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Volume 2 Number 1, 2000

Contents  
Editorial i
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Ethnicity and African Development  
Ethnicity, Conflicts and Democracy in Africa  
Kwaku Osei - Hwedie, University of Botswana 1
   
Does the Culture of Economic Nationalism Make Sense in a Globalizing World?  
Julius Kiiza, University of Makerere, Uganda 14
   
Towards An African Renaissance: Identity, Race and Representation in Post - Apartheid South Africa  
Yolisa Dalamba, Wits University, South Africa 40
   
Conceptualizing the Substance and Process of African Unity  
Joseph M. Maseko, Technikon Pretoria, and Maseko Management  
Services, South Africa 62
   
Oil Minority Rights and the Question of Democratic Stability in Nigeria  
Cyril I. Obi, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Nigeria 75
   
Violence and the Politics of Gender Identity in the Rwandan Genocide  
Richard Ssewakiryanga, Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda 96
   
Ethnic Crisis and Political Instability in Equatorial Guinea  
David Aworawo, University of Lagos, Nigeria 119
   
Ethnicity and Provisional Border Disputes in Post-Apartheid South Africa:  
The Case of Umzimkhulu  
Gampi Matheba, University of Northwest, South Africa 133
   
The Ethnicization of the State and the Crises of African Development:  
The Kenyan Experience  
Munyae M. Mulinge and Margaret M. Munyae, University of Botswana 141
   
Individual Identity, Ethnicity and Nation - Building:  
An Exploration of Historical Characters in Two Zimbabwean War  
and Independence Novels  
Emmanuel Chiwome and Zifikile Mguni, University of Zimbabwe 160
   
Ethnic Conflict in Sudan: The Case of the Darfur Region  
El Tayeb I. Wadi, University of Khartoum, Sudan 180
   
One Language Model in Ethnic and Inter Group Relations:  
A Bridge Across Cultures  
Babatunde Olusola Opeibi, University of Lagos, Nigeria 187
   
The Linguistic Factor in Ethnicity and Underdevelopment  
E. A. Babalola, University of Lagos, Nigeria 198
   
Ethnicity versus National Integration in Nigeria: A Sociolinguistic Perspective  
Dagmar Deuber, University of Freiburg, Germany 206
   
Ethnic Englishes in Nigeria: the Role of Literature in the Development  
of Igbo English  
Herbert S. Igboanusi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria 219
   
If Noah were a Nigerian...: A Study in Discourse Analysis  
Mary Oberu Aribiah, University of Lagos , Nigeria 231
   
Federalism, Democracy and the Minority Question in Nigeria  
R. T. Akinyele, University of Lagos, Nigeria 245
   
Ethnic Conflicts and Minority Interests in Nigeria  
Fatai Adesina Badru, University of Lagos, Nigeria 256
   
   
Personalities & Voices  
Conversation with J. F. Ade Ajayi 266
   
Moshood Abiola: An Elegy 282
   
Conversation with Niyi Osundare 292
   
Reviews  
The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience 302
   
Reading the Obscure: A Semiotics of Africa 305
   
Nigerian Peoples and Cultures 308
   
Articles  
The Possible Applications of African Traditional Methods of Bone-Setting in Orthodox Dentistry: A Preliminary Exploration  
E. O. Ogunbodede, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria 313
   
Ancient Iron Mining in Botswana  
W. S. Downey, University of Botswana 318
   
The Concept of Form in the Theory and Criticism of the Novel as a Genre  
F. B. O. Akporobaro, University of Lagos, Nigeria 326
   
Aspects of the Yoruba Popular Films  
Wale Oyedele, Ogun State University, Nigeria 340
   
Setting the Prisoners Free: Buchi Emecheta's Strategy for the Emancipation of Women in the Traditional African Family  
Osita C. Ezewanebe, Delta State University, Nigeria. 350
   
The Vagina as Symbol of Power in the Yoruba Culture  
Fola H. Kazeem, Ogun State University, Nigeria 364
   
Gender Power Relations: Efuru as an Ideal Type  
Emmanuel I. Mbah, University of Lagos, Nigeria 371
   
Orality in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare  
Seun Oyedola, Ogun State University, Nigeria 376
   
Islam, Ritual and the Politics of Truth in Maryse Conde's Segu  
Olabode Ibironke, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria 384
   
Index to Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 1, 1999 399
   
Call for papers 400
Journal of Cultural Studies, 2.1 (2000), 1-13  
   


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