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Number 32, 2010 Number 32, 2010 AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 32, 2010 Contents Editorial policy .............................................................................................................iii Geographical index .....................................................................................................1 Subject index...............................................................................................................3 Author index ................................................................................................................7 Periodicals abstracted in this issue ...........................................................................14 Abstracts ...................................................................................................................17 Abstracts produced by Michèle Boin, Katrien Polman, Tineke Sommeling, Marlene C.A. Van Doorn i ii EDITORIAL POLICY EDITORIAL POLICY African Studies Abstracts Online provides an overview of articles from periodicals and edited works on sub-Saharan Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. New features Following recommendations from a survey among subscribers to the ASA Online mailing list in 2008/09, various improvements have been made to ASA Online. The navigation and search facilities have been enhanced and a link to full text has been included when available. It is now possible to navigate within ASA Online directly - from the table of contents to the corresponding page - from an entry number in the subject and author indexes to the page where the bibliographic description and abstract can be found - from the country name in the geographical index to the corresponding section of the abstracts and from the entry number to the page containing the bibliographic description and abstract - from the bibliographic description via the ASCLink to the full text of an article or publication if available (subject to access restrictions) Another new feature is the inclusion of descriptors from the ASC African Studies Thesaurus for each entry. Each descriptor is linked to a search query in the online catalogue of the ASC library. Coverage ASA Online covers edited works (up to 60 in each issue) and journals in the field of African studies. Some 240 journals are systematically scanned. Just over half are English-language journals, just under a quarter are French, and the rest are German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese. Some 40 percent of the journals are published in Africa. Newspapers and weeklies, popular magazines, current affairs bulletins, statistical digests, directories, annual reports and newsletters are not scanned. Articles from journals published in Africa and from leading Africanist journals published outside the continent are provided with abstracts. Articles from other journals, including journals on North Africa, are catalogued and indexed without abstracts. All articles are included in the online catalogue of the ASC Library at http://opc-ascl.oclc.org/DB=3/LNG=EN/ To be selected for abstracting/indexing an article must be at least three to four pages long and have been published in the past two years. In a few cases, an article may be excluded on the grounds of subject if this is marginal to the ASC library's collection profile. Articles in the field of literature dealing with only one work are normally not selected. This also applies to purely descriptive articles iii EDITORIAL POLICY covering current political/economic developments, which could be expected to become quickly outdated. Review articles and book reviews are not covered. Contents and arrangement ASA Online is published four times a year. Each issue contains up to 400 entries, numbered sequentially and arranged geographically according to the broad regions of Africa: Northeast, West, West Central, East, Southeast Central and Southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean islands. There is also a general section for entries whose scope extends beyond Africa, as well as sections dealing with Africa and with sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. Within the regional sections, entries are arranged by country, and within each country, alphabetically according to author. Entries covering two countries appear twice, once under each country heading. Entries covering three or more countries are generally classified under the relevant regional heading. Each entry provides a bibliographic description together with English-language descriptors from the ASC African Studies Thesaurus and an abstract in the language of the original document. The abstract covers the essentials of the publication, generally including a description of subject and purpose, disciplinary approach, nature of the research and source materials. Where applicable an indication of