Africa Today articles from March 2007

Africa Today archives from March 2007

Recycled fable or immutable truth? Reflections on the 1973 land-tenure reform project in Lesotho and lessons for the future.
March 22, 2007... Lesotho's postcolonial state land-reform project has failed to produce intended outcomes. Mainstream explanation points to the antagonism of customary chiefs to state-sponsored reforms, because these were meant to curtail their power over land....

Hybridity in emergent East African poetry: a reading of Susan N. Kiguli and her contemporaries.
March 22, 2007... This article draws out the uses of hybridity in East African poetry published in the 1990s, with a focus on the writing of Ugandan poet Susan N. Kiguli and her relation to other emergent writers in the region. I argue that hybridity has become...

War making and state making in Central Africa.
March 22, 2007... Continued conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has resulted, not from the "failed-state syndrome," but from the continuing struggle to establish viable states on the ruins of repressive colonial states. Starting with Tilly's account...

Ethiopia in the world economy: trade, private capital flows, and migration.
March 22, 2007... Economic globalization can be evaluated with reference to at least three dimensions: trade, private capital flows, and migration. For each of these dimensions, pathways through which economic globalization can alleviate or contribute to poverty...

African Women and Peace Support Group. 2004. Liberian Women Peacemakers: Fighting for The Right to be Seen, Heard and Counted.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... African Women and Peace Support Group. 2004. LIBERIAN WOMEN PEACEMAKERS: FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO BE SEEN, HEARD AND COUNTED. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press. 100 pp. $19.95 (paper). This book is a remarkable document of the tireless...

Why Look East? Zimbabwean foreign policy and China.
March 22, 2007... As part of its "Look East" foreign policy strategy, Zimbabwe has sought to strengthen its ties with China--a move that has alarmed many Western states. While not necessarily denying the pragmatism behind such a strategy, I examine how this...