Journal of African Studies
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Volume 2011, Issue 79
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  • Africa Subsumed to Global Sport:
    Development Assistance through Sport and Sport Labor Migration
    Toyokazu ISHIHARA
    Article type: Articles
    2011 Volume 2011 Issue 79 Pages 1-11
    Published: December 31, 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2011.79_1
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    Sports have been spreading to developing countries as a part of development aids from developing countries recently. This new type of spread of sports is providing those in developing countries with a chance to acquire skills necessary for the sport which would lead to wealth in a sense. On the other hand, the trend where the top professional leagues are making sport leagues around the world as their reservoirs of players and expanding the player acquisition nets on the earth scale is subsuming Africa as a new labor reservoir for globalized sports capitals.
    This paper illustrates one example of an African athlete who played for the Japanese professional baseball team and analyzes that sports labor migration have been transformed in dramatic expansion of the globalization and is posing difficulties in installing the existing analytical frame works. Then this study proves that the global movement of people is now impossible to be explained by one single factor and points out that development aids through sport and global expansion of the player acquisition nets as are one of the factors which brought the low-skilled African athlete to play in the Japanese professional baseball team.
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  • “Slaver” Hunting in the Western Indian Ocean:
    An Aspect of Slave Trade Abolition Activities
    Hideaki SUZUKI
    Article type: Articles
    2011 Volume 2011 Issue 79 Pages 13-25
    Published: December 31, 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2011.79_13
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    Recently, scholars pay much more attention to slave trade abolition. They expand their research objects and their scope as well diversifies. Western Indian Ocean comes into such interest. However, as far as western Indian Ocean concerns, it is common that slave trade is distinguished from other trade. Thus, study on its abolition has not fully explored its affect out of slave trade itself. The present article explores the actual condition of naval activity for slave trade suppression and how it affected general transportation in the western Indian Ocean.
    The main points to be clarified therefore are: 1. after the 1860s when Royal Navy began to actively engage in anti-slave trade patrol on this sea, rapid progress was made; 2. regulations in the Royal Navy for their sea patrols contributed towards the rapid progress; 3. their regulations allowed men-of-war to obtain bounty even if they did not rescue slaves; 4. however, the Royal Navy's activities following the regulations affected general maritime transport in the western Indian Ocean; 5. because, dissimilar to the Atlantic case which they referred to, in the western Indian Ocean, slave transport was operated with other transport and it is almost impossible to distinguish between vessels for slave transport and other vessels in terms of their appearance and structure; 6. therefore, the Royal Navy regarded vessels without slaves as “slavers” and damaged them under the name of slave trade suppression. In other words, their activity has an aspect which can be called as ‘“slaver” hunting’.
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  • Popularization of Factory-Printed “Pagne” Dress in West Africa:
    A Case from Urban Burkina Faso
    Satoko ENDO
    Article type: Articles
    2011 Volume 2011 Issue 79 Pages 27-44
    Published: December 31, 2011
    Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2014
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2011.79_27
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    Western clothes seem to prevail and drive out local dresses around the world. In West Africa, however, women wear another kind of dress as daily and holiday clothes. It is an ensemble made with “pagne”, factory-printed cloth first made in 19c Europe and then brought to West Africa. It is not “traditional” dress but typical of the area. This article analyzes the forms of “pagne” ensemble (especially upper wear) worn among women in Bobo-Dioulasso, second largest city in Burkina Faso to clarify the background for its popularization in West Africa.
    The pagne ensemble has “infinite variety of forms” (Picton, 2004) and its fashion comes and goes continually. This characteristic resembles European clothes in terms of temporality, which devise between the Western and non-western dress. This is one of the major backgrounds for the popularity of pagne ensemble.
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