AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
African Affairs articles from October 1998
Set up an RSS feed
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
African Affairs archives from October 1998
THE CENTRALIZATION AND FRAGMENTATION OF SOUTH AFRICA'S DOMINANT PARTY SYSTEM.
October 1, 1998... ABSTRACT
South Africa's first democratic election of 1994 provided the basis for the African National Congress (ANC) to replace the formerly ruling National Party (NP) as the country's dominant party. The new dominance was initially...
INTERNATIONAL ELECTION MONITORING: THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE.
October 1, 1998... ABSTRACT
Democracy in Africa, as elsewhere, is in something of a crisis. This has prompted an agonizing reappraisal of the role elections play in the consolidation of democracy and, in particular, of the contribution of independent...
DAKAWA DEVELOPMENT CENTRE: AN AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS SETTLEMENT IN TANZANIA, 1982-1992.
October 1, 1998... ABSTRACT
The records of the African National Congress (ANC) in exile are being deposited in the Liberation Archives at the University of Fort Hare. Using these documents, it is now possible to aspire to a more subtle and realistic...
THE PRODUCTION OF HISTORY IN MALAWI IN THE 1960s: THE LEGACY OF SIR HARRY JOHNSTON, THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF MALAWI AND THE ROLE OF DR KAMUZU BANDA AND HIS MALAWI CONGRESS PARTY.
October 1, 1998... ABSTRACT
This article joins the debate on culture, history and politics in post-colonial Malawi. Concentrating on the production of history in the 1960s, the paper shows how the decade marked the beginnings of serious research, teaching...
BRIEFING: THE ERITREAN-ETHIOPIAN BORDER DISPUTE.
October 1, 1998... The violent Eritrean-Ethiopian border dispute which erupted on 6 May this year has taken everybody by surprise, including Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi.(1) But on a closer look, this dispute is not so surprising except for its timing,...
Christianity in South Africa: A political, social and cultural history.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Christianity in South Africa: A political, social and cultural history, edited by Richard Elphick & Rodney Davenport. James Currey, Oxford, 1998. xiv+480pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback); 16.95 [pounds sterling] (paperback). ISBN...
Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse, by Aletta J. Norval. Verso, London, 1996. xi+388 pp. 16.00 [pounds sterling] paperback. ISBN 1-85984-125-2
European encounters with Africa have often produced violence. Deconstructing Apartheid...
Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility and containment 1915-46.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility and containment 1915-46, edited by Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace, and Wolfram Hartmann. James Currey Publishers, Oxford, 1998. xx+330 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. 15.95...
The Livingstones at Kolobeng 1847-1852.(Review)
October 1, 1998... The Livingstones at Kolobeng 1847-1852, by Janet Wagner Parsons. The Botswana Society and Pula Press, Gaborone, 1997. xiv+230 pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN Botswana Press 99912-60-17X; ISBN Pula Press 99912-61-44-3
It is surely...
Humphrey Gibbs: Beleaguered Governor. Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Humphrey Gibbs: Beleaguered Governor. Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69, by Alan Megahey. Macmillan, London, 1998. xxii+241 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-72158-6
With the exception of Christopher Soames' brief interlude overseeing the...
State of Emergency: Crisis in Central Africa, Nyasaland 1959-60.(Review)
October 1, 1998... State of Emergency: Crisis in Central Africa, Nyasaland 1959-60, by Colin Baker. Tauris, London, 1997. xi+299 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1 86064 068 0
Forty years ago, on the 6 July 1958, Dr Banda returned to Nyasaland--the...
Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and business in decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire: State and business in decolonizing Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya, 1945-1963, by Robert L. Tignor. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1998, viii+419 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN...
Beloved Imperialist: Sir Gordon Guggisberg governor of the Gold Coast.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Beloved Imperialist: Sir Gordon Guggisberg governor of the Gold Coast, by H. B. Goodall. The Pentland Press, Bishop Auckland, 1998. xxvi+189 pp. 15.00 [pounds sterling] (hardback). ISBN 1-85821-557-9
Although imperial history remains...
L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 1996-97.(Review)
October 1, 1998... L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 1996-97, edited by S. Marysse and F. Reyntjens. L'Harmattan, Paris, 1997. 342 pp. ISBN 2-7384-4463-6
In Belgium, the editors of this fairly prestigious and richly produced new Annual Review are known...
