African Affairs articles from July 1996

African Affairs archives from July 1996

Living down the past: redesigning Nigerian institutions for economic growth.
July 1, 1996... Although Nigerian economic performance has fluctuated, overall during the past quarter century it has been remarkably poor. Initially similar agriculture-cum-oil economies, such as Indonesia, have achieved dramatic improvements over the same...

Fishing rights, ecology and conservation along southern Lake Malawi, 1920-1964.
July 1, 1996... This paper discusses how issues of socio-economic class, race and politics were densely interwoven with the competition for fishing rights, access to land, and fears of ecological degradation along southern Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) from the...

The disintegration of the Catholic Church of Rwanda: a study of the fragmentation of political and religious authority.
July 1, 1996... In 1994 the world witnessed horrific genocide in Rwanda. As a result the fabric of Rwandese society has been torn apart; the nation state pulverised. What Kaplan titled last year `the coming anarchy' adequately captures the Rwanda of today.(1)...

Relief and repatriation: views by Rwandan refugees; lessons for humanitarian aid workers.
July 1, 1996... Refugee views on humanitarian aid and problems of repatriation remain poorly understood.(1) This is particularly true of processes of spontaneous repatriation, which are difficult to research since returnees often disperse under unstable...

The Foreign Relations of the United States: 1961-63, vol. 20, Congo Crisis.
July 1, 1996... `I did that', says my memory. `I could not have done that', says my pride . . . Eventually--the memory yields. Friedrich Nietzsche A major issue in recent studies of the Congo Crisis has been the nature and extent of US intervention....

Why Angola Matters.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Keith Hart and Joanna Lewis. Published by the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, in association with James Currey, London, 1995. 11.95[pounds]. ISBN 0 85255 394 3. The decision by Keith Hart and his colleagues to...

Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa.
July 1, 1996... By Louise M. Bourgault. Indiana University Press, 1995. xv+294 pp. 30.00[pounds] hardback; 13.99[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0-253-31250-7; and 0 253 20938 2. This is not a comprehensive history or survey of media in Anglophone and Francophone...

The Pressures of the Text: Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Stewart Brown. Birmingham University Press African Studies Series No. 4, 1995. 145 pp. 6.00[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0 7044 1557 7. Academic conference proceedings, when published, are notoriously boring, and poor reflections of...

Mwalimu: The Influence of Nyerere.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Colin Legum and Geoffrey Mmari. Britain-Tanzania Society in association with James Currey, London, Mkuki na Nyota, Dar es Salaam, and Africa World Press Trenton, 1995. xii+205 pages. 35.00[pounds] hardback; 11.95[pounds] paperback....

Somalia and Operation Restore Hope: Reflections on Peacemaking and Peacekeeping.
July 1, 1996... By John L. Hirsch and Robert B. Oakley, with a foreward by Chester A. Crocker. United States Institute of Peace, 1995. xxiii+217 pp. Paperback. ISBN 1-878379-41-0. These two books are but the latest additions to an already substantial...

Crisis Management and the Politics of Reconciliation in Somalia: Statements from the Uppsala Forum, 17-19 January 1994.
July 1, 1996... Edited by M. A. Mohamed Salih and Lennart Wohlgemuth. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1994. 176 pp. ISBN 91-7106-356-0. These two books are but the latest additions to an already substantial literature on the Somali crisis. Indeed Walter S....

Asylum or Aid? The Economic Integration of Ethiopian and Eritrean Refugees in the Sudan.
July 1, 1996... By Tom Kuhlman. African Studies Centre, Leiden, 1994. xi+337 pages. Paper 22.50[pounds]. ISBN 1-85972-110-9. Tom Kuhlman has written a valuable contribution to the literature on refugee aid and development in this study of the impact of...

An Economic History of Ethiopia, vol. 1, The Imperial Era: 1941-74.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Shiferaw Bekele. Codesria, 1995 (UK dist: African Books Collective, 27 Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HU). viii+334 pages. Soft cover 14.95[pounds]. ISBN 2-96978-042-7. The development of the Ethiopian economy during the Haile...

