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REVUE AFRICAINE DES LIVRES AFRICA REVIEW OF BOOKS ISSN 0851-7592 ISSN 0851-7592 Notes aux Contributeurs Notes for Contributors La Revue Africaine des Livres présente une revue semestrielle de travaux sur l’Afrique The Africa Review of Books presents a biannual review of works on Africa in the social dans le domaine des sciences sociales, des sciences humaines et des arts créatifs. Elle a sciences, humanities and creative arts. It is also intended to serve as a forum for critical pour but de servir de forum pour des analyses critiques, des réflexions et des débats sur analyses, reflections and debates about Africa. As such, the Review solicits book reviews, l’Afrique. À ce titre, la Revue souhaiterait recevoir des articles critiques, des essais et des review articles and essays. Contributions that traverse disciplinary boundaries and comptes-rendus de livres. 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Les auteurs auront droit à deux exemplaires du de la Revue dans lequel paraîtra leur All communications (contributions, editorial correspondence, books for review, as well contribution. as subscription and advertising enquiries) should be addressed to: Toutes les communications (contributions, correspondance éditoriale, livres pour comptes- Africa Review of Books rendus, ainsi que les abonnements et toute information concernant la publicité) devront Forum for Social Studies être adressées à : P.O.BOX 25864 code 1000 Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia Africa Review of Books Forum for Social Studies Tel: 251-11-1572990/91 Fax: 251-11-1572979 P.O.BOX 25864 code 1000 E-mail: [email protected] Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: 251-11-1572990/91 Fax: 251-11-1572979 E-mail: [email protected] Mars / March 2006 Contents 4 Thandika Mkandawire The Intellectual Itinerary of Jeffrey Sachs 7 Mahmood Mamdani Mau Mau: Understanding Counter-Insurgency 10 Fred Hendricks Crusaders for Human Rights and Dignity 12 Ibrahim Abdullah Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone 14 Sanya Osha Slow Death in the Niger Delta 15 Bate Besong Pentecostal Hubris as Parable for the Theatre 16 Abou B. Bamba Qu’est-ce que la postcolonie? 19 Philemon Muamba Mumbunda Pourquoi l’Afrique meurt 21 Michèle Sinapi Une mnémohistoire de l’eurocentrisme 22 Slim Laghmani Civilisations et relations internationales CONTRIBUTORS IBRAHIM ABDULLAH is a Sierra Leone historian and author of many publications, among the most recent being Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War (CODESRIA, 2004). ABOU B. BAMBA, ancien élève de l’Ecole normale supérieure d’Abidjan, est depuis 2000 inscrit à l’Université d’Etat de Géorgie à Atlanta dans un programme de PHD d’histoire. La thèse sur laquelle il travaille a pour intitulé proviso: “In the Shadows of the New Frontier: The Politics of Development in the US-Ivorio and French Relations during the Kennedy-Johnson Era, 1958-1968”. BATE BESONG is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Critical Theory, University of Buea, Cameroon (1999-), with focus on Cameroon Literature, Theory and History of African Literature, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Play Production. He has a PhD from the University of Calabar (Nigeria) and has published extensively on Anglophone Cameroonian drama. FRED HENDRIKS is Professor of Sociology and Dean of Humanities at Rhodes University, Grahamstown (South Africa). He is also Editor of the CODESRIA publication, African Sociological Review. His recent publications include: The Social Sciences in South Africa since 1994. Disciplinary and transdisciplinary areas of study (2004) and Walking towards Justice. Democratisation in Rural Life (2003). MAHMOOD MAMDANI is currently Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and former director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His books include Citizen and Subject, which was awarded the Herskovitz Prize, and When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and Genocide in Rwanda.