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Britannia waived the rules: The Major government and the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Melvern, Linda
Williams, Paul
Article
Ten years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide occurred, serious questions remain about the circumstances of the British government's response. This article critically evaluates the response of John Major's government to the genocide. It does so in four stages. The first section provides a brief overview of the Major government's international agenda in 1994, focusing on British policy towards the war in Bosnia and the African continent in general. The second section deals with the substance of Britain's Rwanda policy, while the third discusses the ways in which this policy has been almost totally omitted from mainstream accounts of this period. The final section provides a critical evaluation of some of the tactics that British officials employed to avert criticism of their government's policies. Based on the evidence presented we conclude that the British government displayed a deeply troubling indifference towards the victims of Rwanda's genocide.
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Briefing: Recent changes in the South African government's HIV/Aids policy and its implementation
Willan, Samantha
Article
S<scp>ince</scp> 2002 <scp>there has been a shift in the</scp> S<scp>outh</scp> A<scp>frican</scp> government's policy response to HIV/AIDS, culminating in a commitment by the Cabinet in August 2003 to develop a plan to provide antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. While this shift in policy was greeted warmly, if cautiously, by most analysts and activists,we need to understand why it has occurred, in order to assess its sustainability and whether it will translate into meaningful change on the ground. As a civil society submission to the government noted: ‘The success and sustainability of an ARV roll-out programme depends on a number of interlocking social, medical and political factors.’<cross-ref refid="fn2" type="fn">1</cross-ref> This briefing provides an outline of the government's AIDS policies, recent policy shifts, the social and political factors at play and some explanations for these shifts. <fn id="fn2"><no>1</no> <it>Civil Society Submission on the Operational Plan for the Rollout of an ARV Programme</it>. Submitted on 27 September 2003, compiled by the Treatment Action Campaign, <inter-ref locator="www.tac.org.za" locator-type="url">www.tac.org.za</inter-ref>, p. 3. </fn>
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Notes and News
Notes and News
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Mau Mau Rebellion Fifty Years On
Chege, Michael
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar, by Jennifer Cole. Berkeley, CA and London: University of California Press, 2001. xv +361 pp. {pound}36.95 (hardback) {pound}14.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-520-22845-6 (hardback), 0-520-22846-4 (paperback).
Freeman, Luke
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars, by Douglas H. Johnson. Oxford: James Currey, 2003. xx +234 pp. {pound}12.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-85255-392-7 (paperback).
Woodward, Peter
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Uniting a Divided City: Governance and social exclusion in Johannesburg, by Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw and Susan Parnell. London: Earthscan, 2002. xv +255 pp. {pound}48 (hardback), {pound}18.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-85383-921-3 (hardback), 1-85383-916-7 (paperback).
Robinson, Jennifer
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Problematising the African Renaissance, edited by Eddy Maloka and Elizabeth le Roux. Pretoria: African Institute of South Africa, 2000. [v] + 92 pp. $10 (paperback). ISBN 0-7983-0137-6 (paperback). * African Renaissance: Roadmaps to the challenge of globalization, by Fantu Cheru. London: Zed Books and Cape Town: David Philip, 2002. xv + 253 pp. {pound}15.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-84277-087-X (paperback).
Dunton, Chris
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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The Politics of Peace in Mozambique: Post-conflict democratization 1992-2000, by Carrie Manning. Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2002. xii + 230 pp. $66.95, {pound}43.25 (hardback). ISBN 0-275-97686-6 (hardback).
Hanlon, Joseph
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted nationalism, neoliberalism and the search for social justice, by Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya. Scottsville: University of Natal Press and Harare: Weaver Press, 2002. 324 pp. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8654 38021 (paperback).
Majonga, Munyaradzi
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Transformation of Resource Conflicts: Approach and instruments, edited by Gunther Baechler, Kurt R. Spillmann and Mohamed Suliman. Berne, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford,Vienna: Peter Lang, 2002. 558 pp. {pound}47.00 (hardback). ISBN 3-906769-98-4 (hardback).
Hagmann, Tobias
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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The Colonial Contest for the Nigerian Region 1884-1900: A history of German participation, by Olayemi Akinwumi. Hamburg: LIT Verlag, Geschichte Band 43, 2002. 122 pp. €17.90 (paperback). ISBN 3-8258-6197-x (paperback).
Kirk-Greene, A. H. M.
