Editorial
Poverty reduction and the chronically rich
Graham Harrison
Articles
The political economy of salt in the Afar Regional State in northeast Ethiopia
Dereje Feyissa
The agrarian question in Tanzania: using new evidence to reconcile an old debate
Bernd E.T. Mueller
Ill health unleashed? Cities and municipal services in Ghana
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
Is ‘another world’ really possible? Re-examining counter-hegemonic forces in post-apartheid South Africa
Luke Sinwell
Theme: Southern Africa – the liberation struggle continues
Introduction to the theme
John S. Saul
Angola: reinventing pasts and futures
David Sogge
Mozambique – not then but now
John S. Saul
Namibia: a trust betrayed – again?
Henning Melber
South African splinters: from ‘elite transition’ to ‘small-a alliances’
Patrick Bond
Zimbabwe: liberation nationalism – old and born-again
Richard Saunders
Debates
The end of the oil gambit: economic contraction and Africa
Gary Littlejohn
Offshore finance in Ghana: why not?
William Vlcek
Briefings
The hidden element in the 2010 public-sector strike in South Africa
Claire Ceruti
Interview with Shahenda Maklad
Yasmine M. Ahmed & Reem Saad
Report on conference of European Association of Social Anthropologists, Maynooth, Ireland, 24–28 August 2010
Cristiana Panella
Book and film reviews
Identity economics: social networks and the informal economy in Nigeria
Ignasio Malizani Jimu
Global agro-food trade and standards: challenges for Africa
Ben Richardson
Agricultural land redistribution: toward greater consensus
Lionel Cliffe
Empire, development and colonialism: the past in the present
Peter Wilkin
Moolaadé
Usman Tar
Peace versus justice? The dilemma of transitional justice in Africa
Jasna Dragovic-Soso
