Note from the Editor         4

AFSAAP 2002: First call for papers        6

Articles

The obscure history of asbestos mining in South Africa        8          
Jock McCulloch

Traditional healers and mental health care in rural Ghana        20
Komla Tsey

Review Articles

The Rwandan genocide: Have we finally found an explanation? A review essay        31          
Saskia Van Hoyweghen

Harvesting water and the political economy of food scarcity: A review essay        38
Scott MacWilliam

Book Reviews

Norman Etherington, The great treks: The Ttansformation of Southern Africa 1815-1854        48   
Penelope Hetherington

Pier Larson, History and memory in the age of enslavement: Becoming Merina in highland Madagascar        51          
Martin Klein

Tekeste Negash and Kjetil Tronvoll, Brothers at war: Making sense of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war         54     
Kristine Ryan

Øyvind M. Eide, Revolution & religion in Ethiopia: The growth & persecution of the Mekane Yesus Church 1974-1985        57           
Christine Mason

Sandra Fullerton Joireman, Property rights and political development in Ethiopia & Eritrea        59      
Christine Mason

David M. Anderson and Richard Rathbone (eds), Africa’s urban past         61
David Dorward

Matsuda Motoji, Urbanization from below: Creativity and soft resistance in the everyday life of Maragoli migrants in Nairobi        64
Nancy Openda-Omar          

Stephanie Newell, Ghanaian popular fiction: "Thrilling discoveries in conjugal life" & other tales        66       
Gareth Griffiths

Olivier Barlet, African cinemas: Decolonizing the gaze        68 
Martin Mhando

Peter Sanders, The last of the Queen’s men: A Lesotho experience        71    
David Goldsworthy

Ruddy Doom and Jan Gorus (eds), Politics of identity and economics of conflict in the Great Lakes region        72     
Cherry Gertzel

Research Matters

Rebuilding local economies: The case of East Asian importers in Durban’s CBD        76        
M. Raidoo

Documentary sources on the Ethiopian-Eritrean war        79   

Notes

Thomas Baines and the "Great Map": Route of the Goldfields Exploration Company’s Expedition 1869-1872        80

Popularising the debate on African Union: The Africa Institute of South Africa contribution         81     

African Studies in Otago, New Zealand         83

2001 Noma Award          84

"Africa Today" Forum at the University of Melbourne        85

Chicken and egg cookbook from Mozambique         86          

Library Appeal for the Institute of Ethiopian Studies           87

Keeping the University Tradition Alive in East Africa: The 2001 ATWS (Kenya Chapter) conference 2001         88

Film script on the plight of Kenyan street children          89

AFSAAP News

AFSAAP Annual General Meeting 2001        90

Note: Submission date for Postgraduate Essay Award     

Conferences          95
 

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