y analyse cette pratique dans l’espace public en Europe mais également dans les pays musulmans...
Pour une anthropologie de l’enfance africaine
Authors: Fatima-Zohra Sebaa-Delladj
Published: August 2023

Composé de deux parties portant sur l’enfant et la famille en Afrique, pour la première et le processus de mutations et d’intégration en cours pour la seconde, ce volumineux ouvrage entreprend de nous faire effectuer un long périple, à la fois multidirectionnel et multiforme dans les univers de l’enfant africain.
En effet, loin de s’arrêter aux cadres familiaux, en Afrique mais aussi en France, comme le laissent penser les titres des deux parties du livre, les dix sept chapitres qui les composent traitent aussi bien de la colonisation que de l’esclavage, en passant par la religion, la sexualité, la maladie, l’alimentation, la maltraitance ou la mort…
Africa Review of Books, Volume 8, n° 1, 2012
Authors: Journal system
Published: August 2023

Contents

The Iron Lady of Liberia

Adekeye Adebajo .................................. 4

Namibian History Writ Large

Henning Melber .................................... 6

The Enduring Challenge of National Integration

Bahru Zewde ......................................... 7

Remembering and Reviving Student Activism in Tanzania

Priya Lal & Samuel Mhajida........................ 9

In Search of the Smoking Gun

Chris Saunders .......................................... 10

Le soulèvement tunisien, une révolte inattendue ?

Khedidja Mokeddem ............................... 11

Samir Amin, penseur et homme d’action au long cours

Hassan Remaoun ..............................13

La lecture d’un « Je Echo » de Jean-Luc Raharimanana

Kahina Bouanane Nouar ..............................14

Les Arabo-musulmans en Afrique sub-saharienne

Hamza Bachiri ..................................... 16

La République Démocratique du Congo à la recherche de la stabilité politique

Noël Obotela Rashidi ............................17

Les disparités entre les hommes et les femmes dans le sport en Afrique

Sara Hedia ...................................... 18

Incursion dans les processus du changement culturel en Afrique

Ammara Bekkouche ........................ 19
In Search of the Smoking Gun
Authors: Chris Saunders
Published: August 2023

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Le soulèvement tunisien, une révolte inattendue ?
Authors: Khedidja Mokeddem
Published: August 2023

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Samir Amin, penseur et homme d’action au long cours
Authors: Hassan Remaoun
Published: August 2023

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Africa Review of Books, Volume 8, n° 2, 2012
Authors: Journal system
Published: August 2023

Contents

The Superwomen of Ancient Dahomey: The World of the Amazons

Anselme Guezo ................................ 4

Africa, Japan and China

Seifudein Adem ................................7

The Afrikaners of South Africa – Settlers or Africans?

Anthoni van Nieuwkerk ...................9

A Tour of African Culinary History

Igor Cusack ..............................10

Studying Africa in the Context of the Broader Indian Ocean World

Wossen Ayele ...........................12

Memories Out of Time/ Recalling Home

Helen Yitah ..............................14

Les révolutions arabes : écrire des processus inachevés

Mustapha Medjahdi ...............15

Aux origines du génocide rwandais

Sidi Mohammed Mohammedi .................16

Quelles politiques pour rendre justice aux femmes africaines ?

Belkacem Benzenine ...............18

Modernité, citoyenneté et identité en Algérie

Khedidja Attou ..............................20

Les rapports de genre, enjeux des transformations socioéconomiques et politiques en Afrique

Yamina Rahou ......21

Plaidoyer pour la maitrise de l’espace en République Démocratique du Congo

Noël Obotella Rashidi ...........................22
Africa, Japan and China
Authors: Seifudein Adem
Published: August 2023

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Memories Out of Time / Recalling Home
Authors: Helen Yitah
Published: August 2023

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An Imaginative Biography of Samora Machel
Authors: Elísio Macamo
Published: August 2023

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La contribution de la femme musulmane à la culture de paix
Authors: Abdelouahab Belgherras
Published: August 2023

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Confréries religieuses et processus de sécularisation au sein de la société sénégalaise
Authors: Mohamed Brahim Salhi
Published: August 2023

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Pengaruh Motivasi Intrinsik pada Kepuasan Pekerja Hotel di Jakarta
Authors: Simanjuntak Robby , Wihardja Iriana , Yolanda Novita
Published: August 2023

