Index

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AAP. See Africa Action Plan

Achebe, Chinua

“Afer”

Africa Action Plan (AAP)

“African,” defining

African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programs

African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

African independent churches

African National Congress (ANC)

African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)

African Union: good governance and

peacekeeping and

Africanization of Christianity

Afrocentrism

age-grades

agriculture

under colonial rule

decline in exports

food security and

foraging

herding

international commercial systems and

in lower Nile River valley

slave trade and

soil quality and

subsidies for

and sustainable villages

Ahmad, Muhammad

Ahmadiyya Muslim community

Aidoo, Ama Ata

AIDS. See HIV/AIDS

Akan people

alcohol, slave trade and

Alliance for Zambia Informal Economy Associations (AZIEA)

Al-Shabab

AMETRAMO. See Associação de Medicina Tradicional de Moçambique

ANC. See African National Congress

ancient Egypt

Ansar Dine

“anthropology, shared”

apartheid: human rights and

labor migration and

literature and

during postcolonial era

APRM. See African Peer Review Mechanism

Arab world, cultural exchange with

Arabic-language schools

architecture: painted, in popular art

in traditional arts

Aristotle’s Plot

Armah, Ayi Kwei

armed conflict: children’s rights and

decline in

health and

humanitarian responses to

Arrow of God (Achebe)

artisans

arts. See visual arts

Asante: marriage and kinship among

traditional arts and

Associação de Medicina Tradicional de Moçambique (AMETRAMO)

Atlantic world, international commercial systems and

Auma, Alice

authenticity, literature and

L’aventure ambiguë (Kane)

AZIEA. See Alliance for Zambia Informal Economy Associations

Bâ, Mariama

Bachy, Victor, monographs of

Bamana people: arts apprenticeships among

families among

marriage and kinship among

Bamba, Amadu

al-Banna, Hassan

Bantu, migration and

Le baobab fou (Bugul)

bells

Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine

Benin, traditional arts in

Bible, translation of

biogeography

biomes

Biya, Paul

blacksmiths

Boko Haram

Borom Sarret

Boughédir, Férid

Bound to Violence (Ouologuem)

Les bouts de bois de Dieu (Sembene)

brass, in traditional arts

Bretton Woods institutions: print and electronic resources on

structural adjustment programs and

bridewealth

Brutus, Dennis

Bugul, Ken

burials

Bwami association

Bwiti movement

Bye-Bye Africa

call-and-response, in musical performances

Caméra d’Afrique

cartography

carving, as gendered art

cell phones

ceramics, in traditional arts

Un certain regard

Chahine, Youssef

charismatic churches

Cheriaa, Tahar

children: bridewealth and

colonial-era missionary efforts and

intergenerational relations and

kinship and

print and electronic resources on rights of

rights of

role of, in family

toys and

urban livelihood and. See also youth

chimurenga

China, economic involvement of

Christianity: appropriation of symbols of

colonialism and

defined

domestic arrangements and family dynamics and

expansion of

history of, in Africa

music and

nineteenth-century missionary efforts

recent developments regarding

cinema. See film

circumcision

circumnavigation of Africa

city-states, Swahili

civil rights. See also human rights; women’s rights

civil society organizations: humanitarian and charitable work of

as promoter of electoral democracy

women’s rights and

clans

climate

climate zones

cloth: Chinese-produced

in fine arts

gift giving and

as status symbol

in traditional arts

weaving

code de la famille

coffins, fantasy

colonialism: agriculture and

Christianity and

and economy of Indian Ocean world

film and

human rights and

impact of

Islam and

literature and

music and

politics under

religion and

study of social relations during

three-period view of history and

commerce. See economy

community, non-kin forms of. See also social relations

compounds

conflict, armed: children’s rights and

decline in

health and

humanitarian responses to

conflict resolution

consumption, urbanization and

contemporary art. See fine art

continental divide

Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

corruption: good governance and

literature and

Côte d’Ivoire, decentralization in

country ownership

courts: independence and integrity of

women’s rights and

credit societies

crop rotation

Cross-Border Traders Association

Crowther, Samuel Ajayi

“cults of affliction”