African Popular Theatre: From Pre-Colonial Times to the Present Day.
July 1, 1996... By David Kerr. J. Currey, 1995. x+278 pp. Hardback 35.00[pounds]; paperback 11.95 [pounds]. ISBN hardback 0-435-08967-6; paperback 0-435-08969-2. David Kerr's book is an account of the development of sub-Saharan African popular theatre in...

Beyond Capitalism vs. Socialism in Kenya and Tanzania.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Joel D. Barkan. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994. xiv+293 pages. $19.95 paperback. ISBN 1-55587-530-0. This collection of eight essays addresses important issues: the interaction between economic decline and poor governance, and its...

Gender, Environment, and Development in Kenya: A Grassroots Perspective.
July 1, 1996... Barbara Thomas-Slayter and Dianne Rocheleau with others. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995. xii+247pp. 39.95[pounds]. ISBN 1-55587-419-3. This is a collection of what are effectively reports about rural development initiatives in southern...

The Foreign Policy of Zimbabwe.
July 1, 1996... By Ulf Engel. Institut fur Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, 1994. vii+478 pages. DM50.00 paper. ISBN 3-928049-28-3. This is a very useful book of the sort that should dominate African political studies, rather than the plethora of edited volumes that...

Zambian Crisis Behaviour: Confronting Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1965-1966.
July 1, 1996... By Douglas G. Anglin. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. xvi+389 pages. 28.00 [pounds] hardback. ISBN 0-7735-1219-5. There exist two earlier authored volumes on Zambian foreign policy. The first was co-authored by Anglin in 1979. Now,...

Beyond the Pale: Essays on the History of Colonial South Africa.
July 1, 1996... By Robert Ross. Wesleyan University Press of New England, 1993. Xii+270PP. 37.95 [pounds] hardback. ISBN 0-8195-5258-5. The title of Robert Ross' collection of essays contains within it a pun. As the frontiers of white settlement in the...

Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa.
July 1, 1996... By William Beinart and Peter Coates. Routledge, 1995 ix+ 120 pages. 7.99[pounds] paperback. ISBN 0-415-11468-3. As the authors of this book say in their opening chapter, environmental history (in the specific sense they use) has been most...

Malan to De Klerk: Leadership in the Apartheid State.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Robert Schrire. Hurst and Company, 1994. 12.95[pounds] paperback. viii+312 ISBN 1 85065 114 0. This collection examines the development of the South African presidency (more precisely, executive authority--the Union constitution...

Geography and Imperialism: 1820-1940.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Morag Bell, Robin Butlin and Michael Heffernan. Manchester University Press, 1995. xiii+338 pages. 45.00[pounds] hardback. ISBN 0-7190-3934-7. The relationship between the histories of science and empire has attracted...

The Peopling of Africa: A Geographical Interpretation.
July 1, 1996... By James L. Newman. Yale University Press, 1995. xiv+235pages. 20 [pounds] hardback. ISBN 0-300-06003-3. This is a most interesting account of how Africa came to be populated. Taking a historical perspective, James Newman provides a...

Economic and Demographic Change in Africa.
July 1, 1996... Edited by Archie Mafeje and Samir Radwan. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995. ix+173 pages. 25.00[pounds] hardback. ISBN 0-19-828892-1. The case for publishing this book must be questioned. According to the editors, most of the seven papers it...

The Emergence of African History at British Universities: An Autobiographical Approach.
July 1, 1996... Edited by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene. World View Publications, Oxford, 1985. xi+179 pages. 39-95 [pounds] hardback, 14.95 [pounds] paperback. ISBN 1-87142-07-9 hardback; 87142-08-07 paperback. This book presents papers from a conference at St...

Don Quichotte en Afrique: Voyages a la Fin de l'Empire Espagnol.
July 1, 1996... By Rene Pelissier. Pelissier, Orgeval, 1992. 176pp. ISBN 2-902804-10-5. Following on from his earlier book Explorar on the Portuguese colonies, Rene Pelissier has written a highly personal account of his trip to the four `provinces' of the...