Editorials
Editorial
Robin Cohen & Peter Lawrence

Miscellany
A tribute to Ruth First

The gold of migrant labour
Ruth First*

Extracts from black gold: a study in the export of labour
Ruth First and others*

Ruth first memorial trust

Strategies of social research in Mozambique
by Members of the Centre of African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane University

Eritrea and the right to self‐determination

Ruth first: a memorial address
Ronald Segal*

Ruth first: a preliminary bibliography
Gavin Williams

Attati Mpakati

Original Articles
Karamoja: colonial roots of famine in North‐East Uganda
Mahmood Mamdani

Merchant capital and underdevelopment in Sierra Leone
A.B. Zack‐Williams

Briefings
Mozambique before the second phase of socialist development
Bertil Egero

Miscellany
The international consequences of the civil war in Chad
E.G.H. Joffe

The political clash in the aftermath of the 1981 Nigerian general strike
Dafe Otobo

Repression intensifies in Kenya: the need for solidarity

Book Reviews
Reviews
Judy Kimble & John Markakis

Miscellany
Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial
Carolyn Baylies & Lionel Cliffe

Original Articles
Political graft and the spoils system in Zambia — the state as a resource in itself
Morris Szeftel

Class struggles in Mali
Pierre François

The Algerian bureaucracy
Hugh Roberts

French militarism in Africa
Robin Luckham

Briefings
Fishing co‐operatives on Lake Niassa: seeds of a new socialist society or new roots for an old exploiting class?
Peter Sketchley

Miscellany
The workers’ struggle in South Africa
Bob Fine

The workers’ struggle — where does fosatu stand?
Joe Foster FOSATU General Secretary

Notes on the political and organisational offensive in Mozambique and its relationship to agricultural policy
Oscar Marleyn , David Wield & Richard Williams

“89.4% Agreed that South Africa should attack so‐called terrorist bases in neighbouring states”*

Current Africana no.24

Editorial working group

Miscellany
Obituary
Chris Allen

Editorials
Editorial: Africa & Scandinavia
Roger Leys & Henrik Secher Marcussen

Original Articles
Contract farming and the peasantry: cases from Western Kenya
Mogens Buch‐Hansen & Henrik Secher Marcussen

Whose state? State and capitalist development in Nigeria
Björn Beckman

Regional co‐operation in Southern Africa: The Southern African development co‐ordination conference
Roger Leys & Arne Tostensen

Gränges and the undermining of Liberia: a critique of a joint venture arrangement
Jerker Carlsson

Sweden and the third world: development aid and capital involvement
Kenneth Hermele

Briefing
Swedish companies out of South Africa?
Maj Palmberg

Book Reviews
Reviews
Robert McBride , Dan Connell & Hans Otto Sano

Miscellany
Current Africana no.24

Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial

Original Articles
Imperialism and the ‘national bourgeoisie’
Bjorn Beckman

The transformations of the petty bourgeoisie and the state in post‐colonial Zaire
Jacques Depelchin

Liberation ideology and national development strategy in Mozambique
Peter Meyns

The Nigerian general strike of 1981
Dafe Otobo

Briefings
The socialist league of Malawi (LESOMA)

Miscellany
The lome convention and the new international order
T.W. Parfitt

Monster

Debate
Resistance and hidden forms of consciousness among African workers: comment
Eddie Webster

Book Reviews
Reviews
Horace Campbell , J. Copans & Geoffrey Hunt

Miscellany
Editorial working group

Editorials
Robin Cohen , Pepe Roberts & Morris Szeftel

Original Articles
The military state and Ethiopia’s path to ‘socialism’
John Markakis

Labour power and legal transformation in Senegal
Francis G. Snyder

Notes on state and peasantry: the Tanzanian case
Henry Bernstein

Disposable nannies: domestic servants in the political economy of South Africa
Jacklyn Cock

Briefings
Libya and Chad
E.G.H. Joffe

Miscellany
‘Democracy’ in Upper Volta
Bernard Taylor

The 1980 coup in Guinea Bissau
Barry Munslow

Book Reviews
Reviews
Akwasi Aidoo & Barry Munslow

Miscellany
Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial
Anyang’ N’yong’o

Original Articles
What is happening to the Kenyan peasantry?
Mukaru Ng’ang’a

What the friends of the peasants’ are and how they pose the question of the peasantry
Anyang’ Nyong’o

The Kenya peasantry: a re‐assessment
Apollo L. Njonjo

Law, rangelands, the peasantry and social classes in Kenya
S.B.O. Gutto

The agrarian problem: notes on the Nairobi discussion
Michael Cowen

A tale of two slums: electoral politics in Mathare and Dagoretti
Michael Chege

The politics of a changing society: Mumias
John Mulaa

The development of a middle peasantry in Nyanza
Anyang’ Nyong’o

Miscellany
Bibliography

Current Africana no.23 (cont.)

Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial
Carolyn Baylies , Dianne Bolton & Gavin Williams

Original Articles
Resistance and hidden forms of consciousness amongst African workers
Robin Cohen

Political consciousness among African peasants in the Belgian Congo
Jewsiewicki

Revolutionary crisis and revolutionary vanguard: the emergence of the Eritrean people’s liberation front
David Pool

Imperialism and capitalist transformation: critique of a Kenyan debate
Björn Beckman

Debates
Zimbabwe’s emerging African bourgeoisie
Barry Munslow

Miscellany
In defence of the Angolan masses
Claude Gabriel

Further considerations on the MPLA and Angola
W.G. Clarence Smith

Briefings
The brandt report: a critical introduction
Gavin Williams

Miscellany
What Future for Ghana?
Raymond Bush

South Africa: is Botha’s total strategy a programme of reform?

Malawi after president Banda — Chaos or freeedom?

Book Reviews
Reviews
Brian Cooksey , Barry Munslow & Barry Munslow

Miscellany
Current Africana no.23

Editorial working group

Special Issue on Zimbabwe

Editorials
Editorial: the prospects for Zimbabwe
Lionel Cliffe & Barry Munslow

Original Articles
Supply, control and organization of African labour in Rhodesia
Luke Malaba

The people’s mood: the voice of a Guerilla Poet
Mbulelo Mzamane

Nationalist politics in Zimbabwe: the 1980 elections and beyond
Lionel Ciiffe , Joshua Mpofu & Barry Munslow

The prospects for socialist transition in Zimbabwe
Peter Yates

Briefings
Zimbabwe after independence
Caston Nyawo & Tony Rich

Miscellany
Southern Africa’s strategies of disengaging from South Africa
Moeletsi Mbeki

Angola — 1980
Ronaldo Munck

The constellation of Southern African states: a new strategic offensive by South Africa

Debates
The settler mode of production: the Rhodesian case
Werner Biermann & Reinhart Kössler

Miscellany
Imperialism and settler capital: friends or foes?
Carolyn Baylies

The ongoing debate on Zimbabwe’s development strategy
Barry Munslow

Walter Rodney: a biography and bibliography
Horace Campbell

Current Africana no.21

Editorial working group

Editorials

Original Articles
The proletarianization of women in Tanzania
Deborah Fahy Bryceson

US policy towards Southern Africa in the framework of Global Empire
Werner Biermann

Structural dependence and decolonisation in a West African land‐locked state: Niger
Richard Higgott

Agricultural projects and land in Northern Nigeria
Tina Wallace

Briefing
Namibia in the frontline: the political economy of decolonisation in South Africa’s colony

Debates
Capitalist accumulation in the periphery — the Kenyan case re‐examined
Rafael Kaplinsky

Miscellany
Capitalist accumulation in Kenya – straw men rule ok?
J.S. Henley

Kenya: what does ‘dependency’ explain?
Colin Leys

Current Africana no.20

Editorial working group

Editorials
Editorial
Lionel Giffe & Peter Lawrence

Original Articles
Underdevelopment in Northern Ghana: natural causes or colonial capitalism?
Nii‐K Plange

Contradictions in the peripheralization of a pastoral society: the Maasai
Hans Hedlund

Rural class formation and ecological collapse in Botswana
Lionel Cliffe & Richard Moorsom

Capitalism and hunger in Northern Nigeria
Bob Shenton & Mike Watts

Dependent food policy in Nigeria 1975–1979
Okello Oculi

Capitalist organization of production through non‐capitalist relations: women’s role in a pilot resettlement in Upper Volta
Anna Conti

Class formation in the peasant economy of Southern Ghana
Emile Vercruijsse

Peasant fishermen and capitalists: development in Senegal
Klaas de Jonge

Briefings
The Jimbabwe elections
Lionel Cliffe

Miscellany
Notes on the workers’ strikes in Mauritius
V.T.M

Debates
Relations of production, class struggle and the state in South Africa in the inter‐war period
David Kaplan

Miscellany
Swaziland: urban local government subjugation in the Post‐Colonial State
John P. Lea

In defence of the MPLA and the Angolan revolution
Paul Fauvet

On peasantry and the ‘modes of production’ debate
Jannik Boesen

Book Reviews
Reviews
Jerry Jones & Gavin Williams

Miscellany
Current Africana No.19

Editorial working group