cultural exchange: migration and

music and

cultural relativism

cultural rights

cultural specificity

culture: under colonial rule

in conception of human rights

film and

global networks and

Damongo, Ghana, food security in

dan Fodio, Uthman

dancing

Dangarembga, Tsitsi

Darfur, Sudan, food security in

death. See coffins, fantasy; funerals

Death and the King’s Horseman (Soyinka)

debt

decentralization

decolonization

film and

literature and. See also postcolonial period

demand-side governance

democracy: debates regarding

and democratic culture

electoral, in post–Cold War era

future of

and good governance and development

at local level

mixed results of electoral

origins and introduction of, in Africa

and politics of representation

print and electronic resources on

and pursuit of human rights

demonstrating, as political involvement

descent systems

descriptive representation

deserts, names of

development: aid

challenges to sustainable human

country ownership and

democracy and good governance and

human rights and

improvements and challenges in

overview of

print and electronic resources on

structural adjustment programs and

trade and investment and

Diop, David

disease. See health; HIV/AIDS; malaria

diversification, and sustainable agriculture

diversity: in Africa

in health care

divorce

Le docker noir (Sembene)

drought

drums

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

economic rights

economy: colonialism’s impact on

democracy and good governance and

and democratization and pursuit of human rights

development and

family and kinship and

globalization and

of Great Zimbabwe

growth of

health and

and human rights during colonial period

influence of HIV/AIDS on

intergenerational relations and

international commercial systems

marriage and

of middle Niger River valley

migration and

and nationalization of film industry

natural resources and

Pentecostal and charismatic churches and

population growth and

during postcolonial era

trade and investment and

urbanization and

weakening of

women’s rights and

women’s roles in. See also livelihood(s)

ECOWAS. See Economic Community of West African States

education: Arabic-language schools and

under colonial rule

colonial-era missionary efforts and

development and

in fine arts

history of

music and

Efuru (Nwapa)

Egypt: ancient

film and

Egypt (N’Dour)

EITI. See Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

electoral democracy: and democratic culture

ethnicity and

at local level

mixed results of

organizations promoting

in post–Cold War era

Emecheta, Buchi

employment, statistics on. See also livelihood(s)

L’enfant noir (Laye)

environment, human use and transformation of

Eritrea

Esu

Ethiopia

ethnicity: and continental divide

diversity in

and institutionalization of political parties

livelihood and

marriage and

politics and

visual arts and. See also race

Europe: effect of, on traditional arts

and idea of Africa

international commercial systems and

as promoter of electoral democracy. See also colonialism

exchange relationships. See gift giving

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)

Faat Kine

fabric. See cloth

family: construction of

division of labor in

intergenerational relations. See also social relations

family law

famine

The Famished Road (Okri)

Fandou Béri

fantasy coffins

Farah, Nuruddin

farming. See agriculture

al-Farsi, Abd Allah Salih

film: changing aesthetics of

future of

history of

Ousmane Sembene and

print and electronic resources on

problems of, production

as tool for revolution

Film for Development Trust

fine art: artists in

defined

exhibitions, audiences, and patronage of

materials, techniques, subjects, and styles in

food, local

food security

football

foraging

forced labor

foreign investment

formal and informal work

France: and development of African cinema

emigration and

literature and. See also colonialism

FRELIMO government

Fugard, Athol

Fulto “family”

