Africa Today articles from September 1992

Africa Today archives from September 1992

Human rights and the liberation struggle...the importance of creative tension. (African and Human Rights in the 1990s.)
September 22, 1992... I would not have wanted to miss this occasion to honor George Shepherd and Ed Hawley. Perhaps my travel, ending last night after forty-one hours, tells the story. It really began Wednesday afternoon in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. I arrived in...

The United States and Africa: after the Cold War. (Africa and Human Rights in the 1990s.)
September 22, 1992... The constant theme of American foreign policy during the period 1947-1988, when the ideological struggle for world hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union dominated international politics, was the global containment of communism....

Transgressing fundamental boundaries: the struggle for women's human rights. (Africa and Human Rights in the 1990s.)
September 22, 1992... During the week of October 7, 1991 many Americans could be found avidly devouring the media coverage of the Clarence Thomas hearings after the astonishing allegations of sexual harassment by Anita Hill were publicized. After reading a prepared...

Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 1992... Now that the dreadful eighties are behind us, the obvious task for those concerned about Africa is to discover the proper strategy which can put the continent on an effective economic growth path. "Economic recovery" is the current operational...

Economic Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: A World Bank Symposium.
September 22, 1992... The first thing to say about this book is that the title is very misleading and the physical product is, for the World Bank, extremely shoddy. Nevertheless, the book is important for economists interested in Africa. The book contains some 22...

Strategies of Democratization.
September 22, 1992... In recent years two major sets of forces have sought to transform the economic and political configurations of the African state. Since the mid-1980s attempts at economic liberalization have aimed at significantly reducing the economic role of...

Coups and Army Rule in Africa: Motivation and Constraints.
September 22, 1992... Coups and Army Rule in Africa provides a lucid explanation regarding the formation and maintenance of military regimes in Africa using the case method of analysis. This second edition includes the addition of Niger as a case study, but fails to...

Rawlings "wins" Ghana's presidential elections: establishing a new constitutional order. (Africa and Human Rights in the 1990s.)
September 22, 1992... Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings and his Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) military junta came to power on the night of December 31, 1981 by overthrowing the popularly elected government of Dr. Hilla Limann. For a decade, Rawlings and his PNDC...

Ecology of Natural Resources in Nigeria.
September 22, 1992... Famine and/or ethnic conflict have been, in recent years, the phenomenon that brought Africa to the attention of the Western news media. These phenomena were frequently portrayed as uniquely African conditions. The tragic events of Eastern Europe...

Africa's Media Image.
September 22, 1992... Virtually everyone who has lived in, or studies, Africa has at some point decried western media coverage. Stereotypes, myths, half-truths, and a focus on the bizarre and catastrophic describe much of what little media attention reaches our...

Fighting Years: Black Resistance and the Struggle for a new South Africa.
September 22, 1992... Steven Mufson's Fighting Years is an engaging book reflecting the multi-dimensional character of the mass movement that shook apartheid rule in the years 1984-86. A staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, then a correspondent for Business...

Modern Algeria: The Origins and Development of a Nation.
September 22, 1992... The disturbances of 1991 and 1992 in Algeria, which involve a sharp confrontation between the military-backed High State Council and the militant Islamic fundamentalists led by the Front for Islamic Salvation (Front Islamique de Salut, FIS), have...

Enigmatic Saint: Ahmad Ibn Idris and the Idrisi Tradition.
September 22, 1992... R.S. O'Fahey is professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the author of an earlier book, State and Society in Dar Fur.(1) This work will be most useful for the researcher in understanding the problems of...

Children of Ham: Freed Slaves and Fugitive Slaves on the Kenya Coast, 1873-1907.
September 22, 1992... Most Africanists need no reminding that slavery in Africa was a vicious institution and that modern attempts to portray the practice as somehow benevolent are absurd. Slavery in any time or place can lend itself to the most vicious treatment of...

A History of Modern Ethiopia, 1855-1974.
September 22, 1992... Bahru Zewde, Ph.D., University of London, is a Senior Lecturer in History at Addis Ababa University. The author of several articles on Ethiopian history, he now has written his first book. The result is a welcome account of what he calls "Modern...

Southern Africa After Apartheid: Prospects for the Inner Periphery in the 1990s.
September 22, 1992... In July 1990, with financial support from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) held a conference on the topic of "Southern Africa...

Publishing and Development in the Third World.
September 22, 1992... In recent years the book famine in Africa has been the subject of numerous speeches and articles. This collection of papers from a seminar held in Bellagio, Italy in February 1991, which brought together experts on publishing, representatives...

Macroeconomic Models for Adjustment in Developing Countries.
September 22, 1992... The text under review contains a more recent generation of models developed in the IMF dealing with adjustment and stabilization programs in the Third World. The editors and virtually all the authors of the eleven chapters contained in the volume...