Africa
May 2001

May Article Abstracts

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Title: Bush's Global Agenda: Bad News for Africa
Author: Salih Booker
"Today's 'global' issues, from hiv/aids to global warming, and from trade policies to the failure of international peacekeeping, have their most immediate and devastating consequences in Africa. . . . These vital challenges must be addressed in Africa, in solidarity with Africans, if they are not to overwhelm the world."
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Title: Kenya: Democracy, Decline, and Despair
Author: Frank Holmquist and Ayuka Oendo
"The 1990s saw a great deal of positive political change in Kenya-most notably, relative freedom of speech and organization, [and] regular multiparty elections. . . . But almost counterintuitively, the regime has shrunk into something of a corrupt and hollow shell. . . . As the 2002 election begins to loom, echoes of the repression of the one-party era have begun to be felt."
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Title: Can Nigeria's New Democracy Survive?
Author: Rotimi T. Suberu
"The fragility of Nigeria's new democracy is rooted in the onerous burden of the preceding era of military misrule and the shallow nature of the May 1999 transition from autocracy to democracy."
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Title: The Kabilas' Congo
Author: Thomas Turner
"[I]s the optimism that followed the installment of Joseph Kabila misplaced? Even if most of the participants in Congo's multisided war appear to want out, can a formula be found by which they can disengage? And if the war ends, is there any way to restore an effective Congolese state and economy?"
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Title: The Failure of Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone
Author: William Reno
"RUF commanders have fought the government with guns bought with diamonds, brought from Liberia, or captured from their enemies. They do not have to rely on the goodwill of local inhabitants. . . . The RUF bases its political power on control over diamonds."
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Title: Madagascar: Legitimizing Autocracy
Author: Richard R. Marcus
"President Ratsiraka is trying to reverse the gains that have been made during Madagascar's democratization process. Campaigning on the slogan of freedom with development, he has successfully moved the country back toward the autocracy of the Second Republic. If the highest leadership is not seeking democracy, then who is?"
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Title: The Survival of Malawi's Enfeebled Democracy
Author: Peter VonDoepp
"[T]he image of sure-footed democratic progress must be placed against the picture that emerges from other dimensions of Malawi politics, a picture that presents a more disturbing view and that suggests the prospects for democratic stability and longevity are in question."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in March, country by country, day by day.
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Title: A map of Africa.
A map of Africa.
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