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African Literature: CollectionsKwani? 02Edited by Binyavanga Wainaina

From the critical and commercial success of Kwani? 01 came the next edition, Kwani? 02, in 2004. This edition features contemporary literary Kenyan concerns themed on the question of identity. Building on the first issue, Kwani? 02 offers all that Kwani? 01 did and mirrors the post-millennial angst of young Kenyan writers, poets, cartoonists and photographers. Once again, Kwani? featured in the Caine Prize for African Writing 2004 when Parselelo Kantai’s Comrade Lemma and the Black Jerusalem Boys Band was runner up. Uwem Akpan’s An Xmas Feast has since been re-worked and

published in the New Yorker.

ISBN 9789966983626 | 316 pages | 236 x 155 mm | B/W Illustrations, Colour Illustrations and Colour Photographs | 2003 | Kwani Trust, Kenya | Paperback | $32.95/£22.95

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African Literature: FictionAbsent. The English TeacherJohn Eppel

When Mr George loses his job teaching English at a private secondary school in Bulawayo, ‘his pension payout, after forty years of full-time service, bought him two jam doughnuts and a soft tomato.’ When he backs his uninsured white Ford Escort into a brand new Mercedes Benz, the out-of-court settlement sees him giving up his house to the complainant, Beauticious Nyamayakanuna, and becoming her domestic servant.Through the prism of this engaging post-colonial role reversal, and spiced with George’s

lessons on Shakespeare, John Eppel draws down the curtain on one particular white man in Africa.

But before it’s time to go, George will delight us with the antics of his literature classes; his various arrests – all timed to coincide with the police chief’s need for help with essays on Hamlet and A Grain of Wheat; his keen eye for flora and fauna; and the long trek back through the hundred years of his family’s Zimbabwean past, as he returns an abandoned child to her home. Eppel has satirized the racial politics of southern Africa in many of his previous novels. In Absent: The English Teacher he turns his gaze inwards for a generous and richly rewarding parody of the land of his birth.

In addition to writing short stories, John Eppel is also an award-winning poet and novelist. His first novel, D.G.G. Berry’s The Great North Road (1992), won the M-Net Prize in South Africa. His second novel, Hatchings (1993), was short-listed for the M-Net Prize and his third novel, The Giraffe Man (1994), has been translated into French.

ISBN 9781779220820 | 164 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95


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The Akroma FileLinus Asong

Faced with debts at home and threatened by poverty, Akroma a brilliant and well-educated Ghanaian, using unorthodox means, successfully gets into Cameroon. He is bent on making a fortune. Drawing on his tremendous presence of mind and, capitalising on the early discovery that in Cameroon there is no conscience that money cannot buy, this illegal alien, travelling under three criminal identities, builds up a great amount of wealth. But he cannot buy the entire police force. One police man, Inspector Kum Dangobert, will get even with him, even if it means death. The rest of this very readable

novel is about what happens when the Ghanaian evil genius is pitted against the best Cameroonian police superintendent. It is the clash of giants that ends in a cataclysm.

Linus Asong was born in the South West Region of Cameroon in 1947. With a combined B.A honours in Education, in 1980 he entered the University of Windsor in Canada whence he graduated with a terminal degree in Creative Writing. He holds an M.A and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton Canada, and is presently Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Ecole Normale Superieure Bambili (University of Yaounde 1). Asong is a stand-up humorist, a consummate portrait painter, an accomplished literary scholar, and a celebrated prolific writer with over a dozen novels to his credit.

ISBN 9789956558827 | 224 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback| $19.95/£15.95


The Bad SamaritanAlobwed’Epie

The Bad Samaritan is set in a kleptomaniac and highly corrupt imaginary African country called Ewawa. Due to mismanagement, financial institutions collapse. Salaries are slashed and there is unprecedented unemployment leading to country exodus. Professor Esole and his wife are not only aggrieved by the salary slashes, but also by the dubious closure of the Post Office Savings Bank with their savings. Desperate for money, they resort to borrowing from private sources at exorbitant interest rates. Esole toddles into politics with the aim of righting things. Will his naïve approach to politics

make or mar?

