Mr. Kashambuzi covers the gamut of issues central to Africa's economic development: agriculture and food security, debt, structural adjustment, poverty, education, employment, population and the environment. A scholar of economics, geography, demography and international law who also works for the UN Development Programme, Mr. Kashambuzi employs case studies and data from selected countries for his analysis, as well as applying a historical perspective. He concludes that primary responsibility for Africa's protracted developmental crisis may be laid at the feet of not only policies pursued by colonial and apartheid regimes, but also those pursued by post-independence governments.
Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s: Challenges to Democracy and Development, ed. Rukhsana A. Siddiqui (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, US; 1997; 218 pp.; $59.95)
External Finance and Low-Income Countries, eds. Zubair Iqbal and Ravi Kanbur (IMF, Washington; 1997; 235 pp.; $22.50)
Filières nationales et marchés mondiaux de matières premières: veille stratégique et prospective by Serge Calabre, published under the "Futurs Africains" project of UNDP's National Long Term Perspective Studies programme (Economica, Paris; 1997; 477 pp.; 200 FF)
Futurs Africains -- Quelques Repères: Cinq années d'Etudes nationales de perspectives à long terme en Afrique (UNDP/Futurs Africains, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire; 1997; 182 pp.)
Policy Consensus Strategy Vacuum: A Pan-African Vision for the 21st Century by Vijay S. Makhan (Macmillan, Nairobi, Kenya with the OAU, Addis Ababa; 1997; 88 pp.)
L'Afrique politique 1997: revendications populaires et recompositions politiques, annual publication of the Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire (CEAN), with political analysis of the major events of the year in sub-Saharan Africa. (CEAN, Bordeaux, France/Karthala, Paris; 1997; 326 pp.; 160 FF)
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism by Mahmood Mamdani (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, US; 1996; 353 pp.; $55 hb, $19.95 pb)
Published by the oldest non-profit, educational film distributor in the US, and available free of charge, this guide catalogues 40 African feature films, documentaries and television productions from California Newsreel's collection. Included in the catalogue are 12 recently released films from around the continent.
Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa by Francis M. Deng et al (Brookings, Washington; 1996; 265 pp.; $42.95 hb, $18.95 pb)
Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies by John Paul Lederach (United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington; 1997; 208 pp.; $32.50 hb, $14.95 pb)
Markets, Profits and Power: The Politics of Business in Benin and Togo by John R. Heilbrunn (Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire, Bordeaux, France; 1996; 43 pp.)
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gérard Prunier, originally published in 1995; re-issued with a new final chapter (Columbia University Press, New York; 1997; 424 pp.; $16.50 pb)
Loosing the Bonds: The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years by Robert Kinloch Massie (Doubleday, New York; 1998; 896 pp.; $40)
Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation: A Policy and Agroecological Perspective, eds. Stephen A. Vosti and Thomas Reardon (Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, US; 1997; 407 pp; $55)
Les bas-fonds en Afrique tropical humide: guide de diagnostic et d'intervention by Philippe Lavigne Delville and Luc Boucher (Gret, Paris; 1997; 416 pp.; 187 FF)
