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ZANU(PF) strategies in general elections, 1980-2000: Discourse and coercion Kriger, Norma Article For many analysts, the general election campaign in 2000 showed a new face of the ruling party, ZANU(PF). Against the new opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, ZANU(PF) engaged in violence and intimidation, often relying on youth and war veterans, even as it accused its opponents of subversive violence. Moreover, ZANU(PF) appealed to its liberation war credentials, while dismissing its chief opponents as puppets of British imperialism and reactionary white settlers. After the election, President Mugabe appealed for reconciliation between winners and losers, only to permit violence against those who had voted against the ruling party. For ruling party perpetrators of violence, there was impunity and later a presidential pardon. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the ruling party used remarkably similar strategies in every general election since 1980, notwithstanding striking differences in the contexts, issues, and nature of the chief opposition party. Given this well established pattern of ruling party violence and intimidation and characterization of opposition parties as illegitimate, the article seeks to understand why analysts repeatedly saw in the regular multiparty elections either a democratic system or one that was amenable to democratization. Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi016 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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An interview with Peter Penfold Gberie, Lansana Article Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/117 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi011 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Briefing: Darfur, Sudan: Prospects for peace de Waal, Alex Article Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi017 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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'It's a jungle out there: Townlife in modern Africa' Lewis, Joanna Conference Reports Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi010 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Notes and News Notes and News Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi029 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Understanding Peacekeeping, by Alex J. Bellamy, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin. Cambridge: Polity, 2004. xvii + 325 pp. {pound}17.99 paperback. ISBN 0-7456-3058-8 (paperback) MacQueen, Norrie Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi018 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Accounting for Horror: Post-genocide debates in Rwanda, by Nigel Eltringham. London: Pluto Press, 2004. xv + 232 pp. {pound}15.99 paperback, ISBN 0-7453-2000-7 (paperback) Clark, Phil Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi019 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Lineages of State Fragility: Rural civil society in Guinea-Bissau, by Joshua B. Forrest. Oxford: James Currey and Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2003. xiv + 312 pp. {pound}45.00 hardback. ISBN 0-85255-496-6 (hardback) Rudebeck, Lars Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi020 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Wole Soyinka: Politics, poetics and postcolonialism, by Biodun Jeyifo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xxxiii + 322 pp. {pound}45.00 hardback. ISBN 0-521-39486-4 (hardback) Dunton, Chris Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi021 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Landed Obligation: The practice of power in Buganda, by Holly Elisabeth Hanson. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2003. xxii + 266 pp. $26.95 paperback. ISBN 0-325-07036-9 (paperback) Reid, Richard Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/151 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi022 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Lords of the Fly: Sleeping sickness control in British East Africa 1900-1960, by Kirk Arden Hoppe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. xii + 203 pp. {pound}37.27 hardback. ISBN 0-325-07123-3 (hardback) Giblin, James L. Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/153 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi023 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Respectable and Responsible Women: Methodist and Roman Catholic women's organisations in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1919-1985, by Marja Hinfelaar. Utrecht: Bookcentrum, 2003. 184 pp. ISBN 90-239-1153-9 (paperback) Ranger, Terence Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi024 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Christianity and the African Imagination: Essays in honour of Adrian Hastings, edited by David Maxwell with Ingrid Lawrie. Leiden: Brill, 2002. xii + 421 pp. {euro}73.00 hardback. ISBN 90-04-11668 (hardback) Kastfelt, Niels Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi025 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Overcoming Apartheid: Can truth reconcile a divided nation?, by James L. Gibson. New York and Cape Town: Russell Sage Foundation, and Human Sciences Research Council, 2004. xv + 467 pp. $47.50 hardback. ISBN 0-87154-312-5 (hardback) Verdoolaege, Annelies Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi026 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Mandela's World: The international dimension of South Africa's political revolution, by James Barber, Oxford: James Currey; Cape Town: David Philip; and Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. 214 pp. {pound}14.95 paperback. ISBN 0852558767 (paperback) Lodge, Tom Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi027 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Zimbabwe's Unfinished Business: Rethinking land, state and nation in the context of crisis, edited by A. Hammar, B. Raftopoulos and S. Jensen. Harare: Weaver Press, 2003. xxx + 308 pp. {pound}20.95 paperback. ISBN 1-77922-011-1 (paperback). Distributed by the African Books Collective, Oxford Majonga, Munya Book Reviews Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi028 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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A select list of articles on Africa appearing in non-Africanist periodicals Barringer, T A Periodicals Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/165 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi014 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Bibliography Barringer, T A Bibliography Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi013 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Rewriting the African diaspora: Beyond the Black Atlantic Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe Article This essay argues that despite the growing popularity of diaspora studies, our understanding of the African diaspora remains limited by both the conceptual difficulties of defining what we mean by the diaspora in general, and the African diaspora in particular, and the analytical tendency to privilege the Atlantic, or rather the Anglophone, indeed the American branch of the African diaspora. It begins by trying to explore the various conceptions of the African diaspora, foregrounded by a critique of Paul Gilroy's influential text, <it>The Black Atlantic</it>. This is followed by discussions of what the author considers to be the four dominant dimensions of the global African diasporas, namely, the intra-Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, and Atlantic diasporas. Finally, the essay examines the emergence of the new global African diasporas. Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/35 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi001 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Shifting geographies of social inclusion and exclusion: Secondary education in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Lemon, Anthony Article The urgency of South Africa's political transformation provides social scientists with an opportunity to monitor an encounter between idealism and reality in post-apartheid policy-making. Education policy appears to derive from political symbolism divorced from the material realities of macroeconomic policy. The extent and nature of desegregation and redistribution on the ground are investigated in 18 secondary schools in Pietermaritzburg, supplemented by interviews in the Provincial Education Department and the Pietermaritzburg Regional Office. Considerable desegregation has occurred, especially in the state sector, but only at the upper end of the traditional racial hierarchy. Provincial resources allow minimal capital spending and limited non-salary expenditure, whilst differential fees in state schools preserve apartheid inequalities of provision. Parents of all races keenly seek the best education they can afford for their children. Radical change requires changes in macroeconomic policy towards a more developmental state, but measures are proposed to encourage limited progress towards greater equity within current macroeconomic constraints. Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/69 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi002 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society

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Japan and the development of Africa: A preliminary evaluation of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development Ampiah, Kweku Article From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, relations between Japan and sub-Saharan Africa were very low-key.This, Japanese policy-makers proclaimed, was because Japan had no history of colonial involvement in Africa, and the lack of historical guilt exempted their country from participating in Africa's economic development. Since the early 1990s, however, Japan has been reassessing its relations with the countries in the region and now seems to have decided on a more pro-active approach to African affairs organized through the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). Oxford University Press 2005-01-01 00:00:00.0 TEXT text/html http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/104/414/97 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi005 en Copyright (C) 2005, Royal African Society