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Since the late 1980s evidence has been emerging in support of rumours of South African involvement in the southern African ivory trade from the mid-1960s onwards. There is some evidence that, from the early mid-1970s, elements of the South African government and its security...

The conduct of African politics seems to be governed by certain rules or patterns, including regional fragmentation, a continuing search for a maximum coalition combining all regional forces, and a prominent role for personality politics. At first sight, Malawi does not fit...

The few existing studies on the response of labour to the economic crisis and structural adjustment in African countries tend to focus on the (oppositional) relations between the State and central labour organizations. They largely ignore the response of workers and unions at...

This book focuses on the consciousness and action of female plantation workers in Cameroon. Two tea estates were selected for in-depth research. The main body of the work is comprised of two parts, both of which try to come to terms with the consciousness and action of...

Particularly as elites mediating between local communities and the outside world, actors in contemporary southern African societies have talked about culture. Paradoxically, the term 'culture' rarely appeared in scholarly discourse on these same societies. Until...