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Number 47, 2014 AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 47, 2014 Contents Editorial policy .......................................................................................................... iii Geographical index.................................................................................................... 1 Subject index ............................................................................................................. 3 Author index .............................................................................................................. 7 Periodicals abstracted in this issue .......................................................................... 14 Abstracts ................................................................................................................. 17 Abstracts produced by Ursula Oberst, Katrien Polman, 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 1-4 AFRICA General 5-49 NORTH AFRICA Tunisia 50 NORTHEAST AFRICA Eritrea 51-52 Ethiopia 53-72 Somalia 73 South Sudan 74 Sudan 75-77 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 78-93 WEST AFRICA General 94-103 Benin 104-106 Burkina Faso 107-108 Cape Verde 109 The Gambia 110 Ghana 111-122 Ivory Coast 123-124 Liberia 125-128 Mali 129-131 Mauritania 132 Niger 133-134 Nigeria 135-166 Senegal 167-176 Sierra Leone 177-181 WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 182 Angola 183-186 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX Cameroon 187-195 Central African Republic 196 Congo (Kinshasa) 197-207 Gabon 208-210 EAST AFRICA General 211-213 Kenya 214-231 Rwanda 232 Tanzania 233-246 Uganda 247-253 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 254-256 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Malawi 257-264 Mozambique 265-271 Zambia 272-275 Zimbabwe 276-283 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 284 Botswana 285-289 Lesotho 290-292 Namibia 293-298 South Africa 299-385 Swaziland 386 ISLANDS Madagascar 387 Mauritius 388-389 2 SUBJECT INDEX A. General bibliographies; archives; libraries; museums 25, 42, 78, 192, 232, 265 scientific research; African studies 4, 23, 28, 45, 79, 111, 128, 380 country surveys 205 information science; press & communications 3, 25, 81, 149, 160, 212, 229, 299, 350, 370, 374, 384 B. Religion/Philosophy religion; missionary activities 15, 29, 72, 82, 103, 118, 158, 162, 195, 226, 234, 239, 245, 251, 283, 296, 303, 324, 362 philosophy; world view; ideology 22, 26 C. Culture and Society social conditions & problems 9, 20, 50, 57, 68, 70, 102, 104, 115, 151, 198, 215, 218, 236, 242, 259, 268, 285, 298, 299, 339, 348, 351, 353, 372, 373, 378, 383 social organization & structure; group & class formation 119, 167, 253, 315, 330 minority groups; refugees 37, 249, 381 women's studies 7, 28, 32, 80, 81, 91, 93, 95, 109, 120, 132, 139, 140, 141, 158, 168, 185, 203, 240, 248, 273, 304, 323, 389 rural & urban sociology 49, 86, 236, 335, 364 migration; urbanization 32, 48, 91, 107, 113, 191, 279 demography; population policy; family planning 75, 341 household & family 64, 94, 122, 189 3 SUBJECT INDEX D. Politics general 5, 6, 17, 37, 39, 67, 77, 96, 97, 129, 152, 154, 165, 186, 193, 199, 201, 207, 233, 241, 242, 253, 309, 384 domestic affairs, including national integration & liberation struggle 12, 29, 44, 59, 69, 80, 100, 103, 109, 119, 123, 124, 127, 130, 131, 137, 142, 161, 163, 172, 175, 183, 184, 197, 202, 204, 206, 216, 219, 220, 222, 231, 235, 254, 257, 270, 272, 276, 280, 281, 286, 290, 294, 301, 315, 322, 362, 367 foreign affairs; foreign policy 43, 55, 60, 71, 126, 164, 342 international affairs; international organizations 6, 14, 16, 33, 35, 40, 46, 73, 126, 130, 177, 212 E. Economics economic conditions; economic planning; infrastructure; energy 2, 11, 16, 24, 36, 65, 68, 76, 79, 88, 89, 105, 110, 112, 121, 148, 164, 165, 185, 191, 207, 221, 244, 252, 261, 298, 311, 312, 357, 360, 365 foreign investment; development aid 2, 27, 43, 133, 327 finance; banking; monetary policy; public finance 38, 47, 62, 85, 90, 143, 189, 325, 332, 345 labour; labour market; labour migration; trade unions 8, 114, 171, 329 agriculture; animal husbandry; fishery; hunting; forestry 56, 95, 121, 150, 195, 230, 292, 316, 369, 387 handicraft; industry; mining; oil 112, 117, 146, 178, 331 trade; transport; tourism 1, 225, 305 industrial organization; cooperatives; management 146, 306, 331 F. Law general 20, 21, 62, 63, 147, 156, 157, 160, 180, 211, 214, 217, 223, 237, 238, 247, 249, 250, 259, 288, 303, 307, 313, 317, 323, 333, 338, 341, 351, 359, 366, 371, 381, 383 international law 84, 255 customary law 248 4 SUBJECT INDEX G. Education/Socialization/Psychology education 22, 31, 118, 129, 153, 194, 226, 234, 245, 251, 260, 262, 282, 287, 309, 359 psychology; social psychology 375 H. Anthropology general 228, 240, 258, 283, 352, 380 I. Medical Care and Health Services/Nutrition health services; medicine; hospitals 15, 58, 113, 116, 149, 263, 267, 274, 279, 334, 338, 349, 355, 382 food & nutrition 225, 264 J. Rural and Urban Planning/Ecology/Geography rural & urban planning 171, 200, 209, 310, 321, 369 ecology 54, 58, 61, 66, 87, 99, 156, 182, 208, 244, 371 K. Languages/Literature/Arts/Architecture linguistics & language 11, 30, 83, 98, 136, 139, 223, 227, 228, 272, 319, 335, 350, 358, 374 oral & written literature 10, 30, 53, 87, 92, 169, 258, 277, 278, 330, 337, 354, 356, 368 arts (drama, theatre, cinema, painting, sculpture) 7, 13, 18, 19, 41, 108, 125, 134, 135, 136, 138, 141, 144, 155, 159, 166, 169, 170, 172, 173, 174, 224, 243, 302, 326, 346, 363, 377, 385 architecture 106, 196 L. History/Biography general 50, 181, 379 up to 1850 (prehistory, precolonial & early colonial history) 344 5 SUBJECT INDEX 1850 onward (colonial & postcolonial history) 34, 83, 84, 140, 151, 187, 203, 233, 266, 280, 295, 296, 297, 308, 320, 343, 349 biographies 293 6 AUTHOR INDEX Abate, Fitsum, 53 Aboa, Alain Laurent, 5, 6 Baah-Boateng, William, 114 Abraham, Terfa Williams, 152 Bah, Abu Bakarr, 177 Adama, Hamadou, 187 Baller, Susann, 167 Adedze, Agbenyega, 7 Banda, Paul Chiudza, 257 Adegoju, Adeyemi, 135 Banda, Tito, 258 Adem, Alebachew, 54
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