Publications

This study compares the livelihood of the Mada people of the Mandara mountains of north Cameroon with that of the Mada who have descended from the mountains to the adjacent plains in the period since the independence of Cameroon. Fieldwork for the study was conducted in the...

This thesis illuminates the way in which a complex configuration of factors interacted in the first half of the 20th century to fundamentally transform the Kingdom of Kom in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon. It examines the impact of colonial and missionary penetration, as...

This article deals with the Zambian general elections of 18 November 1996, notably the triangular interaction between the incumbent political group - President Chiluba and his Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), the opposition, and the international community. Chiluba...

The main thesis of this article is that nations need memories and that in many African States there is a need to create a memory of the period between independence and the reintroduction of multipartyism. That process often takes the form of inquests into human rights abuses...

The local and regional-level impact of the economic and political crisis facing Cameroon in the 1990s is examined through a case study of one of the oldest private enterprises in the domestic agro-industrial sector, Plantations Pamol du Cameroun Ltd or Pamol, as it is still...

The issue of regional integration has acquired a new relevance and urgency in Africa due to wide-reaching national and global changes. African leaders' commitment to regional economic integration was clearly expressed during the June 1991 OAU summit meeting in Abuja,...

Managements of tea estates have often given preference to female labour over male labour, on the assumption that women were 'naturally' more suited to plucking tea. They also were thought to be cheaper and more docile than men. In this chapter the author focuses on...

Herero society in Namibia continually draws from a bundle of loose characteristics - related to behaviour, clothing, ritual, food, or other things - which are combined in various ways to form stereotypes of what is considered to be 'Herero'. One of the occasions...

In order to make ends meet, many poor urban households in sub-Saharan Africa fall back on farming activities, either within the city boundaries or in the rural areas from which they come. The central question raised in this article is whether access to farmland influences a...