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Number 54, 2016 Number 54, 2016 AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 54, 2016 Contents Editorial policy .......................................................................................................... iii Geographical index.................................................................................................... 1 Subject index ............................................................................................................. 3 Author index .............................................................................................................. 6 Periodicals abstracted in this issue .......................................................................... 14 Abstracts ................................................................................................................. 17 Abstracts produced by Ursula Oberst, Angela Robson, Germa Seuren, Heleen Smits i ii EDITORIAL POLICY EDITORIAL POLICY African Studies Abstracts Online is published quarterly and provides an overview of journal articles and edited works on sub-Saharan Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities. All publications are available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden, The Netherlands. Many are accessible full text in the library's online catalogue at catalogue.ascleiden.nl. Clicking on the title of an article or edited work in ASA Online brings you via the ASCLink to the full text if available (subject to access restrictions). Coverage ASA Online covers edited works (up to 50 in each issue) and journals in the field of African studies. Some 260 journals are systematically scanned from cover to cover. Just over half are English-language journals and just under a quarter are French, with the remainder either German, Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian or Portuguese. Almost 50 percent of the journals are published in Africa. Periodicals not scanned are newspapers and weeklies, popular magazines, current affairs bulletins, statistical digests, directories, annual reports and newsletters. All articles in ASA Online are available in the online catalogue of the ASC library at catalogue.ascleiden.nl, which also includes articles from journals not covered by ASA Online. Not selected for inclusion in either ASA Online or the ASC library catalogue are articles shorter than three to four pages, articles whose subject is marginal to the ASC library's collection profile, articles in the field of literature dealing with only one work, purely descriptive articles covering current political/economic developments, which could be expected to become quickly outdated, and review articles and book reviews. Contents and arrangement Each issue of ASA Online contains up to 350 entries. Entries are arranged geographically according to the broad regions of Africa and within regions, by country. A preliminary, International section, contains entries whose scope extends beyond Africa. 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. Clicking on a descriptor launches a subject search in the online catalogue of the ASC library. Indexes and list of sources Each issue of ASA Online contains a geographical, subject and author index. All refer to entry number. Entries included in more than one country section are listed in the geographical index under each country. The subject and author indexes list the entry only once, the first time it appears. Within ASA Online it is possible to navigate and search directly from the geographical, subject and author indexes to the corresponding entry. iii EDITORIAL POLICY The subject index 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. Each issue of ASA Online also includes a list of periodicals abstracted, indicating which journals and issues have been covered in that particular number. A list of all the periodicals 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 1-6 AFRICA General 7-64 NORTH AFRICA General 65-68 Algeria 69-74 Morocco 75-77 Tunisia 78-80 NORTHEAST AFRICA Egypt 81 Eritrea 82 Ethiopia 83-95 Horn of Africa 96 Somalia 97-101 South Sudan 102-109 Sudan 110-112 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 113-138 WEST AFRICA General 139-146 Benin 147 Burkina Faso 148-151 Ghana 152-169 Ivory Coast 170-171 Liberia 172-173 Mali 174-176 Niger 177-178 Nigeria 179-203 Senegal 204-213 Sierra Leone 214 Togo 215-217 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 218-219 Angola 220-224 Cameroon 225-234 Congo (Kinshasa) 235-242 Gabon 243 EAST AFRICA General 244-247 Burundi 248 Kenya 249-266 