Africa Today articles from April 1996

Africa Today archives from April 1996

Conflict resolution in Africa: insights from UN representatives and U.S. government officials.
April 1, 1996... In light of the recent and recurring difficulties experienced by external intervening actors in Africa, it is crucial to consider the voice of political wisdom, which takes into account the lessons learned from previous interventions and applies...

Ethnic conflicts and hometown associations: an analysis of the experience of the Agila Develoment Association.
April 1, 1996... Recent events in Africa, such as the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people in Rwanda and the civil wars in Somalia and Liberia, have reintroduced ethnicity as a significant issue in African political discourse. As Eghosa E. Osaghae argues,...

Environmental degradation and social conflict in the Northern Highlands of Ethiopia: the case of Tigray and Wollo provinces.
April 1, 1996... The Sahel and the Horn of Africa are among the world's most extensive arid and semiarid ecosystems. The fragility of these systems and their increasing utilization by human beings have yielded the simultaneous degradation of society and the...

The Ogoni uprising: oil, human rights, and a democratic alternative in Nigeria.
April 1, 1996... Available political literature on Nigeria is overwhelmingly pessimistic. There are good reasons for this. A history of corrupt politicians, economic mismanagement, ethnic, regional, and religious strife, and a military all too eager to intervene...

A new beginning: the U.S. Peace Corps and South Africa - an interview with Peace Corps Deputy Director Charles R. Baquet III.(Interview)
April 1, 1996... Since its inception in 1961, the Peace Corps has conducted the highest number of its operations (36 percent) on the African continent. As the Peace Corps celebrated its thirty-fifth anniversary, South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki and U.S....

The Changing Politics of Non-governmental Organizations and African States.
April 1, 1996... Since the end of the Cold War, scholarship on the international and domestic roles of NGOs has been a growth industry. But we still lack an understanding of crucial transnational dimensions of world politics, particularly the relationship between...

United States Foreign Policy Toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis and Change.
April 1, 1996... Africanists often lament that the continent has frequently been relegated to the sidelines of U.S. foreign policy making. As a result, the scholarship in international relations and comparative foreign policy has also generally ignored African...

The Atlantic Slave Trade.
April 1, 1996... The Atlantic Slave Trade is a collection of scholarly writings by historians from the four continents that participated in the transatlantic slave trade, and it is the first volume in D.C. Heath's New Problems in World History series. The subject...

History of Africa.
April 1, 1996... Although courses on African history have been part of the undergraduate curriculum in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada for more than three decades, it is surprising how little material has been written specifically for...

Younger Than That Now: A Peace Corps Volunteer Remembers Morocco.
April 1, 1996... This is less a review than a warning to Africanists. The subtitle would lead one to suppose that some insights into things Moroccan could be gleaned from this collection of "real life experiences... [of]... an English teacher in Morocco" (p....