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In recent years two major sets of forces have sought to transform the economic and political configurations of the African state. Since the mid-1980s attempts at economic liberalization have aimed [...]

HENRY PHILLIPS, From Obscurity to Bright Dawn: how Nyasaland became Malawi: an insider's account. London: Radcliffe Press, 1998, 252 pp., 24.50 £, ISBN 1 86064 248 9. Beginning in 1946 [...]

Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime transitions in comparative perspective, by Michael Bratton and Nicholas van de Walle. Cambridge University Press, 1997. xvi+307 pp. 15.95 £ paperback. ISBN 0-521-55429-2 In Democratic [...]

Political Reform in Francophone Africa, edited by John F. Clark and David E. Gardinier. Westview Press, 1997, xviii-318pp. 48.95 £ hardback; 14.95 £ paperback. ISBN 0-8133-2785-7 and ISBN 0-8133-2786-5 In [...]

Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland. By Peter B. Levy. Southern Dissent. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2003. Pp. xviii, [...]

Edited by Paul A. Beckett and Crawford Young. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997. 450p. $65.00. John A. Wiseman, University of Newcastle upon Tyne It is a central paradox [...]

Economic Crisis, Civil Society, and Democratization: The Case of Zambia by Julius O. Ihonvbere (Trenton, NJ, Africa World Press, 1996, pp.335, $19.95 pb, $69.95 hb). The restoration of multi-partyism in [...]

Edited by Harvey Glickman. The African Studies Association Press, Atlanta, Georgia, 1995. iii+484 pp. 29.00 £ paperback. ISBN 0-918456-74-6. The nature of the relationship between politicized ethnicity and democratization is [...]