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Corruption and cronyism in Uganda's privatization in the 1990s
Tangri, Roger
Mwenda, Andrew
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Uganda's privatization in the 1990s was marred by malpractices and manipulations involving regime politicians and well‐connected individuals. This article is one of the first to document publicly an African case of privatization abuse. In particular, it documents a number of scandals that tainted privatization with serious accusations of corruption and cronyism. The article also examines aspects of corruption and governance in Uganda, arguing that the presence of a vigilant legislature and media willing to expose privatization abuse have led to a more honest divestiture process in the country, although various weaknesses as well as the failure of anti‐corruption agencies to prosecute or punish leaders for their corrupt privatization behaviour has hardly undermined high‐level corruption in public affairs. As in other African countries, and as considered briefly here, where few checks exist on government divestiture decisions, where political leaders seek to divest to favoured clients, and where the big offenders are unlikely to be punished for their illegal behaviour, then privatization activities will be susceptible to corrupt and cronyist practices.
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Briefing: riding the tiger: Contextualizing HIV prevention in South Africa
Campbell, Catherine
Williams, Brian
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Oxford University Press
2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Notes and News
Notes and News
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Review Article. The idiom of spirit: Possession and Ngoma in Africa
Engelke, Matthew
Review Article
Oxford University Press
2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and history in colonial Africa
Hayes, Patricia
Book Reviews
By Luise White. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. xiv + 352pp. £16.95 ISBN 0‐520‐21704‐7.
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Congo-Paris: Transnational traders on the margins of the law
Meagher, Kate
Book Reviews
By Janet MacGaffey and Rémy Bazenguissa‐Ganga. Oxford and Bloomington, IN: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 2000. 190pp. £35.00 hardback; £11.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐85255‐261‐0 and 0‐85255‐260‐2.
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Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional power in modern politics, 1890s-1990s
Harneit-Sievers, Axel
Book Reviews
B<?Pub Caret>y Olufemi Vaughan. Rochester/Woodbridge: University of Rochester Press, 2000. xiv + 293pp. £55.00 hardback. ISBN 1‐58046‐040‐2.
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Contested Power in Angola: 1840s to the present
Simon, David
Book Reviews
B<?Pub Caret>y Linda Heywood. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2000. xviii + 305pp. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 1‐58046‐063‐1.
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The History of Islam in Africa
Hamès, Constant
Book Reviews
Edited by Nehemia Levtzion and Randall L. Pouwels. Oxford: James Currey and Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2000. x + 591pp. £40.00 hardback; £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐85255‐782‐5 and 0‐85255‐781‐7.
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures
Kirk-Greene, Anthony
Book Reviews
Edited by Mogens Herman Hansen. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2000. 636pp. DKR 600 (c.£55) hardback. ISBN 87‐7876‐177‐8.
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Peacekeepers, Politicians, and Warlords: the Liberian peace process
Clapham, Christopher
Book Reviews
By Abiodun Alao, John Mackinlay and Funmi Olonisakin. New York: United Nations University Press, 1999. xvii + 192pp. US$19.95 paperback. ISBN 92‐808‐1031‐6.
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Burundi on the Brink 1993-95: A UN envoy reflects on preventive diplomacy
Goyvaerts, Didier
Book Reviews
By Ahmedou Ould‐Abdallah. Washington, DC; United States Institute of Peace Press, 2000. xxvi + 169pp. £6.95 paperback. ISBN 1‐929223‐00‐5.
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The Poor Are Not Us: Poverty and pastoralism
Neumann, Roderick P.
Book Reviews
Edited by David Anderson and Vigdis Broch‐Due. Oxford: James Currey, 1999. xi + 276pp. £40.00 hardback; £14.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐85255‐266‐1 and 0‐85255‐265‐3.
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Violence and Memory: One hundred years in the 'dark forests' of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Nyathi, Pathisa
Book Reviews
By Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Terence Ranger. Oxford: James Currey, and Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2000. 291pp. £40.00 hardback; £16.95 paperback. ISBN 0‐85255‐692‐6 and 0‐85255‐642‐X.
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The Companion to African Literatures
Hawkins, Peter
Book Reviews
Edited by Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe. Oxford: James Currey and Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. xiv + 322pp. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 0‐85255‐549‐0 (James Currey) and 0‐253‐33633‐3 (Indiana University Press).
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Township Plays, Port Elizabeth Plays, Interior Plays
Hutchinson, Yvette
Book Reviews
By Athol Fugard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xxxiv + 236pp. £9.99 paperback. ISBN 1‐19‐282925‐4.