funerals

funerary coffins

gay rights

Gbarbea, James, funeral of

gbin sounds

gender: health and

housing and

traditional arts and

urbanization and

youth and. See also women; women’s rights

genocide: of Congolese

criminal prosecution of

effects of

in Rwanda and Burundi

Rwandan

geography: agriculture

climate and biogeography

colonial boundaries and

and continental divide

diversity of

human use and transformation of environments

and idea of Africa

physical landscape

print and electronic resources on

Ghana: colonial-era religion and

decentralization in

democracy in

electoral democracy in

fantasy coffins and

food security in

funerals in

labor migration and

urban livelihood and

gift giving: livelihood and

marriage and

urban youth and. See also bridewealth

glass painting

global cities

globalization: Africa and

agriculture and

commerce and

economy and

and future of democracy

Pentecostal and charismatic churches and

urbanization and

youth and

gold: in history of middle Niger River valley

in history of Zimbabwean plateau

in traditional arts

Gomes, Flora

good governance

Gordimer, Nadine

Great Zimbabwe

griots

Groupe Bogolan Kasobané

Guerra, Ruy

Hammami, Omar

Head, Bessie

healers, traditional

healing: health care programs and

print and electronic resources on

social relations and. See also health; prophet healing

health: and categories and causations of illness

complexity of African

in global context

medical pluralism and

print and electronic resources on. See also healing

health care programs

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries’ (HIPC) Initiative

herding

Herodotus

high Africa

HIPC. See Heavily Indebted Poor Countries’ Initiative

history: colonialism and

as field of inquiry

international commercial systems in

migration and cultural exchanges in

print and electronic resources on

social complexity and political centralization during precolonial period

three-period view of

traditional arts and

HIV/AIDS: human rights and

as obstacle to economic growth

as significant challenge to well-being

treatment policies for

women’s rights and

Holy Spirit Mobile Force

Holy Spirit Movement

Hommage aux Chasseurs du Mandé (Konaté)

homosexuality

horns

housing and household(s): ideas of

shared

and sustainable villages

urbanization and

women- and child-headed

youth-headed

human rights: advancement of

and African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights

children’s rights and

colonialism and

cultural specificity versus universalism in

economic, social, and cultural rights and

institutional framework for promoting

and nation building in postcolonial period

in precolonial societies

print and electronic resources on

redemocratization and pursuit of

women’s rights and

humanitarianism

hunters’ associations

hunting and gathering

Hutu

Ibn Battuta, Abu Abdullah Muhammad

idea, Africa as

Ifa

Ife

illiteracy

illness: categories and causations of

print and electronic resources on. See also disease; health

IMF. See International Monetary Fund

immigration. See also migration

independence. See decolonization; postcolonial period

independent churches, African

Indian Ocean world, international commercial systems and

indigeneity, politics and

indigenous institutions, and local-level politics

industrialization: colonial occupation and

impact of

international commercial systems and

informal sector. See formal and informal work

informalization

initiation societies

initiations, traditional arts and

instruments: and aesthetic practice

cultural exchange and

use of indigenous

intercropping

intergenerational relations

International Monetary Fund (IMF): print and electronic resources on

structural adjustment programs and

internet connectivity

iron

Islam: colonialism and

defined

descent systems and

domestic arrangements and family dynamics and

history of, in Africa

international commercial systems and

marriage and

nineteenth-century revival, reform, and empire-building and

print and electronic resources on

recent developments regarding

rise of

ivory

Janzen, John

Jenne-jeno

jihad

Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen

judiciary: independence and integrity of

women’s rights and

Kaboré, Gaston

Kabre, exchange relationships among

Kane, Cheikh Hamidou

Karmen Gei

kente

Kidjo, Angelique

Kingelez, Bodys Isek

kinship: forms and meanings of

marriage and

prophet healing and. See also social relations

Kòmò masks

Konaté, Abdoulaye

Kony, Joseph

Kosrof, Wosene Worke

Kourouma, Ahmadou

kpè sounds

Kwei, Kane

labor: division of

forced

labor migration

Labou Tansi, Sony

land tenure, women’s rights and

landscape, physical. See also geography

language(s): Arabic-language schools and

Bible translation and

and continental divide

diversity in

film and

following independence

Islam and

literature and

of middle Niger River valley

migration and

Qur’an translation and

Laye, Camara

leadership, traditional arts and

legislatures, autonomous, as component for strengthening democracy

liberation cinema

library resources

lineages

literacy

literature: colonialism and self-representation in

as contestation

debates and challenges regarding

immigration and

neocolonial corruption and

overview of

portrayals of Africans in European

print and electronic resources on

in South Africa

livelihood(s): and Chinese economic involvement

concept of

factors affecting

food security

formal and informal work

gift giving and

mobile phones and

print and electronic resources on

remittances

and sustainable villages

urbanization and

youth and

livestock

Lord’s Resistance Army

love: marriage and

urban youth and

low Africa

lower Nile River valley

Maasai: religious practices of

traditional art of

Madame Brouette

Magaya v. Magaya (1998)

