Editorials
Editorial: what price economic reform?
Peter Lawrence & David Seddon

Original Articles
Structural adjustment in Africa: reflections on Ghana and Zambia
John Loxley

Structural adjustment and social policy in Mozambique
Judith Marshall

Taxing development in Tanzania: why must women pay?
Janet Bujra

The hidden economy: informal and parallel trade in Northwestern Uganda
Kate Meagher

Briefings
Successes and Future Prospects of Sanctions Against South Africa
Joseph Hanlon

Miscellany
The Politics of Adjustment: Egypt and the IMF, 1987–1990
David Seddon

The Prospects for a New Lomé convention: structural adjustment or structural transformation?
Trevor W. Parfitt & Sandy Bullock

Debates
Debt and indebtedness: the dynamics of third world poverty
Ankie Hoogvelt

Book Reviews
Reviews
Trevor W. Parfitt

Miscellany
Book Received

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Editorials
Editorial: warlords and problems of democracy in Africa
Morris Szeftel

Original Articles
Warlords and militarism in Chad
Roger Charlton & Roy May

Warlordism in China
J.A.G. Roberts

Are there warlords in provincial Mozambique? Questions of the social base of MNR banditry
Colin Darch

Keeping the fires burning: militarisation and the politics of gender in South Africa
Jacklyn Cock

The politics of religion in Nigeria: the parameters of the 1987 crisis in Kaduna State
Jibrin Ibrahim

Miscellany
Debates: questions about democracy

Whose Democracy? Bourgeois versus popular democracy
Björn Beckman

The antinomies of nationalism and democracy in the South African liberation struggle
Robert Fine

Empowerment of women in Uganda: real or symbolic
Rosalind E. Boyd

The debate on democracy in contemporary Zimbabwe
L.M. Sachikonye

Briefings
Women and war: Eritrea
Doris Burgess

Miscellany
Polisario and the struggle for the Western Sahara: recent developments, 1987–1989
David Seddon

The security situation and the transfer of power in Namibia
Colin Leys

The Namibian election process: just about ‘free and fair’
Ray Bush

Namibia postscript: the election results
Lionel Cliffe

US foreign policy and destabilisation in Southern Africa
George V Wright

‘New wine in old bottles’: tribal militias and the Sudanese state
M A Mohamed Salih

The context of human rights in Uganda today
Pius Nkamuhayo & Gill Seidel

Inkatha and regional control: policing liberation politics
Gerhard Mare

Book Reviews
Reviews
David Simons , Eddie Webster & Roy Williams

Miscellany
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Editorials
Editorial revolution in Ethiopia: 15 years on ..
John Markakis

Original Articles
The state and revolution in Ethiopia
Christopher Clapham

Funding the Ethiopian state: who pays
Roy Love

Capturing the peasants through cooperatives — the case of Ethiopia
Michael Stahl

Miscellany
Debate

Briefings
Somalia: conflicts within and against the military regime
Patrick Gilkes

Miscellany
Research and information centre on Eritrea

Ethiopian military in disarray
Berhane Woldemichael

Namibia’s independence: what has happened to UN resolution 435?
Peter Manning

The following document was sent to the ROAPE office by the central committee of the TPLF office in Khartoum, March 1989

EPLF statement concerning the ‘new’ declaration of the Dergue June 1989

Eritrea — Ethiopia conflict: chronology of events 1988–89

Sudan: coup in Khartoum: will it abort the peace process?
Sidgi A. Kaballo

Book Reviews
Reviews
John Markakis & Irving Leonard Markovitz

Miscellany
News & notes

Books received

Editorials
Editorial Africa’s food crisis: what is to be done?
Lionel Cliffe & Peter Lawrence

Original Articles
Zimbabwe’s agricultural ‘success’ and food security in Southern Africa
Lionel Cliffe

The state, Agrarian change and crisis of hegemony in Somalia
A. Samatar

The World Bank in rural Nigeria, revisited: a review of the World Bank’s Nigeria: agricultural sector review 1987
Gavin Williams

