Editorial
Five decades on: some reflections on 50 years of Africa’s independence
Alfred Zack-Williams
Articles
Tracks of the third wave: democracy theory, democratisation and the dilemma of political succession in Africa
Bernard Ugochukwu Nwosu
Neo-patrimonialism and the discourse of state failure in Africa
Zubairu Wai
Rubbishing: a wrong approach to Eritrea/Ethiopia union
Simon Weldehaimanot & Semere Kesete
Victim of its own success? The platinum mining industry and the apartheid mineral property system in South Africa’s political transition
Gavin Capps
Beyond the fringe? South African social movements and the politics of redistribution
Steven Friedman
Theme: Tanzania at 50
Kicking off a debate on Tanzania’s 50 years of independence
Lionel Cliffe
Nationalism and pan-Africanism: decisive moments in Nyerere’s intellectual and political thought
Issa G. Shivji
Tanzania fifty years on (1961–2011): rethinking ujamaa, Nyerere and socialism in Africa
John S. Saul
Fifty years of making sense of independence politics
Lionel Cliffe
Debate/ROAPE forum
Brand Africa: multiple transitions in global capitalism – a preface
Gary Littlejohn
Brand Africa: multiple transitions in global capitalism
Lisa Ann Richey & Stefano Ponte
Debate
Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and Africa
Henning Melber
Briefings
An exposition of development failures in Mozambique
Benedito Cunguara
Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?
Peter Jacobs
Sierra Leone at 50: confronting old problems and preparing for new challenges
Yusuf Bangura
Book Reviews
The European Union’s Africa policies: norms, interests and impact
Stephen Hurt
A swamp full of dollars: pipelines and paramilitaries in Nigeria’s oil frontier
Usman A. Tar
Congo Masquerade: The political culture of aid inefficiency and reform failure
Stylianos Moshonas
War and the politics of identity in Ethiopia: the making of enemies and allies in the Horn of Africa
John Markakis
Architects of poverty: why African capitalism needs changing
Philani Moyo
Intervention as indirect rule: civil war and statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Dan Fahey
