...- ministration imposed sanctions on the two coun- Africa and the selves) reposit (albeit in a new light) questions of tries, and nuclear proliferation was on center stage. colonial and postcolonial hierarchy and hegemony The September 11 terrorist attacks...

... of print in which Gandhi's printing press operated; the reception and agency among the readers of Gandhi's print products; and the comparable if considerably more modest print figure from East Africa at some length, in order to draw out important continuities and divergences among these diasporic printing...

... residence in putatively white areas highly contingent and insecure throughout the former Transvaal. This article analyzes the connections between past dispossession and contemporary rural land and natural resource struggles in the Limpopo and North West provinces, contending that addressing South Africa's...

... into the field of articulated theology, suggesting a virulent contestation for orthodoxy where traditionalists are hardly outflanked by the supposed scripturalism of Salafi doctrine. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Islam Africa theology Salafism Sufism References Brenner Louis...

...Wendell Hassan Marsh The Walking Qur'an by Rudolph T. Ware III ambitiously takes on African and Islamic studies in a call to make the study of Islam in Africa more central to the two fields that have left it lying in a double margin. By arguing that a series of root metaphors from the tradition...

...Paul Kingston Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa Beinin Joel Vairel Frederic ., eds. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xiv + 308 pp., $80.00 (cloth) , $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Timothy Mitchell; Anupama Rao © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 mission statement Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Mission Statement omparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle...

...Nouri Gana; Heike Härting The essays collected in this issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explore the ways in which writers and artists from Africa and the Middle East have deployed diverse genres and modes of narrative or discursive practices in order not only...

...: A Defense . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Davis , Robert H. 1979 . Capital, State and White Labour in South Africa, 1900–1960: An Historical Materialist Analysis of Class Formation and Relations . Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press. Fatton Jr. Robert 1986 . Black...

...Jonathan Gosnell Duke University Press 2006 France, Empire, Europe: Out of Africa? Jonathan Gosnell ow relevant is Empire as a cultural, political, and economic...

...Gloria Waite The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa by Philip Snow, (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press) 1988, 250 pages, including Index, paperback. Copyright 1990: South Asia Bulletin 1989 South Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 2, 1989. coastal East Africa and parts...

...Matthew Engelke Abstract This essay introduces the special section “Word, Image, Sound,” a collection of essays on public religion and religious publicities in Africa and South Asia. The essays cover case studies in Myanmar, Zambia, Senegal, Rwanda, and Egypt. The introduction situates the essays...

...Trishula Patel Abstract “Africa weaves a magic spell around even a temporary visitor,” wrote the former Indian high commissioner to East and Central Africa, Apa Pant, in 1987, echoing the allure that the continent had over him and other fellow Indian diplomats. But the diplomatic roles of men like...

... global contexts between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers a stereoscopic history of Indian Ocean Africa that appreciates Indian Ocean linkages alongside the region's global entanglements, which in turn demonstrates how Africa's Indian Ocean rim has affected and been affected by wider...

... . ———. “Swahili Culture Reconsidered: Some Historical Implications of the Material Culture of the Northern Kenya Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Azania: The Journal of the British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa Azania 9 ( 1974 ): 105 – 38 . ———. “The Swahili House...

...Ruchi Chaturvedi; Antina von Schnitzler Abstract This essay introduces the special section “Political Society and Popular Politics in Africa” and sets out some of the key debates and concepts that animate the contributions. It focuses in particular on the specific terrains of postcolonial...

...Ahmed Veriava Abstract This article is about representations of poverty and governmental frameworks for addressing poverty in postapartheid South Africa. It is, therefore, also about “the poor,” about their place in society and the ways they intervene in the making of the present. The article...

...Mehdi Noorbaksh © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Politics, Economy, and the Threats of AIDS in Africa: The Case of Botswana Mehdi Noorbaksh fter gaining independence in 1966, Botswana has established one of the most stable and expanding economies of sub...

...Philip S. Zachernuk Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West, and the Transcultural Invention of Africa Laura Rice Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007 ix + 240 pp., $70.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern...

...Vasant Kaiwar; Sucheta Mazumdar © 1993: South Asia Bulletin 1993 South A4s2aBulletin, Vol. XI11 Nos. 1 & 2 (1999). Editors’ Notes: Launching a New South Asia Bulletin/Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Vasant...