Original Articles
NGOs & the development industry
Mike Powell & David Seddon
Happy ever after in the marketplace: non‐government organisations and uncivil society
Sheelagh Stewart
New development agendas: changes in UK NGO policies & procedures
Tina Wallace
Aid, NGOs and grassroots development: Northern Burkina Faso
Nicholas Atampugre
‘To seek happiness’: development in a West African village in the Era of democratisation
Lars Rudebeck
The mercenary business: ‘executive outcomes’
Jeremy Harding
Legitimacy, land & democracy in Niger
Christian Lund
The 1996 Zambian elections: still awaiting democratic consolidation
Carolyn Baylies & Morris Szeftel
Debates
On the Idea of an International Bantustan
Roy Love
Miscellany
Peacekeeping and an ‘african high command’: plus ca change, c’ est la meme chose
Alfred Zack‐Williams
Briefings
Article
France’s African aid policy: the end of an Era?
Bernard Conte
Miscellany
The US: backing out of Africa
Jim Cason
Japanese aid and Africa
David Seddon & Makoto Sato
Book notes
Roy Love , Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel
Books received
Editorial working group