Editorials
Editorial: the health issue
Meredeth Turshen & Carol Barker

Original Articles
Mozambique health holding the line
Julie Cliff , Najmi Kanji & Mike Muller

Workers’ health in Africa
Meredeth Turshen

Redefining occupational health for Tanzania
Peter Kamuzora

Health and the African theatre
Amandina Lihamba

Miscellany
Aid games
Annie Thébaud

Briefings
Aids in Africa
Carol Barker & Meredeth Turshen

Miscellany
Primary health care in Zaire
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf

The politics of population control in Namibia
Jennie Lindsay

The meaning of health in Africa
Carolyn Baylies

The recent police killing on Nigerian campuses
A.R. Mustapha & Shehu Othman

Debates
Primary health care or selective health strategies
Carol Barker & Meredeth Turshen

Miscellany
The colonial roots of the famine in Karamoja: a rejoinder
Mahmood Mandani

Book Reviews
Reviews
David Wield, Andrew Green, Bertil Egerö, Jennie Lindsay, Piers Blaikie & Anne Pitcher

Miscellany
Books received

Editorials
Editorial
Carolyn Baylies, Robin Cohen & Gavin Williams

Original Articles
The political economy of civil rule and the economic crisis in Nigeria (1979–84)

Tom ForrestThe primitive accumulation of capital in a neo‐colony: the Nigerian case
Festus Iyayi

The control of reproduction: principle and practice in Nigeria
Renée Pittin

Swaziland: political crisis, regional Dilemma
John Daniel & Johnson Vilane

Briefings
Congress of South African trad union
The state of the union
Jon Lewis & Estelle Randall

Miscellany
Opening speech to the inaugural congress
Cyril Ramaphosa

Nations and nationalities in Ethiopia and Eritrea

The EPLF and its relations with democratic movement in Ethiopia

Statement by the central committee of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the armed struggle in Eritrea

A group of Mozambiquan students wrote a collective poem on the anniversay of the massacre of Soweto – to declare their love and solidarity for their South African brothers and sisters

Book Reviews
Reviews
Tina Wallace

Miscellany
Current Africana 27

The 1986 conference of the review of African political economy
in associated with the centre of African studies the university of Liverpool

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Editorials
Editorial
Pepe Roberts & Gavin Williams

Original Articles
Marketing without and with marketing boards: the origins of state marketing boards in Nigeria
Gavin Williams

Miscellany
Map

Original Articles
The social relations of grain marketing in Northern Nigeria
Paul Clough

Household units and historical process in Southern Malawi
Megan Vaughan

Debates
The segmented agricultural labour market in Sudan
Abbas Abdelkarim

Miscellany
The politics of crisis in Ghana: class struggle and organisation, 1981–84
Yao Graham

Disinvestment & black workers attitudes in South Africa: A critical comment
Michael Sutcliffe & Paul Wellings

Agrarian policy and migration in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa: reform or transportation?
David Simon

Problems of theory and research: comments on Buch‐Hansen and Marcussen
Suzette Heald & Alex Hay

Briefings
Nigeria, crisis management under the Burhari administration
Adebayo Olukoshi & Tajudeen Abdulraheem

Taking on the chamber: The South African num in action
Nigel Haworth

Miscellany
Mobilisation politics in Cape Town, August 1984–October 1985: a personal account
A Correspondent

Book Reviews
Reviews
Fred Curtis, Dave Moore & Ben Naanen

Miscellany
Current Africana 27 (continued)

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The 1986 Conference of the review of African political economy26–28 September 1986 at the university of Liverpool
Popular struggles in Africa

Editorials
Editorial: war and famine in Africa
Peter Lawrence , Francis Snyder & Morris Szeftel

Original Articles
Hunger and weapons: the entropy of militarisation
Eiichi Shindo

Miscellany
Maps

Original Articles
Sowing the seeds of famine: the political economy of food deficits in Sudan
Jay O’Brien

Food crisis and class formation in Shaba
Brooke Grundfest Schoepf

The politics of famine in Ethiopia
Hailu Lemma

Briefings
Drought and famines
Ray Bush

Miscellany
Refugees and hunger in Eastern Sudan
Tina Wallace

The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation movement (SPLM) and liberation army (SPLA)
Philippa Scott