Maji-Maji movement

malaria

Mali. See also Bamana people

Mande hunters’ associations

Mande Kòmò masks

Mandela, Nelson

Mango, Alfayo Odongo

Marechera, Dambudzo

Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts

market towns

marriage: domestic arrangements and

relationships constructed through

social attachment and materiality of. See also weddings

masks

masquerades

matrilineal societies

Mauritania, exchange relationships in

Mbikayi, Maurice

merchandise exports

middle Niger River valley

migration: cultural exchanges and

labor

to lower Nile River valley

remittances and. See also immigration

mobile phones

mobility. See migration

modernity and modernization: economic growth and

increase in

understanding and embracing

monogamy

Moolaadé

mortality

Mozambique: economic growth in

health and healing in

prophet healing in

Mubarak, Hosni

multinational corporations (MNCs)

Muridiyya movement

music: cultural exchange and

in daily life

film and

ideas and sound in

instruments and aesthetic practice and

as mosaic in motion

movement and flow and

print and electronic resources on

musicals

Muslim Brotherhood

Muslims. See Islam

name-giving ceremonies

naming places

Nana Tonga

National Democratic Institute

nationalism, film and

natural disasters, humanitarian responses to

natural resources: colonialism and

foreign investment in

of Great Zimbabwe

of middle Niger River valley

trade and investment and

uses of

Ndambuki, Berida

N’Dour, Youssou

Necho II

négritude

Nervous Conditions (Dangarembga)

New Directions initiative

ngoma

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Nha Pala

Niger

Niger River valley, middle

Nigeria: electoral democracy in

ethnicities in

film and

popular art in

rainfall in

traditional arts in

The Night of Truth

Nile, Ibn Battuta’s description of

Nile River valley, lower

Nok

North Africa: and continental divide

expansion of Roman Empire and

film and

history of

Islam and colonialism in

remittances and

Nwapa, Flora

ODA. See official development assistance

official development assistance (ODA)

oil

oil crises

Okri, Ben

online resources. See print and electronic resources

Onobrakpeya, Bruce

Osofisan, Femi

Ouologuem, Yambo

ownership, country

Owoo, Ata

Oyono, Ferdinand

painting: in popular art

in traditional arts

Palm-Wine Drinkard, The(Tutuola)

Pan-Africanism

Paris Declaration

patrilineal societies

p’Eitek, Okot

peacekeeping

Peck, Raoul

Pentecostal churches

Phoenicians, sea journey of

physical landscape. See also geography

pilgrimages

Piot, Charles

plantation system, American

political parties: and autonomous legislatures

ethnicity and

institutionalization of

political rights

politics: children and youth’s involvement in

under colonial rule

decolonization and

film and

funerals and

history of

and human rights in postcolonial period

literature and

music and

during precolonial period

print and electronic resources on

traditional arts and

transnational and global, and future of democracy

women’s involvement in. See also democracy; political parties

polygyny

popular art: artists in

context of

defined

materials and techniques in

overview of

problems with

tourist art and toys and

population growth

postcolonial period

challenges to Islam during

human rights and nation building in

three-period view of history and

urbanization during. See also decolonization

pottery, as gendered art

poverty: children’s rights and

domestic arrangements and

education and

health and

human rights and

“Prayer to the Masks” (Senghor)

precipitation

precolonial period: human rights during

institutions and local-level politics during

literature and

politics of

social complexity and political centralization during

three-period view of history and

prestige arts

print and electronic resources: on development

evaluating

on film

general resources

on geography

on health, illness, and healing

on history

on human rights

library resources

on literature

on music

on politics and future of democracy

on religion

on social relations and livelihoods

on urbanization

on visual arts

procedural democracy. See electoral democracy

prophet healing: case studies of

complexity of

healing through

illness categories and causations and

as ngoma

protesting, as political involvement

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa

Qaddafi, Muammar

Quartier Mozart

Qur’an, translation of

race: and continental divide

literature and. See also ethnicity

racism: apartheid and

colonialism and

slave trade and

rain forest

rainfall

rap

rattles

refugees

reggae

relativism, cultural

religion(s): with African roots

bridewealth and

and continental divide

descriptions of

domestic arrangements and family dynamics and

livelihood and

marriage and

and non-kin forms of community

print and electronic resources on

traditional arts and. See also Christianity; Islam

religious specialists

remarriage

remittances: foreign exchange earnings through

as global financial networks

impact of

representation, politics of

residential spaces

resources, print and electronic. See print and electronic resources

retail capitalists

rituals, purposes of religious

rivers, soils and

rock paintings

Roman Empire, expansion of

Rouch, Jean

Rwanda

el Saadawi, Nawal

Sachs, Albie Sahara Desert

Sahel savanna Les saignantes

Salafism

San peoples

Sande

savannas

seasonality

“secret societies”

