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AbstractThis article focuses on the urbanizing impact of the post‐millennial mineral boom at artisanal and small‐scale (ASM) or large‐scale (LSM) mining sites in three mineral‐rich countries, involving gold in Ghana, diamonds in Angola, and both minerals in Tanzania. The focus is on comparing the agency of miners and other residents migrating to, settling in, and making the mining site habitable. Their mobility and settlement patterns reveal an urbanization trend marked by population agglomeration and expanding labour complexity, taking distinct forms at the rush and mature stages of gold and diamond ASM and LSM sites. Citing data from household surveys conducted at 12 mining sites, we trace how 'mineralized urbanization' propels in‐migration, rising localized purchasing power, and proliferating service sector and trade activities, fuelling both urban demographic and economic change along the mining extraction trajectory. LSM and ASM generate synergies as well as detractive forces, depending on the size, age and history of the mining settlement development. What emerges is the differential development of households and settlements through strategic economic manoeuvring and the rough and tumble of happenstance, underlined by a compelling, albeit fluctuating, trajectory of non‐renewable mineralized urbanization.

Femmes et Sociétés: Revue de la Commission Internationale pour l'Abolition des Mutilations Sexuelles (CAMS‐Internationale),No.O 1983. Dakar.

THE WORLD BANK'S PRESCRIPTIONS FOR RURAL AFRICA


Sisters Under the Sun: The Story of Sudanese Womenby Marjorie Hall and Bakhita Amin Ismail (Longman, 1981).

The Political Thought of Amilcar Cabral: A Review Article

In the Twilight of Revolution: The Political Theory of Amilcar Cabral by Jock McCulloch (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983) 159pp, £6.50 paperback. Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War by Patrick Chabal (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 272pp., £9.95 paperback.
The works by Amilcar Cabral referred to are as follows:
Unity and Struggle (London: Heinemann, 1980).
Return to the Source (London: Monthly Review Press, 1973).
Revolution in Guinea: An African People's War (Brussels, 1971).

Lobola: The Pros and Consby Aeneas Chigwidere (Harare, Books for Africa, 59pp); Zimbabwean Women in Customary and Colonial Lawby Joan May (Zimbabwe and Edinburgh, Mambo Press/Holmes McDougall, 1983, 128pp); African Marriage in Zimbabweby A.K.H Weinrich (Zimbabwe and Edinburgh; Mambo Press/Holmes McDougall, 1982, 212pp).

Women in Tanzania: An Analytical Bibliographyby Ophelia Mascarenhas and Marjorie Mbilinyi (Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala and Swedish International Development Authority, Stockholm, Sweden: Motala, 1983) 256pp, no price.

Afrocommunismby David and Marina Ottaway (Africana Publishing Co., London, 1981).

The Politics of Basic Needs: Urban Aspects of Assaulting Poverty in Africaby Richard Sandbrook, Heinemann, 1982, 250pp., £5.95.

A Third World Proletariat?by Peter Lloyd, George Allen and Unwin, 1982, 139pp., £3.95.

The Political Economy of West African Agricultureby Keith Hart, Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Dependence and Collective Self‐Reliance in Southern Africa (The Case of The Southern African Development Co‐ordination Conference— SADCC)by Arne Tostensen, Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.