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of motivation which has an impact on hotel operators' job satisfaction. This study aims to understand the lead factor of employee commitment by looking at the relative effects of intrinsic motivation factors on hotel staff's job satisfaction. The study involved 384 hotel employees who worked in Jakarta hotels with 4- and 5-star ratings. A descriptive test and multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 26 are used to analyse the data. The results reveal that there is a significant impact on job satisfaction from security of employment, achievement, responsibility and work for oneself. From the hotel staff's point of view, findings from this study shall be considered.
Chameleon Swarm Algorithm with Improved Fuzzy Deep Learning for Fall Detection Approach to Aid Elderly People
Authors: Alabdulkreem Eatedal , Marzouk Radwa , Alduhayyem Mesfer , Al-Hagery Mohammed Abdullah , Motwakel Abdelwahed , Hamza Manar Ahmed
Published: August 2023

Over the last few decades, the processes of mobile communications and the Internet of Things (IoT) have been established to collect human and environmental data for a variety of smart applications and services. Remote monitoring of disabled and elderly persons living in smart homes was most difficult because of possible accidents which can take place due to day-to-day work like falls. Fall signifies a major health problem for elderly people. When the condition is not alerted in time, then this causes death or impairment in the elderly which decreases the quality of life. For elderly persons, falls can be assumed to be the main cause for the demise of posttraumatic complications. Therefore, early detection of elderly persons’ falls in smart homes is required for increasing their survival chances or offering vital support. Therefore, the study presents a Chameleon Swarm Algorithm with Improved Fuzzy Deep Learning for Fall Detection (CSA-IDFLFD) technique. The CSA-IDFLFD technique helps elderly persons with the identification of fall actions and improves their quality of life. The CSA-IDFLFD technique involves two phases of operations. In the initial phase, the CSA-IDFLFD technique involves the design of the IDFL model for the identification and classification of fall events. Next, in the second phase, the parameters related to the IDFL method can be optimally selected by the design of CSA. To validate the performance of the CSA-IDFLFD technique in the fall detection (FD) process, a widespread experimental evaluation process takes place. The extensive outcome stated the improved detection results of the CSA-IDFLFD technique.
„Genos, ethnos, basileia“
Authors: Biagetti Claudio
Published: August 2023

Nel IV libro di Pausania, la storia dei Messeni appare scandita dall’alternarsi al potere di singole dinastie, ciascuna delle quali, oltre a riflettere in qualche misura i tratti culturali, religiosi e politici della Messenia greco-romana, prefigura – sia pur attraverso il diaframma deformante della fonte – le principali componenti etniche su cui i Messeni stessi fondavano la propria identità, nonché le rispettive aree di occupazione che la tradizione storico-letteraria assegnava ad esse. Muovendo dal confronto fra la testimonianza della Periegesi ed il resto della documentazione letteraria e archeologica, il lavoro qui presentato propone una rilettura della storia messenica che, sulla scia di una lunga tradizione di Quellenkritik, intende valorizzare più specificamente il dato etnico nei suoi risvolti topografici, culturali e storico-politici.

 

Biographische Informationen

Claudio Biagetti (Roma, 1981) è dottore di ricerca in Storia greca. A partire dal 2004, ha preso regolarmente parte a numerose campagne di scavo in Italia e in Turchia. Oltre alla storia e all’epigrafia greca, le sue ricerche si concentrano su problemi di topografia storica, di storiografia frammentaria e di papirologia.

 

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Quellen und Forschungen zur Antiken Welt - Band 62
Romantische Intellektualität und Ich-Krise
Authors: Sprengel Peter
Published: August 2023

Unbekannte Briefe zeigen einen Schweizer in Berlin um 1810, Gast bei Rahel Levin und Schüler Schleiermachers, auf dem Weg in den Wahnsinn. »Habe nun, ach! Philosophie …« – die Eingangsworte von Goethes Faust hätte auch Nikolaus Harscher aus Basel sprechen können, der an der Universität Halle Medizin studierte, um sich alsbald eng an Schleiermacher und Steffens, die neuberufenen Romantiker unter den Professoren, anzuschließen. Hier lernt ihn 1806 Karl August Varnhagen kennen, der Harscher in seiner Autobiographie als brillanten Dialektiker schildert, aber auch sein körperliches Leiden und die Neigung zu Melancholie und einem erdrückenden Schuldbewusstsein betont, die langfristig das Übergewicht erhalten werden. Nach der Schließung der Universität Halle folgt Harscher dem Freund nach Berlin, wo er in ein kompliziertes Verhältnis zu Rahel Levin tritt und sich zeitweise mit Schleiermachers Halbschwester Nanny verbindet. Einen Höhepunkt des Bandes bilden die hier erstmals veröffentlichten Briefe Harschers (u. a. an Chamisso), in denen die Ich-Krise des romantischen Subjektivismus auch sprachlich eigenwilligen Ausdruck findet. Die Briefe über den Besuch der Dresdner Gemäldegalerie stellen das singuläre Dokument einer unmittelbar vor dem Zusammenbruch stehenden romantischen Kunstbegeisterung dar. Nikolaus Harscher (1783-1844), aus wohlhabender Basler Familie, studierte Medizin in Basel und Halle und nahm hier und in Berlin engen Kontakt zur romantischen Bewegung auf. Rückgang nach Basel (endgültig 1818) und zunehmende Gemütsverdüsterung, von der er in zahlreichen Kuraufenthalten in Baden/Aargau vergeblich Erleichterung suchte.
Kalendergeschichte, Fait Divers, Twitter
Authors: Goppelsröder Fabian
Published: August 2023

