Africa Today articles from September 1993

Africa Today archives from September 1993

Structural adjustment and Africa's democracy movements. (Challenges to Democracy)
September 22, 1993... Prior to the explosive growth of pro-democracy movements across Africa at the start of this decade, most mainstream Africanist scholars generally believed that the continent's economic and social conditions would give rise primarily to...

Development theory and the promise of democracy: the future of postcolonial African states. (Challenges to Democracy)
September 22, 1993... Three decades of political independence in Africa have left just about all of the African states in deep political and economic crisis. The euphoria of current democratic trends is tempered by the fact that serious obstacles remain in the way of...

Democracy and democratization in Africa: a plea for pragmatic possibilism. (Challenges to Democracy)
September 22, 1993... The 1960s marked the first full decade of transitions to post-colonial rule throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The consolidation of various forms of authoritarian and revolutionary one-party regimes accompanied further decolonizations during the...

The future of global polarization. (Challenges to Democracy)(Africa Rights Monitor)
September 22, 1993... Introduction: a Historical Look at Capitalism Inequality in the development of human societies has been part of known history since antiquity, yet it is only in the modern era that polarization has become the immanent product of global...

The failed transition to civilian rule in Nigeria: its implications for democracy and human rights. (Challenges to Democracy)(Africa Rights Monitor)
September 22, 1993... Introduction The latest coup d'etat in Nigeria on the seventeenth of November 1993 by General Sanni Abacha finally unplugged the life-support out of the dying Third Republic that was expected to usher the country into its thirtieth anniversary...

Beyond Structural Adjustment in Africa: The Political Economy of Sustainable and Democratic Development.
September 22, 1993... By most accounts, one of the fashionable topics of contemporary intellectual discourse on Africa is structural adjustment. Scholarly articles continue to appear in journals, especially those which specialize in Africa. Moreover, presentations are...

Aid and Power: The World Bank and Policy-based Lending, 2 vols.
September 22, 1993... "Adjustment" and "conditionality" have become two of the most emotive words in any discussion of economic conditions and prospects in Africa in the past decade or so. The influence of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank, and...

African External Finance in the 1990's.
September 22, 1993... The text being reviewed is a report of a symposium organized by the World Bank. The report is divided into four parts featuring a collection of essays and commentary by a group of eminent scholars and experts about Africa's financing needs,...

Africa's Problems - African Initiatives.
September 22, 1993... The text being reviewed is published by the Africa Policy Center, a policy-oriented unit affiliated with the Washington Office on Africa. The Center seeks to identify critical issues in US-Africa relations and to assemble and disseminate...

Political Culture and Democracy in Developing Countries.
September 22, 1993... This collection of studies on political culture throughout the "developing" world clearly demonstrates that the study of political culture has gained renewed respectability and significance in political science in the 1990s. While the book...

Class Struggles in Zambia, 1889-1989 and the Fall of Kenneth Kaunda, 1990-1991.
September 22, 1993... The principal strengths of Class Struggles in Zambia and the Fall of Kenneth Kaunda lie in the fact that the book is clearly well-researched, and in the way in which he links a number of themes together to explain recent Zambian history....