The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century

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Introduction. The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century

Part I: Teaching Anthropology in the Decades Ahead
1. From Gateway to Gatekeeper: Anthropology: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
2. Anthropology at the University of Yaoundé: A Historical Overview: 1962-1999

Part II: Health Challenges: HIV/AIDS Anthropological Perspectives
3. From Research to Intervention: The Input of Anthropology in Sexual Health and AIDS Prevention Program for Ethiopian Immigrant Adolescents in Israel
4. Genderisation of illnesses in Yoruba culture: implications for theory and method in Medical Anthropology
5. Whither the institution of widow inheritance in the era of HIV/AIDS? Tradition versus health
6. A Folk Model of Malaria Causation among the Abagusii of South-western Kenya: Implications for Malaria Treatment
7. The social and cultural aspects of health care delivery: a case study of clients￢ﾀﾙ perspectives on indigenous medicines in Yaounde

Part III: NGO’s Use and Misuse of Anthropology
8. Focus on the World Bank Safeguard Policies and the Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Projects

Part IV: Anthropological Focus on Environment
9. Starting a Proper Life: Land Invasion and Local Government Response in Cape Town
10. The Role of Local Communities in Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Forest Management in Rural SW Nigeria
11. Settlement evolution, cultural practices and the quality of rural development in SW Nigeria
12. The Quest for Social Considerations in the Certification of Forest Management in Cameroon: Case Study from the Southern Bakundu Forest Reserve Area
13. Conservation, valorisation des ressources naturelles, gestion participative et développement en milieu forestier du Nord Congo Brazzaville
14. Social Dimensions and Consequences of Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta of Nigeria: Suggestions for the Next Millennium
15. Aspect of Ungwal Agriculture: An Anthropological Analysis
16. Aspects socio-anthropologiques de la gestion durable des ressources naturelles: Formations végétales au Benin
17. Environmental Crisis in Nigeria: A Critical Assessment of State-Centric Approach to Forest Administration in South-Western Nigeria since 1960s
18. Sustainable Development and Environmental Health Problems in Africa: A Critique

Part V: Some Applied Issues in Anthropology
19. African Traditional Religion as the Socio-cultural Background of the African of the Third Millennium
20. Pratiques socioculturelles africaines et mise sur pied de la modernité: Reconsidérer l’approche anthropologique du local et du global
21. Mythology and the Gender Question: The African Experience
22. Between Reggae and Rap: Music and Identity among Ethiopian Adolescents in Israel: A Case in Anxiety and Celebration
23. Perception of Natural Hazards: The Case for a Symmetrical Anthropology

Part VI: The African Family In Crisis
24. Socio-cultural Determinants of the Status of the Cameroonian Woman: Implications for the Family in the 21st Century
25. Education sexuelle traditionnelle de la jeune fille Béti du Cameroun
26. The Challenges of Social Change to the African Family: A Situational Analysis of the Family in Kenya

Part VII: Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts
27. Political Party Cooperation in Post-election as Ethnic Tensions (Kenyan Case)
28. Gender and the Debates on Ethnicity in Africanist Anthropology: Inclusion in the Third Millennium
29. Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts in Africa: Ghana￢ﾀﾙs Example
30. Ethnic Tensions in the Bafut Kingdom of the Northwest of Cameroon
31. Ethnicity, Violence and Multi-party Democracy in Africa since 1989
32. An Anthropologist￢ﾀﾙs View of Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts in Africa
33. Ethnic Conflict, Social Dislocation and the Search for a New Order in Africa
34. Ethnic Conflicts and the Problem of Resolution in Contemporary Africa: A Case for African Options and Alternatives
35. Construction and Deconstruction: Anglophones or Autochtones?
36. Citizenship, Alienation and Environmental Conflict in Africa: Categorical Imperatives for Peaceful Co-existence in the Twenty-First Century
37. Le Ntobo chez les Ewondo: Etude de l’impact des logiques traditionnelles d’identification de la citoyenneté sur la convivialité ethnique au Cameroun
38. Globalisation, Democratization, Exploitation and the State in Africa: The Final Conquest?
39. The Politics of Democratization, Ethnicity and its Management in Africa, with Experience from Cameroon

Part VIII: Population Issues And Anthropology: Fertility Crisis
40. Gender Equality, Women￢ﾀﾙs Power and Health Reproduction
41. Beyond Pregnancy and Reproduction: Cultural Socio-Economic and Behavioural Determinants of Women￢ﾀﾙs Health in Developing Countries
42. L’impact socio-culturel des comportements démographiques sur la formulation et l’exécution des politiques et programmes de population
43. The Anthropology of Violence against the Girl Child in Abakaliki, Nigeria

Appendices
Appendix: Welcome Speech
Appendix: Opening Remarks to Pan African Association of Anthropologists
Appendix: List of Participants
Programme