Africa Today articles from September 1995

Africa Today archives from September 1995

Africa in the global political economy at the end of the millenium: what implications for politics and policies?(The Politics of Economic Integration in Africa)
September 22, 1995... West Africa is becoming the symbol of worldwide demographic, environmental, and social stress, in which criminal anarchy emerges as the real "strategic" danger Disease, overpopulation, unprovoked crime, scarcity of resources, refugee migrations,...

The African Economic Community: problems and prospects.(The Politics of Economic Integration in Africa)
September 22, 1995... Introduction Thirty-four African leaders meeting in the new Nigerian capital, Abuja, on 3 June 1991, signed the treaty for the establishment of an African Economic Community (AEC) by 2025. The purpose of the Treaty is to create a framework for...

Prerequisites for economic integration in Africa: an analysis of the Abuja Treaty. (proposed African Economic Community)(The Politics of Economic Integration in Africa)
September 22, 1995... Introduction The Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community was signed on 3 June 1991, in Abuja, Nigeria, by 51 heads of state and government of the member states of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). In formulating the Treaty,...

Liberal economic reform in Ghana: a contested political agenda.(The Politics of Economic Integration in Africa)
September 22, 1995... In response to an economic crisis in the early 1980s, the Ghanaian government accepted a Structural Adjustment Program formulated by the World Bank and the IMF. The program emphasized the elimination of price controls, privatization of state...

From Adjustment to Development in Africa: Conflict, Controversy, Convergence, Consensus?
September 22, 1995... Very often, publishing cannot keep pace with the rapidly changing world, the result being that edited collections of papers, if not on historical subjects, have been left far behind by the time a review appears. This particular collection,...

Debt, Development and Equity in Africa.
September 22, 1995... The problem of development has become almost banal with countless repetitions of images of sickness, ignorance and premature death. The violence, ugliness and despair of daily life that the poor in the underdeveloped areas of the world face is a...

Pseudocapitalism and the Overpoliticized State: Reconciling Politics and Anthropology in Zaire.
September 22, 1995... Sangmpam has written an important and ambitious book whose principal objective is "a theoretical explanation of known facts about Zaire." These "known" facts are the continuing political and economic crises that have dominated the Zairean scene...

Outreach and Sustainability of Six Rural Finance Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 1995... Job creation and poverty alleviation form the central policy tenets of development plans of most sub-Saharan African countries. Even the World Bank, not historically noted for its attention to poverty issues, now views poverty alleviation through...

International River Basin Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
September 22, 1995... The utilization of shared resources can often be a contentious issue. Water has served to fuel disputes, either over access (e.g., in the Middle East, over water rights between Israel and its neighbors) or over impact (e.g., in South Asia,...

Obote: A Political Biography.
September 22, 1995... Out-of-work and exiled dictators would do well to get in touch with Kenneth Ingham to author a white-washed biography about their years at the helm of their countries. This latest treatment of Uganda's Apollo Milton Obote is an excellent example...

Yesterday was Silent.
September 22, 1995... In his recent work, Yesterday Was Silent, Chudi Uwazurike describes with clinical clarity the fast-paced life and decadence of Lagos, the former administrative capital of Nigeria. The central story revolves around the character of the idealistic...