African Affairs articles from April 1996

African Affairs archives from April 1996

Africa and international corruption: the strange case of South Africa and Seychelles.
April 1, 1996... The subject of corruption has emerged at the top of the agenda in recent dealings between African governments and the Western donors on whom many are heavily dependent. It is notoriously difficult to define corruption,(1) but it is generally...

Ghana's public tribunals: an experiment in revolutionary justice.
April 1, 1996... In a Radio Broadcast to the nation on Tuesday, 5 January 1982, the Chairman of Ghana's Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, announced that his revolutionary government was about to establish what he...

Selling change: advertisements for the 1994 South African election.
April 1, 1996... We have just lived through a remarkable period during which South Africa has changed status from being the world's favourite whipping boy to becoming the West's favoured son. This transformation finds vivid expression in the business...

The colonial idea of women and direct intervention: the Mau Mau case.
April 1, 1996... The participation of Kikuyu women in the Mau Mau movement has been the object of several works in the last decade. Most of the published literature on women and Mau Mau makes use of oral sources as the main way of testifying to the experience...

The minefield of land reform: comments of the Eritrean Land Proclamation.
April 1, 1996... A minefield is more than apt analogy for the dangers of land reform in Africa today. Tensions within a society resulting from distribution of land that is viewed as partial or unjust, can lie like hidden mines until their explosion is triggered...

Long Walk To Freedom: The autobiography of Nelson Mandela.
April 1, 1996... In any autobiography the life is shaped and constructed in terms of the outcome and this one is no exception. A review, is, by necessity, even more selectively constructed. When the subject is Nelson Mandela, any reader is bound to read, as the...

A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary.
April 1, 1996... by Ken Saro-Wiwa. Penguin Books, 1995. xv+238 pp. 6.99 [pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 14 025868 X. Prison diaries exercise a lurid fascination of their own, part sympathy and part repressed Schadenfreude. Regrettably, over the past thirty...

Nigeria: In Search of Leadership.
April 1, 1996... Edited by Oladapo Fafowora, Tunde Adeniran and Olatunji Dare. Spectrum Books Limited/Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, Ibadan and Lagos, 1995. xii + 366 pp. 18.50 [pounds] paperback. ISBN 978 246 259 34. In the past few years, the Lagos-based...

Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth-Century South Africa.
April 1, 1996... Edited by William Beinart and Saul Dubow. Routledge 1995. xii+288 pp. 40 [pounds] hardback. 12.99 [pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 415 10356 8 and 0 415 10357 6. As editors Beinart and Dubow have brought together eleven major articles which were...

Who's Who in South African Politics Number Five.
April 1, 1996... by Shelagh Gastrow. Ravan Press, 1995. xxxiii+319 pp. 14.99 [pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 86975 458 0. Any guide to the changing political scene in South Africa is likely to be running at a moving target. Shelagh Gastrow, in her fifth issue of...

Crossing Boundaries: Mine Migrancy in a Democratic South Africa.
April 1, 1996... Edited by Jonathan Crush & Wilmot James. Institute for Democracy in South Africa and the International Development Research Centre (Canada), 1995. xvi+233 pp. CA$25.00 paperback. ISBN 1 874864 12 8 (IDASA); 0 88936 764 7 (IDRC). The system...

Are We Not Also Men? The Samkange Family and African Politics in Zimbabwe: 1920-64.
April 1, 1996... By Terence Ranger London, James Currey Publishers, 1995. x+211 pp. 35[pounds] hardback; 12.95[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 85255 668 3; and 0 85255 618 7. Terence Ranger's latest book has been written at a propitious time. There has been a...

Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War.
April 1, 1996... Edit by Ngwabi Bhebe & Terence Ranger. James Currey Publishers, London. xi+211 pp. 35[pounds] hardback; 12.95[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 85255 659 4; and 0 85255 609 8. `The first casualty when war comes', an American senator famously...

War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan.
April 1, 1996... By Francis M. Deng. The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1995. xi+577 pp. 38.95[pounds] hardback. ISBN 0 8157 1794 6. Francis Deng's new book returns to themes on which he has written before, but he does so now in a fuller and more...

Adventures in Education.
April 1, 1996... By Bernard de Bunsen. Titus Wilson, Kendal, 1996. vi+153 pp. 10.40[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 900811 26 9. `Elephants have right of way', Bernard de Bunsen quotes from a sign beside a track in Western Uganda. `By what right?' he promptly...

More People, Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya.
April 1, 1996... By Mary Tiffen, Michael Mortimore and Francis Gichuki. John Wiley & Sons, 1994. xii+311 pp. 25.00[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 471 94143 3. This impressive study was initiated by the World Bank's Dryland Management Research Programme and...

Ethnic Labour and British Imperial Trade: A History of Ethnic Seafarers in the UK.
April 1, 1996... Edited by Diane Frost. Frank Cass Publishers, 1995. 145 pp.19.50[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 7146 4185 5. This small book originated in a conference in Liverpool in December 1992 on ethnic seafarers in the United Kingdom; became another...