Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 17  Number 2  July 1999

Articles

Cameroon’s Neopatrimonial Dilemma
Jürg Martin Gabriel
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) 173

Workers and Warriors: Inkatha’s Politics of Masculinity in the 1980s
Thembisa Waetjen and Gerhard Maré
(University of Oregon, USA; University of Natal, South Africa) 197

Democracy and Security in Africa: Towards a Framework of
Understanding
Sola Akinrinade
(Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) 217

Grassroots Development: American Private Voluntary Organizations’
Anti-Poverty Programmes in Africa
Samuel O. Atteh
(International Foundation for Education and Self-help, Phoenix, USA) 245

Research Notes 273

Book Reviews 299

Contributors to this issue 311

Notes to Contributors Inside back cover

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 17  Number 1  January 1999

Articles

Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Faltering Prospects, New
Hopes
Eghosa Osaghae
(University of Transkei, South Africa) 5

“Being Away from Home”: The Equatorial Guinean Diaspora
Igor Cusack
(University of Bristol, United Kingdom) 29

Land and Agriculture in the ‘New’ South Africa
Elizabeth Francis
(London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) 49

“Here It is Our Land, the Two of Us”: Women, Men and Land in a
Zimbabwean Resettlement Area
Alison Goebel
(Trent University, Canada) 75

The Role and Limitations of State Coercion: Anti-Poaching Policies in
Zimbabwe
Rosaleen Duffy
(University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom) 97

Research Note
The Foreign Policy Beliefs of South Africans: A First Cut
Philip Nel
(University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) 123

Book Reviews 147

Urgent Notice 163

Contributors to this issue 165

Notes to Contributors Inside back cover

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 16  Number 2  July 1998

Articles

Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa (Part Two)
Patrick J. McGowan and Fred Ahwireng-Obeng
(Arizona State University; University of the Witwatersrand) 165
United States Peace Corps Volunteers in Guinea: A Case Study of
US–African Relations during the Cold War
Julius A. Amin
(University of Dayton, Ohio) 197

The Role of Ethnicity in Multi-Party Politics in Malawi and Zambia
Bertha Osei-Hwedie
(University of Botswana) 227

Conflicting Narratives of Anglophone Protest and the Politics of
Identity in cameroon
Dickson Eyoh
(University of Toronto) 249

Fertility Transition in Botswana
Samuel Kwesi Gaisie
(University of Botswana) 277

Book Reviews 297

Response to Review Article 319

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 16  Number 1  January 1998

Special Issue: "South Africa in Transition"

Articles

Partner or Hegemon? South Africa in Africa (Part One)
Fred Ahwireng-Obeng and Patrick J. McGowan
(University of the Witwatersrand; Arizona State University) 5

The Politics of Economic Reform: Trade Unions and Democratization
in South Africa
E. C. Webster
(University of the Witwatersrand) 39

Liberalizing Markets and Reforming Land in South Africa
Gavin Williams, Joachim Ewert, Johann Hamman and Nick Vink
(St Peter’s College, Oxford University; Stellenbosch University) 65

South Africa and the Global Order: The Structural Conditioning of a
Transition to Democracy
Adam Habib, Devan Pillay and Ashwin Desai
(University of Durban-Westville) 95

Research Note
Shoring up Hydraulic Despotism: Class, Race and Ethnicity in
Irrigation Politics in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
Greg Holbrook
(University of Fort Hare) 117

Book Reviews 133

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 15 Number 2 July 1997

Articles

The Question of Buganda in Contemporary Ugandan Politics
J. Oloka-Onyango
(Makerere University, Uganda) 173

The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Mozambique
Alfredo Saad Filho
(University of Leeds, England) 191

Reflections on Normative Empirical Approaches to Ethnic
Accommodation
John Boye Ejobowah
(University of Toronto, Canada) 219

Enduring Clientelism, Governance Reform and Leadership Capacity:
A Review of the Democratization Process in Nigeria
M. J. Balogun
(United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Ethiopia) 237

