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Vol. 80 No. 4 2010 Disputed identities Autochthony and the Ivorian nation • Armando Cutolo Struggling for land in Cameroon • Antoine Socpa Moral economies in motion Smuggling in Uganda • Kristof Titeca and Tom de Herdt erceptions of migration in Ghana • Kees van der Geest

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Journal of the International African Institute

Revue de l’Institut Africain International Volume 80, 2010

Editors Karin Barber and David Pratten

Reviews Editor Nicolas Argenti

I · A · I

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Introduction: interpreting land markets in Africa JEAN-PHILIPPE COLIN AND PHILIP WOODHOUSE 1 Forbidden but not suppressed: a ‘vernacular’ land market in Svosve Communal Lands, Zimbabwe ADMOS CHIMHOWU AND PHILIP WOODHOUSE 14 Fractured governance and local frictions: the exclusionary nature of a clandestine land market in southern Zambia NICHOLAS J. SITKO 36 Is land inalienable? Historical and current debates on land transfers in northern Ghana CAROLA LENTZ 56 Customary transfers and land sales in Côte d’Ivoire: revisiting the embeddedness issue JEAN-PIERRE CHAUVEAU AND JEAN-PHILIPPE COLIN 81 Family values, land sales and agricultural commodification in south-eastern Ghana KOJO SEBASTIAN AMANOR 104 Intra-family and socio-political dimensions of land markets and land conflicts: the case of the Abure, Côte d’Ivoire GEORGES KOUAMÉ 126 John Middleton (1921–2009) T. O. BEIDELMAN 147

‘Cultural Officer’ at home and abroad: Oloye Adebayo. Ogunrinu Ogundijo., 1939–2005 P. F. DE MORAES FARIAS AND O. LADE. JO. OKEDIJI 151 The sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Maccido (1926–2006) JEAN BOYD 159 Yusufu Bala Usman (1945–2005) M. M. GWADABE 165 Kay Ruth M. Williamson (1935–2005) OZO-MEKURI NDIMELE AND ROBIN HORTON 168 Past Pentecostalism: notes on rupture, realignment and everyday life in Pentecostal and African Independent Churches MATTHEW ENGELKE 177

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Review articles

Beyond creed, greed and booty: conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo EMILY PADDON 322 Land and the politics of belonging in Africa JOSEPH MUJERE 497

Review of Books 332, 503, 663

Index to Volume 80 683

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Modernity, autochthony and the Ivorian nation: the end of a century in Côte d’Ivoire 527 Armando Cutolo New kinds of land conflict in urban Cameroon: the case of the ‘landless’ indigenous peoples in Yaoundé 553 Antoine Socpa Regulation, cross-border trade and practical norms in West Nile, north- western Uganda 573 Kristof Titeca and Tom de Herdt Local perceptions of migration from north-west Ghana 595 Kees van der Geest On dancing and fishing: joy and the celebration of fertility among the Punu of Congo-Brazzaville 620 Carine Plancke The world’s first biometric money: Ghana’s e-Zwich and the contemporary influence of South African biometrics 642 Keith Breckenridge

Journal of the International African Institute Revue de l’Institut Africain International

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PATRICIA VINNICOMBE, People of the Eland: rock paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a reflection of their life and thought;andPETER MITCHELL and BENJAMIN SMITH (eds), The Eland’s People: new perspectives in the rock art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen. Essays in memory of Patricia Vinnicombe Alan Barnard 663 JEAN-LÖIC LE QUELLEC,FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE-AYMAR and FRANÇOIS BON, Vols de Vaches à Christol Cave: histoire critique d’une image rupestre d’Afrique du Sud Peter Mitchell 664 NICOLAS ARGENTI, The Intestines of the State: youth, violence and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields Filip De Boeck 666 IAN FOWLER and VERKIJIKA FANSO, Encounter, Transformation and Identity: peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands 1891–2000 Michaela Pelican 668 INSA NOLTE, Obafemi Awolowo and the Making of Remo: the local politics of a Nigerian nationalist Olufe. mi Vaughan 669 ANDREW E. BARNES, Making Headway: the introduction of Western civilisation in colonial northern Nigeria Usman Ladan 671 BEN KNIGHTON (ed.), Religion and Politics in Kenya: essays in honor of a meddlesome priest Myles Osborne 672 LAURENT FOURCHARD,ODILE GOERG and MURIEL GOMEZ-PEREZ (eds), Lieux de sociabilité urbaine en Afrique Patrick Chabal 674 URSULA BAUMGARDT and JEAN DERIVE (eds), Littératures orales africaines – perspectives théoriques et méthodologiques Françoise Ugochukwu 675 CHARLES TSHIMANGA,DIDIER GONDOLA and PETER J. BLOOM (eds), Frenchness and the African Diaspora: identity and uprising in contemporary France Abdoumaliq Simone 677 MWENDA NTARANGWI, East African Hip Hop: youth culture and globalization Alex Perullo 679 PAUL HENLEY, The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the craft of ethnographic cinema Paul Stoller 680

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