Africa Today articles from September 22 1991

Africa Today archives from September 22 1991

A Life in Peace and War.
September 22, 1991... Despite his close involvement with critical United Nations operations in Africa, Brian Urquhart's name may be unfamiliar to many Africanists. He joined the United Nations at its inception in 1946 at age 27 after serving as a major in the...

The Invention of Ethiopia: The making of a Dependent Colonial State in Northeast Africa.
September 22, 1991... Ethiopia is one of more than fifty politically troubled countries in the world. It has been haunted for decades by war, superpower intervention, famine and armed national conflicts. For the past three decades, Ethiopia has never experienced...

Eritrea: A Pawn in World Politics.
September 22, 1991... Okbazghi Yohannes's study of Eritrea in world politics appears at a time of momentous changes in the Horn of Africa. Those changes have not rendered this book superfluous, however, and readers who seek to understand contemporary events will be...

The Human Dimension of Africa's Persistent Economic Crisis.
September 22, 1991... This volume collects selected papers given at the March 1988 Khartoum conference on "The Human Dimension of Africa's Economic Recovery and Development." The contributors are drawn mostly from intergovernmental organizations (U.N. agencies,...

Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers.
September 22, 1991... Discussions about the human consequences of structural adjustment policies (SAP) have become a "hot topic" in recent years. Analysts and policymakers are particularly hungry for data that clarify differential effects of the diverse aspects of...

Corporatism in Africa: Comparative Analysis and Practice.
September 22, 1991... Corporatism in Africa is an ambitious attempt by editors Julius E. Nyang'oro and Timothy M. Shaw to extend and refine the controversial concept of corporatism. It is also the first collection to apply the concept to Africa, doing this in two...

Malawi and Mozambique: the human frontier. (refugee problems; Africa Rights Monitor)
September 22, 1991... Driving south from Lilongwe, Malawi's capital, one can easily see the central problems facing the country and its neighbor, Mozambique. This is particularly evident between the towns of Dedza and Ntcheu, where the road to the southern...

Peace in Western Sahara? (Africa Rights Monitor)
September 22, 1991... On the African continent, a wall not unlike the Berlin Wall still stands in Western Sahara,(1) a reminder that even though every other colonial country has acceded to independence, Western Sahara still remains to be dealt with. In the first...

The State, Development and Politics in Ghana.
September 22, 1991... This groundbreaking collection of essays is an ambitious attempt by a number of Ghanaian lecturers to reexamine in simple terms "what exactly went wrong" (p. xv) in Ghana after there were such promising signs of political success and economic...

Ghana: The Political Economy of Economic Recovery.
September 22, 1991... Donald Rothchild has assembled an outstanding group of Ghanaian experts to produce a much needed and exceptionally valuable volume on that country's efforts to achieve economic recovery. The individual essays are clear, cogent and fully...

The struggle over structural adjustment in Ghana.
September 22, 1991... The most contentious issue in African political economy in the 1980s has involved the relative appropriateness and impact of stabilization and structural adjustment policies required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB),...

Notes on Ghana's current transition to constitutional rule.
September 22, 1991... Ghana's Provisional National Defence Committee (PNDC), which overthrew the constitutionally elected govemment of Hilia Limann on December 31, 1981, has begun a process designed to return the country to constitutional rule. This marks the third...

Joe Appiah: The Autobiography of an African Patriot.
September 22, 1991... Joseph Appiah was one of the major and most versatile figures of Ghanaian politics, both before and after independence, his activism having spanned three decades. This personal account of his life and experience is therefore a most welcome...

Svinga: A Zimbabwe Encyclopedia.
September 22, 1991... CD-ROM is short for Compact Disk - Read Only Memory. By now most readers will be familiar with compact disks that contain music. CD-ROM uses the same technology to store not music but information. The storage capacity is far larger than that of...

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources, 1957-1987.
September 22, 1991... This bibliography of more than 1900 sources in over 20 languages is a fitting tribute to one of East Africa!s best known creative writers. It includes not only fiction and nonfiction written by Ngugi and nearly 200 translations of it into 24...

The Political Economy of Ethiopia.
September 22, 1991... This volume results from papers first presented at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in early 1988, as one of a series of country specific works dealing with African political economy. Recent developments in Ethiopia...

The Policy Environment of Management Development Institutions in Anglophone Africa.
September 22, 1991... The text reviewed here is a report of a policy seminar sponsored by the World Bank and affiliated United Nations agencies. The report, issued by the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank where the author serves as a regional...

AIDS: The African Perspective of the Killer Disease.
September 22, 1991... V. K. Agadzi, trained as a medical doctor in the USSR and as an epidemiologist at Makerere University, served as an epidemiologist in the Ghana Ministry of Health and was a visiting lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences of the University...

Pollution Control in a Developing Country: A Study of the Situation in Ghana.
September 22, 1991... The author, S. B. Akuffo, conducted this study in 1986, when he was in private business. However, as a former research officer with Ghana's Environmental Protection Council, he is thoroughly familiar not only with Ghana's environmental laws as...

Manufacturing in Africa: Performance and Prospects of Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 1991... One of the more striking features of Africa's economic crisis over the past decade has been the almost complete neglect of a discussion of industry and manufacturing. The influential analyses of the World Bank have tended to concentrate on...