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This collection of 25 papers makes a valuable contribution to the debate around the developmental potential of the informal economy in South Africa. Most of the papers are drawn from [...]

ABSTRACT The central argument in this paper is that Ghanaian children's television programmes are concrete realizations of a national discourse about culture for a modem Ghana. The principal themes in [...]

This paper discusses how issues of socio-economic class, race and politics were densely interwoven with the competition for fishing rights, access to land, and fears of ecological degradation along southern [...]

This paper focuses on emigrants from Ghana, which has lost large numbers of qualified people over the last 20 years. Ghana is following the pattern of Ireland and Scotland - [...]

The editors, compilers and authors of the papers which make up this book deserve much congratulation, as do the convenors of the 1986 conference at Brigham Young University from which [...]

The volume's papers were first given at a workshop held at Harare in March, 1992 as part of a research programme on 'The Political and Social Context of Structural Adjustment [...]

ABSTRACT This article joins the debate on culture, history and politics in post-colonial Malawi. Concentrating on the production of history in the 1960s, the paper shows how the decade marked [...]

ABSTRACT The collapse of the Banda regime in 1994 has led to a renewed interest in the nature of the Malawian political tradition. This paper seeks to contribute to the [...]

Wits: A University in the Apartheid Era, by Mervyn Shear. University Witwatersrand Press, 1996. xxvii-362pp. 12.95 paper £. ISBN 1-86814-302-3 This is the story of an English speaking `open' university [...]

Ecriture et Texte: Contribution Africaine, by Simon Battestini. Les Presses de l'Universite Laval/Presence Africaine, 1997. 475pp. FRF 220 (paper). ISBN 2-7637-7508-X (Presses de l'Universite Laval); ISBN 2-7087-0631-4 (Presence Africaine) This [...]

Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A history of the Anlo-Ewe, by Sandra E. Greene. Heinemann and James Currey, 1996. xiii-209 pp. 14.95 £ paper. ISBN [...]

ABSTRACT The main thesis of this paper is that nations need memories and that there is in many contemporary African states a need to create a memory of the period [...]

edited by Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns. James Currey, 1996. xvi+240pp. 40.00 £ hardback, 11.95 £ paperback. ISBN 0-85255-410-9 and 0-85255-409-5. This collection of papers was stimulated by a conference [...]

This collection of the papers read and discussed at the 1993 Leeds, UK, conference on the theme of the book, provides some of the best researched and most penetrating analysis [...]

Edited by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene. World View Publications, Oxford, 1985. xi+179 pages. 39-95 £ hardback, 14.95 £ paperback. ISBN 1-87142-07-9 hardback; 87142-08-07 paperback. This book presents papers from a [...]

By Tom Kuhlman. African Studies Centre, Leiden, 1994. xi+337 pages. Paper 22.50£. ISBN 1-85972-110-9. Tom Kuhlman has written a valuable contribution to the literature on refugee aid and development in [...]

This is an interesting collection of well-researched papers which collectively review the experience of structural adjustment in Africa. The various chapters, written by scholars and practitioners drawn from Europe, North [...]

This is a fascinating study, long overdue, about a very special African city, Zanzibar. The work's origins lay in papers submitted to the First International Conference on the History and [...]

The title of this collection of essays is premature, at best, and misleading as a worst case. The content of the papers does not support the conclusion that Malawi, at [...]

The papers in this volume are the work of eleven Ghanaian political scientists and economists. They derive from a conference held at the University of Ghana at Legon in March [...]

This is the second collaborative work to have been produced by the Department of Political Science of the University of Ghana in recent years. The constituent papers for this book [...]

Apart from the briefest of introductions (four pages), by the editor, this book comprises twelve papers selected from among those presented at a conference held in Italy in 1988. Its [...]

ABSTRACT This article joins the debate on culture, history and politics in post-colonial Malawi. Concentrating on the production of history in the 1960s, the paper shows how the decade marked [...]

This book contains the papers (in German) presented at a conference organized by the 'Interdisciplinary Study Group for Research on Developing Countries' (IAEFF) in Basel during 1994 which focused on [...]

