Mode of Production Analysis and Historical Production

A striking feature of Gambian society is its tripartite social structure composed of nobles, artisans and descendants of former slaves. Among the artisans, the role of the finoo, or Islamic bard, is by far the least understood. While there is hardly any documentation on finoos, indications are that they have specialized in the Islamic traditions. This article records the life story of Mariama Fatty, a successful Gambian female finoo. In addition to sketching a portrait of her profession, it provides an account of a Muslim woman’s involvement in Islamic practices, her engagement in the propagation of Islam, and her understanding of proper Muslim womanhood. By focusing on the female finoo’s manoeuvring between her cultural obligations and her religious tenets, it emerges that she exercises her profession in what is not so much a contradiction as a dialectic between submission and religious empowerment.     

全球化进程中的非洲经济

当今的全球化不仅涉及经济,而且涉及政治、军事和文化等方面,本文重点仅就全球化过程中的非洲经济发展的若干问题进行初探。 经济全球化无论对发达国家还是对发展中国家均具有两重性。它是一炳双刃剑,对二者都既有利也有弊,给二者均带来了风险和威胁。其不同之处在于,发达国家的垄断财团和跨国公同在这一过程中长期处于绝对优势,它们获得的利远远大于弊,并且几乎控制或影响着全球化的整个过程,捞取了数以百亿千亿美元的巨额利润。它们面临的风险和威     

触摸非洲雕刻的脉搏

当飞机快到苏丹的首都喀土穆时,从空中望下去视野之内极少绿色.这里的大地、楼房的颜色都像还没有出炉的砖似的颜色,土色中夹杂着红色与黑色.整座城市除沿尼罗河两岸是绿色以外,几乎满是黄沙,因这是撒哈拉沙漠边缘的缘故.一踏上非洲这片土地,一股干而热的风就迎面扑来,仿佛进入了一个大浴池一般.刚到的几天还有些新鲜感,但日子久了就感到十分地平淡,觉得在这里已经没有什么事值得我惊奇得大呼小叫的.日子就这么一天天平淡地过去,直到有一天……     

非洲国家在世贸组织中作用日显

非洲现有41个国家为世贸组织成员国。长期以来,由于发展水平较落后,大多数非洲国家在世贸组织中对自身利益不太重视。20世纪90年代以来,面对迅猛发展的经济全球化浪潮,非洲国家在世贸组织中积极捍卫自身权益,迫使发达国家做出一些让步。从长远看,非洲国家只要加强团结,加快发展,就能在世贸组织中发挥应有的作用。 非洲国家以两种方式入(关)世 (一)自动转为世贸组织成员。非洲有53个国家,绝大多数曾为西方殖民地。它们在世贸组织的前身关贸总协定1948年成立时,尚未赢得民族独立。因而当时一些经济发展状况较好的殖民地国家,如南罗得西亚(现津巴布韦)、肯尼亚、毛里求斯、科特迪瓦等,是由宗主国代替签约入     

The theory of the dual economy and African entrepreneurship in Kenya

Models of the dual economy so permeate research and policy that some very important developments are being overlooked. Their implications could considerably shift the emphasis of policy. This paper looks at this aspect of an important piece of research on Kenyan African businessmen and puts it into a context of the dual economy. The implications of a third sector in Kenya are examined alongside some Kenyan data.     

State,society and the African crisis

Rehabilitation after violent conflict is today relevant to many countries - especially but not only in SSA - and hopefully will become so for more. It is in generally too narrowly specified, too short term and too fragmented with no macro strategic or conceptual frame. Further it is usually based on quite inadequate knowledge of the history, priorities and dynamics of the afflicted country. Rehabilitation has-or should have-interacting economic (especially livelihood rebuilding), social (stress and perceived inequity reducing) and political (reconciliation and legitimacy restoration not least by rehabilitating basic service access including user friendly, personal security oriented civil police and magistrates courts system). In severely war impacted countries these are likely to be among the most economically efficient ways to regaining growth and restructured economic development as well as of rebuilding social and political reconcilliation and religitimisation.