Africa Today articles from January 1997

Africa Today archives from January 1997

Women's status and cultural expression: changing gender relations and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe.
January 1, 1997... In 1991, Zimbabwe introduced what is known as the economic structural adjustment program (ESAP) to stimulate economic growth and reduce poverty. To undertake economic restructuring, the Zimbabwean government sought financial assistance from the...

African-European relations at the turning point.
January 1, 1997... Relations between Europe and Africa have long been strained. The destructive effects of colonialism have never been completely overcome, and many of today's multifaceted crises in parts of Africa have roots that reach back to the days of...

Parliamentary representation of minority communities: the Mauritian communities.
January 1, 1997... The tiny French-speaking Republic of Mauritius, situated in the Indian Ocean, is a multiracial, multilingual, and multireligious society with 1.1 million inhabitants.(1) Unlike many other former British colonies, after obtaining independence in...

Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Carrot and Stick in Mauritania.
January 1, 1997... Mohameden Ould-Mey's Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Carrot and the Stick in Mauritania presents by far the best available analysis of recent economic developments in Mauritania. The author sets out upon a twofold investigation,...

State and Society in Francophone Africa Since Independence.
January 1, 1997... This volume contains an excellent collection of essays compiled by two accomplished European scholars (one British and one French). This compendium is of particular value for Americans, since scholarship on Africa undertaken in the United States...

Introduction to Contemporary Social and Political Thinkers.
January 1, 1997... Of the two books by Dipo Irele(1) that form the basis of this review, In the Tracks of African Predicament is no doubt the more important because there is a clear attempt at actual conceptualization. How successful that attempt is, however, is...

In the Tracks of African Predicament: Philosophy and Contemporary Socio-Economic and Political Problems of Africa.
January 1, 1997... Of the two books by Dipo Irele(1) that form the basis of this review, In the Tracks of African Predicament is no doubt the more important because there is a clear attempt at actual conceptualization. How successful that attempt is, however, is...

Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa.
January 1, 1997... The text reviewed here explores political-military trends in sub-Saharan Africa based on five selected insurgencies throughout the region. The subject matter relates to Wiegert's area of expertise as a research specialist at the U.S. Department...

Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa.
January 1, 1997... George Fredrickson's White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History was widely praised in the wake of its 1981 publication by Oxford University Press. In that book, Fredrickson employed the comparative method to...

Crossing the Line, A Year in the Land of Apartheid.
January 1, 1997... Sixteen years ago, William Finnegan was a typical American graduate out to see the world with his girlfriend, a surfer in search of the perfect wave. Having traveled extensively in Asia for two years, he ended up in South Africa, in part as a...

Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears, Her Life and Writing.
January 1, 1997... Readers who are even marginally acquainted with the life and fiction of southern African novelist Bessie Head can well imagine how difficult the task of imposing order upon her chaotic life must have been for her biographer, Gillian Stead...

The Yoruba Artist: New Theoretical Perspectives on African Arts.
January 1, 1997... The most comprehensive exhibition of Yoruba art ever assembled was organized and presented by the Center for African Art in New York in 1989; during the next several years, the exhibit traveled to various museums in the United States. Both the...