Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 71 (2009/10)

Articles from a former Leeds research fellow, Solomon Tsehaye, on Eritrean oral culture; from Elinettie Chabwera on madness in the writing of Bessie Head, and from Hannah Cross on migration from West Africa.

Studying Africa

• Aspects of Traditional Wisdom: Agents of Conflict Resolution
  Solomon Tsehaye
• Migration, Mobility and Borders: the EU and West African Migrant Communities
  Hannah Cross (School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds)

Analysing Africa

• Books for UNZA
  Ranka Primorac (University of Southampton)

Reading Africa

• Madness and Spirituality in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power
  Elinettie Kwanjana Chabwera (University of Leeds)
• Review of The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged
  June Rock (Independent Consultant)
• Review of The Darfur Sultanate: A History
  Christopher Prior (University of Leeds)
• Review of A Short History of African Philosophy
  Mikel Burley (University of Leeds)
• Review of From our Side: Emerging Perspectives on Development and Ethics
  Kevin Ward (University of Leeds)
• Review of Elephant Reflections
  R McNeill Alexander (Institute for Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds)
• Review of Murder at Morija: Faith, Mystery and Tragedy on an African Mission
  Kevin Ward (University of Leeds)
• Review of Becoming Somaliland /Understanding Somalia and Somaliland, Culture, History, Society.
  Lionel Cliffe (University of Leeds)
• Review of Africa's Agitators: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939
  Nicholas Grant (University of Leeds)
• Review of Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy
  Shannon Oxley (University of Leeds)
• Review of War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia: The Making of Enemies and Allies in the Horn of Africa
  June Rock (Independent Consultant)