Africa Today articles from June 1994

Africa Today archives from June 1994

Editor's introduction.
June 22, 1994... The prevailing image of Africa is that of a continent hopelessly mired in ethnic conflicts, economic deprivation and social malady. The caricature projected denies the significant strides taken toward greater political participation and...

Regional elections in Namibia: deepening democracy and gender inclusion.
June 22, 1994... Introduction Recent scholarship on democracy in Africa has rightly criticized the overly statist and centralized orientation of African politics since the early days of independence. However, little notice has been paid to elections that...

Political exclusion, democratization and dynamics of ethnicity in Niger.
June 22, 1994... Postcolonial Africa has been characterized by the authoritarian exclusion of large segments of society from participation in the political process. According to Nelson Kasfir de-participation is the most striking feature of political change...

Elections, leadership and democracy in Congo.
June 22, 1994... Among the formerly one-party African states that have recently undertaken democratic reforms, Congo appears to be among the small number which have gone some distance in consolidating its new democratic institutions. In doing so, Congo has...

African-Americans and U.S. policy toward post-apartheid South Africa.(Africa Rights Monitor)
June 22, 1994... The end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the dismantling of apartheid, and the election of Nelson Mandela as the first African president of South Africa have significantly affected both the internal and external...

Transition in Namibia.
June 22, 1994... Lionel Cliffe with Ray Bush, Jenny Lindsay, Brian Mokopakgosi, Donna Pankhurst, and Balefi Tsie, THE TRANSITION TO INDEPENDENCE IN NAMIBIA (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994). David Lush, LAST STEPS TO UHURU: An Eye-Witness...

An introduction to Namibia.
June 22, 1994... Donald L. Sparks and December Green, NAMIBIA: The Nation after Independence (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), pp. xii, 204, cloth $38.00. Namibia: The Nation after Independence is a book about Namibia at independence. Published two years...

Questionable links: African Emigres and Africa.
June 22, 1994... Kofi K. Apraku, AFRICAN EMIGRES IN THE UNITED STATES: A Missing Link in Africa's Social and Economic Development (New York: Praeger, 1991), pp. 162, $42.95 cloth. Kofi Apraku's aim in this book is to demonstrate that there are...

The travails of multipartyism in Tanzania.
June 22, 1994... Max Mmuya and Amon Chaligha, TOWARDS MULTIPARTY POLITICS IN TANZANIA (Dar-Es-Salaam: Dar-Es-Salaam University Press; London: African Books Collective, 1992), pp. 167. In this book Mmuya and Chaligha examine and describe in detail the...

Issues of union: federal or unitary?
June 22, 1994... Issa G. Shivji, TANZANIA: The Legal Foundations of the Union (Dar-Es-Salaam: Dar-Es-Salaam University Press, 1990), pp. 113, pb, $7.95. Shivji addresses an important legal and political question which dominated the Tanzanian political...

Rawlings and the new political dawn in Ghana.
June 22, 1994... Kevin Shillington, GHANA AND THE RAWLINGS FACTOR (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp. 184. In the political history of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings is the only leader so far, since Kwame Nkrumah to have generated so much interest and...

Announcements.
June 22, 1994... Receding Tides of Empire: Aspects of the Economic and Social History of Natal and Zululand since 1910 is available from the University of Natal Press. Order from David Philip Ltd. Box 23408, Claremont 7735, South Africa, Phone: (021) 64 4136....

Books received.
June 22, 1994... Qualified reviewers are invited to inform us of titles in which they are interested. Books already sent to reviewers are indicated by an asterisk (*). Literature and the Arts THE AFRICAN QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND IDENTITY, Richard...