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On the African continent, education and the arts offer multiple, mutually clarifying lenses through which to examine and understand issues of poverty and empowerment. Much of the scholarly education literature tends to confine its focus to methodology and content in the classroom, and while it may include issues related to arts curricula, it has largely ignored their social role in economic empowerment. At the same time, even social-scientific studies of the arts have overwhelmingly emphasized critique, heritage preservation, and cultural appreciation. As such, issues relating to arts and

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Africa -- PART I Colonial and Neocolonial Legacies -- CHAPTER 2 Mau Mau Inventions and Reinventions -- CHAPTER 3 The Development of the Civil Service in Africa -- CHAPTER 4 The Second World War and Africa's Socioeconomic Infrastructures: A Case Study of the Nigerian Railroad System -- CHAPTER 5 The Cold War and the Emergence of Economic Divergences: Africa and Asia Compared -- PART II Transformational Moments in Economies and Cultures -- CHAPTER 6 Africa's Debt Burden and the HIPC Initiative: Cameroon, from Challenges to Opportunity -- CHAPTER 7 The Effects of Family Size on Socioeconomic Status in Cameroon: A Critical Analysis -- CHAPTER 8 Music and the Politics of Culture in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS Experience: Implications for "Post-Apartheid" Discourse -- CHAPTER 9 Land and Conflict in Kenya's Rift Valley: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives -- CHAPTER 10 The Migration of Professionals from Africa: Assessing the Impact of the "Brain Drain" from the Continent -- CHAPTER 11 Conclusion: Africa that Works -- Index

The problem of refugees from Nigeria is examined in the context of refugees in Africa as a whole. Already a third of the world's refugees have been created by conflicts or disasters in African countries. This startling condition is becoming worse as Nigeria joins this group because the numbers that can be generated will over shadow what hitherto has been considered to be an enormous refugee problem. The likelihood that refugees will be generated cannot be simply wished away as long as present problems in Nigeria remain unresolved. These problems can be traced to the colonial period and before, and they have been aggravated by natural and unnatural causes since independence. Without dynamic leadership, the refugee crisis is likely to continue, both in Nigeria and in Africa more generally. Only proper management can handle the problems of economic and political development that have produced refugees. Neither military force nor the tightening of immigration laws in the more fortunate countries can stem the flow of refugees unless the internal conditions of Nigeria itself are fully addressed.

Mit historischer Methodik arbeitet der Autor die wichtigsten Charakteristika des libanesischen Handels im Südwesten Nigerias heraus. Er analysiert die Veränderung im Ausmaß der Aktivitäten der Libanesen sowie ihrer Handelsorganisationen. An ausgewählten Beispielen werden Gewinne und deren Investition dargestellt. Besondere Aspekte des Artikels sind die Beleuchtung des Verhältnisses zu einheimischen Händlern sowie zur Kolonialadministration und die besonderen "Überlebensstrategien" im kulturfremden Umfeld. (DÜI-Sth)

Nigeria has the second largest concentration of Lebanese in West Africa. Focuses on the dominant features of commercial activities, migration and expansion, profits and the uses of money, in the colonial provinces of Colony, Ab+Feokuta, Benin, Ibadan, +FOy+Fo, Ij+Febu, Ondo and Warri. The region was noted for high population and high levels of production. (SJK)

The paper examines the impact of the Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) on the culture of leisure among the Y oruba. It argues that the program has necessitated price shifts which force individuals and groups to adjust in order to ensure survival or progress. The new adjustments involve the creation of new social clubs, reductions in the scale of ceremonies, and creative reorganization of the system of gift-giving. The involvement of individuals in social outlet serves to sustain the sense of reality and of good conduct. Judged against historical antecedents, the ruptures to society by the introduction of SAP have merely changed the scale of leisure but not the criteria by which the leisure is evaluated.