Editorials
Editorial
Britain’s Africa policy: ethical, or ignorant?
Chris Allen

Original Articles
Demilitarisation, disarmament & development in Southern Africa
Susan Willett

Progressive academic economists & the Challenge of development in South Africa’s decade of liberation
Vishnu Padayachee

Design for equity: linking policy with objectives in South Africa’s land reform
Ruth Hall

Sudan: international responses to war in the Nuba mountains
Mark Bradbury

Briefings
The first babu memorial lecture
Samir Amin

Miscellany
Guinea‐bissau: military fighting breaks out
Lars Rudebeck

African debt hoax
Joseph Hanlon

Conflict, civil society and peace‐building in West Africa
Stephen Riley

Angola: the peace is not yet fully won
David Simon

Ethiopia/Eritrea conflict

Guerre absurde entre l’ethiopie et l’erythrée
Jean‐Louis Péninou

Why? The eritrean‐Ethiopian conflict

The link between patenting of life forms, Genetic Engineering & Food insecurity
Wangari Maathai

Let nature’s harvest continue African counter-statement to Monsanto

‘Dictated trade: the case against the Africa growth & opportunity Act’
William Martin ACAS

Statement from civil society & religious organisations of east & central Afrca regarding the escalating violent conflict in the great lakes region

Book Reviews
Book notes
Roy Love , Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Miscellany
Books received

Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial
Commentary: ‘globalization’ & the regulation of Africa
Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Original Articles
Culture, environment & the enemies of complexity
Harri Englund

Strategies for change: women & politics in Eritrea & South Africa
Dan Connell

Observations on some theories of current agrarian change
Serap Ayse Kayatekin

Misunderstanding African politics: corruption & the governance agenda
Morris Szeftel

Women in politics & gender equity in policy: South Africa & Uganda
Anne Marie Goetz

Debate
Radicalism, relevance & the future of ROAPE
Giles Mohan

Miscellany
ROAPE & the radical Africanist: what next?
John S. Saul & Colin Leys

Briefings
Kenya’s democracy experiment: the 1997 elections
Rok Ajulu

Miscellany
Innovation in mali
Alex Duval Smith

50,000 protest in UK to cancel third world debt
Anita Franklin

Book Reviews
Book review
Michael Barratt Brown & Janet Bujra

Miscellany
World Views directory of organizations: Africa‐related publishers and distributors
Thomas P. Fenton Directors, WorldViews & Mary J. Heffron Directors, WorldViews

Current Africana 1996

Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial
The machinery of external control
Chris Allen

Original Articles
Waiting for oprah & the new US constituency for Africa
Bill Martin

Constructing alternatives to structural adjustment in Africa
Pádraig Carmody

Losing Lomé: the potential impact of the commission guidelines on the ACP non‐least developed countries
Patrick Watts

Three steps forward, two steps back: ideology & urban ecology in South Africa
David A. McDonald

The ‘NGO‐isation’ of Kenyan society: USAID & the restructuring of health care
Julie Hearn

Briefings
Moi’s flawed mandate: the crisis continues in Kenya
Roger Southall

Miscellany
Congo/Ex‐Zaire: through the looking glass
Carole J.L. Collins

New Secretary‐general for the francophonie
David Seddon

Quantos somos?The second national population census of Mozambique
Graham Harrison

Cut backs in Japanese aid
David Seddon

Liberia: railroading peace
Victor Tanner

An opportunity for Southern African women

Africa today and tomorrow
Julius Nyerere

Book Reviews
Book review
John Markakis & Deborah Potts

Miscellany
Book notes
Roy Love , Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Editorial working group

Editorials
Africa’s environmental crisis: challenging the orthodoxies
Ray Bush

Original Articles
Promoting (anti‐)social forestry in northern Nigeria?
Reginald Cline‐Cole

Governance & local environmental management in Africa
Philip Woodhouse

The government must not dictate’: rural‐urban migrants’ perceptions of Zimbabwe’s land resettlement programme

Relief & rehabilitation in complex emergencies
Phil O’Keefe & John Kirkby

Debate
Desertification: the uneasy interface between science, people & environmental issues in Africa
David Thomas

Briefings
Reconstructing the Congo
Carole J.L. Collins

Miscellany
Mohamed Kadamy under arrest
David Styan

Book Reviews
Book review
Claire Oxby & Phil Grantham

Miscellany
Books received

Commentary
Article commentary
Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Original Articles
Developing differences: post‐structuralism & political economy in contemporary development studies
Giles Mohan

Who needs civil society?
Chris Allen

‘For fear of being condemned as old fashioned’: liberal democracy vs. popular democracy in sub‐saharan Africa
John S. Saul