By John R. Campbell. Occasional Paper No. 13, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Hull, 1995. xxxii+92 pp. 4 £. ISBN 085958-8122. This admirable bibliography is a completely [...]

By Ulf Engel. Institut fur Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, 1994. vii+478 pages. DM50.00 paper. ISBN 3-928049-28-3. This is a very useful book of the sort that should dominate African political studies, rather [...]

In 1992, constant civil war and drought in Somalia had combined to produce a catastrophic famine killing an estimated 300,000 people.(1) Unable to ameliorate these conditions through UNOSOM I, a [...]

Since December 1989, armed conflict in Liberia has had a dramatic impact on the surrounding Upper Guinea forest region. Within one year, it was estimated that up to 400,000 refugees [...]

`Civil-military relations' is back in fashion, following on the heels of the `democratic wave' in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa. The consensus among scholars is that the degree of [...]

In the early 1960s, Senegalese Foreign Minister Doudou Thiam wrote one of the first scholarly books on African foreign policy in which he expressed the hope that African policymakers could [...]

ABSTRACT The suppression of ethnic identities in order to create homogeneous nation-states is an old strategy used by rulers of multi-ethnic and multi-lingual states. Perceived as salient markers of ethnic [...]

ABSTRACT This article traces the process of recruiting Batswana men into the British army in Bechuanaland during the Second World War. It outlines the motives and political aims that led [...]

ABSTRACT The transformation of local government is an essential part of democratization in South Africa. The difficulties of restructuring against a background of exclusion, inequality and conflict are sharpened and [...]

ABSTRACT The inner life and organizational style of the civic moment in South Africa during the turbulent years of apartheid has received little attention. This article examines a civic body [...]

ABSTRACT Why is that former dominant or single party regimes, especially those in Africa, have generally survived and even emerged strengthened after the introduction of multi-party competitive elections? In Cote [...]

The political antecedents of the new constitution are well known and need not be detailed here.(1) Suffice it to say that Uganda was, in the 1970s and 1980s the next [...]

This article offers an ethnographic cross-section in one province of South Africa's new land reform progmmme. `Demand' and `participation' are the rhetorical keywords of the programme. Demand for land redistribution, [...]

In 1986, Paul Baxter summarized an African reality of possible cultural and political change by asserting that, `the Oromos are one of the most numerous peoples of Africa', and that [...]

In 1986, Paul Baxter summarized an African reality of possible cultural and political change by asserting that, `the Oromos are one of the most numerous peoples of Africa', and that [...]

In 1986, Paul Baxter summarized an African reality of possible cultural and political change by asserting that, `the Oromos are one of the most numerous peoples of Africa', and that [...]

Understandably, the literature dealing with the recent revival of democracy in Africa has focussed overwhelmingly upon the impact and significance for `good governance' of a restoration of multi-partyism in previously [...]

When the Mpondo revolt broke out in the Transkei in 1959-60, white South African authorities were caught off balance. Magistrates and officially appointed chiefs and headmen all over the Transkei--not [...]

The historiography of Labour migration in Africa has been dominated by South African paradigms which have evolved over several decades of scholarship. A `kraal to compound' model has been used [...]

In 1994 the world witnessed horrific genocide in Rwanda. As a result the fabric of Rwandese society has been torn apart; the nation state pulverised. What Kaplan titled last year [...]

Refugee views on humanitarian aid and problems of repatriation remain poorly understood.(1) This is particularly true of processes of spontaneous repatriation, which are difficult to research since returnees often disperse [...]

Although Nigerian economic performance has fluctuated, overall during the past quarter century it has been remarkably poor. Initially similar agriculture-cum-oil economies, such as Indonesia, have achieved dramatic improvements over the [...]

The participation of Kikuyu women in the Mau Mau movement has been the object of several works in the last decade. Most of the published literature on women and Mau [...]

In a Radio Broadcast to the nation on Tuesday, 5 January 1982, the Chairman of Ghana's Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, announced that his revolutionary government [...]

A minefield is more than apt analogy for the dangers of land reform in Africa today. Tensions within a society resulting from distribution of land that is viewed as partial [...]