Africa Today articles from April 1998

Africa Today archives from April 1998

Commentary: a last chance for peaceful change in Kenya?
April 1, 1998... In May 1997, most observers of the Kenyan political scene expected that the national elections scheduled to occur later that year would be won by the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU). They assumed that the contest would not be conducted...

The incomplete transition: the constitutional and electoral context in Kenya.
April 1, 1998... Kenya's 1997 national multiparty elections were a disappointing confirmation of the extent to which the country's democratic transition has stalled. Despite the legal, administrative, and constitutional changes passed by the seventh Parliament in...

Toward a new constitutional framework in Kenya.
April 1, 1998... As this special issue of Africa Today goes to press, Kenya may have at last taken the first significant steps toward a new constitutional framework to regulate political life. The issue of a new constitution was first raised by political...

Kenyan politics: toward a second transition?
April 1, 1998... The literature on democratic transitions uses the term transition to refer to the move between different sets of rules governing the distribution of power.(1) Kenya went through one political transition in 1991 when the de jure one-party system...

Small Enterprises: Flexibility and Networking in an African Context.
April 1, 1998... Dorothy McCormick and Paul Ove Pederson, eds., (Nairobi: Longhorn, 1996), x + 365 pages, price unavailable. Industrialization and development theories have been in transition since most of Africa achieved formal independence in the early 1960s....

Readings in African Popular Culture.
April 1, 1998... Karin Barber, ed., (Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Oxford: James Currey, 1997), viii + 184 pages, cloth $45.00, paper $18.95. This volume should be welcomed not just by Africanists but by all scholars who have an interest in popular...

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism.
April 1, 1998... Mahmood Mamdani, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996), xii + 353 pages, cloth $55.00, paper $19.95. In Citizen and Subject, Mamdani explores two issues of paramount importance to democratization in Africa: "how power is organized...