The Australasian Review of African Studies

Volume XXV (2) December 2003

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CONTENTS

Note from the Editor

4

AFSAAP 2004

6


Articles

 

Women’s leadership roles in the early Protestant church in Uganda: Continuity with the old order
Liz Dimock


8

Gender, power and protest in African farming: Recalcitrant women and usurping men in colonial Kenya, 1930-1950
Clare Buswell

23

Global impulses / Local politics: Comparing two eras of constitution making in Kenya
Edith Miguda
 

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Review Articles

 

Robert Mugabe and the politics of choice in Zimbabwe
Paul Nursey-Bray

48

Two perspectives on the portrayal of Botswana in The no. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
From Botswana - Khadija Mogami
From Western Australia - Karen Miller
 

55

Book Reviews

 

Wahome Mutahi, Three days on the cross; The jail bugs; How to be a Kenyan; Doomsday; Mr. Canta; Hassan the genie; Whispers and Camisassius; The ghost of Garba Tula; Just wait and see; The miracle merchant
Marjorie Oludhe-Macgoye

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Dag Henrichsen, Hubertus Graf zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1909 – 1995). Personal papers and manuscripts on Namibia

Meredith McKittrick, To dwell secure: Generation, Christianity, and colonialism in Ovamboland 

Marion Wallace, Health, power and politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915 – 1945
Jan-Bart Gewald
 


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Paul Nugent, Smugglers, secessionists and loyal citizens on the Ghana-Togo frontier: The lie of the borderlands since 1914
David Brown

73


Justin Willis, Potent brews: A social history of alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999
Jeremy Martens


77


Bahru Zewde, Pioneers of change in Ethiopia
Irma Taddia


80


Martin R. Doornbos, The Ankole kingship controversy: Regalia galore revisited
Cherry Gertzel


83


Douglas H. Johnson, The root causes of Sudan’s civil wars
Chaplain Kara Yokoju


85


Late Note: Biography of Jack Archer


88


Research Matters

 

Empowering Kenyan women through participation in dairy micro-enterprises: Reporting a Kenyan research project
Dolphine Odero-Wanga, Milcah Mulu-Mutuku and Adijah Aliu-Olubandwa
 

90

Notes

 

Forty years of African demography at the ANU
David Lucas

96

Building bridges between academics and service providers to Sudanese refugees in Australia
Matthew Albert and Anna Grace

99

Reflections on a changing Tanzania
Colin Reed

103

Australian input into the African Virtual University
David Dorward

106

A DFAT trade and investment Analysis of African Renewal
David Dorward

108

Archbishop of Capetown on the challenges of living in a Global Village
Alison Preston and Greg Thompson

109


African Studies Centre WA


111

Somalia Development Symposium at La Trobe

112

Brisbane Forum on Western media perceptions of Africa

112

Botswana Opens its High Commission in Canberra

113

New South African High Commissioner in Canberra

114

Conferences 

114

AFSAAP News

 

AFSAAP Postgraduate Essay Prize 2003

117

Minutes of the AGM, October 2003

117

AFSAAP Constitution (as amended to 2003)

125

Guidelines for Post-Graduate Essay Prize

127

Note for Contributors

128

 

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