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nal of the International African Institute
Revue de l’Institut Africain International
Vol. 80 No. 4 2010
Disputed identities
Autochthony and the Ivorian nation • Armando Cutolo
Struggling for land in Cameroon • Antoine Socpa
Moral economies in motion
Smuggling in Uganda • Kristof Titeca and Tom de Herdt
erceptions of migration in Ghana • Kees van der Geest
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INSTITUT AFRICAIN INTERNATIONAL
Officers · Membres du Bureau de l’IAI
Chairman · V. Y. Mudimbe · Président
Vice Chairman · Birgit Meyer · Vice-président
Chair Board of Trustees · J. D. Y. Peel · Président du comité de gestion
Honorary Director · Philip Burnham · Directeur honoraire
Treasurer · Sue Kibble · Trésorier
Consultative Director · J. F. Ade Ajayi · Directeur consultatif
Publications Committee Chair · Stephanie Kitchen · Président du comité des publications
Editors of Africa · Karin Barber, David Pratten · Rédacteurs en chef d’Africa
Council · 2010 · Conseil
Fred Ahwireng-Obeng George Clement Bond Mark Horton
Andreas Eckert Jok Madut Jok
Kelly Askew Peter Geschiere Adam T. Jones
Richard Banégas Odile Goerg Célestin Monga
Leslie Bank Holger Bernt Hansen Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Filip de Boeck Isabel Hofmeyr Ato Quayson
Honorary Fellows · J. F. Ade Ajayi, Murray Last · Membres Honoraires
The International African Institute · L’Institut Africain International
The International African Institute promotes international research, conferences and publications
on African societies, cultures and languages and encourages the application of research and science to
practical affairs in Africa.
L’Institut Africain International a pour but de promouvoir les travaux de recherche, les conférences et
les publications relatives aux sociétés, aux cultures et aux langues africaines. L’Institut encourage
également la mise en application de la recherche et de la science sur le plan pratique en Afrique.
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The Editors, AFRICA Dr Nicolas Argenti, Reviews Editor, AFRICA
c/o Centre of West African Studies c/o Stephanie Kitchen
University of Birmingham International African Institute
Edgbaston School of Oriental and African Studies
Birmingham B15 2TT Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
email: iai-africa@contacts.bham.ac.uk London WC1H 0XG
email: na23@soas.ac.uk
The opinions expressed in the journal are those of the authors and not necessarily of the Editor or of
the IAI, or of the publisher.
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Journal of the
International African Institute
Revue de
l’Institut Africain International
Volume 80, 2010
Editors
Karin Barber and David Pratten
Reviews Editor
Nicolas Argenti
I·A·I
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Introduction: interpreting land markets in Africa
JEAN-PHILIPPE COLIN AND PHILIP WOODHOUSE 1
Forbidden but not suppressed: a ‘vernacular’ land market in Svosve
Communal Lands, Zimbabwe
ADMOS CHIMHOWU AND PHILIP WOODHOUSE 14
Fractured governance and local frictions: the exclusionary nature of
a clandestine land market in southern Zambia
NICHOLAS J. SITKO 36
Is land inalienable? Historical and current debates on land transfers
in northern Ghana
CAROLA LENTZ 56
Customary transfers and land sales in Côte d’Ivoire: revisiting the
embeddedness issue
JEAN-PIERRE CHAUVEAU AND JEAN-PHILIPPE COLIN 81
Family values, land sales and agricultural commodification in
south-eastern Ghana
KOJO SEBASTIAN AMANOR 104
Intra-family and socio-political dimensions of land markets and land
conflicts: the case of the Abure, Côte d’Ivoire
GEORGES KOUAMÉ 126
John Middleton (1921–2009)
T. O. BEIDELMAN 147
‘Cultural Officer’ at home and abroad: Oloye Adebayo. Ogunrinu
Ogundijo., 1939–2005
P. F. DE MORAES FARIAS AND O
. LADE.JO
. OKEDIJI 151
The sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Maccido (1926–2006)
JEAN BOYD 159
Yusufu Bala Usman (1945–2005)
M. M. GWADABE 165
Kay Ruth M. Williamson (1935–2005)
OZO-MEKURI NDIMELE AND ROBIN HORTON 168
Past Pentecostalism: notes on rupture, realignment and everyday
life in Pentecostal and African Independent Churches
MATTHEW ENGELKE 177
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piety in the Ghanaian Methodist diaspora
MATTIA FUMANTI 200
Playing pool along the shores of Lake Victoria: fishermen, careers
and capital accumulation in the Ugandan Nile perch business
J. JOOST BEUVING 224
Post-colonial migration: virtual culture, urban farming and new
peri-urban growth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1975–2000
GEOFFREY ROSS OWENS 249
‘My “veil” does not go with my jeans’: veiling, fundamentalism,
education and women’s agency in northern Cameroon
JOSÉ C. M. VAN SANTEN 275
Cocoa, marriage, labour and land in Ghana: some matrilineal and