“The Bad Samaritan is a testament that Alobwed’Epie is a writer of extraordinary gifts. The novel is a realistic social fiction that depicts the realities of the Ewawa nation, a microcosm of many African Post Independence nations. Esole the protagonist – a onetime professor turned politician – refuses to join the debauchery of political elites and declines to compromise on his principles of what is right. The challenges to his uprightness are overwhelming, but his example is edifying to the agonising victims of the deaf and brutal system in place.”

- Sarah Anyang Agbor, Senior Lecturer of Literature, University of Yaounde I

Alobwed’Epie, author of The Death Certificate and The Lady with a Beard, was born at Ngomboku in Kupe-Muanenguba Division, South-West Province, Cameroon. He studied at the Universities of Yaoundé and Leeds, and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Yaoundé 1 Cameroon.

ISBN 9789956558711 | 192 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback| $19.95/£15.95


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Foot Prints of DestinyAzanwi Nchami

The edifice of colonial Africa starts cracking as the Black experience with colonialism becomes intimately personal. There is Martin Paul Samba, whose adopted German aristocratic home as a student does not consider him material for a son-in-law. There are also Prince Rudolph Douala Manga Bell and Dr Bele who go to school with Samba in Germany. And then, of course, Princess Zara, the youthful Amazon warrior who is rescued from a slave ship on the shores of Kamerun. Supported by the Douala princes, Martin Paul Samba champions the cause of the exploited, in a central drama pitting Kamerunian nationalism against German colonialism. This is the story of

youthful endeavours and loves, of some of Africa’s best and brightest, immediately before and after the First World War.

Azanwi Nchami hails from Bambui, Tubah Sub-Division in the North-West Region of Cameroon. She attended Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School, Mankon, Bamenda and CCAST Bambili before entering the University of Ottawa, Canada.

ISBN 9789956558834 | 160 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2009 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95


Land Grab. Part OneT. F. Tagarira

This novel is look at Zimbabwe’s contentious land issue through the contrasting lives of two men. One, the son of a distinguished white farmer and the other, a poor black farm laborer’s son.

Tendai Frank Tagarira is a 25 year old Zimbabwean who has written his personal history against the background of Zimbabwe’s troubles: “I am part of an angry generation. A generation that feels alienated from the political process. We have been through many trials and tribulations which are not of our making and we are bitter.”

ISBN 9789994569564 | 158 pages | 203 x 127 mm | Maps | 2009 | Brookridge Publishing, Namibia | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95


A Legend of the DeadLinus Asong

When the admirable Kevin Beckongncho becomes the new Paramount Chief of the much-coveted throne of Nkokonoko Small Monje as well as its new DO, Chieftaincy could finally be said to have been redeemed. But he quickly becomes a marked man, as he runs into fatal collision with an unscrupulous governmental system with which he cannot co-exist. How this great man suddenly dies, and why his people must not mourn for him, is the unresolved mystery with which Asong closes both the book and his trilogy that includes The Crown of Thorns and No Way to Die.



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Salvation ColonyLinus Asong

Dennis Nunqam Ndendemajem, the spectral social misfit of No Way To Die, having failed to die by suicide, is pursued by the hatred of friends and family relations. He seeks refuge in The Salvation Colony of the Angels of Limbo Church of Africa - a veritable paradise for all whom society has sidelined and whom chance or choice have led thereto. Refuge Dennis finds at the Salvation Colony, thanks to the kindly founding spiritual and material patron, the highly reputable but extremely devilish Pastor Sixtus Shrapnell, fondly referred to as Our Father. At the Colony, though completely dehumanized, Dennis maintains self-value and something to live for in life - God.



The Wages of CorruptionSammy Oke Akombi

Corruption is endemic in Cameroon. Twice, Transparency International have accorded the country the infamous first place in corruption. As one of many concerned Cameroonians, Sammy Oke Akombi was moved and they realized that something was in fact wrong somewhere and something had to be done somehow. This collection of short stories is his contribution to the collective resolve by concerned Cameroonians to wage a war against this most unusual friend of fairness. The stories seek to elicit awareness about a social ill that is ironically championed by the very politicians, functionaries, educator,

leaders and power elite whose duty it is to keep society healthy and on the rails. The stories are on corruption in different segments of society and about the people who perpetrate it. Almost everyone is immersed in it and so must make every effort to resurface from it. It takes only the will to stay alive because the wages of corruption like any other sin can only be death.