Resource Conflict in the Horn of Africa.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Resource Conflict in the Horn of Africa, by John Markakis. Sage Publications, London, 1998. x+212 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 0-8039-8847-8
This book originated in a seminar convened by the International Peace Research...
The Evolution of Modern Medicine in a Developing Country: Ghana 1880-1960.(Review)
October 1, 1998... The Evolution of Modern Medicine in a Developing Country: Ghana 1880-1960, by Stephen Addae. Durham Academic Press, Durham, 1997. 523 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 1-900838-05-2
The outbreak of plague in 1908 gave the...
African Entrepreneurship: Theory and reality.(Review)
October 1, 1998... African Entrepreneurship: Theory and reality, edited by Anita Spring and Barbara E. McDade. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1998. x+331 pp. 39.85 [pounds sterling] (hardback). ISBN 0-8130-1563-4
This volume results from a...
The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and management of its large cities.(Review)
October 1, 1998... The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and management of its large cities, edited by Carole Rakodi. The United Nations University Press, New York, 1997. xiv+628 pp. US$40. ISBN 92-808-0952-0
This most impressive book is a tremendous...
African Women: A modern history.(Review)
October 1, 1998... African Women: A modern history, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch (translated by Beth Gillian Raps). Westview Press, Boulder Co., 1997. 308+xviii pp. 17.50 [pounds sterling]. 0 8133 2361 4
I was pleased to have this book to review, originally...
ERRATUM.(correction to "Ethnicity, patronage and the African state" in the July 1998 issue )(Correction Notice)
October 1, 1998... The editors regret that a number of errors were uncorrected in the article by Bruce Berman, `Ethnicity, patronage and the African state' (African Affairs, No. 388, July 1998, pp. 305-341). This erratum slip should be pasted opposite p. 305 at...
INTERNATIONAL ELECTION MONITORING: THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE.
October 1, 1998... ABSTRACT
Democracy in Africa, as elsewhere, is in something of a crisis. This has prompted an agonizing reappraisal of the role elections play in the consolidation of democracy and, in particular, of the contribution of independent...
THE PRODUCTION OF HISTORY IN MALAWI IN THE 1960s: THE LEGACY OF SIR HARRY JOHNSTON, THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOCIETY OF MALAWI AND THE ROLE OF DR KAMUZU BANDA AND HIS MALAWI CONGRESS PARTY.
October 1, 1998... ABSTRACT
This article joins the debate on culture, history and politics in post-colonial Malawi. Concentrating on the production of history in the 1960s, the paper shows how the decade marked the beginnings of serious research, teaching...
BRIEFING: THE ERITREAN-ETHIOPIAN BORDER DISPUTE.
October 1, 1998... THE VIOLENT Eritrean-Ethiopian border dispute which erupted on 6 May this year has taken everybody by surprise, including Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi.(1) But on a closer look, this dispute is not so surprising except for its timing,...
Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility and containment 1915-46.(Review)
October 1, 1998... Namibia under South African Rule: Mobility and containment 1915-46, edited by Patricia Hayes, Jeremy Silvester, Marion Wallace, and Wolfram Hartmann. James Currey Publishers, Oxford, 1998. xx+330pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] hardback. 15.95...
The Livingstones at Kolobeng 1847-1852.(Review)
October 1, 1998... The Livingstones at Kolobeng 1847-1852, by Janet Wagner Parsons. The Botswana Society and Pula Press, Gaborone, 1997. xiv+230pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. ISBN Botswana Press 99912-60-17X; ISBN Pula Press 99912-61-44-3
It is surely...
The Evolution of Modern Medicine in a Developing Country: Ghana 1880-1960.(Review)
October 1, 1998... The Evolution of Modern Medicine in a Developing Country: Ghana 1880-1960, by Stephen Addae. Durham Academic Press, Durham, 1997. 523 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling] hardback. ISBN 1- 900838-05-2
The outbreak of plague in 1908 gave the...
ERRATUM.(Correction Notice)
October 1, 1998... The editors regret that a number of errors were uncorrected in the article by Bruce Berman, `Ethnicity, patronage and the African state' (African Affairs, No. 388, July 1998, pp. 305-341). This erratum slip should be pasted opposite p. 305 at...
