Articles

La « Sorbonne » d’Abidjan: rêve de démocratie ou naissance d’un espace public?

Aghi Bahi                                                                                                                     

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‘Better infection than hunger’. A study of illness perceptions with special focus on urinary schistosomiasis in Northern Tanzania

Beth Maina Ahlberg, Rose Mwangi, Gabriel Poggensee, Hermann Feldermeier, and Ingela Krantz           

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Traditional cultural practices of imparting sex education and the fight against HIV/AIDS: The case of initiation ceremonies for girls in Zambia

Augustus K. Kapungwe                                                                                             

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Denial and violence: Paradoxes in men’s perspectives to premarital sex and pregnancy in Rural Zimbabwe

Jeremiah Chikovore, Lennarth Nystrom, Gunilla Lindmark, and Beth Maina Ahlberg        

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Addresses

Scales of suffering, Orders of Emancipation: Critical Issues in Democratic Development in Africa

Tade Akin Aina                                                                                                          

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Third Worldism

Andrew Nash                                                                                                             

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Research Reports

Sexual Harassment in Academia in Nigeria: How Real?

Olugbenga Jelil Ladebo                                                                                           

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‘Gone but not forgotten’: Chieftaincy, Accountability and State Audit in Ghana, 1993-99

E. Kojo Sakyi                                                                                                           

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A Note on Alcohol Consumption and Sexual Behaviour of Youths in Botswana

Eugene K. Campbell                                                                                                

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Review Symposium

Neville Alexander. An Ordinary Country: Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy. Pietermaritzburg. Natal University Press. 2002

Review by: Andrew Nash, Z. Pallo Jordan and Luvuyo Wotshela                          

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Book Reviews

Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy (eds.). ‘Wicked’ Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Portsmouth. Heinemann. 2001

Reviewed by Hannington Ochwada                                                                         

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Abubakar Momoh and Said Adejumobi (eds.). The National Question in Nigeria – Comparative Perspectives. Burlington, VT, USA. Ashgate Publishing Company. 2000

Reviewed by Layi Erinosho                                                                                      

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David Marsden. 1999. A Theory of Employment Systems: Micro Foundations of Societal Diversity. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1999.

Reviewed by Geoffrey Wood                                                                                    

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Louise Meintjes. South of Africa Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Durham. Duke University Press. 2003.

Reviewed by Michael Drewett                                                                                 

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