White Gods Black DemonsDaniel Mandishona

Irony and humour have always been used to counter frustration, despair and to expose double standards. In these ten sharply polished stories, Mandishona explores the dark comedy that lies just beneath the surface of tragedy in Zimbabwean society in the last decade. His perceptions leave few untouched: politicians, new farmers, exiles, stranded queues and inflation that renders the currency worthless... Truth and morality are dispensable in a society where wealth is rewarded with respect, integrity marred by untruth, rumour displaces fact, and power is only interested in its own survival.

Mandishona holds a mirror up to reality and without equivocation asks us to look at what is real: the likeness or the distortion and what it is we want to see.

Daniel Mandishona is an architect. He was born in Harare in 1959 and brought up by his maternal grandparents in Mbare township (then known as Harari township). He first studied Graphic Design then Architecture at the Bartlett School, University College London. His first short story, ‘A Wasted Land’ was published in Contemporary African Short Stories (Heineman, 1992).



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The Wooden Bicycle and Other StoriesTikum Mbah Azonga

The Wooden Bicycle and Other Stories is a compilation of eight compelling short stories which immediately engage the reader, regardless of which story is selected for reading. Just like the author’s other collection of short stories, Cup Man and Other Stories, the book is a depiction of the joys and pains of everyday life in the typical African country or even in the West Indies. This dimension includes an in-depth look at life within the African community in the West - an experience which is, of course daunting as the immigrant struggles to adjust to the new dispensation. Azonga once again shows

outstanding skill in narrative techniques by adopting a style that is at once simple and intricate, entertaining and instructive.



Biography/Autobiography/MemoirAfrican Realities. A MemoirRobinson M. Nabulyato Edited by Giacomo Macola

Robinson Mwaakwe Nabulyato (1916-2004) was one of the fathers of African nationalism in colonial Zambia and the longest serving Speaker of the country’s National Assembly after independence (1969-1988; 1991-1998). In this posthumous book, he presents an informative autobiographical account and an incisive analysis of the politics of post-colonial Africa.

Giacomo Macola is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Kent, UK.

ISBN 9789982997201 | 108 pages | 229 x 152 mm | B/W Illustrations and Maps | 2009 | The Lembani Trust, Zambia | Paperback | $22.95/£16.95


A Voice Unstilled. Archbishop Ndingi Mwana ‘a NzekiFr Ndikaru wa Teresia and Waithaka Waihenya

A Voice Unstilled is the biography of one of the most preeminent Catholic figures in Kenya, Ndingi Mwana ‘a Nzeki. Written with the cooperation of the archbishop, the people who knew him and aided by free access to his private diaries and memoirs, the authors have tried to trace the rise of the archbishop as a young man in the plains of Machakos, his tumultuous years in Nakuru, Machakos and Nairobi and his many battles with the political leaders of his time. A man of prodigious energy, Ndingi played a crucial yet insufficiently appreciated role in some of the most momentous events in

Kenya, including fighting for social justice, fighting for the African traditional values to be respected by the church’s highest authorities in Rome and helping in the growth of education in the country.

ISBN 9789966365118 | 234 pages | 216 x 140 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2009 | Longhorn Publishers, Kenya | Paperback | $24.95/£18.95


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EducationThe Effects of Massification on Higher Education in AfricaGoolam Mohamedbhai

Africa has experienced a dramatic escalation in the demand for higher education, beginning in the late 1960s and continuing today. This is partly in response to the relative success of the “Education for All” programmes implemented by many African countries, which resulted in very considerable expansions in primary and secondary enrollment and output. The pressure of this rising demand, in the face of inadequate resources, has posed major problems for policy makers as well as the leadership of

higher education institutions. The purpose of this study is to make an initial assessment of the impact of these developments on the campuses of Africa, and to identify innovative approaches adopted to overcome the resource constraints. The study look first at the effects of the enrollment explosion on teaching, examination performance, physical facilities, institutional management, financing and the quality of student life. It then documents ways in which selected institutions are coping with the challenges.