From popular protest to military take‐over: an analytical chronology of recent events in Sudan
Abbas Abdelkarim, Abdalla El Hassan & David Seddon

Military attacks, drought and hunger in Mozambique
Vincent Tickner

Uganda withdraws Mamdani’s citizenship

Disaster prevention: Defining the problem
Mahmood Mamdani

Nigeria: Buhari squeezes his critics
John Maikwano

Debates
Searching for the roots of famine’: the case of Karamoja
Beverly Gartrell

Book Reviews
Reviews

Ray Bush & Kate B. Showers

Miscellany
Current Africana

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Editorials
Editorial: the review, intellectuals & the left in Africa

Obituary
Jitendra Mohan
Lionel Cliffe & Peter Lawrence

Original Articles
The commitment of the intellectual
Ngugi wa Thiong’o

The marxist conception of class: political and theoretical elaboration in the African and Africanist context
Jean Copans

Miscellany
Introduction to Sankara & Burkina Faso
Victoria Brittain

The commitment of intellectual
Paul Baran

Original Articles
The ‘political orientation’ of Burkina Faso
Thomas Sankara

‘Learn from others, think for ourselves’: Central American revolutionary strategy in the 1980s
William Bollinger

Debates
Ghana: Defence committees and the class struggle
Zaya Yeebo

Miscellany
The Liberation Struggles and Research
Harold Wolpe

Briefings
Party strategies on the political crisis in the Sudan and on the Southern question

Miscellany
An open letter to the Nigerian left (Before the coup)
Eskor Toyo

Current political situation in Liberia issued by Dr Togbanah Tipoteh, president of Moja —; Liberia, 19

Intellectual Challenge

Inside the review of African political economy
By some anonymous editors

ROAPEConference on ‘world recession and the crisis in Africa’
Meredeth Turshen & Peter Lawrence

Book Reviews
Reviews
Addis Hiwet , Ahmed Gurnah , Chris Allen & Gavin Williams

Miscellany
Current Africana 27

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Obituary
Jitendra Mohan 1935–1984

Editorials
Editorial
Pepe Roberts & Gavin Williams

Original Articles
Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa: part II
Robin Luckham & Dawit Bekele

The Colonial state in Northern Ghana: the political economy of pacification
Nii‐K Plange

‘By‐day’ boys and dariga Men: casual labour versus Agrarian capital in Northern Ghana
Nicholas Van Hear

The love of liberty brought us here (an analysis of the development of the settler state in 19th century Liberia)
Magdalene S. David

Gender and class in a Nigerian industrial setting
Renee Pittin

Briefings
Tanzania: The human resources deployment act 1983 — a Desperate measure to contain a desperate situation
Leonard P. Shaidi

Miscellany
Multinationals in Nigerian agriculture in the 1980s
Okello Oculi

Popular participation versus people’s power: Notes on politics and power struggles in Ghana
Adotey Bing

’Women in Nigeria’ and education

Book Reviews
Reviews
Jeff Crisp & Adebayo Olukoshi

Miscellany
Current Africana 26

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Editorials
Editorial
Lionel Cliffe & John Markakis

Original Articles
Foreign powers and militarism in the horn of Africa: part I
Robin Luckham & Dawit Bekele

The Ethiopian military state and Soviet‐US involvement in the horn of Africa
James F. Petras & Morris H. Morley

Reviews
Analysing the Ethiopian revolution
Addis Hiwet

Original Articles
Nationalism, peasant politics & the emergence of a vanguard front in Eritrea
Jordan Gebre‐Medhin

Somalia and the World economy
David D. Laitin & Said S. Samatar

Briefings
The politics of repatriation: Ethiopian refugees in Djibouti, 1977–83
Jeff Crisp

Miscellany
The future of the Mediterranean

Dramatic shifts in the military balance in the horn: The 1984 Eritrean offensive
Lionel Cliffe

Report on a refugee conference
Tina Wallace

Combating famine: A revolutionary strategy
Kirsty Wright

A new dawn for women in Eritrea

Debates
The workers’ struggle in South Africa: A comment
Robert Davies & Dan O’Meara

Miscellany
Changing perspective on South African trade unions
Martin Plaut

Book Reviews
Reviews
Paul Kelemen & James Rees

Miscellany
Current Africana 26

Editorials
Editorial: resistance, resettlement and reconstruction in Southern Africa
Morris Szeftel & Gavin Williams

