Volume XXVII, Number 1: Spring 2010
CELEBRATING CHANGE, DEFINING THE FUTURE: SOCIAL JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY AND CULTURAL RENEWAL
Foreword
7
Emergent Discourses of Audacity and the Revocation of Marginality
By Peyi Soyinka-Airewele
11
“Diasporas,” Mobility and the Social Imaginary: Getting Ahead in West Africa
By Emmanuel Akyeampong
25
Religion, Economic Development and Cultural Change: The Contradictory Role of Pentecostal Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Samuel Zalanga
43
Toward a Reclassification of Praetorian Rulers: Lessons from the Pakistani Experience
By Chaitram Singh
63
Iranian Identity in the West: A Discursive Approach
By Seyed Sadegh Haghighat
85
Third World/Global South: From Development to Globalization to Imperial Project
By M.D. Litonjua
107
Other Papers
Ambitious in Theory but Unlikely in Practice: A Critique of UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education for Developing Countries and Emerging Democracies
By Eric Freedman and Richard Shafer
135
Peasant Response to Agricultural Innovations: Land Consolidation, Agrarian Diversification and Technical Change. The Case of Bungoma District in Western Kenya, 1954-1960
By Nicholas E. Makana
155
“Long Shadows in Development Administration”: A Reactive Memoir to a Vanishing ‘Greatest Amerrican’ Fred W. Riggs
By Garth N. Jones
171
Origins of the Central Dilemma in Nigeria’s Federal System: The Wartime Quasi-federalism, 1967-1970
By Osarhieme Benson Osadolor
193
Patients Versus Patents: Thailand and the Politics of Access to Pharmaceutical Products
By Mishka Glaser and Ann Marie Murphy
215
Sub-Saharan Ethnic Attachment and Civil Conflict: A Methodological Approach to State-building and Ethnicity
By Santosh C. Saha
235
Democracy and Its Others
By Jyotirmaya Tripathy
253
Analysis of Poverty Dynamics: Bangladesh Perspective
By Ershad Ali and Dayal Talukder
273
Book Reviews and Review Essays
ASIA
LI, HUAIYIN. Village China Under Socialism and Reform.
By Chaitram Singh
287
SINGH, DALJIT. Southeast Asian Affairs: 2009.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.
288
DUTTON, GEORGE. The Tay Son Uprising.
By James Biedzynski
291
BAUMAN, CHAD M. Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947.
By Steven C. Dinero
292
PANDEY, GYANENDRA. Remembering Partition: Violence, History and Nationalism in India.
By Janet M.Powers
294
SEVERIO, RODOLFO C, and LORRAINE CARLOS SALAZAR. Whither the Phillippines in the 21st Century.
By Michael P. Onorato
296
AFRICA
WA MUIU, MUENI and GUY MARTIN. A New Paradigm of the African State: Fundi wa Afrika.
By Jeggan C. Senghor
297
MEDARD, HENRI and SHANE DOYLE, (eds.). Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa.
By Opolot Okia
300
SHAXSON, NICHOLAS. Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil.
By James Biedzynski
303
AMOAH ,MICHAEL, Reconstructing the Nation in Africa: The Politics of Nationalism in Ghana.
By Gariba B. Abdul-Korah
304
MELBER, HENNING (ed.). Transitions in Namibia.
By James Biedzynski
307
BASSETT, THOMAS J. The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d’I voire, 1880-1995.
By Nicholas E. Makana
308
MIDDLE EAST
GORDON, NEVE. Israel’s Occupation.
By A.J. Abraham
311
SALT, JEREMY. The Unmasking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands.
By A.J. Abraham
311
NATALI, DENISE. The Kurds and the State: Evolving National Identity in Iraq, Turkey, and Iran.
By Peter Fragiskatos 312
COUGHLIN, CON. Khomeini’s Ghost.
By James Biedzynski
315
HALMAN, TALAT S. (author) and JAYNE L. WARNER (ed.). Rapture and Revolution: Essays on Turkish Literature.
By Iclal Vanwesenbeeck
316
LATIN AMERICA
RAUSCH, JANE M. From Frontier Town to Metropolis: A History of Villavicencio, Colombia, since 1842.
By Michael R. Hall
319
FERNANDES, SUJATHA. Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures.
By Julio César Pino
321
REVIEW ESSAY
MEMORY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND DEMOCRATIZATION
PAYNE, LEIGH A. Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence and KAISER, SUSANA. Postmemories of Terror: A New Generation Copes with the Legacy of the “Dirty War.”
By Michelle D. Bonner
323
MISCELLANEOUS
TORERO CULLEN, MÁXIMO, and JOACHIM VON BRAUN. Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction: The Potential of Tele-communications.
By Kenneth Koech Cheruiyot
327
JARSTAD, ANNA K., and TIMOTHY D. SISK (eds). From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding.
By Peter Fragiskatos
330
ZIAI, ARAM (ed.). Exploring Post-development Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives.
By Dipankar Sinha
331
EDGINGTON, DAVID W., ANTONIO L. FERNANDEZ and CLAUDIA HOSHINO. New Regional Development Paradigms: New Regions - Concepts,Issues, and Practices.
By Kenneth Koech Cheruiyot
334
LACHENMANN, GUDRUN and PETRA DANNECKER (eds.). Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies: Gendered Spaces and Translocal Connections.
By Steven C. Dinero
339
BAUD, MICHIEL and RUTTEN, ROSANNE (eds). Popular Intellectuals and Social Movements: Framing Protest in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
By Yoly Zentella
340
REINERT, ERIK S. . How Some Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor.