self-representation, as literary theme

Seller, William

Sembene, Ousmane

Senegal, popular art in

Senghor, Leopold Sédar

sexuality: human rights and

urban youth and

women’s rights and

“shared anthropology”

sharia

Shonibare, Yinka

shrub savannas

Sidibé, Malick

Síthole, Clive

Sitou, Tijani

slave trade: and African ideas of Africa

colonialism and

cultural exchange and

and Europe’s negative view of Africa

international commercial systems and

smiths

So Long a Letter(Bâ)

social relations: colonial-era study of

domestic arrangements and family dynamics

forms and meanings of kinship

gift giving and

health and

intergenerational relations

livelihood and

marriage and

non-kin forms of community

print and electronic resources on

prophet healing and

transformations in

urbanization and

social rights

soils

Les Soleils des indépendences(Kourouma)

Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality

Somaliland

Songhay

sound, in music

South Africa: decolonization of

family dynamics in

film and

informal sector in

labor migration and

literature and

print and electronic resources on history of

retail capitalism in

South Sudan

Sovinka, Wole

spirits and spirit world: music and

prophet healing and

traditional arts and

steamer trunks

StreetNet International

structural adjustment programs

subsidies, agricultural

substantive representation

Sudan, food security in

Sufi orders

Sufism

sugar

“sugar daddies”

Sunjata epic

Swahili literature

Swahili peoples, international commercial systems and

Sy, Kalidou

syncretism

Tal, Umar

Tall, Papa Ibra

taxation, under colonial rule

technology: development and

in filmmaking

Tete, Mozambique

Tete, Zeye

Things Fall Apart (Achebe)

Third Cinema

third world cities

timbre

Tingatinga paintings

Tongnaab

tourist art

toys

trade: agriculture and

with Atlantic world

during colonial era

development and

globalization and

with Indian Ocean world

in middle Niger River valley

migration and

music and cultural exchange and

with Portugal

trans-Saharan. See also economy

tradition, versus modernity

traditional art: artists in

context of

defined

history and

materials and techniques in

overview of

prestige and leadership and

role of, in initiations

spiritual practices and

traditional healers

transnationalism

Trevor-Roper, Hugh

“tribe”

trousseau. See bridewealth

Tuareg: armed resistance of

descent system of

non-kin forms of community and

tuberculosis

Turner, Victor

Tutsi

Tutuola, Amos

Twins Seven Seven, Prince

Udju azul di Yonta

Unity Dow v. Attorney-General (1992)

universalism

urban, defined

urbanism: print and electronic resources on

versus urbanization

urbanization: agriculture and

consumption and sociality and

domestic arrangements and

economic transformations and

globalization and

growth of

health care and

livelihood and

of middle Niger River valley

music and

and population statistics

during postcolonial era

print and electronic resources on

scholarship on

spatial transformations and

terminology used in study of

youth and

utendi

utenzi

Vera, Yvonne

La vie est belle

La vie sure terre

visual arts: fine art

popular art

portrayals of Africans in European

print and electronic resources on

traditional

types of

Viva Riva

weaving

weddings

Wend Kuuni

When Rain Clouds Gather (Head)

witchcraft

witchcraft illnesses

women: bridewealth and

as Christian converts

farming and

as filmmakers

football and

health and

human rights and

labor migration and

literature and

as Muslim converts

politics and

social relations of

and “sugar daddies” phenomenon

transnationalism and. See also gender

women’s rights

wood, as traditional arts material

woodland savannas

work. See livelihood(s)

World Bank: print and electronic resources on

structural adjustment programs and

world cities

World Trade Organization (WTO)

WTO. See World Trade Organization

Yeelen

Yoruba: Bible translated into

division of labor and

fine arts and

traditional arts and religion and

youth: consumption and sociality and

and dynamics of informalization

housing and

involvement of, in political process

population growth and

toys and

urbanization and. See also children

Zambia

Zarma households

Zimbabwe, democracy in

Zimbabwean plateau