African Affairs articles from October 1993

African Affairs archives from October 1993

Frantz Fanon as a democratic theorist.
October 1, 1993... Current debates and reforms around the issue of democratization in Africa will, hopefully, encourage the development of indigenous political theories favouring democratization in the long run. This essay is intended to emphasize that need by...

Wulf Sachs's 'Black Hamlet': a case of 'psychic vivisection'?
October 1, 1993... Wulf Sachs's Black Hamlet is, as the subtitle explains, an account of ~The Mind of An African Negro Revealed by Psychoanalysis'. First published in 1937 and republished in 1947 as Black Anger, it is a remarkable text. Judging by contemporary...

'Lamentations patriotiques': writers, censors and politics in Cameroon.
October 1, 1993... Je me trouve etranger dans ma propre patrie Le soleil sur nos jours ne darde plus ses feux, L'oppression m'etouffe et mon ame est carrie, Entouree des tresors qu'ont legues mes aieux. Je me trouve etranger dans ma propre patrie! La tortue...

Female labour in the textile and clothing industry of Lesotho.
October 1, 1993... Lesotho currently confronts uncertainties relating to its very future as an autonomous economy and polity. As the impetus of ~democratisation' spreads throughout the African continent and, more specifically, as important political changes in...

Coercing old guard emirs in northern Nigeria: the abdication of Yakubu III of Bauchi, 1954.
October 1, 1993... During the 1950s, the British colonial administration in the emirates of Northern Nigeria undertook a panic reform of the Native Authority (NA) system. The philosophy and practice of indirect rule introduced at the turn of the twentieth...

Staying Poor: Ghana's Political Economy, 1950-1990.
October 1, 1993... Douglas Rimmer states at the beginning that the purpose of this book, part of a World Bank project, is ~to emphasize the prevalence of poverty in Ghana, the limited relevance to the relief of this poverty of those policies usually said to...

Ghana: The Political Economy of Recovery.
October 1, 1993... If I were planning an undergraduate course on West Africa in the last quarter of the 20th century,this book would be marked' essential reading' for Ghana. Its chapters cover a wide range of aspects of Ghana's current circumstances, perhaps...

Ghana Under Rawlings: The Early Years.
October 1, 1993... At the time Emmanuel Hansen was tragically killed in November 1987, he was involved in a number of academic projects which stood at varying stages of completion. One of these was a book on the Rawlings regime, of which he had had some...

Spirit of Africa: The Healing Ministry of Archbishop Milingo of Zambia.
October 1, 1993... This is an important book. It provides us with a great deal of new information about a most significant contemporary African Christian, and it sets his career in a scholarly sociological and theological context. There is a perceptive account...

An African American in South Africa: The Travel Notes of Ralph J. Bunche, 28 September 1937-1 January 1938.
October 1, 1993... The trail which eventually led to the publication of this book began when Robert Edgar noticed a passing reference to a visit to South Africa in 1937 by one of his most distinguished and celebrated predecessors at Howard University, the...

Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature.
October 1, 1993... Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers is a recent volume in the series New Perspectives on African Literature, edited by Eldred Jones, and the source book on the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is the second volume in the series Documentary...

Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on His Life and Work.
October 1, 1993... Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers is a recent volume in the series New Perspectives on African Literature, edited by Eldred Jones, and the source book on the Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera is the second volume in the series Documentary...

The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade.
October 1, 1993... Apart from the briefest of introductions (four pages), by the editor, this book comprises twelve papers selected from among those presented at a conference held in Italy in 1988. Its title (or rather sub-title) is something of a misnomer,...

The Internationalization of Colonialism: Britain, France and Black Africa, 1939-1956.
October 1, 1993... In this book John Kent traces the varied patterns of Anglo-French colonial cooperation in West Africa between the outbreak of the Second World War and the eve of decolonization. Its main segments are the attempts to fend off any outright...

Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa.
October 1, 1993... Observers may well wonder at the paradox of how, while any argument on the ongoing purpose of Europe's colonial presence died almost half a century ago with independence, the topic of European explorers ~opening up' the Dark Continent during...

Libya: The Struggle for Survival.
October 1, 1993... This is a book by a generalist for generalists. It arises from a perceived need to outline United States's behaviour as the ~sole military superpower in the New World Order' against the larger background of the Middle East and particularly...

Mombasa, the Swahili, and the Making of the Mijikenda.
October 1, 1993... Good books on East African history reveal surprising gaps in our knowledge and then help to cover them. They also provide a new context within which previous work on the same area can be fitted and evaluated. Willis's book on Mombasa from the...

French Colonial Africa: A Guide to Official Sources.
October 1, 1993... Never having thought of myself as a very thorough bibliographer, I was surprised and embarrassed to find my somewhat discursive essay of 1984 heading the bill in Helen Westfall's survey of sources for French colonial Africa. But it has never...

Before the Wind Changed: People, Places and Education in the Sudan.
October 1, 1993... In November 1939 Dr I. M. Beasley was appointed to the Sudan Civil Service a Controller of Women's Education. The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, as it was then called, is a huge country. Then as now, great distances and great diversity pose underlying...

Sierra Leone.
October 1, 1993... Three bibliographies of Sierra Leone have been published. The first two were compiled by Sir Harry Luke (the first under his then surname, Lukach), in 1910 and in 1925, the third, covering 1925-67, by Geoffrey Williams, in 1971. They are...

'All Good Men': The Development of Lubwa Mission, Chinsali, Zambia, 1905-1967.
October 1, 1993... This is a modest but useful contribution to Zambia's history, with a particularly valuable final chapter. Lubwa mission is notable for its connection with Kenneth Kaunda and its role in bringing a liberal, progressive education to Chinsali...

Democracy, Governance and Economic Decline.
October 1, 1993... Only a few years ago for an outsider to suggest that multi-party democracy would be good for Africa was to risk being labelled neo-colonialist. There was a consensus that Africa was different and was developing its own forms of democracy,...

Power in Africa.
October 1, 1993... Only a few years ago for an outsider to suggest that multi-party democracy would be good for Africa was to risk being labelled neo-colonialist. There was a consensus that Africa was different and was developing its own forms of democracy,...

The Vampire State in Africa: The Political Economy of Decline in Ghana.
October 1, 1993... Only a few years ago for an outsider to suggest that multi-party democracy would be good for Africa was to risk being labelled neo-colonialist. There was a consensus that Africa was different and was developing its own forms of democracy,...

Authoritarianism, Democracy and Adjustment: The Politics of Economic Reform in Africa, Seminar Proceedings of the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies.
October 1, 1993... Only a few years ago for an outsider to suggest that multi-party democracy would be good for Africa was to risk being labelled neo-colonialist. There was a consensus that Africa was different and was developing its own forms of democracy,...

Democracy and Socialism in Africa.
October 1, 1993... Only a few years ago for an outsider to suggest that multi-party democracy would be good for Africa was to risk being labelled neo-colonialist. There was a consensus that Africa was different and was developing its own forms of democracy,...