Note from the Editor

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AFSAAP 2005

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Articles

‘Variant fortune’: The livelihood plights of two families in rural Zimbabwe
John Louis Moore

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The empowerment of women in Museveni’s Uganda: Who benefits?
William Muhumuza

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Review Articles

Towards the rebirth of African universities
Lalage Bown

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Understanding the Rwenzururu movement: An autobiographical account
Martin Doornbos

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The past, present and future of African politics
Scott MacWilliam

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Book Reviews

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Els De Temmerman, Aboke girls: Children abducted in Northern Uganda

Zachary Lomo and Lucy Hovil, Behind the violence: Causes, consequences and the search for solutions to the war in Northern Uganda

World Vision, pawns of politics: Children, conflict and peace in Northern Uganda

AVSI, GUSCO, Red Barnet, UNICEF, World Vision, Where is my Home? Children in war
Cherry Gertzel

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Shirley Ardener (ed.) Swedish Ventures in Cameroon 1883-1923: Trade and travel, People and politics, The memoir of Knut Knutson

E. M. Chilver and Ute Roschenthaler (eds), Cameroon’s tycoon: Max Esser’s expedition and its consequences
Caroline Ifeka

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George E. Brooks, Eurafricans in Western Africa. Commerce, social status, gender, and religious observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth century
Graeme Counsel

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Dan Brockington, Fortress conservation: The preservation of the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania
Lochran Trail

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Eric Gilbert, Dhows and the colonial economy of Zanzibar: 1860-1970
Iain Walker

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Old crop, new crop: Contracting out oil palm production in Ghana
Paul Huddleston

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Women and empire: Primary sources on gender and Anglo-Imperialism, 1750-1930
Liz Dimock

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Notes

Namibia’s Arid Lands Research Institute: Combining desert ecology with the search for community development
Robin Burns
 

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Arabian Africans or African Arabs?: The dynamics of Islamic African identity in the Arabian peninsula
Iain Walker

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AFSAAP News

AFSAAP Annual General Meeting 2004: Minutes

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Conferences

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Note for Contributors

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