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Bibliography
Barringer, T A
Bibliography
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A select list of articles on Africa appearing in non-africanist periodicals
Townsend, R J
Miscellaneous
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Corporate and state responses to anti-oil protests in the Niger Delta
Frynas, Jedrzej George
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Conflicts between oil companies and village communities in the Niger Delta have lasted for several decades, but during the 1990s they escalated further and received international media coverage. Much of it focused on the anti‐Shell protests by the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) which led to Shell's withdrawal from the Ogoni area in 1993. Notwithstanding the political changes following General Abacha's death in June 1998, the conflicts are continuing. While the intensity of the Ogoni protests decreased from 1995 onwards, other ethnic and political groups across the Niger Delta began to disrupt oil activities. This article critically examines the response of the Nigerian state and the oil companies to the anti‐oil protests in the Delta. The investigation focuses on three generic strategies: concessions by the state and oil companies to protesters, such as the creation of development projects; the use of public relations in dealing with the Niger Delta crisis; and the use of violence by the state and the oil companies against anti‐oil protesters. The analysis suggests that the state and corporate response to the Niger Delta crisis has so far been inadequate in the sense that it fails to satisfy the demands of the local people. Judging from past experience, unless there are structural changes within Nigeria's institutional framework, which would allow for a more effective use of the country's oil wealth for the benefit of the oil‐producing areas, conflicts in the Niger Delta are likely to continue.
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Qadhafi's comeback: Libya and sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s
Huliaras, Asteris
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In the 1970s and 1980s, Colonel Qadhafi's Libya combined its important financial resources with an intense anti‐imperialism in supporting insurgencies, coup d‐états and radical governments all over sub‐Saharan Africa. The military intervention in Chad was undoubtedly Libya's most significant external involvement. However, in 1994 Qadhafi accepted a decision handed down by the International Court of Justice in favour of Chadian sovereignty over the disputed Aouzou strip. The withdrawal of Libyan forces from the disputed territory seemed to mark a significant change in Qadhafi's foreign policy towards sub‐Saharan Africa: some observers concluded that Libya wanted to disengage from black Africa. Nevertheless, in 1998 Qadhafi declared that Africans and not Arabs are Libya's real supporters. The Libyan state‐owned radio ‘Voice of the Arab World’ was renamed ‘Voice of Africa’, a number of African leaders breached the UN embargo and a regional organization entitled ‘Community of Mediterranean and Sahelian Countries’ that included Libya and its sub‐Saharan African neighbours was created. However, Libya's revived interest in sub‐Saharan Africa is more a tactical move than a structural shift in its foreign policy. The Libyan‐black African rapprochment reflects Qadhafi's disappointment with the limited support he has received from Arab countries in his efforts to confront the international sanctions that were imposed on Libya after the explosion of PanAm flight 103.
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Angola's political economy of war: The role of oil and diamonds, 1975-2000
le Billon, Philippe
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This article examines the significance of the political economy and geography of two valuable resources—oil and diamonds—for the course of the Angolan conflict. Matching the regional boundaries and ethnic differentiation articulated by the two competing parties—the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA)—the spatial distribution of these abundant resources guided and financed their military strategies. The exploitation of oil and diamonds not only financed and motivated military operations beyond their Cold War and South African context, but also affected the legitimacy of the government and the economy. This conjunction of politics, geography, and military strategies sustained—and was sustained by—financial flows linking fighters and war‐profiteers to markets in industrialized countries. International corporations and foreign powers, for a long time sheltered from the direct impact of the conflict and the ethical dimension of their involvement, played an enabling role in the strategy of the belligerents. Detailing recent initiatives denouncing this role and attempts for reform, the article stresses the significance of resources in conflicts and calls for greater corporate and international responsibility in this regard during wartime and transition to peace.
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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A river runs through it: The meaning of the Lesotho-free state border
Coplan, David B.
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This study of Basotho attitudes towards and meanings of the Lesotho‐South African border along the Caledon River valley, next to what is historically known as the Conquered Territory in the eastern Free State, details the long history of struggle and co‐operation between the Basotho and the white inhabitants of the Free State. Analysis of the specific nature of the flow of commodities, trade, labour, and contraband over the Caledon River border bridges during the past ninety years demonstrates that the Caledon is a political rather than an organic social boundary, and that the river itself is the centre of a cross‐border way of life, paradoxically both obstructed and united by ‘international’ border stations. The conflictive history of postindependence Lesotho politics reveals how profoundly attitudes towards and relations with South Africa, and specifically the border communities of the Free State, are implicated in every aspect of the country's <it>national</it> existence. The lack of any effective sovereignty for Lesotho has problematic implications for the maintenance of border controls and restrictions on immigration from Lesotho in the post‐apartheid period. In practice the border posts can operate with neither credible efficiency nor neighbourly openness, because the border is not an international political or economic boundary and control point but rather a business. Political integration of Lesotho into South Africa in some form is seen as inevitable, notwithstanding the desire and efforts of either or both the Lesotho and South African governments to prevent it.What ‘the Basotho’ ultimately want, independence or no independence, is the continuing development of the Caledon Valley's organic multi‐racial way of life. SADC's military intervention in 1998 revealed deep fissures in Lesotho society. Ironically, military intervention to stabilize Lesotho's political situation appears to have accelerated the movement towards eventual incorporation.
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2001-01-01 00:00:00.0
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