African Development Perspectives Yearbook 1997/98: Good Governance and Economic Development, edited by Karl Wohlmuth, Hans H. Bass and Frank Messner (LIT Verlag, Munich, and Transaction Publishers, Piscataway, NJ; 1999; 650 pp). In what ways can good governance in Africa be strengthened, especially to advance the continent's economic and social development? That is the central theme of the latest edition (Volume 6) of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook, the main English-language publication on Africa from Germany, compiled by researchers at the University of Bremen. In addition to numerous documents and speeches, the yearbook includes more than two dozen articles from a variety of authors (from Africa, Europe and the US) looking at democracy, civil society participation, the struggle against corruption, human rights, the role of local government, the management of natural resources and environmental protection. Some of the articles take a continental perspective, while others present specific case studies (Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe). |
Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment by Thandika Mkandawire and Charles C. Saludo (Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey, US; 1999; 176 pp; $21.95)
Foreign Direct Investment and Development: The New Policy Agenda for Developing Countries and Economies in Transition by Theodore H. Moran (Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, US; 1999; 191 pp; $20)
Designing Privatization Strategies in Africa: Law, Economics, and Practice by Gerald Bisong Tanyi (Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, US; 1997; 140 pp; $55)
Aid to Africa: So Much to Do, So Little Done by Carol Lancaster (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, US [for the Century Foundation, New York, US]; 1999; 272 pp; hb $49, pb $22)
Fair Shares: Ethics and the Global Economy by Timothy Gorringe (Thames and Hudson, London, UK; 1999; 111 pp)
Learning from South-North Links in Microfinance, ed. Ben Rogaly and Chris Roche (Oxfam, Oxford, UK; 1998; 42 pp; $11.95)
Judging War Criminals: The Politics of International Justice by Yves Beigbeder (St. Martin's Press, New York, US; 1999; 224 pp; $65)
New Diasporas: The Mass Exodus, Dispersal and Regrouping of Migrant Communities by Nicholas van Hear (University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington, US; 1998; 256 pp; $22)
Private Armies and Military Intervention by David Shearer (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK; 1998; 224 pp; $13)
World Politics and African States by William Reno (Lynne Rienner, Boulder, Colorado, US; 1998; $269 pp; $52)
La France militaire et l'Afrique by Audré Dumoulin (European Institute for Research and Information on Peace and Security [GRIP], Brussels, Belgium; 1998; 125 pp; 495 FB)
Educational Reform and the Transformation of Southern Africa by Dickson A. Mungazi and L. Kay Walker (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, US; 1997; 240 pp; $52.95)
Green Land, Brown Land, Black Land: An Environmental History of Africa, 1800-1990 by James C. McCann (Heinemann, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US; 1999; 224 pp; $24.95)
The National Wealth of Nations: Harnessing the Market for the Environment by David Malin Roodman (W.W. Norton, New York; 1998; 224 pp; $13)
The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa: Current and Future Perspectives, eds. Valentine Udoh James and James S. Etim (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut, US; 1999; 256 pp; $59.95)
Nigeria: Struggle for Stability and Status by Stephen Wright (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, US; 1998; 250 pp; $69)
Mission Improbable: The World Community on a UN Compound in Somalia by Helen Fogarassy (Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, US; 1999; 352 pp; $45)
Mandela: The Authorized Biography by Anthony Sampson (HarperCollins,
London, UK; 1999; 678 pp; £24.99)