Dependency theory and the political economy of Africa’s crisis
Manfred Bienefeld

Briefings
Background to the massacres in Burundi
Francis Loft

Miscellany
Development alternatives with women: food and debt crises
Gloria Thomas‐Emeagwali

The food crisis and agro‐based technology: gari processing in Nigeria
Gloria Thomas‐Emeagwali & Dr. R.O. Lasisi

Structural adjustment and labour subordination in Nigeria: the dissolution of the Nigeria labour congress re‐visited
A.O. Olukoshi & I. Aremu

Terminators, crusaders and gladiators
Western (private & public) support for Renamo & Unita
Prexy Nesbitt

Prospects for peace in Western Sahara
David Seddon

Prospects for Namibian independence
Lionel Cliffe

The rise and fall of peace expectations in the Sudan
Sidgi Kaballo

Book Reviews
Reviews
Lionel Cliffe , Donna Pankhurst & Peter Lawrence

Miscellany
Tribute to Mahmud Modibbo Tukur
Yusuf Bangura , Bjorn Beckman , Jibrin Ibrahim & Raufu Mustapha

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Review of African political economy 1989 conference 22–24 september
Taking democracy seriously: socialists and democracy in Africa

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Editorials
Editorial
Meredeth Turshen , Carol Barker & Phil O’Keefe

Original Articles
Tanzania and the World Bank’s urban shelter project: ideology and international finance
Horace Campbell

Environmental sanitation in Nigeria: colonial and contemporary
Robert Stock

The pastoral environment of northern Senegal
Oussouby Toure

The state, environment and peasant consciousness in Botswana
Patrick P. Molutsi

The conservation issue in Zimbabwe
Lionel Cliffe

The political economy of the ‘green revolution’ in Africa
Peter Lawrence

Briefings
South African destablization and health in Mozambique
Julie Cliff & Abdul Razak Noormahomed

Miscellany
Update on Baragwanath hospital, Soweto
Meredeth Turshen

Drought, war and pestilence: beating the locusts the hard way
Lionel Cliffe

Toxic terrorism
Phil O’Keefe

Namibia: placing present developments in perspective
David de Beers

Book Reviews
Reviews
Meredeth Turshen , S.J. Kirkby , Ian Pool , Shubl Ishemo & Meredeth Turshen

Miscellany
In memoriam: Joel W. Gregory, 1944–1988
Meredeth Turshen

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Review of African political economy 1989 conference 22–24 september
Taking democracy seriously: socialists and democracy in Africa

Miscellany
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Editorials
Editorial
Chris Allen , Pepe Roberts & Gavin Williams

Original Articles
Women in Mozambique: gender struggle and gender politics
Signe Arnfred

Kandjadja, Guinea‐Bissau 1976–1986 observations on the political economy of an African village
Lars Rudebeck

Peasants and democratic struggles in Nigeria
Bjorn Beckman

Development theory and reality: the World Bank in Northern Ivory Coast
Thomas J. Bassett

Debate
Social history and the transition to capitalism in the South African countryside
Mike Morris

Briefing
Rural Mozambique since the Frelimo Party fourth congress: the situation in the Baixo Limpopo
Otto Roesch

Book Reviews
Book review
Reviews
Nigel Haworth , Pepe Roberts , A. Haroon Akram‐Lodhl & Akwasi Aldoo

Miscellany
News and notes

A tribute to Dr. Emmanuel Hansen
Chris Atim

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Editorials
Editorial: democratic struggles and apartheid barbarism
William Cobbett , Barry Munslow & Morris Szeftel

Original Articles
Class struggle, popular democratic struggle and the South African state
Richard M. Levin

Behind the ‘curtain’ at Botshabelo: redefining the urban labour market in South Africa
William Cobbett & Brian Nakedi

Rent boycotts, the state, and the transformation of the urban political economy in South Africa
Matthew Chaskalson , Karen Jochelson & Jeremy Seekings

Briefings
The ‘human face’ of destabilization: the war in Mozambique
Diana Cammack

Miscellany
South Africa at the crossroads
1987 Canon Collins memorial lecture delivered by the president of the ANC Oliver Tambo, 28th May 1987, London