the time period, specific geographical information, as well as the names of persons, languages and ethnic groups, are included. Indexes and list of sources Each issue of ASA Online contains a geographical index, a subject index, and an author index, all referring to entry number. The subject index is self-devised and is intended as a first and global indication of subjects with categories for general, religion and philosophy, culture and society, politics, economics, law, education, anthropology, medical care and health services, rural and urban planning and geography, language and literature, and history and biography. Entries included under more than one country heading are listed in the geographical index under each country. The subject and author indexes list the entry only once, the first time it appears. In addition, each issue of ASA Online contains a list of periodicals abstracted, indicating the issues which have been covered. A list of all periodicals regularly scanned for abstracting or indexing is available on the ASC website at: http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Abstracts/ Comments or suggestions can be sent to the editors at [email protected] iv GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number INTERNATIONAL General 1-3 AFRICA General 4-56 NORTHEAST AFRICA General 57 Djibouti 58 Eritrea 59-60 Ethiopia 61-71 Somalia 72-75 Sudan 76-84 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 85-109 WEST AFRICA General 110-116 Benin 117-119 Burkina Faso 120-121 Cape Verde 122 The Gambia 123 Ghana 124-130 Ivory Coast 131-139 Liberia 140-142 Mali 143-144 Niger 145-146 Nigeria 147-179 Senegal 180-184 WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 185-186 Angola 187 Cameroon 188-193 Central African Republic 194 Chad 195 Congo (Kinshasa) 196-206 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX Gabon 207-212 EAST AFRICA General 213-219 Kenya 220-235 Rwanda 236-238 Tanzania 239-248 Uganda 249-255 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 256-261 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Malawi 262 Mozambique 263-269 Zambia 270-273 Zimbabwe 274-286 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 287-290 Botswana 291-313 Lesotho 314 Namibia 315-317 South Africa 318-412 ISLANDS General 413 Madagascar 414 Mauritius 415 2 SUBJECT INDEX A. General bibliographies; archives; libraries; museums 295, 296, 311, 340 scientific research; African studies 13, 210, 316, 343, 356 information science; press & communications 15, 31, 33, 38, 73, 99, 106, 126, 133, 134, 144, 171, 179, 189, 253, 338, 343, 356, 399 B. Religion/Philosophy religion; missionary activities 26, 54, 59, 76, 77, 104, 105, 146, 183, 196, 218, 228, 240, 247, 248, 267, 276, 287, 352, 370, 410 philosophy; world view; ideology 11, 24, 25, 43, 44, 221, 371, 403 C. Culture and Society social conditions & problems 22, 35, 64, 75, 76, 84, 88, 96, 102, 109, 126, 135, 147, 154, 163, 166, 181, 182, 187, 191, 194, 206, 214, 234, 239, 265, 267, 312, 318, 330, 335, 336, 367, 379, 406 social organization & structure; group & class formation 57, 132, 138, 145, 238, 262, 322, 373, 392, 405 minority groups; refugees 229, 297, 300 women's studies 49, 58, 77, 97, 157, 225, 244, 249, 349, 388 rural & urban sociology 173, 180, 368 migration; urbanization 45, 67, 74, 116, 192 demography; population policy; family planning 120, 317 household & family 332 D. Politics general 7, 18, 35, 53, 75, 82, 150, 163, 174, 184, 185, 187, 199, 206, 209, 263, 280, 328, 398, 408 3 SUBJECT INDEX domestic affairs, including national integration & liberation struggle 4, 8, 19, 40, 46, 68, 76, 89, 102, 128, 130, 131, 137, 140, 141, 142, 155, 159, 165, 169, 172, 173, 175, 178, 197, 198, 201, 202, 215, 219, 223, 228, 232, 233, 246, 250, 252, 254, 266, 271, 275, 279, 286, 288, 289, 301, 314, 320, 326, 333, 342, 346, 352, 354, 357, 362, 363, 370, 371, 372, 378, 391, 393, 396, 404, 409 foreign affairs; foreign policy 1, 2, 7, 52, 72, 73, 107, 109, 111, 176, 177, 195, 198, 222, 256, 289, 299, 319, 395 international affairs; international organizations 9, 10, 22, 32, 41, 42, 56, 78, 79, 81, 93, 131, 205, 217, 219, 256, 257, 260, 261 E. Economics economic conditions; economic planning; infrastructure; energy 12, 16, 27, 28, 47, 85, 86, 91, 95, 98, 108, 113, 152, 154, 161, 165, 187, 226, 227, 260, 294, 313, 345, 348, 354, 358, 381, 401 foreign investment; development aid 47, 48, 92, 195, 206, 272, 337 finance; banking; monetary policy; public finance 45, 51, 74, 90, 341, 351, 384, 385, 386 labour; labour market; labour migration; trade unions 380 agriculture; animal husbandry; fishery; hunting; forestry 30, 70, 90, 110, 119, 170, 245, 281, 309, 364, 377, 407, 412 handicraft; industry; mining; oil 23, 161, 184, 191, 199, 321, 390 trade; transport; tourism 101, 109, 113, 270, 358, 399 F. Law general 33, 49, 59, 60, 114, 153, 178,
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