Statement
Yes to egalitarian ‘open access’, no to ‘pay to publish’: a ROAPE position statement on open access
Editorial
Neo-imperialism and African development
Alfred Zack-Williams
Articles
Industrial policy and the political settlement in Tanzania: aspects of continuity and change since independence
Hazel Gray
Labour and underdevelopment? Migration, dispossession and accumulation in West Africa and Europe
Hannah Cross
The rise and fall of trade unionism in Zimbabwe, Part I: 1990–1995
Paris Yeros
Accumulation with or without dispossession? A ‘both/and’ approach to China in Africa with reference to Angola
Jesse Salah Ovadia
Rural wage employment in Africa: methodological issues and emerging evidence
Carlos Oya
Deep Integration in north–south relations: compatibility issues between the EU and South Africa
Simone Claar & Andreas Nölke
Informalisation and the end of trade unionism as we knew it? Dissenting remarks from a Tanzanian case study
Matteo Rizzo
Debate
Land dispossession and rural social movements: the 2011 conference in Mali
Giuliano Martiniello
Briefings
How unstable is the Horn of Africa?
Martin Plaut
Book reviews
Security beyond the state: private security in international politics
Lars Buur
Chronique d’une transition and La face cachée de la révolution tunisienne: Islamisme et occident, une alliance à haut risque
Hannah Cross
Urban appropriation and transformation: bicycle taxi and handcart operators in Mzuzu, Malawi
Philani Moyo
South–South cooperation: Africa on the centre stage
Olabisi Delebayo Akinkugbe