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Villia Jefremovas

Treacherous Waters: The Politics of History and the Politics of Genocide in Rwanda and Burundi

险恶水域：卢旺达和布隆迪的历史政治与种族灭绝政治

Abstract In the mountainous areas of south-western Uganda, peasant miners are characterized as people who ‘work for the stomach’ and pursue an unsustainable activity: extracting alluvial gold with artisanal technology. After days of hard work in the mines, they allegedly squander their money on alcohol and sex. A common way of disapproving of these miners’ behaviour is to compare them to lake fishers ( ababariya ). By focusing on the ababariya narrative as an entry point into the lifeways of miners, and the relationship between mining and fishing and agriculture, we explore how peasant miners think about a sustainable life. Our argument is that the ababariya can be instrumental in the reproduction and legitimization of existing social and economic inequalities. We therefore examine the contexts that frame the ababariya narrative and the inequalities that it legitimizes. This leads us to reflect on whether this narrative on ‘excessive behaviours’ reveals something about an alternative way of thinking about economy and social relationships based on abundance rather than scarcity.

Lorenzo D’Angelo

Eleanor Fisher

‘Working for the stomach’: sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda

“为生计而劳作”：维持乌干达西南部的农民采矿

Travis B. Curtice

Rebecca Tapscott, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £87 – 978 0 19 885647 4). 2021, 256 pp.

丽贝卡·塔普斯科特，《任意国家：穆塞韦尼统治下的乌干达的社会控制与现代威权主义》。牛津：牛津大学出版社（精装 £87 – 978 0 19 885647 4）。2021年，256页。

Abstract From 1950 to 1963, a columnist named ‘Kadebona’ (The Experienced One) published regular pieces in Izwi lama Swazi (The Voice of the Swazi), the vernacular newspaper of the British protectorate of Swaziland (now named Eswatini). Although lacking definitive evidence, it is probable that Kadebona was John J. Nquku, a leading political figure of colonial Eswatini. Kadebona’s 300-plus columns positioned themselves as meeting places for the embryonic Swati nation. In contrast to the closed-door discussions of those in power, Kadebona’s columns styled themselves as transparent platforms for a give-and-take debate among emaSwati (as residents of Eswatini were called). Kadebona not only ‘spoke’ via his columns; he also expected replies on the part of the nation. His column was a space available to all, ‘where the rich and the poor, and where leaders and their followers, all meet’. In a period of debate over the future of the independent Swati nation, Kadebona’s columns encouraged all emaSwati to shape their country, and allowed all perspectives audibility via the column and ‘Letters to the Editor’. At the same time, however, there were distinct limits to the egalitarian public summoned through these articles. While Kadebona encouraged all emaSwati regardless of rank or class to speak up, he was far less welcoming towards other voices, including women and youths. This article provides an introduction to these fraught columns, a small sample of which are presented here, both in their isiZulu original and in English translation (siSwati – the language spoken by emaSwati – had no authorized written form well into the 1960s; instead, the South African isiZulu was used for written communication). In what follows, I provide Izwi lama Swazi ’s history, discuss the emergence of Kadebona as a columnist in the 1950s, and comment on some of his key concerns.

Joel Cabrita

Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini: <i>Izwi lama Swazi</i> and the columnist ‘Kadebona’

20世纪60年代斯威士兰的印刷媒体与平等主义：《斯威士之声》与专栏作家“卡德博纳”

Abstract This article explores the trajectories and narratives of people who have exited marginalized urban spaces in Nairobi to move through other social spaces in the city, or abroad. Claiming to belong to the ‘ghetto’, an idiom that refers to both a local space of exclusion and a globalized cultural and political imaginary, our interlocutors embrace the contradictions of this belonging in their everyday experiences. The careers they have built in different fields (art, activism, sport, academia) identify them as figures of social success and make them question their relationships with those around them. Defining their aspirations as intimately linked with the ghetto, but perceiving it as a strong constraint, they are not cutting ties with the place they come from. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork that pays attention to both their self-narratives and their writing, we propose the notion of ‘small boundaries’ to describe how social and spatial mobility from the ghetto produces, for each individual in a different way, an intimate cleavage within the self. We then propose to unpack this specific self as a configuration of three types of distancing (social, spatial and self-distancing) that allow both their aspirations and their obligations to coexist in everyday life.

Jean-Baptiste Lanne

Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle

‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos

“我无法将自己隔离”：内罗毕贫民窟中的自我叙述与“小边界”工作

Samuel Ravengai

Nic Leonhardt and Christopher B. Balme (eds), Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, Networks, Experts. London: UCL Press (hb £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3; pb £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6). 2024, xiii + 262 pp.

尼克·莱昂哈特和克里斯托弗·B·巴尔梅（编），《全球南方戏剧发展：机构、网络、专家》。伦敦：UCL出版社（精装 £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3；平装 £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6）。2024年，第xiii + 262页。

Abbreviation	Africa. (Lond).
Journal Impact	1.02
Quartiles(Global)	AREA STUDIES(Q1)

ISSN	0001-9720, 1750-0184
h-index	51

Publication Information	Publisher: Cambridge University Press，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1943，Proportion of original research papers: 94.87%，Self Citation Rate:8.30%， Gold OA Rate: 41.67%

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Treacherous Waters: The Politics of History and the Politics of Genocide in Rwanda and Burundi

‘Working for the stomach’: sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda

Rebecca Tapscott, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £87 – 978 0 19 885647 4). 2021, 256 pp.

Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini: Izwi lama Swazi and the columnist ‘Kadebona’

‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos

‘Working for the stomach’: sustaining peasant mining in south-western Uganda

Rebecca Tapscott, Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni’s Uganda. Oxford: Oxford University Press (hb £87 – 978 0 19 885647 4). 2021, 256 pp.

Print media and egalitarianism in 1960s Eswatini: Izwi lama Swazi and the columnist ‘Kadebona’

‘I can’t segregate myself’: self-narrating and ‘small boundary’ work in Nairobi’s ghettos

Nic Leonhardt and Christopher B. Balme (eds), Developing Theatre in the Global South: Institutions, Networks, Experts. London: UCL Press (hb £55 – 978 1 80008 576 3; pb £30 – 978 1 80008 575 6). 2024, xiii + 262 pp.