Description The International Journal of African Studies (ISSN 1092-6399) is published twice a year by The National Resource Center for African Studies (CAS) at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio. Previously The Journal of Human Relations (since 1952) and now renamed The International Journal of African Studies, IJAS publishes original and assessed research plus book review articles and commentary on previously published articles. IJAS is a leading journal of scholarship on socio-cultural issues, history and economic and political praxis relating to Africa, and to African connections with its Diaspora. The International Journal of African Studies is compiling a multi-disciplinary list of book reviewers. If you are interested, please send a brief letter to the book review editor, Minabere Ibelema, Department of Communication Studies, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, or e-mail him at mibelema@uab.edu. Please state your discipline as well as your specific areas/topics of expertise. Also be sure to provide your mailing and e-mail addresses, phone/fax numbers, institutional/department affiliation, and your academic or administrative title. Pricing & Availability 1 Year Subscription Individual: $40 Institutions: $70 African Universities: $40 Click on the each volume link to see the Table of Contents: 6.2 2007; 6.1 Spring 2007; 5.2 Winter 2006; 5.1 Spring 2006; 4.2 Fall 2005; 4.1 Winter 2005; 3.2 Spring 2004; 3.1 Fall 2001; 2.2 Spring 2000; 2.1 Winter 2000; 1.2 Spring 1998; 1.1 Fall 1997 6.2 2007: Igbo Political History Apollos Nwauwa, Guest Editor Civil Society and Igbo Traditional Politics, by Raphael Chijioke Njoku Synergy, Socio-Cultural Relations and Community Development in Igboland, by Patrick E. Egbule Crime and Punishment in the Pre-colonial Igbo Society, by Ogechi E. Anyanwu Religion and Politics in Igboland, by Felix K. Ekechi Igbo Women in Politics, by Gloria Chuku The Political Economy of Igbo Agriculture, by Chima J. Korieh The Igbo Novel and Nigerian Identity Formation, by Obi Nwakanma Hypotheses of State Formation and the Evolution of Kingship (Ezeship)Tradition in Igboland, by Apollos Nwauwa Transformations in Igbo Cosmology During Slavery, by John N. Oriji Book Review Raphael Chijioke Njoku, African Cultural Values - Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1966, by Emeka Anaedozie 6.1 Spring 2007: Governance and Democratization of Africa Politico-administrative Reform and Political Transition in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa, by Edmond J. Keller Federalism, Citizenship, and National Identity in Ethiopia, by Edmond J. Keller and Edith M. Omwami Book Review Shireen Hassim, Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 355 pp., by Nelleke Bak 5.2 Winter 2006: Terrorism and Africa Explaining Terrorism in Africa, by Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe Legalism, Tradition, and Terrorism in Nigeria, by Nonso Okereafoezeke The Challenges of Environmental Crimes and Terrorism in Africa: Evidence from Eastern, Southern, and West African Countries, by Ejakait (J. S. E.) Opolot A Critical Theoretical Analysis of the Old and New Forms of Terrorism: Implications for Africa and the Third World, by Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe Expectations and Disappointments in Africa-U.S. Relations, by Macharia Munene Book Review Polycarp Ikuenobe, Philosophical Perspectives on Communalism and Morality in African Traditions, by Minabere Ibelema 5.1 Spring 2006 Land Reform and Democratization in Zimbabwe, by John Mw Makumbe Natural Resource Struggles in the Niger Delta and Democratization in Nigeria, by Daniel A. Omoweh Lootable Resource and Democratization in Angola, by Andrea E. Ostheimer Agrarian Change and Democratization in Algeria, by Salima Terranti Emerging Democratization Process and the Cocoa Sector in Cameroon, by John A. Mope Simo 4.2 Fall 2005 The Open Door to Peace in Africa, by Richard L. Sklar Three Wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1996-2005, by Dr. Herbert F. Weiss Review Essay African Renaissance? Maybe Later, by Minabere Ibelema Book Review Godfrey Obioma, Golden Thoughts: A Collection of Pat Utomi's Views on the Economy, Politics and Social System, by Reuben Abati Book Review Niyi Coker (ed.), A Study of the Music and Social Criticism of Fela Kuti, by Niyi Afolabi 4.1 Winter 2005: Democratic Development in