African Affairs articles from October 1997

African Affairs archives from October 1997

Senegal's foreign policy: challenges of democratization and marginalization.
October 1, 1997... In the early 1960s, Senegalese Foreign Minister Doudou Thiam wrote one of the first scholarly books on African foreign policy in which he expressed the hope that African policymakers could avoid involvement in the `intense ideological conflict'...

Disarming Somalia: the contrasting fortunes of United States and Australian peacekeepers during United Nations intervention, 1992-1993.
October 1, 1997... In 1992, constant civil war and drought in Somalia had combined to produce a catastrophic famine killing an estimated 300,000 people.(1) Unable to ameliorate these conditions through UNOSOM I, a humanitarian assistance mission, the United...

Reconstructing civil-military relations and the collapse of democracy in Ghana, 1979-81.
October 1, 1997... `Civil-military relations' is back in fashion, following on the heels of the `democratic wave' in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa. The consensus among scholars is that the degree of success of the new democracies in reimposing civil...

"One chief, one vote": the revival of traditional authorities in post-apartheid South Africa.
October 1, 1997... About 40 percent of the people of South Africa and 17 percent of its territory are ruled by traditional authorities. These 17 million subjects of chiefly rule are governed by about 800 traditional leaders.(1) Like almost everything else...

Forced migration, land-use change and political economy in the forest region of Guinea.
October 1, 1997... Since December 1989, armed conflict in Liberia has had a dramatic impact on the surrounding Upper Guinea forest region. Within one year, it was estimated that up to 400,000 refugees had fled from the country to neighbouring Guinea, with large...

Paris, Pretoria and the African Continent: The International Relations of States and Societies in Transition.
October 1, 1997... edited by Chris Alden and Jean-Pascal Daloz. Macmillan, 1996. xiii+240 pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-33-65133-2. The discipline of international relations (JR) has become, over the past ten to fifteen years, deeply fragmented....

Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa.
October 1, 1997... by Francis M. Deng, Sadikiel Kimaro, Terrence Lyons, Donald Rothchild and I. William Zartman. The Brookings Institution, 1996. xxiii+265 pp. 33.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-8157-1828-4. The discipline of international relations (JR)...

Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival.
October 1, 1997... by Christopher Clapham. Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii+340 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-521 -57668-7. The discipline of international relations (JR) has become, over the past ten to fifteen years, deeply fragmented. It...

Industrialisation and the British Colonial State: West Africa, 1939-1951.
October 1, 1997... by Lawrence J. Butler. Frank Cass, 1997. viii+310pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-7146-4703-0. As is attested by a thousand notes and references, this book is based upon (and perhaps substantially is) the author's doctoral...

Foreign Aid, Self-Reliance, and Economic Development in West Africa.
October 1, 1997... by R. Omotayo Olaniyan. Praeger Publishers, 1996. xiv+204 pp. 47.95 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-275-95501-X. This book `represents a major research study... at the prestigious Nigerian Institute of International Affairs' (p. xiii)....

Drink, Power and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times.
October 1, 1997... by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. James Currey Publishers, 1997. xxiii+189pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling] hardback, 14.95 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-85255-673X and 0-85255-623-3. Alcohol has historically played an extremely important part...

Imperialism, Academe and Nationalism: Britain and University Education for Africans, 1860-1960.
October 1, 1997... by Apollos O. Nwauwa. Frank Cass, 1997. xix+245 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-7146-4668-7. This is a book that deals with the idea of an African university, its initial rejection, its revitalization and stops at the point of...

The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa.
October 1, 1997... by John A. Wiseman. Avebury, Aldershot and Vermont, 1996. pp. vi+ 196. 37.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 1 85972 332 2. Some books are deceptively simple, and this is one of them. While reading it, one can easily forget how Wiseman...

Norms in International Relations: The Struggle Against Apartheid.
October 1, 1997... by Audie Klotz. Cornell University Press, 1995. pp.ii+183. 23.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-8014-3106-9. Audie Klotz's sophisticated analysis of the social-constructivist determinism behind selected individual state and regional...

Violence in Southern Africa.
October 1, 1997... edited by W. Gutteridge and J. E. Spence. Frank Cass, 1997. vii+184pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN0-7146-4665-2. The editors, Gutteridge and Spence, attempt to place the volume within a framework suggestive of `transitional'...

In Pursuit of History: Fieldwork in Africa.
October 1, 1997... edited by Carolyn Keyes Adenaike and Jan Vansina. James Currey Publishers, 1997. xliv+ 155 pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling] hardback, 14.95 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-85255-676-4 and 0-85255-626-8. This book comprises ten brief papers...

Writings on African Archives.
October 1, 1997... by John McIlwaine. Hans Zell Publishers, 1996. xviii+279pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 1-873836-66-X. As the review pages of the Journal make clear, 1996 was a bumper year for Africanist archive researchers. To round off the...

The Lie of the Land: Challenging Received Wisdom on the African Environment.
October 1, 1997... edited by Melissa Leach and Robin Mearns. James Currey, 1996. xvi+240pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling] hardback, 11.95 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-85255-410-9 and 0-85255-409-5. This collection of papers was stimulated by a conference...

African Experiences of Cinema.
October 1, 1997... edited by Imruh Bakari and Mbye Cham. British Film Institute, 1996. x+276 pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling] hardback; 14.99 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 0-85170-510-3 and 0-85170-511-1. African film-making, writes Cham in his introduction,...

The Post-Colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa.
October 1, 1997... by Patrick Chabal with Moema Parente Augel, David Brookshaw, Ana Mafalda Leite and Caroline Shaw. Northwestern University Press, 1996. vi+314 pp. $49.95 hardback, $17.95 paperback. ISBN 0-8101-1422-4 and 0-8101-1423-2 It is easy but...

The Gelede Spectacle: Art, Gender and Social Harmony in an African Culture.
October 1, 1997... Babatunde Lawal. University of Washington Press 1996. 327 pp. 550.00 hardback. ISBN 0-295-97527-X The Gelede Spectacle actually lives up to its title. It is a spectacle of visual imagery and verbal prose celebrating the dance for the...