Towards a people’s democracy: the UDF view

COSATU: towards disciplined alliances
Yunus Carrim

A year emergency, a year repression

Book Reviews
Reviews
Crisis and struggle in South Africa: a review of four recent books
Jeremy Seekings , Roger Southall & Yvonne G. Muthien

Miscellany
News and notes

ROAPE‐books received
Pages: 123-124

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Editorials
Editorial
Carolyn Baylies & Robin Cohen

Original Articles
The recession and workers’ struggles in the vehicle assembly plants: Steyr — Nigeria
Yusuf Bangura

Labour movements or popular struggles in Africa
Michaela von Freyhold

The two faces of the black trade union movement in South Africa
Eddie Webster

Agricultural development in Nigeria: the role of market and non‐market forces
Mansur Mukhtar

Briefings
Spreading American corporatism: trade union education for third world labour
Nathan Godfried

Miscellany
Taking on unilever
Sorab Sadri

COSATU 1987: from the executive committee

Democratic not colonial management for Liberia
A statement on the occasion of the fourteenth anniversary of the founding of MOJA‐Liberia, by Tobga‐Nah Tipoteh, president of MOJA‐Liberia

Manifesto of Ukenya movement for unity and democratic democracy in Kenya

Congress in Eritrea
Lionel Cliffe

Concluding declaration second and unity congress, Eritrea

The making of a Namibian trade unionist: an interview with Ben Ulenga by Brian Wood, 19 March 1987
Brian Wood

Debates
On segmented and national labour markets
Jay O’Brien

Miscellany
Reviews
A.B. Zack‐Williams , Jenny Warren , Tunde Arogundade & Jeffrey Haynes

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Editorials
Editorial
Lionel Cliffe & Alfred Zack‐Williams

Original Articles
Stabilisation policies and the effects on child health in Zimbabwe
Rob Davies & David Saunders

Morocco and the Western Sahara
David Seddon

Political power & social class in the neo‐colonial African state
Craig Charney

Debates
The contemporary African state: a ‘ruling class’?
Joshua B. Forrest

Miscellany
The crisis of hegemonic decline: US disinterest in Africa
Jonathon S. Zwingina

Disinvestment and black worker attitudes in South Africa
Laurie Schlemmer

Briefings
The crime of conditionality:
Open letter to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Miscellany
Sierra Leone: wide open to South Africa?
Trevor W. Parfitt

The Kenya state, agribusiness and the peasantry
Kate Currie & Larry Ray

1986 elections in the Sudan: tradition, ideology, ethnicity—and class?
James L. Chiriyankandath

The numbers game: legitimising apartheid
John Pickles

South Africa economic research and training project: a workshop on research priorities for post‐apartheid planning

Journal of African marxists first colloquim on crisis and transformation in Africa held in ACCRA, GHANA, August 11–13, 1986, concluding statement

The EPLF second congress
Doris Burgess & Lionel Cliffe

Book Reviews
Reviews
The roots of famine
Ray Bush , Frank Youngman , Patrick P. Molutsi , S.G. Sadri & David Simon

Miscellany
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Miscellany
Samora Machel

Shubi Ishem & Garry Littlejohn

Editorial
Editorial: Nigeria: oil, debts and democracy
T. Abdulraheem , A. Olukoshi , A. R. Mustapha & G. P. Williams

The outlook for Nigerian oil: 1985–2000: four scenarios
Bright Erakpoweri Okugu

Structural adjustment and the political question
Yusuf Bangura

The political debate and the struggle for democracy in Nigeria
Jibrin Ibrahim

The military as revolutionary vanguard: a critique
Bjorn Beckman

The left in Nigerian politics and the struggle for socialism: 1945–1985
Tajudeen Abdulraheem & Adebayo Olukoshi

The national question and radical politics in Nigeria
Abdul Raufu Mustapha

The aftermath of the Ahmadu Bello university students’ crisis of May 1986
A.S. Mohammed

Win: a militant approach to the mobilisation of women
Altine Mohammed & Bene Madunagu

ROAPE conference on ‘popular struggles in Africa’

Debates
Piotr Dutkiewicz & Robert Shenton

Book Reviews
Reviews
Adebayo Olukoshi

correction
Erratum

Books received