African Affairs - current issueAfrican Affairs - RSS feed of current issueA Political Economy of Health Care in Senegal, by Maghan Keita- June 19, 2008http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/487?rss=1 Age of Despair: the Unintegrated Forces of South Africa- June 19, 2008 The creation of a new national defence force in South Africa produced ex-combatants – a social group possessing military skills and access to small arms but without opportunities to exercise their skills. Since 2000, former combatants from various military backgrounds have participated in or planned protest action to demand jobs or integration into the national defence force. To date there has been no scholarly attempt to explain the sporadic protest action by former combatants in South...http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/433?rss=1 The United States, Ghana and Oil: Global and Local Perspectives- June 19, 2008 The context of this article is United States military and energy security policies as regards the offshore oil potential of what Washington terms Africa's ‘New Gulf’, the Atlantic littoral from Morocco to Angola. The focus is the operation of deepwater oil exploration companies offshore of western Ghana, and their discovery in 2007 of potentially valuable oil deposits. This article considers local Ghanaian and wider global reactions. Ghana's government and opposition both claim...http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/313?rss=1 Why 'Anglo Licks the ANC's Boots': Globalization and State-Capital Relations in South Africa- June 19, 2008 Under what conditions does capital in the age of globalization accept state regulation of markets instead of exercising its ‘exit option’ and shifting assets to less restrictive markets This article explores this question by analysing local and foreign capital's compliance with the South African government's policy of seeking to transfer 25–30 percent of equity and management in white-owned companies to blacks in all sectors of the economy by 2014. This is part of government's.http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/333?rss=1 Transformation and Trouble: Crime, justice and participation in a democratic South Africa, by Diana Gordon- June 19, 2008http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/497?rss=1 Gender Balance and the Meanings of Women in Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda- June 19, 2008 Across Africa, many countries have taken initiatives to increase the participation and representation of women in governance. Yet it is unclear what meaning these initiatives have in authoritarian, single-party states like Rwanda. Since seizing power in 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front has taken many steps to increase the participation of women in politics such as creating a Ministry of Gender, organizing women's councils at all levels of government, and instituting an electoral system with...http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/361?rss=1 Navigating Terrains of War: Youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau, by Henrik Vigh- June 19, 2008http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/488?rss=1 Remove or Reform a Case for (Restructuring) Chiefdom Governance in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone- June 19, 2008 Recent analyses of Sierra Leone's eleven-year civil war have argued that the conflict was fuelled by a crisis within chiefdom authority, with emphasis on increasing tensions between rural youth and their elders. However, a counter-argument has also emerged, emphasising that customary authority is still highly regarded in post-conflict Sierra Leone and that chiefs act as an influential barrier against bureaucratic abuses of power. This article draws on fieldwork from three districts in Sierra...http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/387?rss=1 Girl Cases: Marriage and colonialism in Gusiiland, Kenya 1890-1970, by Brett Shadle- June 19, 2008http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/494?rss=1 Strong Support for Weak Performance: Donor Competition in Madagascar- June 19, 2008 Since independence, Madagascar's ability to meet its development and environmental goals has remained weak. Yet Madagascar has never suffered a shortage of foreign assistance. What explains such a paradox This article argues that the gap between foreign aid and development performance is rooted in donor competition to give aid for the purpose of advancing their foreign interests. In turn, the state exploits this donor competition to stay afloat. This process of exploiting aid creates a...http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/107/428/405?rss=1 |