Rwanda 267-273 Tanzania 274-285 Uganda 286-300 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 301-302 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Malawi 303-308 Mozambique 309-311 Zambia 312-315 Zimbabwe 316-336 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 337-341 Botswana 342-343 Namibia 344-345 South Africa 346-439 2 SUBJECT INDEX A. General bibliographies; archives; libraries; museums 9, 42 scientific research; African studies 18, 146, 157, 312, 344, 375 information science; press & communications 5, 9, 34, 134, 260, 263, 265, 304, 306, 307, 333, 356, 364, 365, 402, 435 B. Religion/Philosophy religion; missionary activities 6, 47, 57, 77, 79, 141, 148, 163, 267, 332, 433 philosophy; world view; ideology 39, 50, 131, 437 C. Culture and Society social conditions & problems 21, 90, 91, 121, 135, 145, 149, 155, 166, 170, 175, 200, 208, 222, 236, 287, 325, 349, 369, 377, 379, 381, 411, 414, 417 social organization & structure; group & class formation 54, 97, 154, 171, 177, 202, 227, 264, 305, 311, 346, 360, 374, 398 minority groups; refugees 278, 299, 363 women's studies 33, 67, 73, 111, 186, 209, 210, 231, 233, 269, 291, 329, 339, 382, 425 rural & urban sociology 157, 189, 213, 241, 275, 290, 367, 369, 374 migration; urbanization 11, 17, 71, 86, 118, 178, 204, 296 household & family 149, 179, 204, 211 D. Politics general 30, 38, 44, 51, 61, 96, 134, 142, 156, 212, 347, 388, 418 domestic affairs, including national integration & liberation struggle 8, 45, 56, 60, 65, 66, 75, 77, 84, 87, 92, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 133, 136, 137, 165, 182, 187, 190, 191, 199, 201, 220, 221, 223, 237, 238, 242, 248, 254, 256, 261, 266, 280, 281, 285, 292, 294, 295, 297, 300, 308, 310, 317, 319, 323, 326, 327, 333, 340, 403, 412, 416, 422, 424, 427 3 SUBJECT INDEX foreign affairs; foreign policy 72, 225, 439 international affairs; international organizations 20, 55, 64, 98, 112, 114, 176, 246, 341, 413 E. Economics economic conditions; economic planning; infrastructure; energy 12, 14, 25, 46, 53, 68, 69, 70, 76, 80, 81, 89, 113, 115, 126, 129, 197, 219, 257, 264, 301, 399, 407 foreign investment; development aid 13, 27, 43, 48, 130, 132, 139 finance; banking; monetary policy; public finance 10, 58, 78, 83, 93, 116, 119, 122, 143, 153, 162, 194, 218, 261, 358, 426 labour; labour market; labour migration; trade unions 11, 36, 99, 120, 214, 217, 252, 282, 313, 355, 357, 359, 370, 380, 384, 386 agriculture; animal husbandry; fishery; hunting; forestry 94, 117, 123, 124, 283, 284, 322, 337, 400 handicraft; industry; mining; oil 216, 315, 429 trade; transport; tourism 24, 146, 147, 244, 368, 389, 419 industrial organization; cooperatives; management 172, 262, 371, 378, 396, 432 F. Law general 7, 22, 192, 198, 199, 286, 293, 298, 320, 338, 343, 352, 366 international law 41, 100, 272 customary law 59, 410 G. Education/Socialization/Psychology education 19, 95, 125, 127, 195, 232, 234, 309, 336, 372, 376, 385, 394, 395, 406, 438 H. Anthropology general 29, 353, 401 4 SUBJECT INDEX I. Medical Care and Health Services/Nutrition health services; medicine; hospitals 35, 63, 118, 150, 158, 159, 164, 168, 235, 274, 303, 393 psychiatry 161 food & nutrition 138, 167, 392 J. Rural and Urban Planning/Ecology/Geography rural & urban planning 62, 88, 224, 331, 361, 408, 428, 430 ecology 174, 226, 247, 253, 298, 324, 387 geography; geology; hydrology 49, 308 K. Languages/Literature/Arts/Architecture linguistics & language 37, 40, 152, 206, 245, 258, 279, 342, 362 oral & written literature 4, 15, 16, 23, 26, 31, 67, 180, 183, 207, 229, 230, 243, 245, 271, 273, 316, 321, 325, 330, 335, 345, 350, 351, 390, 391, 404, 415, 420, 434 arts (drama, theatre, cinema, painting, sculpture) 2, 3, 4, 23, 28, 31, 32, 74, 85, 151, 160, 181, 205, 228, 241, 259, 305, 328, 334, 336, 397, 405, 420, 423, 431 architecture 140 L. History/Biography general 268 up to 1850 (prehistory, precolonial & early colonial history) 144, 216 1850 onward (colonial & postcolonial history) 52, 82, 101, 128, 131, 135, 169, 173, 185, 196, 203, 239, 240, 255, 314, 318, 348, 354, 373, 409, 421 biographies 1 5 AUTHOR INDEX Abbay, Futsum, 7 Bähre, Erik, 53 Abidoye, Babatunde O., 113 Bailey, Tracy, 19 Abis, Sébastien, 114 Baisley, Elizabeth, 155 Abor, Joshua Yindenaba, 153 Balchin, Neil, 301 Adeakin, Ibikunle, 187 Balistreri, Edward J., 244 Aderinto, Saheed, 179 Ballim, Faeeza, 348 Adetomokun, Idowu, 349 Banda, Felix, 349 Adika, Gordon Senanu Kwame, 152 Barends, Heidi, 350 Adjei-Mensah, Gifty, 153 Barnes, Lawrie, 258 Adrover, Lauren,
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