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This report focuses on the relationship between agriculture, the weather, and dislocation in sub-Saharan Africa.
Co-written by Michael W. Conner (Southern University at New Orleans) and Raymond A. Silverman (Michigan State University), this article
was originally published in African Arts (Summer 1999, vol. 32, no. 2), The James S. Coleman African Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
Compiled by Kenneth Wilburn from subscribers' responses to the Afrimuse listserv between
17 March and 11 April 1996, this music survey considers music, distributers, and the
concerns the respondents had about African music.
David Cavers of York University reviews the history of African studies in Britain to early 1997. This essay was also published
in The Times Higher Education Supplement section on African Studies.
Ibrahim Sundiata, chair of the Department of History at Howard University, comments on the documentary, Wonders of the African World. See also
"BLACK ORIENTALISM? Further Reflections on Wonders of the African World by Henry Louis Gates, Jr." just below and H'Africa's Wonders Thread.
Chris Lowe compiled this bibliography entitled, "Publications on Swaziland held in the Harvard Library system published between 1990 and 2000," 18 August 2000.
Ali A. Mazrui responds for a second time to the controversial film series, Wonders of the African World, created by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with the support of PBS and the BBC.
See also Mazrui's Further Response and Martin Kilson's MASTER OF THE INTELLECTUAL DODGE: A REPLY TO HENRY LOUIS GATES.
Written by Ed Marek, NCN, September 29, 1998, this essay is crossposted from the All North America Conference on Congo, ANACCO-L@ksu.edu.
Created by Davis Bullwinkle for H-Africa, 30 October 2000.
David Graeber's work is an historical ethnography about a village
called Betafo in central Madagascar.
Dated October 26, 1998, this posting reports on the Eritrea-Ethiopia conflict from the UN's Integrated
Regional Information Network for Central and Eastern Africa.
This site includes "The Eritrean War of Aggression Against Ethiopia: A Reflection on the Ethio-Eritrean Conflict in
Retrospect and Prospect," "War Senario - a Voice from Eritrea," "Statement by Seyoum Mesfin to the UN, 1 OCTOBER 1998," and
"Truth, 1/2 Truth and Falsehood."
Reacts to "A Framework Agreement For A Peaceful Settlement of the Dispute Between Eritrea and Ethiopia,"
a proposal created by OAU Heads of State and Government, circa early November 1998
This health profile for Ethiopia, February 1995, produced
by the Center for International Health Information (CIHI), contains
data on health and demographic characteristics, health indicators and trends.
Selected postings collected by Charles Becker beckerleschar@sentoo.sn, co-editor of H-West-Africa and Patrick F.A. Wurster wurster@mail.h-net.msu.edu, co-editor of H-Africa.
Archived here are three essays that first appeared in the Spring 1996 issue of
Africa Update: Ifeyinwa Iweriebor, "Brief Reflections on Clitorodectomy,"
Aisha Samad Matias, "Female Circumcision in Africa," and Adeline Apena,
"Female Circumcision in Africa and the Problem of Cross-Cultural Perspectives."
Joseph Miller's American Historical Association presidential address, presented in Washington, D.C., 8 January 1999, is archived here.
Karel Arnaut and Hein Vanhee, Ghent University, conducted the interview on 1 November 2001.
Respondents included Jean-Luc Vellut,
Jan Blommaert,
and Karel Arnaut and Hein Vanhee.
John Bottomley discusses his paper, 'This Age's Most Uncertain Hour':
Postmodernism and Hermeneutical Anxiety in the 'New South Africa,' 21 June 1998.
Now a bit dated, Raymond R. Gervais' essay helps Africanists get online.
Richard Joseph's article from the Journal of Democracy, 9.4 (1998) 55-61.
Bill Berkeley, who has been an Alicia Patterson fellow in Africa, reports on the regime of
Daniel arap Moi in The Atlantic (February 1996).
Samuel Kofi Woods, Director of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission-Liberia,
reports on instability in Liberia in September 1996.
The Africa Policy Information Center's document that helped the UN shape its policy
toward Liberia in early 1996 is reproduced here.
Dean Gottehrer visited Malawi in early 1996 as an ombudsman. This is his
account of conversations he had with James Makoza Chirwae, Malawi's
newly appointed ombudsman.
Mel Page provides H-Africa's subscribers with the "apology" of H. Kamuzu Banda,
the former President of Malawi, issued on January 4, 1996.
Zeric Kay Smith keeps H-Africa subscribers informed on the 1997 elections in Mali.
Martin Kilson, the Frank G. Thomson Research Professor and colleague of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at Harvard University, enters the debate between Ali Mazrui and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
on the film, "Wonders of the African World."
Book Information and Chapter Two, courtesy University of California Press.
Bruce Janz's Review of On the Postcolony, March 2002.
Christian Höller's Interview with Achille Mbembe, courtesy Springerin, 3 (2002).
Ato Quayson's Review, courtesy African Studies Review.
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch's Review and
Discussants.
These documents discuss the controversy between Joseph Hanlon, one of the
most prominent Western experts on Mozambique, and US Ambassador Dennis Jett, who
barred his staff from talking with Hanlon in late 1995 and early 1996 on the grounds that Hanlon's views of
US policy towards Mozambique was "totally biased."
Charles Abbott of the University of Iowa brings H-Africa subscribers up-to-date (August 1999) on the latest developments concerning oil and the Niger delta.
He includes many useful web sites as well. His posting brought an important reply from
Bronwen Manby of Human Rights Watch announcing and giving access to two lengthy reports,
The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities (February 1999)
and the follow-up essay, Crackdown in the Niger Delta (May 1999).
Published on 29 May 1996, this report summarizes the results of the UN mission to
investigate the trial and execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his comrades.
This is the text of Soyinka's speech given at the Summit of Nigerian
Pro-Democracy groups, held simultaneously in Johannesburg and Oslo in late
March 1996.
This series from the African Studies Center’s Program for the Study of the African Environment makes the results of current research on African environmental issues by Boston University scholars and their international collaborators available to a wide audience at a modest cost.
Barry Stein explores the state of some 107 refugee settlements in Africa in 1990.
This report is based upon observations from an informal visit to Somaliland by M. Bryden, Consultant to
UN Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia, during September and October 1995.
Stefan Blaschke's work-in-progress discusses the status of e-journals in history to March 2000.
Paiki Muswazi (Special Collections Librarian) and Rose Magagula (Cataloguer), Compilers, University of Swaziland Libraries, P. Bag 4, Kwaluseni, M201, Swaziland.
Paul Nugent, Department of History, University of Edinburgh
Paul Nugent, Department of History, University of Edinburgh
Davis Bullwinkle of WWW.AFRICABIB.ORG, AfricaBib, has kindly granted H-Africa permission to reproduce a search engine generated 31-page bibliography of sources on the history of and exploration in Tanzania, 12 September 2000.
Excerpted from an essay written by Patrick Gilkes and Martin Plaut. Taken from a FPIF policy brief archived at http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org/briefs/vol5/v5n25eritethiop.html.
Published in 1992, this essay is authored by Gordon C. Thomasson, World History Faculty, State University of New York.
Special Rapporteur Roberto Garreton visited Kinshasa, Goma and Bukavu, Zaire in 1995 and
submitted this report on 29 January 1996. The report has been abridged and translated from Spanish
by staff at APIC.
A corrected Reuters news story about Zalambessa is given here, 18 November 1998.