ISBN 9789988589417 | 106 pages | 244 x 170 mm | 2008 | Association of African Universities, Ghana | Paperback | $22.95/£16.95


Genuine Intellectuals. Academic and Social Responsibilities of Universities in AfricaBernard Nsokika Fonlon

This book, slim as it looks, took Bernard Nsokika Fonlon the best part of five laborious years to write 1965-9 inclusive. He writes: “I was penning away as students in France were up in arms against the academic Establishment, and their fury almost toppled a powerful, prestigious, political giant like General de Gaulle. In America students, arms in hand, besieged and stormed the buildings of the University Administration, others blew up lecture halls in Canada - the student revolt, a very saeva indignatio, was in

paroxysm. But in England (save in the London School of Economics where students rioted for the lame reason that the College gate looked like that of a jail-house) all was calm...”

Fonlon drew on these events to define the role of university education in this precious treasure of a book, which he dedicates to every African freshman and freshwoman. The book details his reflections and vision on the scientific and philosophical Nature, End and Purpose of university studies. He calls on African students to harness the Scientific Method in their quest for Truth, and to put the specialised knowledge they acquire to the benefit of the commonwealth first, then, to themselves. To do this effectively, universities must jealously protect academic freedom from all non-academic interferences. For any university that does not teach a student to think critically and in total freedom has taught him or her nothing of genuine worth. Universities are and must remain sacred places and spaces for the forging of genuine intellectuals imbued with skills and zeal to assume and promote social responsibilities with self abnegation.

Professor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, M.A., Ph.D., (Nui) Dip. Ed. (Oxon), born 19 November 1924 in Nso, North West Region of Cameroon, died 26 August 1986.



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Staff Retention in African Universities and Links with Diaspora StudyPaschal Mihyo

Between 1995 and 2005 some institutions of higher education in Africa undertook fundamental institutional and curriculum reforms. One obstacle in implementing these reforms is staff capacity erosion. The Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) Working group on Higher Education commissioned this study with the objective of examining the issue of higher education staff retention in African universities and the contribution that can be made by the Diaspora in reducing the effects of brain drain in these institutions. Four countries were chosen

for the study: Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia.

ISBN 9789988589424 | 90 pages | 244 x 170 mm | 2008 | Association of African Universities, Ghana | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95


Environmental Issues and EcologyBeyond Proprietorship. Murphree’s Laws on Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Southern AfricaEdited by B.B. Mukamuri, J.M. Manjengwa and S. Anstey

Dr. Marshall Murphree is a prominent scholar in the ÿelds of common property theory, rural development, and natural resource management. After graduating from the London School of Economics with a doctorate in social anthropology, he returned home to Zimbabwe to work as a missionary before joining the University of Zimbabwe, where he became director, and subsequently Professor Emeritus, of the Centre for Applied Social Sciences.

Beyond Proprietorship presents a range of contributions to the May 2007 conference held to honour Murphree’s work, and it conveys his central concerns of equality and fairness. The focus is on marginalised people living in poor and remote regions of Zimbabwe, but also includes important discussions about the policy implications of regional tenure regimes, and the place of local resource management in global conservation politics.

The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent history and experience of remote area development, semi-arid agriculture, conservation, and wildlife utilisation in southern Africa.

ISBN 9781779220721 | 212 pages | 216 x 140 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2009 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback | $24.95/£18.95


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HistoryBecoming Zimbabwe. A History from the Pre-colonial Period to 2008Edited by Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo

Becoming Zimbabwe is the first comprehensive history of Zimbabwe, spanning the years from 850 to 2008. In 1997, the then Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, Morgan Tsvangirai, expressed the need for a ‘more open and critical process of writing history in Zimbabwe. ...The history of a nation-in-the-making should not be reduced to a selective heroic tradition, but should be a tolerant and continuing process of questioning and re-examination.’ Becoming Zimbabwe tracks the idea of national belonging and citizenship and explores the nature of state rule,

the changing contours of the political economy, and the regional and international dimensions of the country’s history.

In their Introduction, Brian Raftopoulos and Alois Mlambo enlarge on these themes, and Gerald Mazarire’s opening chapter sets the pre-colonial background. Sabelo Ndlovu tracks the history up to WW11, and Alois Mlambo reviews developments in the settler economy and the emergence of nationalism leading to UDI in 1965. The politics and economics of the UDI period, and the subsequent war of liberation, are covered by Joseph Mtisi, Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Teresa Barnes. After independence in 1980, Zimbabwe enjoyed a period of buoyancy and hope. James Muzondidya’s chapter details the transition ‘from buoyancy to crisis’, and Brian Raftopoulos concludes the book with an analysis of the decade-long crisis and the global political agreement which followed.

