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• Reciprocal Comparison and African History: Tackling Conceptual Eurocentrism in the Study of Africa's Economic Past

  - 2007-12-01

  Abstract: This article argues for constructive responses to the dominance, in the analysis of African economic history, of concepts derived from Western experience. It reviews the existing responses of this kind, highlighting the fact that some of the most influential ideas applied to African economies, past and present, have been...

  Tags: Africa, African, Cambridge, economist, Europe, Famine, London, theory, University of Cambridge

• Study says Australian Aborigines came from Africa

  - 2007-05-08

  SYDNEY AFP — New DNA evidence shows that Australian Aborigines are descended from a wave of migrants who left Africa about 50,000 years ago, researchers at Cambridge University have found. The researchers said the findings reinforced the "Out of Africa" evolutionary theory, which holds that all modern humans are...

  Tags: Africa, Biotechnology, INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, researcher, theory, University of Cambridge

• Books received.

  - 2004-12-22

  Adebajo, Adekeye and Ismail Rashid, eds. 2004. West Africa's Security Challenges: Building Peace in a Troubled Region. Boulder: Lynne Rienner. African Women and Peace Support Group. 2004. Liberian Women Peacemakers: Fighting for the Right To Be Seen, Heard and Counted. Trenton:...

  Tags: Africa, Books, CAREER, Indiana University, University of Cambridge

• Dissertations listed alphabetically by author. (M-Z).

  - 2003-07-01

  M Ma, Julie Jungja 497 Ministry of the Assemblies of God Among the Kankana-ey Tribe in the Northern Philippines: A History of a Theological Encounter Ph.D., 1996, Fuller Theological Seminary Ma, Qiusha ...

  Tags: Africa, African, analysis, Boston University, Case Western Reserve University, China, Church, Donald, East, Korea, M., Robert, South, University of California, University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Minnesota, women, Yale University

• Bibliography

  - 2002-01-01

  Abu, Catharine. 1983. "The Separateness of Spouses: Conjugal Resources in an Ashanti Town." In Female and Male in West Africa, ed. Christine Oppong. London: Allen & Unwin. Acheson, James M., ed. 1994. Anthropology and Institutional Economics. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. Adams, Alayne M.; Timothy G. Evans; Rafi Mohammed;...

  Tags: Africa, African, Cambridge, FINANCE, London, STUDIES, Tenure, theory, University of Cambridge, women, World Bank

• Books received.

  - 2001-12-22

  Andrews, Penelope, and Stephen Ellman. 2001. The Post-Apartheid Constitution: Perspectives on South Africa's Basic Law. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press; Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. Benjaminsen, Tor A., and Christian Lund, eds. 2001. Politics, Property and Production in the West African Sahel:...

  Tags: Africa, African, Books, Cambridge, FINANCE, Investment, Ohio, Ohio University, Sweden, University of Cambridge

• Altruistic Meerkats

  - 2000-10-01

  Altruism, according to evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton, sometimes evolves among social species if the altruistic individuals share a large number of genes with the individuals they are helping. Evidence to support Hamilton's kin-selection model has been found for various social insects as well as for hyenas, kingfishers, and mole...

  Tags: Africa, altruism, hypothesis, species, University of Cambridge

• Leslie Lees - SilverPlatter - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article

  - 2000-09-01

  LESLIE LEES - has been appointed as vice president of content development at SilverPlatter Information, Inc. In this position he will have worldwide responsibility for SilverPlatter's content strategy and acquisition. Lees has previously held two management positions at SilverPlatter. He began as regional manager for SilverPlatter business in Africa, India,...

  Tags: Africa, Databases, FINANCE, graduate, HARDWARE, Investment, marketing, SOFTWARE, Storage, Strategy, University of Cambridge

• BOOKS RECEIVED.

  - 1999-03-22

  Ajayi, J.F. Ade, ed. 1998. General History of Africa, VI: Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s. Oxford: James Currey. Asmal, Kader, Louise Asmal, and Ronald Suresh Roberts. 1997. Reconciliation through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid's Criminal Governance, 2d ed. New...

  Tags: Africa, African, Angola, Books, Cambridge, Globalization, Strategy, University of Cambridge

• The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa, 1950-1980. (book reviews)

  - 1997-03-01

  The Egalitarian Moment: Asia and Africa, 1950-1980 by D.A. Low (Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp.xiv + 131, 10.95 [pounds sterling] pb). Essentially, The Egalitarian Moment represents the Wiles lectures of Queen's University, Belfast, delivered by Professor Anthony Low in 1994 on the eve of...

  Tags: Africa, Asia, University of Cambridge