Africa Today articles from October 1997

Africa Today archives from October 1997

Africa 2000 in the new global context: a commentary. (Africa Capacity Building Initiative)
October 1, 1997... As we prepare to enter the third millennium, a new political and economic agenda is being designed for Africa that will deeply affect the lives of its people far beyond the year 2000. What are the contents of this agenda, its implications, and...

Resurrection how? A response to Michael O. West and William G. Martin's article, " A Future with a Past: Resurrecting the Study of Africa in the Post-Africanist Era". (response to Michael O. West and William G. Martin, Africa Today, vol. 44, p.313)
October 1, 1997... Michael O. West and William O. Martin foresee the death of African Studies. They welcome its demise as the end of a divisive and racist Cold War organization of scholarship and predict the "resurrection" of an older, black-led, transnational,...

Learning African languages with evolving digital technologies.
October 1, 1997... New digital technologies offer exciting possibilities for innovation in African language instruction. Teaching pedagogies - methods and approaches - evolve rather slowly when compared with technology. Indeed, there is a widening gap between...

Praise without enchantment: Griots, broadcast media, and the politics of tradition in Mali.
October 1, 1997... Notions of political legitimacy have changed considerably since the imposition of French colonial rule in Mali. This article explores how political elites have sought legitimacy by relying on the performance skills of griots, praise singers and...

Adjusting Society: The World Bank, the IMF and Ghana.
October 1, 1997... Looking beyond assessments of World Bank- and IMF-mandated economic reforms at the level of national policy and outcomes, Adjusting Society explores how Ghanaians directly experienced structural adjustment programs (SAPs) in several rural and...

Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century.
October 1, 1997... In the history of man's inhumanity to man, few chapters are as grue-some as that of the Rwanda genocide. As much as the scale of the killings - approximately half a million, according to most estimates - the appalling savagery with which neighbor...

Orphan of the Cold War: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process.
October 1, 1997... Margaret Joan Anstee's Orphan o the Cold War provides an insider's account of the failure of the 1992 peace accords in Angola. The author served as the United Nations' senior ranking official in Angola from March 1992 to June 1993. During that...