ISBN 9781779220837 | 296 pages | 229 x 152 mm | B/W Illustrations and Maps | 2009 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback | $32.95/£22.95


Language and LinguisticsLinguistic Human Rights and Language Policy in the Kenyan Education SystemKembo Sure and Nathan O. Ogechi

This research is aimed at identifying the linguistic and pedagogical challenges experienced by teachers and pupils in Kenyan primary schools where English is used as the medium of instruction from Standard Four. Specifically it is an analysis of classroom discourse in mathematics and science lessons conducted in English and to determine the extent to which language of instruction supports or hinders participation in these verbal exchanges. Language attitudes were also tested to

elucidate whether Kenyans support the introduction of English as the medium of teaching in primary school and thereby establishing the acceptability of the language policy. The observation and recording of class lessons covered 26 Standard Four English, Science and Mathematics lessons and 8 Standard Eight Science and Mathematics classes.

ISBN 9789994455331 | 196 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2009 | OSSREA, Ethiopia | Paperback | $24.95/£18.95


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Media and Mass CommunicationHow to Write about AfricaBinyavanga Wainaina

This trio of sharp-witted essays takes irony to a new level. In How to Write About Africa, Wainaina dissects the African clichés and preconceptions dear to western writers and readers with a ruthless precision. In the same fashion, My Clan KC undresses the layers of meaning shrouding the identity of the infamous Kenya Cowboy. And in Power of Love, we start with a bemused recollection of the advent of the celebrities-for-Africa phenomenon, heralded by the mid-eighties hit song We

Are The World. It’s a short step from there to the speculation, many years later, that “a $9-dollar-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya,” whose “dollar-a-day people” continue to fascinate the “$5-dollar-a-day, 25-year-old backpackers who came and loved and compassioned and are now the beneficiaries of $5000 a month consulting for the United Nations.”

Binyavanga Wainaina won the Caine Prize in 2002 for his short story “Discovering Home” and famously used his prize money to set up the literary journal Kwani? in Kenya now in its fifth issue. He writes a weekly column for the Mail and Guardian in South Africa and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Granta and National Geographic. He is the newly appointed Director of the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Literature and Languages at Bard College, New York and is completing his first novel.

ISBN 9789966700827 | 52 pages | 138 x 116 mm | 2008 | Kwani Trust, Kenya | Paperback | $15.95/£12.95


Politics and International AffairsDefying the Winds of Change. Zimbabwe’s 2008 ElectionsEdited by Eldred V. Masunungure

After years of economic and social crisis, Zimbabweans went to the polls in March 2008 to vote for members of parliament, local government councillors and a president. The ruling ZANU (PF) party’s defeat in the 2000 constitutional referendum created shock waves that echoed into the new millennium. The harmonized March 2008 elections saw the party lose its parliamentary majority for the first time since Independence, and left the hitherto impregnable Robert Mugabe trailing behind Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential poll.

Defying the Winds of Change reviews the social and economic context of the election, its coverage in the media, its legitimacy, and the consequences of the decision to hold a presidential run-off three months later. The intervening period was marked by the worst violence the country had seen in twenty years: many were killed, hundreds injured, thousands displaced. Tsvangirai withdrew from the run-off to prevent even more bloodshed, leaving Mugabe to win a hollow victory in an election that was condemned throughout the world. Defying the Winds of Change is a penetrating analysis of the political turmoil that spawned Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government, and laid the foundations for a new political future.

Eldred V. Masunungure studied at the Universities of Zimbabwe and Dalhousie (Canada) and teaches in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Zimbabwe.



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Good Governance and Civil Society Participation in AfricaEdited by OSSREA

The 10 chapters in this volume were selected from 24 papers presented at a regional conference on Promoting Good Governance and Wider Civil Society Participation in Eastern and Southern Africa. The Conference sought to: Enhance the role of the social science disciplines in the evolving patterns and trends of democratic governance and economic management in the region; Enhance the contribution of universities and research institutes toward the promotion of good governance in the region;

Suggest ways and means of minimising the political, economic and social costs of transition from one-party and authoritarian regime types to democratic, open and transparent governance; Explore new approaches for promoting accountability, transparency, and responsiveness of government administration to the people; Explore viable ways and means of capacity building of civil societies, and strengthening the role of civil society organisations in promoting good governance and serving as a link between governments and the public at large.