patrilineal perspectives
BEATRICE AKUA DUNCAN 301
Revisiting the politics of belonging in Cameroon
BEN PAGE, MARTIN EVANS AND CLAIRE MERCER 345
Urbanites and urban villagers: comparing ‘home’ among elite and
non-elite Bamiléké women’s hometown associations
PAMELA FELDMAN-SAVELSBERG AND FLAVIEN TIOKOU NDONKO 371
Primary patriotism, shifting identity: hometown associations in
Manyu Division, south-west Cameroon
MARTIN EVANS 397
Disguising the pain of remembering in Akwapim
MICHELLE GILBERT 426
Political clientelism and rural development in south-western Nigeria
AYO
. KUNLE OLUMUYIWA O
. MO
. BO
. WALE AND AKINPE.LU O
. LANREWAJU
OLUTAYO. 453
Lip-synch gospel: Christian music and the ethnopoetics of identity
in Kenya
MARK LAMONT 473
Modernity, autochthony and the Ivorian nation: the end of a
century in Côte d’Ivoire
ARMANDO CUTOLO 527
New kinds of land conflict in urban Cameroon: the case of the
‘landless’ indigenous peoples in Yaoundé
ANTOINE SOCPA 553
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north-western Uganda
KRISTOF TITECA AND TOM DE HERDT 573
Local perceptions of migration from north-west Ghana
KEES VAN DER GEEST 595
On dancing and fishing: joy and the celebration of fertility among
the Punu of Congo-Brazzaville
CARINE PLANCKE 620
The world’s first biometric money: Ghana’s e-Zwich and the
contemporary influence of South African biometrics
KEITH BRECKENRIDGE 642
Review articles
Beyond creed, greed and booty: conflict in the Democratic Republic
of Congo
EMILY PADDON 322
Land and the politics of belonging in Africa
JOSEPH MUJERE 497
Review of Books 332, 503, 663
Index to Volume 80 683
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Editors · Rédacteurs
Karin Barber and David Pratten
Reviews Editor · Rédacteur comptes-rendus
Nicolas Argenti
Editorial Advisory Board · Comité de rédaction
Kojo Amanor · Alan Barnard
Thomas J. Bassett · Joost Beuving · Filip De Boeck · Jim Brennan
Paulo F. de Moraes Farias · Harri Englund · Peter Geschiere · Jane Guyer
Murray Last · Michael Lambek · Carola Lentz · Tom McCaskie · Birgit Meyer
Célestin Monga · Abdul Raufu Mustapha · Insa Nolte · Christine Obbo
Derek Peterson · John Parker · Debby Potts
Modernity, autochthony and the Ivorian nation: the end of a century
in Côte d’Ivoire 527
Armando Cutolo
New kinds of land conflict in urban Cameroon: the case of the ‘landless’
indigenous peoples in Yaoundé 553
Antoine Socpa
Regulation, cross-border trade and practical norms in West Nile, north-
western Uganda 573
Kristof Titeca and Tom de Herdt
Local perceptions of migration from north-west Ghana 595
Kees van der Geest
On dancing and fishing: joy and the celebration of fertility among the Punu
of Congo-Brazzaville 620
Carine Plancke
The world’s first biometric money: Ghana’s e-Zwich and the contemporary
influence of South African biometrics 642
Keith Breckenridge
Journal of the International African Institute
Revue de l’Institut Africain International
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PATRICIA VINNICOMBE, People of the Eland: rock paintings of the Drakensberg
Bushmen as a reflection of their life and thought; and PETER MITCHELL
and BENJAMIN SMITH (eds), The Eland’s People: new perspectives in the
rock art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen. Essays in memory of Patricia
Vinnicombe Alan Barnard 663
JEAN-LÖIC LE QUELLEC, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER FAUVELLE-AYMAR and
FRANÇOIS BON, Vols de Vaches à Christol Cave: histoire critique d’une image
rupestre d’Afrique du Sud Peter Mitchell 664
NICOLAS ARGENTI, The Intestines of the State: youth, violence and belated
histories in the Cameroon Grassfields Filip De Boeck 666
IAN FOWLER and VERKIJIKA FANSO, Encounter, Transformation and Identity:
peoples of the western Cameroon borderlands 1891–2000 Michaela Pelican 668
INSA NOLTE, Obafemi Awolowo and the Making of Remo: the local politics of a
Nigerian nationalist Olufe.mi Vaughan 669
ANDREW E. BARNES, Making Headway: the introduction of Western civilisation
in colonial northern Nigeria Usman Ladan 671
BEN KNIGHTON (ed.), Religion and Politics in Kenya: essays in honor of a
meddlesome priest Myles Osborne 672
LAURENT FOURCHARD, ODILE GOERG and MURIEL GOMEZ-PEREZ
(eds), Lieux de sociabilité urbaine en Afrique Patrick Chabal 674
URSULA BAUMGARDT and JEAN DERIVE (eds), Littératures orales africaines –
perspectives théoriques et méthodologiques Françoise Ugochukwu 675
CHARLES TSHIMANGA, DIDIER GONDOLA and PETER J. BLOOM (eds),
Frenchness and the African Diaspora: identity and uprising in contemporary
France Abdoumaliq Simone 677
MWENDA NTARANGWI, East African Hip Hop: youth culture and globalization
Alex Perullo 679
PAUL HENLEY, The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the craft of
ethnographic cinema Paul Stoller 680
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