Africa Today articles from January 1996

Africa Today archives from January 1996

Friends, neighbors, and former enemies: the evolution of Zambia-Zimbabwe relations in a changing regional context.(Southern Africa in the Postapartheid Era)
January 1, 1996... In this article we examine the evolution of relations between Zambia and Zimbabwe, and the ways in which their relations interact with the international relations of southern Africa. We analyze the impact on these relations of past, recent, and...

Rational choice, security, and economic cooperation in Southern Africa.(Southern Africa in the Postapartheid Era)
January 1, 1996... The year 1995 is an ideal time to examine politics in southern Africa. The region is dominated economically and politically by South Africa, a regional hegemon that was racist and hostile during the apartheid era. Consequently, security has...

From apartheid to democracy: patterns of violent and nonviolent direct actions in South Africa, 1984-1994.(Southern Africa in the Postapartheid Era)
January 1, 1996... South Africa's first democratic constitution was enacted in December 1993 after a four-year process of negotiation. The inaugural election followed in April 1994, after which the Government of National Unity took power for an interim term of...

The Johannesburg massacre: media images of the South African transition.(Southern Africa in the Postapartheid Era)
January 1, 1996... During the campaign for South Africa's first nonracial elections, held in April 1994, it was generally agreed by the politicians, the pollsters, and the pundits that the African National Congress (ANC) led by Nelson Mandela would emerge as the...

The Impossible Neutrality: Sweden's Role under Olof Palme.
January 1, 1996... This short booklet offers an interesting glimpse, from an insider's point of view, of a generally underexamined facet of the recent history of southern Africa. Those who were directly involved are well aware that the Nordic countries, and...

Allies in Adversity: The Frontline States in Southern African Security, 1975-1993.
January 1, 1996... In Allies in Adversity, Khadiagala defines his core objectives and hypotheses succinctly and cogently. He demonstrates successfully how the Frontline States (FLS) managed to play significant roles in regional transformations despite "their...

The Cassinga Event.
January 1, 1996... It is an unusual book that opens with a chapter "About Truth." In the case of this eighteenth publication of the Namibian Archives, the author states that the volume was conceived as a group project to determine and expose the long hidden (or...

We Spend Our Years as a Tale that is Told: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom.
January 1, 1996... This is an important exploration of the complex relationship between orality and literacy among the people of Mikopane/Valtyn, a Ndebele-Sotho chiefdom in the Transvaal. Isabel Hofmeyr analyzes the changes that affected oral historical...

Eritrea and Ethiopia: From Conflict to Cooperation.
January 1, 1996... This is the first volume about Ethiopia and Eritrea to appear since the overthrow of the Dergue in May 1991. The book contains eleven essays by ten scholars from the Horn of Africa. Five of the contributors are Eritreans, two are Ethiopians,...