Africa
May 1999

May Article Abstracts

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Title: Letters to the Editor: Pinochet the Savior?
Author: Carl Charbonnet
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Title: Letters to the Editor: Northern Ireland's Peace Progress
Author: Allan Bienick
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Title: Letters to the Editor: Eighty-Five Years of Current History
Author: Jim Hedegard
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Title: The Fire in the Great Lakes
Author: René Lemarchand
Africa's Great Lakes region has become the site of the continent's first Great War. Centered on Congo, the conflict has drawn in a host of regional powers. "Just as there are shifting political alignments within the rebellion, so are the battle lines on the ground frequently redrawn, making it virtually impossible to identify a clear line of demarcation between the rebels and their enemies or, for that matter, between the rebels and their external patrons. All this adds up to a no-win situation, which raises the prospect of a protracted war of attrition."
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Title: Post-Imperial Africa at War
Author: Marina Ottaway
The "African renaissance" heralded less than a year ago has been left a stillborn hope. Marina Ottaway explains why Africa remains gripped by conflict--and why that remains the continent's future.
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Title: The Collapse of Peace in Angola
Author: Carrie Manning
"Although the cold war ended a decade ago, Angola's seemingly interminable peace process has been defined by cold war logic and carried out by domestic and international actors whose relationships with each other have been defined by that logic." Can the country's civil war be halted, or will nothing short of exhaustion bring peace?
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Title: Conflict and Crisis in the Greater Horn of Africa
Authors: Ken Menkhaus and John Prendergast
Getting the Greater Horn of Africa "beyond the immediate crises of warfare, state collapse, recurring famine, and refugee flows is imperative, because just beneath the surface of these crises lie daunting challenges of underdevelopment and disease that have gone largely unaddressed over the past decade."
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Title: Sudan: The Torn Country
Author: Ann M. Lesch
The American cruise missile attack on "terrorist" Sudan last August refocused attention on Africa's largest country, which is also host to the continent's longest-running civil war. Ann Lesch surveys the ethnoreligious disputes that have fueled the fighting and led to the terrorist label.
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Title: Nigeria: From Despair to Expectation
Author: Peter Lewis
"In the course of a year, Nigeria has traversed a path from decline to promise, and from international pariah to a source of hope. The stakes are extremely high, and Nigerians are mindful that a failure to achieve democratic stability may imperil the country's future as a coherent state."
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Title: Mauritius: Rethinking the Miracle
Author: Deborah Bräutigam
"Mauritius has faced globalization with a strong set of assets, including its creative private sector, solid democracy, and long-standing concern for social security. Mauritians themselves continually question their miracle, and it is this self-awareness, along with a remarkable adaptability, that will help bring the country successfully through the trials ahead."
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Title: Japan's Quest for Influence in Africa
Author: Peter J. Schraeder
"The evolution of Japanese involvement in Africa from the early 1980s to the present demonstrates Japan's intention to translate its extraordinary economic power into global influence worthy of a political and economic superpower."
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Title: Book Reviews: We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. By Philip Gourevitch
Reviewer: Rachel Roberts
An account of the months leading up to the Rwanda genocide.
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Title: Book Reviews: King Leopold's Ghost. By Adam Hochschild
Reviewer: Jessica Carew Kraft
On African genocides of the recent and distant past.
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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: Perspectives
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on finding truth--and reconciliation.
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Title: Africa
A map of Africa.
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