‘It’s terminal either way’: an analysis of armed conflict in liberia, 1989–1996
Quentin Outram

Briefings
Kamajors, ‘sober’ & the militariat: civil society & the return of the military in sierra leonean politics
A.B. Zack‐Williams

Original Articles
Social science research on AIDS in Africa: Questions of content, methodology and ethics (Recherches dans les Sciences Humaines sur le SIDA en Afrique: Problèmes de contenu, de méthodologie et de déontologie)
Carolyn Baylies & Janet Bujra

Miscellany
AIDS drugs cut to ‘Guinea Pigs’
Lucy Johnston & Ruaridh Nicoll

Comment: AIDS, Africans and the side‐effects of poverty

‘Exporting Apartheid’ to sub‐saharan Africa
Michel Chossudovsky

Book notes
Roy Love , Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Books received

Current Africana 1995

Africa resource guide

Editorials
Editorial
Zaïre, South Africa: moving forward?
Chris Allen

Original Articles
International commercial rivalries & the zai’rian copper nationalisation of 1967
David Gibbs

Agricultural issues in the former homelands of South Africa: the Transkei
Gina Porter & Kevin Phillips‐Howard

Trade unions & the ANC in the ‘New’ South Africa
Gregor Gall

Liberal democracy vs. popular democracy in Southern Africa
John S Saul

What’s left?: The South African communist party after apartheid
Simon Adams

‘From demons to democrats’: mali’s student movement 1991–1996
Zeric Kay Smith

Debates
Letting Yahya Jammeh off lightly?
John A. Wiseman

Miscellany
In & against the market
Michael Barratt Brown

Briefings
The congo is back!
Carole J.L. Collins

Miscellany
Sierra leone: the militariat strikes again
Steve Riley

Book Reviews
Book review
Motlasti Thabane & Adam Leach

Miscellany
Book notes
Roy Love , Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Books received

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

Editorials
Editorial
The Horn of Africa
John Markakis

Original Articles
Nationalism, state formation and the public sphere: Eritrea 1991–96
Fouad Makki

International relations in the Horn of Africa (1991–96)
Amare Tekle

Djibouti: between war and peace
Mohamed Kadamy

Tribe and religion in the Sudan
Mahmud El Zain

Ethnicity and power in Ethiopia
John Young

The plight of the Agro‐pastoral society of Somalia
Mohamed Haji Mukhtar

Sudan: between radical restructuring and deconstruction of state systems
Peter Kok

Briefings
Obituary: Claude Ake
J’Bayo Adekanye

Miscellany
Babu remembered

Under the old mim tree
Letekidan

This poem met with great enthusiasm on the Eritrean ‘net’

The Somali in Ethiopia
John Markakis

Eritrea: constitutional forum
Zemehret Yohannes

Convergent catastrophes in central Africa
David Newbury

Central Africa intervention must not reinforce Hutu extremists or Mobutu regime
Washington Office on Africa

Land Tenure in Zimbabwe
Phil O’Keefe & Sam Moyo

Book reviews
Review article
John Markakis

Miscellany
Editorial working group

Miscellany
A tribute to A. M. Babu

Original Articles
The social construction of labour in the struggle for democracy: the case of post‐independence Nigeria
Franco Barchiesi

Corruption in Nigeria: historical perspectives
S. O. Osoba

What does the ‘militariat’ do when it rules? military regimes: the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia
Jimmy D. Kandeh

NGOs, the state and civil society
Henrik Secher Marcussen

Debate
Uganda: a Bantustan?
Martin Doornbos

Briefings
Liberia: after Abuja
Stephen Riley & Max Sesay

Miscellany
Africa’s economic renewal under the spell of globalisation
Glenn Brigaldino

Democracy and imperial rivalry in equatorial Guinea
Neil Hughes

The OAU in Yaounde: pursuit of tradition or doctrinal renewal
Jean‐Emmanuel Pondi

Parliamentary by‐elections in Zambia: implications for the 1996 poll
Bornwell Chikulo

The African charter: words are not enough

Book notes
Roy Love , Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Books received

Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial
Ray Bush & Morris Szeftel

Commentary
Article Commentary
Commentary: negotiating a new millennium? prospects for African conflict resolution
Tom Woodhouse

Original Articles
‘The man died’ in Africa95
David Richards

Confrontation, co‐operation or co‐optation: NGOs and the Ghanaian state during structural adjustment
Ian Gary

The politics of food and starvation
Ray Bush

The political economy of Mauritania: an introduction
David Seddon

Book Reviews
Book review
Robin Cohen & David Seddon

Miscellany
Book notes

Current Africana 1994

Africa resource guide

Editorial working group