The Politics of Local Government Restructuring and Apartheid
Transformation in South Africa: The Case of Durban
Brij Maharaj
(University of Durban-Westville, South Africa) 261

Review Article
From the Ballot Box to the Bookshelf: Studies of the 1994 South
African General Election
Jeremy Seekings
(University of Cape Town, South Africa) 287

Book Reviews 311

Contributors to this Issue 331

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 15  Number 1  January 1997

Special Theme Edition: "The Politics of Identity"
Edited by
Patrick McAllister (University of the Western Cape)
John Sharp (University of Stellenbosch)

Introductory Note: The Politics of Identity 5

Articles

Beyond Exposé Analysis: Hybridity, Social Memory and Identity Politics
John Sharp
(University of Stellenbosch) 7

Transgressing the Borderlands of Tradition and Modernity: Identity,
Cultural Hybridity and Land Struggles in Namaqualand (1980-1994)
Steven Robins
(University of the Western Cape) 23

Do the Schmidtsdrift 'Bushmen' Belong in Reserves? Reflections on
a Recent Event and Accompanying Discourse
Stuart Douglas
(Rice University, USA) 45

Rethinking the Role of Elites in Rural Development: A Case Study
from Cameroon
Paul Nchoji Nkwi
(The University of Yaounde, Cameroon) 67

Invoking the Female Vusha Ceremony and the Struggle for Identity
and Security in Tshiendeulu, Venda
Caroline Jeannerat
(University of the Witwatersrand) 87

The Politics of Mysticism: SuÞsm and Yao Identity in Southern Malawi
Alan Thorold
(University of Durban-Westville) 107

Research Note
The Utilization of Catha Edulis in the Household Economy of Xhosa
Farm Inhabitants of the Bolo Reserve, Eastern Cape
Manton Hirst
(Kaffrarian Museum, King William's Town, South Africa) 119

Book Reviews 145

Contributors to this Issue 163

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 14 Number 2 July 1996

Articles

Waiting for the Portuguese: Nostalgia, Exploitation and the Meaning
of Land in the Malawi-Mozambique Borderland
Harri Englund
(University of Helsinki) 157

Populism and the Politics of Chieftaincy and Nation-Building in the
New South Africa
Tshidiso Maloka
(University of Cape Town) 173

Ruth First's Contribution to African Studies
Gavin Williams
(University of Oxford) 197

Democracy and Development in Zanzibar? Contradictions in Land
and Environment Planning
Garth Myers
(University of Kansas) 221

Civil Society and Political Economy in Contemporary Africa: What
Prospects for Sustainable Democracy?
Timothy M. Shaw and Sandra J. MacLean
(Dalhousie University, Canada) 247

Review Article
The Autobiography of Struggle
Randolph Vigne
(University College, London) 265

Book Reviews 277

Contributors to this Issue 297

JCAS Thanks Reviewers 298

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 14 299

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

VOLUME 14 Number 1 January 1996

Articles

Moralising the Agrarian Question: Concealed Meanings and
Competing Master Narratives in the Construction of an Imagined
South African Countryside
Martin Murray
(State University of New York at Binghamton, USA) 5

Authoritarian Liberalism: A Defining Characteristic of Botswana
Kenneth Good
(University of Botswana) 29

Growth, Unemployment and Poverty in Botswana
Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr
(University of Botswana) 53

'Paramoia': Anatomy of a Dictatorship in Kenya
James Kariuki
(National University of Lesotho) 69

The Impact of the End of the Cold War on the South African
Transition
Adrian Guelke
(Queen's University, Belfast) 87

Comment
A Response to Guelke: The Cold War Factor in South Africa's
Transition
John Daniel
(University of Durban-Westville, South Africa) 101

Research Note
'Mulugulu Avakali': City Women in Nairobi
Judith Abwunza
(Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) 105

Book Reviews 119

Contributors to this Issue 143