Kalendergeschichte und Fait Divers als Ausgangspunkt einer grundlegenden Reflexion auf die besondere Medienästhetik kleiner Formen. Vom Werbeslogan bis zur Twitternachricht – Kürze ist der Imperativ unserer Zeit. Die Ästhetik des Schnellen, Ephemeren, Schnappschussartigen hat Konjunktur. Und doch steht sie zugleich in einer langen Tradition. Ausgehend von der besonderen Poetik der Kalendergeschichte Johan Peter Hebels und der Faits Divers Félix Fénéons analysiert Fabian Goppelsröder die spezifische Medienästhetik kleiner Formen. Beide gewinnen ihre besondere Poetik nicht allein aus Zeichenzahlstandards und Seitenbeschränkungen, sondern aus dem Spiel des Kleinen mit dem ihm einbettenden Kontext, aus dem subversiven Umgang mit den Gebrauchs- und Rezeptionsroutinen ihres ›massen‹-medialen Futterals, dem Kalender und der Tageszeitung. Analog, so die These, ist die Ästhetik kleiner Formen überhaupt nie frei von dem sie einbettenden jeweiligen Medium zu denken. Absolute Kürze gibt es nicht. Relative Kürze aber manifestiert sich erst im Spiel mit den durch mediale Praktiken auferlegten Vorgaben und Beschränkungen. In unserer auf Leistung und Effizienz gerichteten Gegenwart birgt die kleine Form mithin nicht allein die Möglichkeit zu weiterer Optimierung, sondern auch das Potenzial einer ästhetischen Befragung der unser Alltagshandeln leitenden Paradigmen.
Geschichte der internationalen Flüchtlingspolitik 1945 – 1975
Authors: Schönhagen Jakob
Published: August 2023

Im Jahrhundert der Flüchtlinge setzte sich erst weit nach 1945 eine internationale Flüchtlingspolitik mit globalem Ausmaß durch. Das 20. Jahrhundert war ein Jahrhundert der Flüchtlinge, in dem Millionen Menschen aufgrund von Krieg, Gewalt und Verfolgung ihre Heimat verlassen mussten. Mit den Fluchtbewegungen entstand das System der internationalen Flüchtlingshilfe. Es setzte sich die Vorstellung durch, dass es die Aufgabe der Staatengemeinschaft sei, Geflüchtete zu unterstützen und dafür leistungsfähige Strukturen aufzubauen. Bis in die späten 1950er-Jahre glaubte die Staatengemeinschaft jedoch, das massive Fluchtgeschehen sei ein vorübergehendes Problem, das nur Europa betreffe. Das Amt des Hohen Flüchtlingskommissars der Vereinten Nationen (UNHCR) war daher zunächst eine kleine Behörde mit wenig Einfluss. Jakob Schönhagen schildert eingehend, wie seit den 1960er-Jahren schrittweise und gegen viele Widerstände eine internationale Flüchtlingspolitik entstand, die weltweit ausgerichtet war – mit den Flüchtlingskrisen in Algerien und Bangladesch als den entscheidenden Stationen. Der Autor rekonstruiert ebenso, welche Folgen dieser späte Entstehungsprozess bis heute hat.
Die chemische Fabrik Joh. A. Benckiser im Nationalsozialismus
Authors: Erker Paul
Published: August 2023

