The Historic Ranges of Three Equid Species in North-East Africa: A Quantitative Comparison of Environmental Tolerances

1994 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. E. Bauer ◽  
J. McMorrow ◽  
D. W. Yalden
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Quantitative Comparison ◽  
North East ◽  
Environmental Tolerances

Relations Between Neighbouring States in North-East Africa

1984 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-285
Author(s):  
Peter Woodward
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
International Society ◽  
International Politics ◽  
International Order ◽  
International Dimension ◽  
North East ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
Foreign Politics ◽  
New States ◽  
Domestic Affairs

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in international politics in Africa. After the initial post-independence discussion of pan-Africanism the international dimension seemed overshadowed by the concern to account for domestic developments in many new states, and it is this imbalance which is now being redressed. Indeed, it has recently been argued by Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg that, contrary to the situation elsewhere, Africa's international politics have assumed an order which is sadly lacking in the domestic affairs of many states: ‘At the level of international society, a framework of rules and conventions governing the relations of the states in the region has been bounded and sustained for almost two decades.’ If the contrast between internal anarchy and international order seems somewhat exaggerated, the distinction between domestic and foreign politics appears both conventional and appropriate.

The Religious Conversion Process Among the Sidāma of North-East Africa

Africa ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Hamer
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Closed System ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
Conversion Process ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Reciprocal Exchange ◽  
North East ◽  
New Religion ◽  
Exchange Relations

AbstractThis article analyses the conversion process and the experiences of the Sidāma, in being proselytised by Protestant missionaries in an attempt to integrate them into the modernising Ethiopian state. The conversion process is considered in terms of reasons for accepting or rejecting the new religion. A minority of Sidāma are shown to have changed from old beliefs and practices, partly because of the ease of moral reinterpretation and secular incentives, but primarily because of dissatisfaction with reciprocal exchange relations with indigenous spirits and a desire to transcend the finality of death. In advancing this proposition it rejects the possibility of Sidāma beliefs as constituting a closed system of cosmology. Though Islam is also present in the region, for political and economic reasons it has been less attractive to prospective converts than Christianity.

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