African Studies Abstracts Online: number 21, 2008 Boin, M.; Eijkman, E.M.; Polman, K.; Sommeling, C.M.; Doorn, M.C.A. van Citation Boin, M., Eijkman, E. M., Polman, K., Sommeling, C. M., & Doorn, M. C. A. van. (2008). African Studies Abstracts Online: number 21, 2008. Leiden: African Studies Centre. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/12884 Version: Not Applicable (or Unknown) Leiden University Non-exclusive License: license Downloaded from: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/12884 Note: To cite this publication please use the final published version (if applicable). Number 21, 2008 AFRICAN STUDIES ABSTRACTS ONLINE Number 21, 2008 Contents Editorial policy............................................................................................................... iii Geographical index ....................................................................................................... 1 Subject index................................................................................................................. 3 Author index.................................................................................................................. 7 Periodicals abstracted in this issue............................................................................... 14 Abstracts ....................................................................................................................... 18 Abstracts produced by Michèle Boin, Elvire Eijkman, 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 18 AFRICA General 2-46 19 NORTHEAST AFRICA General 47 45 Eritrea 48-51 45 Ethiopia 52-72 47 Horn of Africa 73 58 Somalia 74-75 59 Sudan 76-84 60 AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA General 85-106 64 WEST AFRICA General 107-112 78 Benin 113 81 Burkina Faso 114-118 81 Ghana 119-135 84 Guinea 136-137 94 Ivory Coast 138-140 95 Mali 141-146 97 Mauritania 147-152 100 Nigeria 153-180 103 Senegal 181-186 118 Sierra Leone 187-188 121 Togo 189 122 WEST CENTRAL AFRICA General 190-191 123 Angola 192-193 124 1 GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX abstract number page Cameroon 194-201 125 Central African Republic 202 129 Chad 203-204 130 Congo (Brazzaville) 205-206 131 Congo (Kinshasa) 207-225 132 Gabon 226-229 141 EAST AFRICA General 230-234 143 Burundi 235 146 Kenya 236-242 147 Rwanda 243-246 150 Tanzania 247-258 152 Uganda 259-262 159 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN AFRICA General 263-268 161 SOUTHEAST CENTRAL AFRICA Malawi 269-270 164 Zimbabwe 271-279 165 SOUTHERN AFRICA General 280 170 Botswana 281-283 171 Lesotho 284-287 172 Namibia 288-290 174 South Africa 291-388 175 Swaziland 389-391 228 ISLANDS General 392 230 Comoros 393 231 Madagascar 394-397 231 Réunion 398-399 234 2 SUBJECT INDEX A. General bibliographies; archives; libraries; museums 59, 108, 122, 124, 155, 170, 174, 362, 384 scientific research; African studies 230, 299, 321 information science; press & communications 33, 85, 121, 123, 125, 158, 159, 171, 174, 178, 258, 282, 283, 300, 322, 337 B. Religion/Philosophy religion; missionary activities 30, 38, 48, 62, 80, 118, 127, 184, 192, 205, 217, 218, 311, 326, 338 philosophy; world view; ideology 1, 16, 197, 199, 245, 361 C. Culture and Society social conditions & problems 2, 8, 32, 71, 116, 173, 178, 179, 181, 193, 194, 241, 242, 243, 254, 266, 271, 286, 294, 296, 302, 327, 336, 340, 351, 381 social organization & structure; group & class formation 44, 150, 291 minority groups; refugees 326 women's studies 21, 62, 64, 80, 104, 125, 184, 192, 225, 276, 327, 354, 381 rural & urban sociology 56, 100, 186, 222, 249, 250, 305 migration; urbanization 103, 119, 144, 232, 313, 348, 354 demography; population policy; family planning 236, 237 household & family 242 D. Politics general 10, 24, 27, 28, 29, 74, 97, 98, 100, 200, 206, 216, 257, 273, 282 domestic affairs, including national integration & liberation struggle 3, 36, 41, 44, 52, 63, 78, 89, 90, 128, 129, 130, 137, 138, 140, 165, 169, 179, 187, 196, 207, 209, 215, 219, 223, 224, 225, 247, 259, 261, 263, 264, 271, 274, 277, 278, 291, 296, 301, 306, 308, 312, 324, 335, 352, 360, 373, 383, 388 3 SUBJECT INDEX foreign affairs; foreign policy 4, 5, 17, 35, 50, 67, 157, 264, 272, 279, 368 international affairs; international organizations 13, 15, 18, 42, 45, 47, 51, 66, 77, 87, 94, 99, 109, 138, 235,