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AFRICA (REPORT Who's Next PLURALISM AND POLITICAL CHAN< Uganda • Ghana • Cameroon Zambia • Angola New from Ohio University Press The First Ascent of Mount Kenya Native Life in South Africa: Sir Halford John Mackinder Before and Since the European Edited, with an introduction and notes, War and the Boer Rebellion by K. Michael Barbour Sol T. Plaatje Mackinder's journal tells the story of the 1899 as- First published in 1916 and one of South Africa's cent. Its publication now is a legacy for African- great political books, this account was first and ists and adventurers. foremost a response to the Natives' Land Act of 288pp. /maps, illus/$39.95 1913, and was written by one of the most gifted and influential writers and journalists of his The Ekumeku Movement: generation Western Igbo Resistance to the 456pp. /paper $17.95 British Conquest of Nigeria, 1883-1914 The Krobo People of Ghana Don C. Ohadike to 1892: A Political and An important contribution to African history, this Social History study demonstrates that the strongest African op- Louis E. Wilson position to European colonialism came, not from This book presents a broad analytical framework large states or empires or kingdoms, but from for the history of southeastern Ghana within the small-scale communities that organized resistance context of a representative study of one of the movements like Ekumeku and Mau Mau. country's most important political and economic 216 pp. / maps / cloth $29.95 / paper $16.95 forces. 285pp. /paper $20.00 Themes in Kenyan History Edited by William R. Ochieng Dance, Civet Cat: Child Labour The contributors to this volume, all of whom teach in the Zambezi Valley at universities in Kenya, address such topics as Pamela Reynolds migration, population, urbanization, nationalism, In this first full-length study of the Tonga people, decolonization, religion, oral literature, theater, Reynolds describes child labor in the context of fiction, and food. subsistence agriculture. 257 pp. /tables, maps /paper $19.95 208 pp. / cloth $24.95 / paper $12.95 Rendering Things Visible: A History of Modern Ethiopia, Essays on South African 1855-1974 Literary Culture of the Bahru Zewde 1970s and 1980s This new history by Bahru Zewde, Senior Lec- Edited by Martin Trump turer in History at Addis Ababa University, is Debates about South African literature take place especially important because it lends a thoughtful within a context where there are intimate links and mature Ethiopian voice to the chorus of inter- between political and literary discourses. The national scholars who have addressed Ethiopian essays in this book reveal the complex, and argu- issues in the last decades. ably inevitable, politicization of South African ca. 225pp. /map, illus/$25.95 literary culture. 416pp. /cloth $39.95 /paper$19.95 Ohio University Press Scott Quadrangle Athens, Ohio 45701 (614) 593-1155 Write for a Free Catalog JULY-AUGUST 1991 AMERICAS VOLUME 36, NUMBER 4 LEADING MAGAZINE (BFRICfl ON AFRICA A Publication of the CREPORT African-American Institute Update 5 The Editor: Tunji Ijirdner, Jr. African-American Institute Uganda Chairman Back to Normal 13 Maurice Tempelsman By Catharine Watson President Cameroon Vivian Lowery Derryck A Political Turning Poinl 17 By Akwanka Joe Ndifor Ghana Publisher Frank E. Ferrari Ahead of the Opposition 20 By Colleen Ijiwe Morna Editor-in-Chief At an Impasse? Mali Margaret A. Novicki Page 17 Downfall of a Dictator 24 Production Editor By Pascal James Imperato Joseph Margolis Interview Jonathan I-'rimpong-Ansah: Strengthening Africa's Human Resources 28 Assistant Editors By Colleen Lowe Morna Russell Geekie Tunji Lardner, Jr. Economies Banking on the ADB 31 Contributing Editors By Colleen Lowe Morna Alana Lee Andrew Meldrum Mauritania Daphne Topouzis Arab vs. African 35 By Rakiya Omaar and Janet Fleischman Art Director Kenneth Jay Ross Liberia Kiiunda's Conundrum The Continuing Quagmire 39 Advertising Office Page 45 By Kenneth Best 212 949-5666. ext. 728 Ethiopia Interns Mengistu's Golden Parachute 42 Kesha Danielle Fikes By Andrew Meldrum Karen A. Johnson William Williams Zambia Tiie Waiting Game 45 Africa Report (ISSN 0001-9836), a By Melinda Ham non-protit magazine of African affairs, is published bimonthly and is sched- Angola uled to appear at the beginning of each date period a! 833 United Politics After Peace 49 Nations Plaza, New York. 