Eine exemplarische Studie der mittelständischen Industrie in der NS-Zeit. Hinter den Chemischen Werken Joh. A. Benckiser aus Ludwigshafen steht ein mittelständisches Familienunternehmen, geführt von Albert Reimann senior und junior. Sie legten in den Jahren zwischen 1930 und 1960 die Grundlage zu einem aufstrebenden Chemieunternehmen. Paul Erker untersucht die Entwicklung des Unternehmens und die seiner Inhaber in den Jahren zwischen 1933 und 1945 und reiht sich damit ein in die anhaltenden Forschungen zur Geschichte deutscher Familienunternehmen in der NS-Zeit. Über diesen biographischen Zugriff untersucht der Autor aber auch einen bisher wenig beachteten Zweig der Chemieindustrie: die Anfänge der industriellen Biochemie mit Wein- und Zitronensäureherstellung und die Verarbeitung phosphorsaurer Salze in Reinigungsmitteln, allen voran das bekannte Calgon, sowie die Bedeutung dieser Produkte für die NS-Kriegswirtschaft. Wie agierten die Firmeninhaber dabei gegenüber den NS-Amtsträgern und Rüstungsbehörden? Die historische Einordnung dieser zwei Unternehmer steht exemplarisch für die damalige weit verbreitete und über alle Entwicklungen hindurch aufrechterhaltene NS-Begeisterung in weiten Teilen der mittelständischen Industrie.
Glück, Tragik, Tod, Sinn
Authors: Köppe Tilmann , Finkendey Fabian
Published: August 2023

Was ist ein gutes Leben? Anhand ausführlicher Beispielinterpretationen erläutert der Band die Rolle der Literatur bei der Bewältigung existenzieller Probleme. Was ist ein gutes Leben? Unter welchen Voraussetzungen gilt ein Lebensentwurf als gelungen und wann sprechen wir vom Scheitern einer Existenz? Die in diesem Band vorgelegten Interpretationen zu ausgewählten Werken der Weltliteratur kreisen um Fragen existenziellen Zuschnitts: Gibt es ein Glück auf der Grundlage von Selbsttäuschung? Was meinen wir, wenn wir vom tragischen Scheitern einer Person sprechen? Und wird, was wir im Leben erreicht zu haben glauben, angesichts des nahen Todes zwangsläufig null und nichtig? Die behandelten Texte der kleinen und großen literarischen Form – Johann Peter Hebels Kalendergeschichte »Kannitverstan«, Theodor Storms Novelle »Der Schimmelreiter«, Leo Tolstois Erzählung »Der Tod des Iwan Iljitsch« und Kazuo Ishiguros Roman »Was vom Tage übrig blieb« – konfrontieren uns mit solchen Fragen und veranschaulichen die Rolle der Literatur bei der Bewältigung existenzieller Probleme.
The Complexity of Fulfilling the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Implementation of Elections: A Literature Study
Authors: Arifin Muhammad Risal
Published: August 2023

General elections are a form of channeling people's sovereignty to produce a democratic government. Every democratic country wants to create inclusive elections. In the implementation of elections, the participation of the entire community is one of the main factors in the success of inclusive elections. Therefore, the participation of persons with disabilities as vulnerable groups in the implementation of elections is a crucial issue that needs attention. The limitations that persons with disabilities have often result in problems in fulfilling their rights in the implementation of elections. Therefore, regulations are needed so that the distribution of the rights of persons with disabilities in elections can be realized. This research uses a literature approach. This research aims to present the complexity of persons with disabilities in the implementation of elections so that it is expected to contribute to the benchmark for inclusive elections.
The local agri-food system of the date palm in Tafilalet (Morocco): towards the territorialisation and sustainability
Authors: Zahidi Mohamed , Ayegou Jamila
Published: August 2023

The present work aims to analyze the dynamics of an oasis territory known historically by the agriculture of the date palm, through the territorialization of a localized agri-food system (LAFS) in the phoeniculture sector. This territory is Tafilalet located in the region of Daraâ-Tafilalet in southeast Morocco. From there, to analyze this relationship between the territoriality of this LAFS and the dynamics of Tafilalet we adopt a qualitative approach based mainly on dozens of interviews with different local actors of the LAFS of the date palm in Tafilalet (LAFS-DPT). In terms of results, we presented the four levers of territorialization of the LAFS of the date palm in Tafilalet (physical, cognitive, historical and interpersonal, and institutional), and their economic, social, and environmental impacts on the territory. This shows a territorial dynamic with four figures (production, valorization, quality, and commercialization), supported by an important environmental sustainability orientation of the system, and thus an orientation of the LAFS of the date palm in Tafilalet towards the model of a territorialized food system (TFS).
Does Biodiversity Matter In The Tourism Demand Model? International Evidence
Authors: Jaz Nur Ameera , Habibullah Muzafar Shah , Azman-Saini W.N.W. , Kaliappan Shivee Ranjanee
Published: August 2023

