Genocidal Violence in the Making of Nation and State in Ethiopia
Mekuria Bulcha

The ‘politics of poverty’ in a post-apartheid South African metropolis
Kamila Naidoo

Explaining ‘godfatherism’ in Nigerian Politics
Isaac Olawale Albert

Gender and Family life in Angola: Some aspects of the post-war conflict concerning displaced persons
João Baptista Lukombo Nzatuzola

Putting Oil First? Some Ethnographic Aspects of Petroleum-related Land Use Controversies in Nigeria
Wilson Akpan

Concerns about Child Subject Research in Botswana: A Call for Establishing Structures and Guidelines that Protect Children
Tapologo Maundeni and Lisa Lopez Levers

Southern Africa: As Seen Through Sexuality, Mobility and Citizenship
Jonathan Klaaren

Research Reports

Small-scale Irrigation Development for Sustainable Rural Development: A Case Study of the Tyhefu Irrigation Scheme
Babalwa Sishuta

Review Essays

Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros (eds.), Reclaiming The Land - The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Zed Books, London, 2005.
Kirk D. Helliker

Demilitarisation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa: Understanding the Opportunities Lost
Peter Vale

Book Reviews

Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar, Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 2001.
Reviewed by Kevin Williams

Toby Shelley, Oil: Politics, Poverty and the Planet, London, Zed Books. 2005.
Reviewed by Wilson Akpan

G. Wilder, The French Imperial Nation-State, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Paul-Henri Bischoff