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Cameroon's Tycoon: Max Esser's expedition and its consequences, edited by E. M. Chilver and Ute Roschentaler. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2001. xx + 204 pp. {pound}47.00 (hardback) IBSN 1-57181-988-6. {pound}17.00 (paperback) ISBN 1-57181-310-1. * Swedish Ventures in Cameroon 1883-1923: The memoir of Knut Knutson, edited by Shirley Ardener. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002. xv + 288 pp. {pound}50.00 (hardback) ISBN 1-57181-725-5. {pound}20.00 (paperback). ISBN 1-57181-311-X.
Page, Ben
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa: The dynamics of struggle and resistance, by Graham Harrison. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. xi + 190 pp. {pound}35.00 (hardback). ISBN 0-333-78635-1.
Hintjens, Helen
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Das 'Afrika-Memorandum' und seine Kritiker. Eine Dokumentation, edited by Cord Jakobeit and Heribert Weiland. Hamburg: Institut fur Afrika-Kunde, 2002. viii + 287 pp. €20.00. ISBN 3-928049-82-8.
Eckert, Andreas
Book Reviews
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Barringer, T A
Bibliography
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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A Select List of Articles on Africa Appearing in Non-Africanist Periodicals
Barringer, T A
Townsend, R J
Periodicals
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics
Young, Crawford
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Examination of the political trajectory of African states since the terminal colonial period suggests that, by the 1990s, the ‘post-colonial’ label still widely employed was losing its pertinence. The term acquired widespread currency not long after independence in acknowledgment of the importation into new states of the practices, routines and mentalities of the colonial state. These served as a platform for a more ambitious form of political monopoly, whose legitimating discourse was developmentalism. The colonial state legacy decanted into a patrimonial autocracy which decayed into crisis by the 1980s, bringing external and internal pressures for economic and political state reconfiguration. But the serious erosion of the stateness of many African polities by the 1990s limited the scope for effective reform and opened the door for a complex web of novel civil conflicts; there was also a renewed saliency of informal politics, as local societies adapted to diminished state presence and service provision. Perhaps the post-colonial moment has passed.
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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'Never Expect Power Always': Electricity consumers' response to monopoly, corruption and inefficient services in Nigeria
Olukoju, Ayodeji
Article
The supply of electricity, undoubtedly the key energy source for industrial, commercial and domestic activity in the modern world, falls far short of demand in many developing countries. In Nigeria, state monopoly has compounded rather than resolved the energy crisis. The National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), established by decree in 1972, epitomizes the utter failure of state monopolies in the power sector. This and other state-owned enterprises have been the target of recent attempts at reform through privatization, deregulation or liberalization. This article analyzes developments in the Nigerian power sector, focusing on internal and external factors in NEPA's crisis, reform measures by successive governments, and the plight of consumers and their reactions to these circumstances, and comments on the ongoing and proposed reforms of the power sector.
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Retributive justice: The Gacaca courts in Rwanda
Corey, Allison
Joireman, Sandra F.
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After decades of cycling violence between Hutu and Tutsi groups in Rwanda and Burundi, violence peaked in 1994 with a genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, during which the Hutu majority slaughtered 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus, leaving the country with 120,000 accused <it>génocidaires</it> awaiting trial. Rwanda's <it>gacaca</it> courts were established as a response to the backlog of untried genocide cases. These courts disturbingly distinguish between genocide and war crimes committed during the same era, trying only those accused of genocide. This article argues that the <it>gacaca</it> process will contribute to the insecurity of all Rwandan citizens in the future, since it pursues inequitable justice, accentuates the ethnic divide and will be interpreted as revenge.
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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'Worrisome Trends': The voice of the churches in Malawi's third term debate
Ross, Kenneth R.
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During 2001–3, Malawi's United Democratic Front government attempted to secure a constitutional amendment to allow President Bakili Muluzi to stand for a third term in office. A significant factor in the failure of this attempt was the opposition of Malawi's churches. Having played a prominent role as midwives of the democratic dispensation inaugurated in 1993–94 at the end of Kamuzu Banda's autocratic rule, the churches continue ten years later to play an integral role in the nurturing and development of democratic politics. This article offers a survey of the statements issued by the churches and an analysis of their role in the defeat of the third-term proposal. It is noted that Malawi's churches have come to regard themselves as custodians of democratic values, champions of the constitution and spokespersons for the people. The significance of appeal to the Bible is assessed and the churches' emerging challenge to the politics of patronage is examined. It is argued that, within civil society, the churches have proved to be the most effective agent in challenging the ruling elite. The unity and unanimity with which they opposed the third-term bid is identified as the key to their effectiveness.
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2004-01-01 00:00:00.0
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