Original Articles
Land and liberation: The South African national liberation movements and the agrarian question, 1920s–1960s
Colin Bundy

Miscellany
Ruth first memorial trust

Original Articles
Land, power and class in the Thaba ‘Nchu district, Orange Free State, 1884–1983
Colin Murray

Forced resettlement and the political economy of South Africa
Bill Freund

The state of analysis of the Southern African region: issues raised by South African strategy
Robert H. Davies & Dan O’Meara

Agrarian policy in migrant labour societies: reform or transformation in Zimbabwe?
Ray Bush & Lionel Cliffe

Food policy and production in Mozambique since independence
Philip Raikes

Briefings
Roots of counter‐revolution: the Mozambique national resistance
Paul Fauvet

Miscellany
The politics of changing partners — control and co‐option in the new South African constitution
Craig Charney

‘Coloured’ politics’ in South Africa: the quislings’ trek into the abyss
Trevor Abrahams

The militarisation of Namibia’s economy
Brian Wood

Southern Africa 1984
Alves Gomes

Book Reviews
Reviews
Sam Nolutshungu , Sam Nolutshungu , Bill Freund & Hans Schröder

Miscellany
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Editorials
Editorial
Carolyn Baylies , Doris Burgess & Pepe Roberts

Original Articles
The last transition? Women and development in Mozambique
Stephanie Urdang

Women and land resettlement in Zimbabwe
Susie Jacobs

Women and development in North Western Zambia: from producer to housewife
Kate Crehan

Women’s groups and women’s subordination: an analysis of policies towards rural women in Kenya
Rayah Feldman

Class, race and gender: domestic workers in South Africa
Deborah Gaitskell , Judy Kimble , Moira Maconachie & Elaine Unterhalter

Capitalist development and women’s work: a Nigerian case study
Carolyne Dennis

Briefings
Swapo: solidarity with our sisters
Anne Murray‐Hudson

Angolan women’s congress
Marga Holness

The state of women’s studies in the Sudan
El‐ Wathig Kamier , Zeinab El‐Bakri , Idris Salim & Samiya El‐Ngar

Women in Nigeria

Women in Eritrea: An eye‐witness account
Nicole Anne Cowan

Women’s movement in Eritrea: An interview

Eritrean women’s conference, September/October 1984

The famine in Northern Ethiopia
Araya Redda

Miscellany
National security, human rights and population displacements Luwero district, Uganda, January–December 1983
Jeff Crisp

Debate
Feminism in Africa: feminism and Africa
Pepe Roberts

Book Reviews
Reviews
Pepe Roberts , Jane I. Guyer , Gavin Williams , John Loxley , El Wathig M. Kamier , Zeinab B. El Bakri , Angel Mwenda Mukandabantu , Pepe Roberts , Deborah Fahy Bryceson , Barry Munslow , Jeff Crisp , Robert Shenton & Pete Phillips

Miscellany
Current Africana 25

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Sudan

Editorials
Editorial
Carolyn Baylies

Original Articles
The road to Jouda
Taisier Mohamed Ali

The formation of the agricultural labour force in Sudan
Jay O’Brien

Miscellany
Map of Sudan

Original Articles
Peasants of the Nuba Mountains region
Ibrahim Kursany

Change among West African settlers in Northern Sudan
Mark Duffield

Briefings
Recent trends in foreign investment and uneven development in Sudan
Norman O’Neill

Sudan: A policy of increasing denationalisation of national wealth
A Sudanese Economist

The defence statement of El Tigani El Tayyib Babikir before the Sudan military court, 15 July 1982

Miscellany
Instant justice and flogging to secure the peace
A Legal Correspondent

Statement of judges of Sudan’s Provincial and district courts in response to president Imimieri’s dismissal of 44 judges. issued 11 June 1983, Khartoum

On economics and regional autonomy

A statement addressed to president Nimeiri by the student union of Southern Sudanese in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 4 April 1983

The Southern Sudan: peace or war
Mahdawi

Tigray: famine and national resistance
Jon Bennett

Debates
Indigenous Sudanese capital — a national bourgeoisie?
F.M. Mahmoud

Miscellany
The role of the national bourgeoisie in the national democratic revolution
Ibrahim Kursany

Book Reviews
Reviews
Tina Wallace & Robin Cohen

Miscellany
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