Published: 2017-06-13
Foreword
v–vi
AbstractIn order to provide an international structure for the humane and scientific study of peoples, problems, and issues in the world’s developing...
A Message from the Editor
vii–x
AbstractArticles
Asserting Agency by Negotiating Patriarchy: Nigerian Women's Experiences within University Administrative Structures
1–21
AbstractThis paper focuses on how African women negotiate the administrative structures of universities as subordinates as well as agents, based on...
"The Coolies Here": Exploring the Construction of an Indian "Race" in South Africa
22–49
AbstractThe aim of this article is to reveal how a category of people that did not exist before in South Africa was created when the first group of...
The Historical Orbit of Eritrea's Agony
50–71
AbstractTheir suffering under racist Italian colonialism pushed Eritreans to retreat into their millennia-old Ethiopian identity. However, suffocation...
West African Women and the Development Question in the Post–World War II Economy: The Experience of Nigeria's Benin Province in the Oil Palm Industry
72–95
AbstractWest African women as typified by the experience of women in the oil palm industry in Nigeria’s Benin Province participated actively in the...
Cameroon: The Continuous Search for National Integration
96–118
AbstractThe federal constitution of 1961 stated that the Federal Republic of Cameroon shall be constituted from the territory of the Republic of...
Book Reviews
Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011–12 by Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid
119–120
AbstractMaxwell, Daniel and Nisar Majid. Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011–12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016....
The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican III by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
121–122
AbstractMexican American Literature: A Portable Anthology edited by Dagoberto Gilb and Ricardo Angel Gilb
122–124
AbstractGilb, Dagoberto and Ricardo Angel Gilb, eds., Mexican American Literature: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s Press, 2016....
Now Peru Is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist by Manuel Llamojha Mitma and Jaymie Patricia Heilman
124–126
AbstractLlamojha Mitma, Manuel and Jaymie Patricia Heilman. Now Peru Is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist. Durham, NC: Duke University...
The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space by Ulrich Oslender
126–128
AbstractOslender, Ulrich. The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...
Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic by Eric Paul Roorda
128–130
AbstractRoorda, Eric Paul. Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. Review by Jeffery T. Morris.
Disciplinary Conquests: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945 by Ricardo D. Salvatore
130–132
AbstractSalvatore, Ricardo D. Disciplinary Conquests: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Review by Evan...