Cet article examine comment quelques ex-insurgées donnent du sens à leur engagement dans l'insurrection liée au pétrole au Nigéria. Cette étude tente de répondre à trois questions clés : Comment est-ce que les femmes du Delta ont rejoint l'insurrection ? Pourquoi l'ont-elles rejoint ? Comment est-ce qu'elles formulent leur participation ? L'article analyse la préva...

Over the course of the 1920s, Clements Kadalie (c.1895-1951) espoused a radical new form of black masculinity that rejected white oversight, disparaged the 'hypocrisies' of colonial 'civilisation', and spurned the established patriarchal practices of other black organisations. As 'bad boy' trade unionists, Kadalie and other leaders of the Industrial and Commercial ...

The ‘Charter for a Man’ campaign was run in the Daily Sun, the widely circulated South African tabloid newspaper, from 7 November to 7 December 2007. The campaign, ostensibly designed to discourage gender violence, could potentially provide social critique and be transformative of gender inequalities. This critical investigation of the campaign coverage sets out to...

Cet article explore la reconfiguration de l'autorité rurale à la suite du programme accéléré de réforme foncière au Zimbabwe, en particulier la manière dont le programme a permis aux chefs locaux de développer l'autochtonie ancestrale comme un moyen de contester l'hégémonie de l’État sur les zones rurales. L'article soutient que les chefs ne peuvent pas être consid...

In Nairobi, young urban professionals self-confidently position themselves as Africans, while they are simultaneously reproached for being ‘un-African’. I explore this economy of claims and how it relates to the way the lifestyles of young professionals become the focus of generational conflict. I follow how various actors use the notions African, Western, modern a...

I am an African. I speak an African language. Ngingum-Afrika. Ngikhuluma izilimi zase-Afrika. (isiZulu) Ndingum-Afrika. Ndithetha ulwimi lwase-Afrika. (isiXhosa)Mimi ni mAfrika. azungumza lugha ya waAfrika. (Swahili) The sense of pride inherent in this statement belies the challenge that African languages face today. Multilingualism in African languages is not seen...

This paper presents the first ethnoarchaeological study of stigmatised market pottery production in Tigray Region in northern highland Ethiopia. In Tigray the rural farm economy is based on ox-plough cereal farming, which frequently fails to produce a household's subsistence. Rural women are particularly vulnerable to extreme poverty and some turn to pottery making...