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Authoritarianism, democracy and adjustment : the politics of economic reform in Africa
- 1992
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An invaluable introduction to the issues raised about the winners and losers of structural adjustment policies. The book raises new questions and serves as a research agenda for further exploration. It will be a standard work and is a stimulating introduction to political economy in Africa in the 1990s. Countries discussed include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique.
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Culture in Africa : an appeal for pluralism
- 1993
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The essays in this publication range from poetry and drama to church music, architecture, and popular magazines. Common to them is the effort to make the disciplines of arts and those of social sciences meet. African cultural expressions are treated here as anchored in the experiences common to the people of Africa, while the provincial exclusiveness of Afrocentrism is shunned.
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Inducing food insecurity : perspectives on food policies in Eastern and Southern Africa
- 1994
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The scope and context of food security is complex, and it involves macro- and micro-policy perspectives ranging from pricing, distribution, and technology to consumption patterns and food habits. This borevisits the factors which contributed to the decline in food production in eastern and southern Africa and traces them to the food policies of a given country or countries. It also includes chapters dealing with the dynamics of rural or urban food systems, pastoral production, indigenous knowledge and the consequences of technological intervention.
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Religion and politics in Southern Africa
- 1991
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As steps are taken towards the end of apartheid and a new political future in South Africa the theme of religion and politics is both topical and urgent. Religion plays and will play a large part in South Africa, as the experiences of Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Namibia already show. The contributions from an interdisciplinary seminar held in Uppsala, Sweden, offer both sceptical, self-critical, hopeful and cautious perspectives from a variety of viewpoints.
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Small town Africa : studies in rural-urban interaction
- 1990
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Small towns have often been considered as unimportant or even as anomalous phenomena and consequently have been largely ignored by policy makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change without consideration being given to the positive contribution that small towns can make to rural transformation.But for the overwhelming majority of Africa's population which is rural, it is the small town with which they have the most frequent and intense contacts and which provides the foci for economic, social, political and cultural rural-urban interaction. The papers in this book address a wide range of issues relating to the small town in rural context from both the macro perspective, including the role of the state, to the micro perspective where attention is given to the vitality and adaptability of individual actors through their utilisation of rural and urban opportunities. Case studies are drawn from Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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When the grass is gone : development intervention in African arid lands
- 1991
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Proceedings (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book discusses some of the consequences of development interventions for ordinary people, and some of their environmental concomitants. The contributors all raise new questions of how to redeem the people who live in the arid lands from their present predicament and how to enable them to manage their own future. Many of the insights have been sharpened by ideas well-known to peasants and pastoralists, but seldom discussed among policymakers.
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