Africa Today articles from June 1992

Africa Today archives from June 1992

Fatally flawed mediation: Cordier and the Congo crisis of 1960. (Andrew W. Cordier) (Zaire: Troubled Past, Uncertain Future)
June 22, 1992... The spectacle is of the working of the political fate of human beings: the veiled logic which requires from political men actions which are the function of what they represent--and to lesser extent of what they are--in circumstances which they...

Zaire's ties to Belgium: persistence and future prospects in political economy. (Zaire: Troubled Past, Uncertain Future)
June 22, 1992... in close collaboration with this group until the emergence of the recent struggle for multiparty politics. 25. Peemans, "Development of Zaire," p. 155. 26. Radmann, op. cit., p. 31. 27. Radmann, op. cit., p. 35. 28. Africa Research...

Beyond self-protection to prophecy: the Catholic church and political change in Zaire. (Zaire: Troubled Past, Uncertain Future)
June 22, 1992... Mr. President, the Church recognizes your authority, because authority comes from God. We will loyally apply the laws you establish. You can count on us in your work of restoring the peace toward which all so ardently aspire. Joseph Malula,...

L'Eglise du Christ au Zaire: Formation et Adaptation d'un Protestantisme en Situation de Dictature.
June 22, 1992... Zaire's much publicized National Sovereign Conference is taking place in the People's Palace, a vast meeting hall in the Lingwala suburb of Kinshasa. Within sight of this location, on a tract of land donated by President Mobutu Sese Seko, stands...

Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960-1990.
June 22, 1992... The current focus on political liberalization and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the present and future role of the United States in fostering these developments, makes Michael Schatzberg's book on Zaire particularly timely. The...

The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crisis.
June 22, 1992... The author presents a detailed and well documented account of how U.S. and Belgian companies influenced their governments' interventions in the Congo (now Zaire) from 1960-1970. His analysis emphasizes the conflicts between American and Belgian...

The Agricultural Development of Zaire.
June 22, 1992... Zaire, in many respects, is a microcosm of the problems and conditions that beset agriculture in tropical Africa. The new agricultural technologies that have transformed the rest of the world have not been significantly relevant to tropical...

The Real Economy of Zaire: The Contribution of Smuggling and Other Unofficial Activities to National Wealth.
June 22, 1992... The first sentence on the back cover of this book asks "How do people survive in an African country where the economy is a disaster?" Inevitably, one ponders this question each time reports on a country in major economic crisis come to our...

Historical Dictionary of Zaire.
June 22, 1992... Turn to this book for its bilingual 116 page, 1600 entry bibliography. Do not rely on the incomplete, sometimes politically distorted "dictionary" of Zairian affairs which occupies its first 232 pages. The bibliography, despite gaps, offers the...

The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire.
June 22, 1992... Michael Schatzberg's Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire analyzes how a repressive state (the Mobutiste state) can stay in power for more than 20 years. His intention is to take the information he has gathered and modify the theoretical...

Le Zaire: vers quelles destinees?
June 22, 1992... Thirteen Zairian scholars with various academic backgrounds and professions have produced an important analyse-bilan with a focus on the future of Zaire. The authors examine the development of a particular mode of dependent capitalism (p. xii)....

Voices of Zaire: Rhetoric or Reality?
June 22, 1992... Voices of Zaire is an eloquent, apologetic book in which Congressman Dymally and Professor Elliot seek to put a positive interpretation on President Mobutu's bad record of human rights violations. A product of ten days of exclusive and strange...

Etudiants d'Afrique, des Caribes, et du Pacifique dans la Communaute Europeenne.
June 22, 1992... This is an important, pioneering survey of 675 African university students in France and Belgium. Undertaken by the French YMCA and a Belgian student aid organization (SEE), it relies on a detailed, partly open-ended questionnaire and national...

Kenya: slouching toward democracy. (Kenyan politics) (Africa Rights Monitor)
June 22, 1992... Self-appointed rulers are facing hard times all over Africa. Democracy is everywhere in the air and popular mobilization, though very uneven, is consequential. With little room for maneuver, several autocrats have fallen or pledged transitions to...

Help for political asylum applicants: new hope for Africans.
June 22, 1992... One obstacle to completing the political asylum process in the United States has been the need to document that the applicant has a "well-founded fear of persecution." This may be especially true in cases involving tribal peoples, since...

The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies.
June 22, 1992... One of the strongest endorsements that a book can receive is that other scholars not only begin using and citing it, but begin building their own research upon the ideas it contains--sometimes even in unexpected settings. Such is the case with...

Killing the Wizards: Wars of Power and Freedom from Zaire to South Africa.
June 22, 1992... Alan Cowell is a British journalist who succeeded, for news purposes, in being in the right place at the right time. As he explains, "The editors who sent me to Africa, for Reuters News Agency first and then for the New York Times, inadvertently...

The Cohesion of Oppression, Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda: 1860-1960.
June 22, 1992... A reexamination of the pre-colonial and colonial history of Rwanda is in order. The dramatic events around independence that changed a monarchy to a republic and broke the Tutsi domination over the majority Hutu have deep and not yet fully...

Church and Liberation in Namibia.
June 22, 1992... Church and Liberation in Namibia provides a useful introduction to the role of churches in Namibian history and society. It includes essays from various scholars and theologians as well as an historian and a political scientist, most of them...

South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy: 1962-1989.
June 22, 1992... The National Security Archive, in cooperation with Chadwyck-Healy Inc., has published a collection of documents on the formation of United States policy toward South Africa between 1962 and 1989. The sources of these documents are the Department...

The Peace Corps in Cameroon.
June 22, 1992... The Peace Corps in Cameroon is a well-written, thoroughly researched history of the beginnings of the United States Peace Corps, specifically its activities in Cameroon, West Africa. Julius Amin's sources include documents from Peace Corps and...