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Culture and development : the popular theatre approach in Africa
No full text"The Popular Theatre movement in Africa is a response to a history that has undermined people's genuine participation in the development process." With these words Penina Mlama opens the exciting survey in this book of different attempts at creating a truly Popular Theatre in the third World in general, and in Africa in particular. The author who is a writer and academic in Tanzania draws heavily on her own involvement in this cultural-political movement.Contents: 1. Culture and development -- 2. Theatre and development -- 3. Popular theatre in Latin America and Asia -- 4. The background to popular theatre in Africa -- 5. The popular theatre movement in Africa from the 1970s -- 6. The theatre in Tanzania -- 7. Malya Popular Theatre Project 1982-1983 -- 8. Bagamoyo Popular Theatre Workshop 1983 -- 9. Msoga popular Theatre Workshop 1985 -- 10. Mkambalani Popular Theatre Workshop 1986 </p
Maternal and child health in Kenya : a study of poverty, disease and malnutrition in Samia
No full textA study of the effects of declining food production and recurrent famine in Kenya. It is based on fieldwork in Samia, Western Kenya, a region where the population has been malnourished on the verge of starvation
Small town Africa : studies in rural-urban interaction
No full textSmall towns have often been considered as unimportant or even as anomalous phenomena and consequently have been largely ignored by policy makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change without consideration being given to the positive contribution that small towns can make to rural transformation. But for the overwhelming majority of Africa's population which is rural, it is the small town with which they have the most frequent and intense contacts and which provides the foci for economic, social, political and cultural rural-urban interaction. The papers in this book address a wide range of issues relating to the small town in rural context from both the macro perspective, including the role of the state, to the micro perspective where attention is given to the vitality and adaptability of individual actors through their utilisation of rural and urban opportunities. Case studies are drawn from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Kap Verde : de lyckliga öarna
No full textMed hjälp av tidigare okänt historiskt material, unika intervjuer och egna intryck från ett flertal resor till Kap Verde, levandegör den brittiske historikern Basil Davidson Kap Verdes långa historia av förtryck och hungersnöd, dess frigörelsekamp och dess unika experiment med demokratiskt styre efter självständigheten.Innehåll: Del ett: Vart och varför? -- Del två: Tystnadens historia -- Del tre: Mot alla odds -- Del fyra: I Cabrals efterföljd </p
Adaptive strategies in African arid lands : proceedings from a seminar at the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala, Sweden, April 1989
No full textAdaptive strategies cannot be fully understood on the basis of environmental constraints alone. The essays presented in this book confirm this and provide material showing how environmental and socio-political processes interact in the making of adaption. The essays eludiate how manifestations of adaptability problems differ from region to region. such variations depend on the natural environment as well as the particular histories of development, socio-economic characteristics and the nature of the state. This collection of essays try to provide som answers to the problems emanating from different types of variation, and how they affect processes of adaption and change in African arid land
The medicine man among the Zaramo of Dar es Salaam
No full textAs an urban anthropologist, pastor and teacher the author has lived for many years among the Zaramo. This revised doctoral thesis is an important and well documented study of the traditional healers in the urban setting.Contents: 1. Traditional medicine man and muslim clerics as healers -- 2. Other types of medicine men and women -- 3. Diagnosis of illness the diviner -- 4. The urban Zaramo and their concept of illness and misfortune -- 5. The changing role of the medicine man in urban Zaramo </p
From water to world-making : African models and arid lands
No full textThe articles in this book attempt to illuminate the complex interactions between ecology and society in arid lands and the range of representations developed by africans - be they pastoralists, fishermen or farmers.Contents: 1. Introduction / Gisli Pálsson -- 2. The Sources of Life: Boran Conceptions of Wells and Water / Gudrun Dahl and Gemetchu Megerssa -- 3. Cattle are Companions, Goats are Gifts: Animals and People in Turkana Thought / Vigdis Broch-Due -- 4. Formal Categories in Maasai Symbolism / Arvi Hurskainen -- 5. Ways of Milk and Meat Among the Maasai: Gender Identity and Food Resources in a Pastoral Economy / Aud Talle -- 6. Cultural Models in Cape Verdean Fishing / Gisli Pálsson -- 7. Symbolic Identification Among the Hadendowa of Eastern Sudan / M. A. Moharned Salih -- 8. From Slave to Citizen: Cultural Change Among the Lafofa Nuba of Central Sudan / Leif Manger -- 9. The Changing Patterns of Pastoral Production in Somali Society 135 / Ebbe Poulsen -- 10. Drought and Change Amongst Northern Kenya Nomadic Pastoralists: The Case of the Rendille and Gabra / Michael F. O 'Leay -- 11. Pastoral Territoriality and Land Degradation in Tanzania / Daniel K. Ndagala</p
Refugees in a chess game : reflections on Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland refugee policies
No full textThe number of refugees in Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland have risen dramatically. To analyse the complex refugee policies which evolved the author places these countries in the broader context of the political economy of the subregion. After giving the general background the author proceeds to analyse each of the three countries in terms of how South African policies have affected their refugee policies
