Editorials
Editorial
Lionel Giffe & Peter Lawrence
Original Articles
Underdevelopment in Northern Ghana: natural causes or colonial capitalism?
Nii‐K Plange
Contradictions in the peripheralization of a pastoral society: the Maasai
Hans Hedlund
Rural class formation and ecological collapse in Botswana
Lionel Cliffe & Richard Moorsom
Capitalism and hunger in Northern Nigeria
Bob Shenton & Mike Watts
Dependent food policy in Nigeria 1975–1979
Okello Oculi
Capitalist organization of production through non‐capitalist relations: women’s role in a pilot resettlement in Upper Volta
Anna Conti
Class formation in the peasant economy of Southern Ghana
Emile Vercruijsse
Peasant fishermen and capitalists: development in Senegal
Klaas de Jonge
Briefings
The Jimbabwe elections
Lionel Cliffe
Miscellany
Notes on the workers’ strikes in Mauritius
V.T.M
Debates
Relations of production, class struggle and the state in South Africa in the inter‐war period
David Kaplan
Miscellany
Swaziland: urban local government subjugation in the Post‐Colonial State
John P. Lea
In defence of the MPLA and the Angolan revolution
Paul Fauvet
On peasantry and the ‘modes of production’ debate
Jannik Boesen
Book Reviews
Reviews
Jerry Jones & Gavin Williams
Miscellany
Current Africana No.19
Editorial working group