This study aims to examine the role of natural attractions, measured by biodiversity in attracting international tourists. This study was conducted from 2010 to 2016 for 120 countries. Several static approaches such as Pooled Ordinary Least Square (POLS), Random Effect (RE) as well as Fixed Effect (FE) were used to estimate the static effect between biodiversity and international tourist arrivals. Overall, the robust standard error results show that the choice of a tourism destination is strongly related to biodiversity. Moreover, the outcome also reveals that GDP per capita, good governance, investment in the travel and tourism sector, as well as the internet are positively significant in determining the tourism demand. Surprisingly, both the exchange rate and life expectancy are insignificant in this study. Therefore, the role of the government is essential to ensure the policies are correctly implemented to enhance the development of the tourism sector.
Tourism development and economic growth: the Validity of the Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis for Madeira
Authors: Almeida António
Published: August 2023

Most island´s economies, such as Madeira, are confined to maximizing opportunities in the sectors not constrained by market proximity, as in the case of tourism. Previous empirical studies have mainly applied econometric models to find and characterize the relationship between tourism development and real GDP in the long run. While a few studies fail to corroborate this relationship due to its complex nature, most studies confirm the Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis (TLGH) that links the economic growth on islands to THE tourism sector. This paper explores the validity of the tourism-led growth hypothesis for Madeira using annual data from 1978 to 2019. The results of the cointegration tests point to a positive long-run relationship between tourism receipts and economic growth. Moreover, the analysis of the short-run dynamics, based on a VECM reveal that this long-run linear relationship is stable. However, we need to the taking into account the existence of structural breaks, and a change of regime, and therefore sources of instability. From a “causality” point of view, the main finding suggests that there is long-run causality running from tourism to GDP but not the opposite. The overall results corroborate the widespread view of the region´s over-dependence on the tourism sector
Contributos para o Estudo da Fixação de Talento à Escala Regional: Um Índice de Criatividade em Portugal
Authors: Rebolho José Miguel , Barata Eduardo , Lopes Luís
Published: August 2023

Num contexto em que um trabalhador se pode fixar em qualquer local, nomeadamente devido às facilidades geradas com o trabalho remoto, é importante dispor de uma ferramenta de fácil acesso para que académicos e decisores possam perceber que áreas de foco privilegiar para promover a fixação de pessoas e de talento. Este trabalho tem como objetivo desenvolver um Índice de Criatividade assente em três pilares fun-damentais: i) Tolerância; ii) Talento; iii) Urbanização e Mercado de Trabalho. Esta ferramenta possibilita a mensuração da capacidade de captação e fixação de pessoas à escala de cada município e das regiões. No final, a análise espacial revelou, numa perspetiva global, a existência da autocorre-lação espacial no Índice de Criatividade e em cada um dos seus três pilares e,numa perspetiva local,a formação de clustersespaciais.A aplicação do Índice de Criatividade aos municípios portugueses destaca os municípios de Lisboa, Porto e da região do Algarve Turístico como os principais polos criativos nacionais. O município de Barrancos, a região do Alto Alentejo e a região Interior Norte e Centro posicionam-se no extremo oposto para a fixação de talento.
The Development of an AF4 Characterization Pipeline for Polymeric Nanoparicle-Protein Interactions
Authors: Daramy Karim , Punnabhum Panida , Perrie Yvonne , Rattray Zahra
Published: August 2023

The centrifugation-wash method is currently the standard technique used for the recovery of nanoparticle-protein complexes from protein-containing serum. However, this technique is disruptive, and leads to changes in nanoparticle parameters and the surface-bound protein composition. In this study, we explore the use of field flow fractionation (FFF) for the development of a robust pipeline for the characterization of nanoparticle parameters following protein corona formation under physiologically-relevant conditions. Model surface-modified polystyrene latex nanoparticles were treated with protein-containing medium mimicking cell-culture conditions under physiologically-relevant conditions. Following incubation, nanoparticle-protein samples were then fractionated using the FFF system and characterized using in-line detectors. Conventional nanoparticle-protein studies typically use the highly invasive centrifugation-wash method which leads to changes in measured particle parameters. Our studies show that AF4 allows for high resolution and characterization of in-situ nanoparticle-protein complexes. This work will allow for the development of a more harmonized approach for characterizing nanoparticle-protein interactions under biologically-relevant conditions.