Nigeria: Perspectives of the Nsukka School Ethnicity, Democracy and Political Effectiveness in Nigeria, by Edlyne E. Anugwom Women and the Politics of Exclusion in Nigeria, by Chika N. Oguonu Local Government Participation in the National Development Plan in Nigeria, by Ezeani, Onyebuchi Emmanuel Politics, Democracy and the Realities of Development in Nigeria, by Edlyne E. Anugwom Poverty in Nigeria: Social Policy and Women's Participation, by Chika N. Oguonu Book Review Kenneth K. Mwenda & David A. Ailola, (eds.), Frontiers of Legal Knowledge: Business and Economic Law in Context, by Enefa-A Korubo 3.2 Spring 2004 The Breaking of a New Dawn: Igbo Funerary Ritual as Cultural Performance, by Clement Okafor Commercial Aquaculture: Policies in the Context of Sub-Saharan Africa, by Nathanael Hishamunda, & Neil B. Ridler Values and Economic Stagnation in Africa: A Paradox of Poverty in Nigeria, by Patrick Utomi Toyin Falola, Africa: African Cultures and Societies Before 1885, by Olufemi Vaughn Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja-Ntalaja. The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History, by Robert Eugene Smith 3.1 Fall 2001 Global Africa and the Challenge of Globalization, Democratization and Transition, by Darryl Thomas and Dennis C. Canterbury Africans and African Americans in Changing World Trends: Globalizing the Black Experience, Ali A. Mazrui Globalization and the Emergence of "Tokunboh" Culture in Nigeria, by Musa Abutudu Africana Women's Liberation and the Twenty-First Century: A Historical Focus on the Caribbean Region and Nigeria, by Adeline-Igho Apena Akan Chiefs and Queen Mothers in Contemporary Ghana: Examples of Democracy or Accountable Authority, by Gail M. Presbey The Role of the Worldwide Institutional Churches in the Rwandan Genocide, by Sarah Travis Cobb The Politics of Multicultural Education and Africentric Reformism in South Africa, by Seth N. Asumah Theory and Practice of Persistence: African American Males in White Universities, by Robert W. White Poverty and Unemployment in Tanzania, by Peter Anthony Kopoka The Politics of Walter Rodney in the Era of "Globalization", by Dennis C. Canterbury Between Globalization and Global Apartheid: African Development in the New Millennium, by Darryl Thomas Resistance and Renewal of Struggles Against Globalization, by Darryl Thomas and Dennis C. Canterbury 2.2 Spring 2001 Empire, Race and Ideology: Edward Wilmot Blyden's Initiatives for an African University and African-Centered Knowledge, 1872-1890, by Apollos O. Nwauwa The Military Veto in Nigerian Politics: Of Failed Transitions, Political Liberalization and Democracy, Flying and Myth in Song of Solomon: African Cultural and Philosophical Foundation by Polycarp Ikuenobe Book Review Randall Robinson, The Debt: What America Owes Blacks, by John W. Garland 2.1 Winter 2000 The Crisis of Local Government and Political Crisis in Kenya: looking beyond Moi, by Roger Southall Rescuing the Post-Colonial State in Africa: A Reconceptualisation of the Role of Civil Society, by Eghosa E. Osaghae Emerging Constitutionalism in Africa: Lessons from Eritrea and South Africa, by Julius O. Ihonvbere Decentralization of the Nigerian Police Force, by Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe Book review Samuel Oluoch Imbo, An Introduction to Afican Philosophy, by Minabere Ibelema Book review Oyeronke Oyewumi, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, Mojisola F. Tiamiyu 1.2 Spring 1998 Conflict and Population Dispersal: The Refugee Crisis in the Upper Guinea Region of West Africa, by C. Magbaily Fyle The Politics of Black Economic Empowerment in South Afirca, by Okechukwu C. Iheduru Environmental Justice: Beyond Ethnic Mobilization, by Pita Agbese and Chris Ogbondah Retrospective The Contribution of Tribalism to Nationalism in Western Nigeria, by Richard L. Sklar Book review Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, Queens, Priestesses and Power: Case Studies in African Gender, by Adeline Igho Apena 1.1 Fall 1997 The Star Spangled Dialectic: African Universities and the American Model of Higher Education, by Ali A. Mazrui Translating Cultures: The Role of Writing Class in Engendering Yoruba Discourse, Oyeronke Oyewumi The Changed Relationship Between the United States and Kenya, 1985-1995, by G. Macharia Munene Retrospective Social Forces in West African Political Development by Martin L. Kilson, Jr.