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By Karl Mater Economies Photo Credits: Hungry for Power 68 The cover photographs of Moussa Traore and Mengistu By Peter Tygesen Haile Manam were taken by The Back Page 70 Betty Press and Margaret A. Trials and Tribulations By Vivian hiwery Derryck Novicki, respectively. Page 53 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: the government to implement demo- Assembly. In May, the Togolt'se politi- I would like to congratulate you cratic reforms. For example, the arti- cal party, the Rassemblement du Peu- very sincerely on the high and chal- cle states that "when the bodies were ple Togolaise, separated itself from lenging standard of your articles and fished out of a lagoon on Thursday, the government. stories in Africa Report and particular- April 11, demands for political In the fall of 1990, the government ly on Peter Tygesen's impressive con- changes were stepped up. The next lifted laws restricted freedom of the tribution, "The ABCs of Apart-heid" day, political parties were declared press, and today 12 independent (May-June 1991). legal." This forces the reader to con- newspapers are flourishing. Has Africa Report ever covered yet clude that the events of the week of In November 1990, President another horrendous legacy that April 8-12 resulted in the multi-party Eyadema established an independent apartheid's planner have "left for decision to be implemented April 12. commission with a mandate to pro- future South African governments to This is not the case. A month earlier, pose a new constitution "so that our rectify," namely that of the sustained that date had been set as the date country can move to the stage of polit- ill health of many of the African peo- when democratic reforms were to be ical multi-party ism." Before the end of ple due to endemic tuberculosis, mal- implemented. 1991, a referendum will be held on nutrition, and other diseases? In mid-March, Togolese govern- the constitution, and free and open We here are interested in all of ment officials and opposition loaders elections with multiple parties will fol- these scourges, but in particular, that recommended "that a charter for par- low. The United States ambassador to of tuberculosis for which our current- ties be voted on and promulgated, at Togo, Harmon Kirby, has said of ly available figures for Africans in the latest, by the 12th of April." these reform efforts: "President South Africa are devastating. Of all Togo, and the rest of Africa, are Eyadema's action points the way the open sores, this is among the going through radical political toward an open and accountable polit- worst. changes. Yet very few news reports ical system." Congratulations again on your fine come out of Africa. Accurate and While demonstrators and opposi- work and inspiration; we wish you meticulous reports by journals such tion leaders recently demonstrated every success. as Africa Report provide invaluable against the government, they do not John S. Harrington, D.Sc. information about a continent in tran- wish to alter the course of political Mount Sinai School of Medicine sition. However, misinterpretations development in Togo. Rather, they The Mount Sinai Hospital such as those in the "Political Point- seek to speed up a process already in New York, New York ers" of recent political developments place. Immediately following the Editor's note: have a profound impact on how Amer- demonstrations of mid-March, Included in Africa Report's Novem- icans view current Togolese politics. Togolese President Gnassingbe ber-December 1988 issue, focusing The Togolese government has Eyadema sat down with opposition on the AIDS crisis in Africa, is an been squarely on the path toward leaders in order to negotiate a resolu- extensive article on AIDS and related political reform for some time and tion of the crisis. In the meeting, the health disorders in South Africa. steps had been taken to democratize two parties pledged to work together before October 1990 when Eyadema in order to accelerate multi-party rule To the Editor: first officially agreed to the creation of in Togo. On April 12, 1991, in spite of I read with great interest the sec- a multi-party system. In March 1990, unrest condemned by both the gov- tion on Togo in Africa Report's "Politi- Togo held its first competitive legisla- ernment and opposition groups, the cal Pointers" ("Update," May-June). tive elections, resulting in the defeat Togolese government look the next The article correctly suggests that of nearly half of the incumbents, often step toward democratization and the "president's conduct will certainly in hotly contested elections.