Obituary: Michael Philip Cowen 1945 – 2000
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Note from the Editor
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Letter from the President
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AFSAAP 2000
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Articles
Institutional response to HIV/AIDS epidemic: Care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and health seeking behaviour in Zambia – JRS Malungo
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African Studies in Canada – Martin Klein
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Why I gave up African Studies – Gavin Kitching
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A peripatetic’s perspective on the 1999 Perth “New Perspectives” conference – David Moore
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Review Article
Mapping North-East African identities – Christine Mason
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Labour as the starting point of Capital reforms, naturally – Scott McWilliam
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Autocratic elites and enfeebled masses – Kenneth Good
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Book Reviews
Suzette Heald, Controlling anger: The anthropology of Gisu violence – Michael Humphrey
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Mark Israel, South African political exiles in the UK – Lynette Simons
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Teresa Barnes, We women worked so hard: Gender, urbanization and social reproduction in colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930 – 1956 – Christine Sylvester
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Christine Sylvester, Producing women and progress in Zimbabwe: Narrative of identity and work from the 1980s – Robert McCorquodale
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R G Anderson (ed), Palm wine and leopards whiskers – David Lucas
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Elizabeth Isechei, A history of African societies to 1870 – David Dorward
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Zimbabwe Human Rights Bulletin – Robert McCorquodale
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Congo essay – David Moore
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Research Matters
Through the lens of tragedy: Learning about gender and age in the construction of community – Miroslava Prazak
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The women of Rhodesia: Identity, positionality and experience of some white immigrant women in Western Australia – Eleanor Venables
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Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN)
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African Studies on the net: update – Peter Limb
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Notes and News
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The African Institute of South Africa Turns 40
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La Trobe University African Research Institute Seminar Program
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The African Studies Centre of Western Australia (ASCWA)
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Workshop on African film
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Establishment of a network for executive development of senior women Managers in Higher Education in South Africa
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African Art Exhibitions in Fremantle W.A
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Visitors
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AFSAAP – News
First Volume of Proceedings of AFSAAP_’99
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Review and Newsletter Editors Report 1999
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AFSAAP Postgraduate Workshop 1999
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Note from the Editor
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Letter from the President
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AFSAAP 2001
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Articles
Breaking through the text: Women writers in Francophone Africa – Elizabeth le Roux
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African Studies in the United Kingdom – John Lonsdale
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The ideological dynamics of nationalism: A West African case – David Brown
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Towards a state-less Central Africa? Some theoretical reflections – Stefaan Smis & Saskia Van Hoyweghen
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Encouraging micro-enterprise in Natal: What ever happened to Leda? – Mike Parry
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Book Reviews
Michael Mortimore, Roots in the African dust: Sustaining the sub-Saharan dry lands – R L Heathcote
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Peter Kinlund, Does land degradation matter? Perspectives on environmental change in North Eastern Botswana – Mary Paton
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Colleen E Kriger, Pride of men: Iron working in Nineteenth Century West Central Africa – Graham Connah
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Rijk Van Dijk, Ria Reis & Marja Spierenburg (Eds): The quest for fruition through Ngoma: The political aspects of healing in Southern Africa – Michael Humphrey
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Bill Bravman, Making ethnic ways: Communities and their transformations in Taita Kenya 1800 – 1950 – David Brown
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Janet MacGaffey, Rémy Bazenguissa-Gannga, Congo-Paris: Transnational traders on the margins of the law – David Gordon
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Surendra Bhana, Gandhi’s legacy: The Natal Indian Congress 1894-1994 – Pal Ahluwalia
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Bill Ashcroft & Pal Ahluwalia, Edward Said: The paradox of identity – Paul Nursey-Bray
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Gareth Griffiths, African literatures in English, east and west – Bill Ashcroft
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Reuben & Naomi Musiker, Southern African bibliography – Peter Limb
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Gretchen Walsh, The media in Africa and Africa in the media: An annotated bibliography – Rosaleen Smyth
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Douglas Killam & Ruth Rowe (eds), The companion to African literatures – Dianne Schwerdt
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Lawrence T Udo-Ekpo. The Africans in Australia. Expectations and shattered dreams – Chima Korieh
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Research Matters
Crossing over – African Australian family relationships – Annie Stopford
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African communities and settlement services in Victoria: Towards better service delivery models – Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe
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Research project on black African migrants in multicultural Australia – Alice Omaji
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Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
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New issues in refugee research
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Notes and News
Multicultural radio with a focus on Africa
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A brief history of the Uganda Society
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Observations on a Recent Trip to Ghana
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Valedictory
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View of Mamphete Ramphete to Australia
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The Noma Award 2000
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Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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African Research Institute La Trobe University
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African Studies Centre of Western Australia (ASCWA)
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One day conference on Africa 2000: Links, land and identity
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People
South Australian Rhodes Scholar
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Visitors
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AFSAAP News
Minutes of the Annual General Meeting 2000
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Review & Newsletter: Editor’s Report 2000
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Annual Postgraduate Prize: Guidelines
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Postgraduate Prize 2000
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Conferences
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