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African Studies Abstracts Online: number 26, 2009 Boin, M.; Polman, K.; Sommeling, C.M.; Doorn, M.C.A. van Citation Boin, M., Polman, K., Sommeling, C. M., & Doorn, M. C. A. van. (2009). African Studies Abstracts Online: number 26, 2009. Leiden: African Studies Centre. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13732 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown) License: Leiden University Non-exclusive license Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13732 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). Number 26, 2009 AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 26, 2009 Contents Editorial policy............................................................................................................... iii Geographical index ....................................................................................................... 1 Subject index................................................................................................................. 4 Author index.................................................................................................................. 7 Periodicals abstracted in this issue............................................................................... 13 Abstracts ....................................................................................................................... 16 Abstracts produced by Michèle Boin, Katrien Polman, Tineke Sommeling, Marlene C.A. Van Doorn ii 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 African Studies Centre library. Coverage African Studies Abstracts Online covers edited works (up to 50 in each issue) and a wide range of journals in the field of African studies. Some 240 journals are systematically scanned. Just over half of these are English-language journals, just under a quarter are French, and most of the rest are German. A few Afrikaans, Dutch, Italian and Portuguese-language journals are also covered. Some 40 percent of all the journals are published in Africa. Newspapers and weeklies, popular magazines and current affairs bulletins, statistical digests, directories, annual reports and newsletters are, with rare exceptions, 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 African Studies Centre Library OPAC at http://opc4-ascl.pica.nl/DB=3/LNG=EN/ To be selected for abstracting/indexing an article must be at least two to three pages long, and have been published within the past two years (though some allowance is made for journals which have fallen behind on publication schedules or which, for whatever reason, have taken a long time to arrive). In a few specific cases, an article may be excluded on the grounds of subject. In particular, articles in the field of linguistics and those in the field of literature dealing with only one work are normally not selected. This also applies to purely descriptive articles covering current political events or economic developments, which could be expected to become quickly outdated, though this rule is applied less rigorously in the case of a country about which very little is otherwise published. Review articles and book reviews are not covered. Contents and arrangement In principle African Studies Abstracts Online is published four times a year. Each issue contains up to 450 titles with abstracts of collective volumes and journal articles. Items are numbered sequentially and arranged geographically according to the broad regions of Africa. There is a preliminary general section for entries whose scope extends beyond iii Africa, followed by a separate section for entries dealing with the continent as a whole. There is also a section for entries dealing with sub-Saharan Africa. Within the broad geographical regions of Northeast, West, West Central, East, Southeast Central and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands, 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 the conventional bibliographical information together with an abstract in the language of the original document. The abstract covers the essentials of the publication in 10-20 lines. It includes a description of subject and purpose, disciplinary approach, nature of the research and source materials (fieldwork, archives, oral traditions, etc.). Where applicable an indication of the time period, specific geographical information (such as names of towns, villages or districts), as well as the names of persons, languages and ethnic groups, are also included. Indexes and list of sources Each issue of African Studies Abstracts Online contains a geographical index, a subject index, and an author index, all referring to abstract number. The geographical index is at a region and country level. It refers to both abstract and page number, and for some may serve as a surrogate table of contents. The subject index is self-devised and is intended as a first and global indication of subjects. It follows roughly the main classes of the UDC, 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 category is further subdivided into a number of subcategories. Abstracts of items included under more than one country heading are indexed in the geographical index under each country. In the subject and author indexes they are indexed only once; the reference is always to the first time an entry appears. In addition, each issue of African Studies Abstracts Online contains a list of periodicals abstracted which provides information on title, current place of publication and ISSN of all periodicals from which articles have been selected, as well as indicating which issues of the periodical in question have been covered. A complete list of all periodicals regularly scanned for abstracting or indexing is available on the African Studies Centre website at: http://www.ascleiden.nl/Library/Abstracts/ As always, comments or suggestions are very welcome. iv GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number page INTERNATIONAL General 1-4 16 AFRICA General 5-58 18 NORTHEAST AFRICA General 59 50 Djibouti 60 50 Eritrea 61-62 51 Ethiopia 63-67 52 Somalia 68-69 55 Sudan 70-75 56 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 76-111 59 WEST AFRICA General 112-128 80 Benin 129-130 90 Burkina Faso 131-133 91 Cape Verde 134 93 The Gambia 135 93 Ghana 136-155 94 Guinea 156-158 105 Guinea-Bissau 159-160 108 Ivory Coast 161-166 109 Liberia 167-168 112 Mali 169-172 114 Niger 173-178 116 Nigeria 179-209 118 Senegal 210-218 135 Sierra Leone 219-225 140 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number page WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 226-229 144 Angola 230-232 147 Cameroon 233-241 149 Congo (Brazzaville) 242-243 153 Congo (Kinshasa) 244-249 154 Equatorial Guinea 250-251 158 São Tomé and Princípe 252 159 EAST AFRICA General 253-259 160 Kenya 260-271 164 Rwanda 272-273 170 Tanzania 274-280 171 Uganda 281-287 175 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 288 178 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Malawi 289-298 179 Mozambique 299-301 184 Zambia 302-303 186 Zimbabwe 304-311 187 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 312-313 191 Botswana 314-320 192 Lesotho 321-324 196 Namibia 325-327 198 South Africa 328-384 200 Swaziland 385 230 ISLANDS General 386 231 2 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number page Chagos Archipelago 387 232 Madagascar 388 232 3 SUBJECT INDEX A. General scientific research; African studies 5, 35, 47, 50 information science; press & communications 333, 358, 363 B. Religion/Philosophy religion; missionary activities 19, 29, 31, 43, 52, 89, 116, 130, 172, 177, 180, 186, 193, 202, 204, 206, 248, 253, 257, 268, 280, 310, 311, 313, 349, 351, 373 philosophy; world view; ideology 7, 8, 25, 41, 51, 70, 98, 317, 380 C. Culture and Society social conditions & problems 3, 15, 26, 56, 62, 77, 111, 116, 120, 129, 130, 146, 159, 196, 205, 214, 225, 229, 244, 246, 248, 254, 276, 284, 287, 300, 308, 317, 339, 382, 388 social organization & structure; group & class formation 28, 133, 143, 154 minority groups; refugees 261, 281 women's studies 8, 54, 66, 138, 171, 172, 185, 194, 237, 259, 283, 284, 290, 305, 322, 354 rural & urban sociology 147, 161, 382 migration; urbanization 213, 215, 314 demography; population policy; family planning 166, 263, 270, 297 household & family 149 D. Politics general 2, 11, 14, 22, 67, 68, 72, 84, 86, 110, 125, 170, 180, 190, 219, 231, 244, 251, 321, 328, 337, 338, 339, 342, 354, 356, 372, 373, 380, 381, 383 domestic affairs, including national integration & liberation struggle 6, 59, 69, 73, 75, 129, 135, 157, 160, 164, 169, 191, 221, 223, 245, 249, 265, 267, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279, 296, 300, 304, 306, 309, 310, 320, 332, 336, 340, 343, 344, 358, 370, 371, 385 4 SUBJECT INDEX foreign affairs; foreign policy 12, 13, 16, 18, 21, 38, 44, 46, 71, 87, 91, 137, 168, 187, 197, 208, 369 international affairs; international organizations 39,
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