African Affairs articles from January 1998

African Affairs archives from January 1998

TRANSFORMATION: THE CHANGING CONTEXT OF ACADEMIA IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA.
January 1, 1998... ABSTRACT The transformatory paradigm of post-apartheid South Africa has left few of the country's institutions free of critical scrutiny. Higher education has been no exception. As elsewhere in Africa under new post-colonial governments,...

THE COSATU PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRATIC TRADITION AND SOUTH AFRICA'S NEW PARLIAMENT: ARE THEY RECONCILABLE?(Congress of South African Trade Unions)
January 1, 1998... ABSTRACT COSATU, The Congress of South African Trade Unions, has a participatory democratic tradition on the shopfloor that dates back to the emergence of some of its constituent unions in the 1970s. In fact, an ethic developed among...

ALIENS AND AIDS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: THE MALAWI-SOUTH AFRICA DEBATE(1).
January 1, 1998... ABSTRACT Between 1988 and 1992, about 13,000 Malawfian mine migrant workers were repatriated from South Africa. The official reason given was that in the previous two years some 200 of them had tested HIV/AIDS positive. The South African...

REFLECTIONS ON THEATRE PRACTICE IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA.
January 1, 1998... It is not enough to demand only cognition from the theatre, instructive images of reality. Our theatre must arouse pleasure in cognition and organize the joy of changing reality. Our audiences must not only hear of Prometheus freed from his...

THE MWANZA TRIAL AS A SEARCH FOR A USABLE MALAWIAN POLITICAL PAST.
January 1, 1998... ABSTRACT The main thesis of this paper is that nations need memories and that there is in many contemporary African states a need to create a memory of the period between independence and the reintroduction of multipartyism. That process...

African Affairs.
January 1, 1998... After eleven years as co-editor of African Affairs, Peter Woodward has decided to retire. Peter became an editor of the journal in 1986, first working with Richard Hodder-Williams and then more recently guiding me into position as co-editor....

THE POWER OF THE WORD.(Review)
January 1, 1998... THE COVER OF PAUL LANDAU'S BOOK features a black and white photograph of an elderly African couple in what appears to be a kgotla.(1) Bright sunlight illuminates the man's face, but the woman's features are lost in shadow. The shadow of the...

Die USA und der Kolonialismus: Amerika als Partner und Nachfolger der belgischen Macht in Afrika 1939-1965.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Die USA und der Kolonialismus: Amerika als Partner und Nachfolger der belgischen Macht in Afrika 1939-1965, by Gerhard Th. Mollin. Akademie Verlag, 1996. 554 pp. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-05-002735-5 The study of international...

Bridging the Rift: the new South Africa in Africa.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Bridging the Rift: the new South Africa in Africa, edited by Larry A. Swatuk and David R. Black. Westview Press, 1997. x+260pp. 43.95 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-8133-2752-0. The new South Africa faces a world which is eager to...

Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A history of the Anlo-Ewe.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A history of the Anlo-Ewe, by Sandra E. Greene. Heinemann and James Currey, 1996. xiii-209 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling] paper. ISBN 0-85255-622-5. Based on seventeen years of...

Divide and Rule: The partition of Africa, 1880-1914.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Divide and Rule: The partition of Africa, 1880-1914, by H. L. Wesseling. Praeger, 1996. xvi-446 pp. 20.50 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-275-95138-3. Two polarized themes of the imperial interlude have continued to dominate the...

Angola: Struggle for peace and reconstruction.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Angola: Struggle for peace and reconstruction, by Inge Tvedten. Westview Press, 1997. viii+166 pp. 43.95 [pounds sterling] hardback, 13.50 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-8133-8489-3 and ISBN 0-8133-3335-0. Any reader seeking a...

Time and the Hour: Nigeria, East Africa and the second world war.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Time and the Hour: Nigeria, East Africa and the second world war, by R. T. Kerslake. The Radcliffe Press, 1997. xv+274 pp. 24.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 1-86064-154-7. Trevor Kerslake joined the Colonial Audit Service in 1937....

Mau Mau from Below.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Mau Mau from Below, by Greet Kershaw. James Curry, 1997. xxx+354 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] hardback, 14.95 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-85255-732-9 and 0-85255-731-0. This is a wonderful source book on Kikuyu political mythology and...

State of Emergency: Crisis in Central Africa, Nyasaland 1959-1960.(Review)
January 1, 1998... State of Emergency: Crisis in Central Africa, Nyasaland 1959-1960, by Colin Baker. International Library of African Studies, Number 7. Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. ix+299 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 1-86064-068-0. For...

Looking Back at the Uganda Protectorate: Recollections of district officers.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Looking Back at the Uganda Protectorate: Recollections of district officers, edited by Douglas and Marcelle V. Brown. Published by Douglas Brown, 64 Gallop Road, Dalkeith, Western Australia, 6009, 1996. ix+374 pp. 18 [pounds sterling]...

The Origins of the New Churches' Movement in Southern Ethiopia, 1927-1944.(Review)
January 1, 1998... The Origins of the New Churches' Movement in Southern Ethiopia, 1927-1944, by Brian L. Fargher, E. J. Brill, 1996. xiv+329pp. 68.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 90-04-10661-8. When in recent centuries Western Christian missionaries...

The Writings of J. M. Coetzee. The South Atlantic Quarterly.(Review)
January 1, 1998... The Writings of J. M. Coetzee. The South Atlantic Quarterly 93:1 Winter 1994, Special issue edited by Michael Valdez Moses. Duke University Press. 198 pp. 19.50. [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-8223-6408-5. As Philip R. Wood discovers in his...

Between Liberalisation and Oppression: The politics of structural adjustment in Africa.(Review)
January 1, 1998... Between Liberalisation and Oppression: The politics of structural adjustment in Africa, edited by Thandika Mkandawire and Adebayo Olukoshi. Codesira Book Series, 1995. 430 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 2-86978-053-2. There are a...