ISBN 9789994455324 | 72 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2009 | OSSREA, Ethiopia | Paperback | $19.95/£15.95


Parliament, the Budget and Poverty in South Africa. A Shift in PowerLen Verwey

Effective and transparent government budgeting is vital to any democracy. In South Africa, massive poverty, inequality and unemployment remain, despite the successful political transformation, citizens and Parliament have a particularly important role to play in shaping budget policy and overseeing its implementation. South Africa reached a crossroads in fiscal governance when it passed the Money Bills Amendment Act in 2009, a law which granted Parliament strong powers to amend the budget prepared

by the executive. This publication explores the content of the new law as well as the challenges and opportunities arising from it. It also discusses the role of Parliament in ensuring pro-poor budgeting.

ISBN 9781920118914 | 110 pages | 244 x 170 mm | B/W Illustrations | 2009 | The Institute for Democracy in South Africa, South Africa | Paperback | $19.95/£16.95


Post-War Regimes and State Reconstruction in Liberia and Sierra LeoneSesay, Amadu, Charles Ukeje, Osman Gbla and Olawale Ismail

The shocks of the unexpected outbreak of violent internal armed conflicts in post Cold War West Africa continue to linger in policy and academic circles. While considerable attention is devoted to explaining the civil wars, there is little understanding of the delicate and unpredictable processes of reconstruction. This original study, by some of West Africa’s leading scholars, interrogates post-war reconstruction processes in the twin West African countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone, focusing on the effects of

regime types on the nature, scope, success or failure of their post-war reconstruction efforts. Political scientists, diplomats, the international community, donor and humanitarian agencies, advocacy groups, the United Nations and its agencies, would find it an important resource in dealing with countries emerging from protracted violence and civil war.

ISBN 9782869782563 | 120 pages | 234 x 156 mm | 2009 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback | $24.95/£18.95


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Zimbabwe: Survival of a NationJohn Mw Makumbe

When Zimbabwe attained national independence in 1980, it was “given” a constitution that had been drawn up by the British government at Lancaster House in London. This Lancaster House document has since been amended some seventeen times by the Mugabe government. Although some of the amendments were clearly necessary and aimed at redressing some of the colonial injustices, others were deliberately designed in order to ensure that the ruling Zanu PF party entrenched itself in power for the

foreseeable future. This study identifies a selection of key indicators for a democratic constitution and approaches a sample of informants and respondents in order to gather their views in relation to the Constitution of Zimbabwe.

ISBN 9789994455355 | 152 pages | 229 x 152 mm | Maps | 2009 | OSSREA, Ethiopia | Paperback | $22.95/£16.95


SociologyChildren and Youth in the Labour Process in AfricaEdited by Osita Agbu

It is increasingly clear that children and the youth today play a significant role in the labour process in Africa. But, to what extent is this role benign? And when and why does this role become exploitative rather than beneficial? This book on children and the youth in Africa sets out to address these questions. The book observes that in Africa today, children are under pressure to work, often engaged in the worst forms of child labour and therefore not living out their role as children. It argues that the social

and economic environment of the African child is markedly different from what occurs elsewhere, and goes further to challenge all factors that have combined in stripping children of their childhood and turning them into instruments and commodities in the labour process. It also explains the sources, dynamics, magnitude and likely consequences of the exploitation of children and the youth in contemporary Africa. The book is an invaluable contribution to the discourse on children, while the case studies are aimed at creating more awareness about the development problems of children and the youth in Africa, with a view to evolving more effective national and global responses.



Youth, HIV/AIDS and Social Transformations in AfricaDonald Anthony Mwiturubani and Ayalew Gebre

The five research reports that constitute this monograph are a fruit of the collaboration between the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in African (CODESRIA) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), two institutions with a longstanding interest in the study of youth and social transformations in Africa. Under the collaboration, 12 young African researchers were able to benefit from fellowships, workshops and the expertise of resource persons. The studies contribute significant

empirical insights from five different countries (Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Cameroon) to ongoing debates on how youth and social processes in Africa shape, and are shaped, by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.



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