Africa Today articles from January 1992

Africa Today archives from January 1992

Colonialism, socialism and destabilization in Mozambique. (Special Double Issue: Angola and Mozambique 1992)
January 1, 1992... Many conservatives in the West have called the Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana (Renamo) "freedom fighters." They ignore the fact that Renamo was actually founded by the government of Rhodesia to prevent the Zimbabwe African National Liberation...

Mozambique: a painful reconciliation. (Frelimo and Renamo peace talks) (Special Double Issue: Angola and Mozambique 1992)
January 1, 1992... As the cruel war in Mozambique continues, a process of national reconciliation is occurring. On one hand, President Joaquim Chissano and his ruling Frelimo(1) Party are coming to terms with dubious "class enemies" like the "petite bourgeois" of...

Remembering Eduardo: reflections on the life and legacy of Eduardo Mondlane. (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique party president) (Special Double Issue: Angola and Mozambique 1992)
January 1, 1992... On a sunlit Dar-es-Salaam morning in February 1969, in a small cottage facing the Indian Ocean, Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane was murdered, his life tom away by the explosion of a plastic bomb planted in a book that he opened with the morning mail....

US foreign policy: lessons from the Angola conflict. (Special Double Issue: Angola and Mozambique 1992)
January 1, 1992... "Secretary of State James A. Baker III has written U.S. backed Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi to demand a full explanation of charges of murder and human rights abuses within his movement."(1) This stark announcement marks the end of...

US foreign policy and the Angolan peace. (Special Double Issue: Angola and Mozambique 1992)
January 1, 1992... The thawing of the Cold War which made Namibian independence possible also presented an opportunity for an end to the Angolan civil war. Almost two decades of conflict have left thousands maimed, killed, displaced or looking for safe haven in...

Media coverage of the Angolan war. (Special Double Issue: Angola and Mozambique 1992)
January 1, 1992... The Angolan war provides a classic example of all the deficiencies of US media coverage of African affairs. Most of the more general criticism has centered on such shortcomings as superficiality, sensationalism, infrequency and inadequacy,(1)...

Organizing support for Mozambique and Angola. (Special Double Issue: Angola and Mozambique 1992)
January 1, 1992... Faced with a suspected chemical warfare attack in January 1992, the Government of Mozambique appealed for an international investigation by the United Nations Secretary General, the British and South African governments and international health...

Repatriation of refugees from Malawi to Mozambique. (Africa Rights Monitor)
January 1, 1992... The refugee situation confronting Mozambique and Malawi is one of the most critical in the world today. Estimates of the number of Mozambicans in Malaw vary from 900,000 to over 1 million.(1) In a country with an indigenous population of less...

The future of democracy in Kenya. (Africa Rights Monitor)
January 1, 1992... In the 1960s and 70s, Kenya was often portrayed as one of the few successful democracies in Africa. This image was reinforced by the occurrence of regular competitive parliamentary elections, the peaceful transfer of power from President Jomo...

They Live by the Sword: 'Buffalo Battalion' - South Africa's Foreign Legion.
January 1, 1992... Col. Jan Breytenbach, Buffalo Battalion' --South Africa's Foreign Legion (Alberton, South Africa: Lemur Books, 1990), pp. 272, Cloth $30.20. In late 1987 and early 1988, as battles raged around the small Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale,...

The War for Africa: Twelve Months That Transformed a Continent.
January 1, 1992... Fred Bridgland, Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent (Gibraltar: Ashanti Publishing, 1990), pp. 403, Cloth, price not available. In late 1987 and early 1988, as battles raged around the small Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale, the news...

War in Angola: The Final South African Phase.
January 1, 1992... Helmoed-Romer Heitman, The Final South African Phase (Gibraltar: Ashanti Publishing, 1990), pp. 366, Cloth, price not available. In late 1987 and early 1988, as battles raged around the small Angolan town of Cuito Cuanavale, the news media...

Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots?.
January 1, 1992... Joseph Hanlon, (London: James Currey; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), pp. 301, $32.00 Pb. The endless "should not" conversations in academic and solidarity circles are familiar-- "tsk-tsks", denunciations, sometimes...

Liberating the Law: Creating Popular Justice in Mozambique.
January 1, 1992... Albie Sachs and Gita Honwana Welch, Creating Popular Justice in Mozambique (London: Zed Books, 1990), pp. 136, Cloth $55, Pb $17.50. How can a revolutionary government use the law to promote socio-political change? Anyone interested in...

Renamo: Terrorism in Mozambique.
January 1, 1992... Alex Vines, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press; London: James Currey, 1991), pp. 176, Pb $12.95. In July 1982 I arrived in Beira, Mozambique, to begin two years residence there with my husband and young daughter. We knew that there was...

A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique.
January 1, 1992... William Finnegan, (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press, 1992). pp. 344, $25.00. William Finnegan's new book on Mozambique raised strong feelings of saudade in me -- homesickness, yearning, and melancholy -- as...

The Cold War Guerilla: Jonas Savimbi, The U.S. Media, and the Angolan War.
January 1, 1992... Elaine Windrich, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. x + 183., $45.00 Elaine Windrich has written an excellent book which presents an analytical treatment of US media coverage of the war in Angola. Windrich explains that the work...

A Political History of the Civil War in Angola: 1974-1990.
January 1, 1992... W. Martin James, (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992), pp. 314, $39.95. This book by W. Martin James is an update of a doctoral dissertation on UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola), the rebel faction...

SADCC: The Political Economy of Development in Southern Africa.
January 1, 1992... Margaret C. Lee, SADCC: The Political Economy of Development in Southern Africa (Nashville: Winston-Derek Publisher,, 1989), PP. vii , 307, pb $16.95. Wolff-Christian Peters, REGIONALE KOOPERATION UND DER KONFLIKT IM SUDLICHEN AFRIKA: Zur...

Regionale Kooperation und der Konflikt im sudlichen Afrika: Zur Bedeutung der Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC).
January 1, 1992... Regionale Kooperation und der Konflikt im sudlichen Afrika consists of eight chapters and begins at a point similar to that of Margaret Lee. After a general introduction, Peters proceeds to an outline and a critique of the neo-classical...