By Lansana Keita
343
The Twenty-Seventh Annual ATWS Meeting
347
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
349
Books Available for Review
353
Volume XXVII, Number 2: Fall 2010
THIRD WORLD PROBLEMS AND ISSUES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Foreword
7
A Diegetic Analysis of the Scholarly Works of Six ATWS/ASRF Women: Peyi-Soyinka-Airewele, Theodora Ayot, Doyin Coker-Kolo, Rita Kiki Edozie, Mueni wa Muiu, and Mojubalou Olufunke Okome
By Abdul Karim Bangura
11
International Free Trade, the WTO, and the Third World/Global South
By M.D. Litonjua
45
“The Haitian State: Something Alien”
By Lisa Macha Saye
71
Maroon Resistance and Settlement on Danish St. Croix
By Lomarsh Roopnarine
89
Do Global Strategies for Poverty Eradication in Sub-Saharan Africa Work? An Assessment of Several International Macroeconomic Policies
By Clair Apodaca
109
Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Islamic Republic of Iran
By Sadegh Bakhtiari, Hossein Meisami and Mohamad Soleimani
135
Ethnic Conflict and State Formation in Post-Colonial Africa: A Comparative Study of Ethnic Genocide in the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, and Rwanda-Burundi
By Pade Badru
149
Other Papers
Elite Composition and Socio-Political Correlations: Age, Foreign Travel and Writings of the Jewish Political Elite During the British Mandate over Palestine
By Taysir Nashif
173
The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM): Building Partnership or Neo-Colonialism of U.S.-Africa Relations?
By José de Arimatéia da Cruz and Laura K. Stephens
193
The Judiciary in Governance in the Gambia: The Quest for Autonomy Under the Second Republic
By A.A. Senghore
215
Ubuntugogy for the 21st Century
By Johannes L van der Walt
249
A Case of a Mother Tongue and Another Mother Tongue in School: Efforts at Revitalization of Olusuba Language of Kenya
By Ogone John Obiero
267
Book Reviews and Review Essays
ASIA
GULATI, ASHOK and SHENGGEN FAN. (eds.) The Dragon & The Elephant: Agricultural and Rural Reforms in China and India.
By Steven C. Dinero
295
KINGSBURY, DAMIEN and MICHAEL LEACH (eds.). East Timor: Beyond Independence.
By Victor Sensenig
296
REVIEW ESSAY
THAILAND, THAKSIN AND ASIAN TERRORISM
FUNSTON, JOHN. (ed.). Divided Over Thaksin: Thailand’s Coup and Problematic Transition; and SINGH, DALJIT. (ed.). Terrorism in South and Southeast Asia in the Coming Decade.
By Robert L. Curry, Jr.
299
AFRICA
MBAKU, JOHN MUKUM. Corruption in Africa: Causes, Consequences and Cleanups.
By Gariba B. Abdul-Korah
305
WANGILA, MARY NYENGWESO. Female Circumcision: The Interplay of Religion, Culture, and Gender in Kenya.
By Mario Fenyo
310
SHELDON, KATHLEEN. Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.
By Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
312
REESE, SCOTT. Renewers of the Age: Holy Men and Social Discourse in Colonial Benaadir.
By Lady Jane Acquah
314
CRUMBLEY, HELEN DEIDRE. Spirit, Structure, and Flesh: Gendered Experiences in African Instituted Churches among the Yoruba of Nigeria.
By Tosin Funmi Abiodun
316
BODDY, JANICE. Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan.
By Steven C. Dinero
319
SAINE, ABDOULAYE. The Paradox of Third-Wave Democratization in Africa: The Gambia under AFPRC-APRC Rule, 1994-2008.
By Jeggan C. Senghor
321
REVIEW ESSAY
POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA: NEW DILEMMAS
MANGCU, XOLELA. To the Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa; ANDREWS, PENELOPE and STEPHEN ELLMAN (eds). The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Perspectives on South Africa’s Basic Law; and DAVIES, REBECCA. Afrikaners in the New South Africa: Identity Politics in a Globalized Economy.
By Yoly Zentella
327
MIDDLE EAST
SADRI, HOUMAN A. Global Security Watch—The Caucasus States.
By Michael B. Bishku
333
VARZI., ROXANNE, Warring Souls: Youth, Media and Martyrdom In Post-Revolution Iran.
By James Biedzynski
334
ROY, OLIVIER. The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East.
By A.J. Abraham
335
CARTER, JIMMY. We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work.
By A.J. Abraham
336
MEARSHEIMER, JOHN J. and STEPHEN M. WALT. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.
By A.J. Abraham
337
SULTAN, CATHY. Tragedy in South Lebanon: The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006.
By A.J. Abraham
338
LATIN AMERICA
GEGGUS,PATRICK DAVID and NORMAN FIERING (eds.).The World of the Haitian Revolution.
By Lisa Saye
339
CUETO, MARCOS. Cold War, Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955-1975.
By Michael R. Hall
340
CHILD, JACK. Miniature Messages: The Semiotics and Politics of Latin American Postage Stamps.
By Michael R. Hall
342
SCHOULTZ, LARS. The Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and The Cuban Revolution.
By Thomas M. Leonard
344
MISCELLANEOUS
BHAVNANI, KUM-KUM, JOHN FORAN, and PRIYA A. KURIAN (eds.). Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development.
By Mehrangiz Najafizadeh
347
BANGURA, A. K. (ed.). An Introduction to Islam: A Sociological Perspective.
By Yoly Zentella
349
Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts
353
Books Available for Review
357
