Publications

This article presents an account of the ideological form and practical exercise of violence among the Chai, a subgroup of the Suri (or Surma) people, agropastoralists in southern Ethiopia. In theoretical terms, the general question is addressed of how, on the elementary level...

On 6 May 1998, a violent conflict erupted in the Ethiopian-Eritrean border area. This article contends that this border crisis is neither unexpected nor the result of a real border dispute. Rather, it is due to three factors: the particular history and relationship of the two...

Despite its ancient history in Ethiopia, Islam has always been a secondary status religion in the country. It emerged in the shadow of Christianity and has often suffered from suppression and discrimination. This has had an impact on the social opportunities, religious and...

Coastal zone management, the sustainable use of coastal resources, is now high on the international agenda. In Kenya, the Coast Environmental Reseach Station (CERS) was started in Malindi in 1996 to liaise with other coastal organizations concerned with environmental issues....

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...