Editorials
Editorial: warlords and problems of democracy in Africa
Morris Szeftel
Original Articles
Warlords and militarism in Chad
Roger Charlton & Roy May
Warlordism in China
J.A.G. Roberts
Are there warlords in provincial Mozambique? Questions of the social base of MNR banditry
Colin Darch
Keeping the fires burning: militarisation and the politics of gender in South Africa
Jacklyn Cock
The politics of religion in Nigeria: the parameters of the 1987 crisis in Kaduna State
Jibrin Ibrahim
Miscellany
Debates: questions about democracy
Whose Democracy? Bourgeois versus popular democracy
Björn Beckman
The antinomies of nationalism and democracy in the South African liberation struggle
Robert Fine
Empowerment of women in Uganda: real or symbolic
Rosalind E. Boyd
The debate on democracy in contemporary Zimbabwe
L.M. Sachikonye
Briefings
Women and war: Eritrea
Doris Burgess
Miscellany
Polisario and the struggle for the Western Sahara: recent developments, 1987–1989
David Seddon
The security situation and the transfer of power in Namibia
Colin Leys
The Namibian election process: just about ‘free and fair’
Ray Bush
Namibia postscript: the election results
Lionel Cliffe
US foreign policy and destabilisation in Southern Africa
George V Wright
‘New wine in old bottles’: tribal militias and the Sudanese state
M A Mohamed Salih
The context of human rights in Uganda today
Pius Nkamuhayo & Gill Seidel
Inkatha and regional control: policing liberation politics
Gerhard Mare
Book Reviews
Reviews
David Simons , Eddie Webster & Roy Williams
Miscellany
Books received
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