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Journal of Retracing Africa
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ISSN (Online) 2168-0531
Published by Eastern Kentucky University

[6 journals]

Stanard, Matthew. Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire
Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2011, 387 pp.
- Authors: Danielle Sanchez
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:39:25 PST
Parnell, Susan and Edgar Pieterse, eds. Africa’s Urban Revolution.
London: Zed Books, 2014, 309 pp.
- Authors: Bernard C. Moore
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:39:22 PST
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo. Coloniality of Power in Postcolonial Africa:
Myths of Decolonization. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2013, 290 pp.
- Authors: Jason Morgan
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:39:18 PST
Higgins, Maryellen. Hollywood’s Africa after 1994. Athens: Ohio
University Press, 2013, 288 pp.
- Authors: Dawne Curry
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:39:14 PST
Hicks, Celeste. Africa’s New Oil: Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes.
London: Zed, 2015, 239 pp.
- Authors: Brad Crofford
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:39:10 PST
French, Howard W. China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are
- Authors: Richard Ehui
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:39:07 PST
Gros, Jean-Germain. Healthcare Policy in Africa: Institutions and Politics
from Colonialism to the Present. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 283
pp.
- Authors: Richard Ehui
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:39:04 PST
Elischer, Sebastian. Political Parties in Africa: Ethnicity and Party
Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2013, 336 pp.
- Authors: Elizabeth Miller
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:57 PST
Davie, Grace. Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human
Science, 1855-2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2015, 334 pp.
- Authors: Sandy El Hage
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:53 PST
Candido, Mariana. An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela
and Its Hinterland. Cambridge University Press, 2013, 366 pp.
- Authors: Anthony A. Lee
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:50 PST
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron. Different Shades of Green: African Literature,
Environmental Justice and Political Ecology. Charlottesville, VA:
University of Virginia Press, 2014, 214 pp.
- Authors: Anthony Kola-Olusanya
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:47 PST
Allan, Tony. Handbook of Land and Water Grabs in Africa: Foreign Direct
Investment and Food and Water Security. New York: Routledge, 2013, 488 pp.
- Authors: Jennifer Yvette Terrell
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:43 PST
Ahlers, Theodore, Hiroshi Kato, Harinder Kohli, Callisto Madavo, and Anil
Sood, eds. Africa 2050: Realizing the Continent’s Full Potential. New
Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2014, 489 pp.
- Authors: James Lance
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:40 PST
Aderinto, Saheed. When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality,
Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958. University of
Illinois Press, 2015, 264pp.
- Authors: Mofeyisara Oluwatoyin Omobowale
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:36 PST
From Inaction to Action: The World Health Organisation and Tobacco Control
Policies in Nigeria Since 1970
- Authors: Benjamin Uchenna Anaemene
  Abstract: The need to regulate tobacco usage became internationalized in 1970 following the adoption of a resolution by the World Health Assembly calling on member states to take action in view of its damaging effects. Arising from this, two periods are discernible in the fight against the use of tobacco. The first period is from 1970 to 1995 that was characterized by weak laws which were inconsequential. The second period is from 1996 to date that was marked by multilateral cooperation and effective action at the global level. A glaring manifestation during of the second period is the adoption of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which has the potential to significantly advance national and international efforts to curb the use of tobacco. This article explores these changing patterns within the context of the Nigerian State. It argues that the progress in tobacco control in Nigeria since the adoption of FCTC has been marred by weak human and institutional capacity in legislation, economics and advocacy, and lack of political will. Although it took Nigeria ten years to domesticate the treaty, only a comprehensive legal framework like the Tobacco Control Act can address the issue of tobacco smoking in Nigeria. There are difficult regulatory and governance challenges ahead but with a sustained political will, adequate resources, and strong institutions, Nigeria will overcome the entirely man-made public health problem.
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:33 PST
Establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation
- Authors: Tokunbo A. Ayoola
  Abstract: Making use of previously unused Colonial Office records at the National Archives in Kew, including newspaper reports, interviews with staff of the Nigerian Railway, and debates in the Federal House of Representatives, this study examines the forces that dictated the establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation. It argues that the primary reason why the British colonial government established the corporation was to assist foreign interests in Nigeria by distancing itself from the direct management of labor relations between the Nigerian colonial state and the militant trade unions in the Nigerian Railway and other commercially oriented government departments. By placing the day-to-day management of these departments beyond the immediate reach of ambitious Nigerian nationalists who were anxious to quickly take over the control of the colonial state, the colonial government undermined the ability of local elite to build their weak economic base.
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:29 PST
“God Was With Us:” Child Labor in Colonial Kenya, 1922 - 1950s
- Authors: Samson K. Ndanyi
  Abstract: Contentious debates about the allowable minimum age of child laborers informed the discourse of child labor in colonial Kenya between 1922 and the 1950s. Beginning with the Harry Thuku Uprising of 1922 that instigated the discussion over labor policy concerning juvenile wage laborers and heightened the tension between the British colonial administration and African adult workers, the British government in Kenya struggled to forge coherent labor policies concerning the ages of African child workers. Frequent changes in labor laws made it easier for labor recruiters and employers to manipulate the system by recruiting younger children for work thus drawing them into the orbit of an alien labor force that often interfered with their childhood. The uncertainty surrounding the minimum age engendered acrimonious debate between white employers and anti-child labor advocates over who among them had the moral authority to speak for the children and act as their moral guardians and avuncular figures. This article discusses child labor in colonial Kenya. Focusing almost exclusively on African boys as actors in child labor, the article analyzes labor history that highlights changes in the meaning of minimum age in an economic system that promised African children prosperity. It frames age as a category of analysis that explains the intersection of colonial labor laws and juvenile workers. The close analysis of African children and their labor situation also reveals a mosaic of everyday life in colonial Kenya that brings children into an acknowledged circulation of imperial ideas and imagination.
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:26 PST
JORA: Complete Volume 3, Issue 1
- Abstract: The Journal of Retracing Africa (JORA) is pleased to release its third volume. This volume builds on the foundation of excellence and intellectual rigor evident in the two previous volumes. JORA has remained committed to its mission to deconstruct misconceived, mistaken, and missing narratives on Africa and Africans by providing a holistic appreciation of the African experience. The articles and book reviews published in this volume honor that commitment. They highlight the often overlooked or misunderstood social and economic issues surrounding colonial and contemporary Africa. The implications and ramifications of Africa’s encounters with the West, especially since the 19th century will continue to engage the attention of Africanists. By focusing on the exploitation of child labor for profit in colonial Kenya, the corporatization of the Nigerian railway to satisfy mostly British selfish economic interests, and the powerful corporate financial interest undermining meaningful regulation of tobacco usage in Nigeria, our authors provide a lens to better understand the roots of some of the challenges facing the continent.
  PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:22 PST
Editor's Preface
- PubDate: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:38:18 PST
Youngstedt, Scott M. Surviving with Dignity: Hausa Communities of Niamey,
Niger. United Kingdom: Lexington Books, 2013. 226pp.
- Authors: Lori De Lucia
  PubDate: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:46:16 PST