This is a multi-contributor work on the vast subject of debt and debt relief in Africa; the focus of the book being the welfare implications of debt, and its impact on the poorest and most vulnerable, and on future generations. The volume presents a pan-African perspective, giving an overview of the 'Africa debt dilemma', causes, effects and policy options. It presents case studies on virtually all the southern, central-southern, and east African countries, and comparative studies on debt and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa in general, and in the SADC region in particular.

As globalization proceeds apace international law, and the scope and powers of international institutions - the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization - continue to grow. If democratic values are still an aspiration of the 21st century, then their deficit at international level must be addressed. Patomaki and Teiveinen survey the range of proposals now on the table. Ruling nothing out, they emphasise feasibility. While democratic advances do not come without political mobilization, there is little point mobilizing people for the utopian and unrealizable.

Links is set in a city that is at once shockingly foreign and hauntingly familiar: Mogadiscio, the capital of Somalis, just weeks after the U.S. troops have pulled out, leaving a decimated, starving city ruled by thuggish clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians simply to relieve their adolescent boredom. This is the city so disturbingly captured by CNN cameras and in Black Hawk Down, but from a startlingly different - and surprising - point-of-view. Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, Links is the finest work yet from Farah, a novel that will secure his place in the international literary firmament and stand as a classic of modern world literature.

A Kenyan writing about the taboo subject of incest has taken first prize in the BBC's African Performance playwriting competition. John Rugoiyo Gichuki's prize-winning play looks at the after-effects of conflict on family relationships. A Time for Cleansing tells the tale of a couple returning to visit their family in Rwanda.

KMT: In the House of Life is a novel about memory and African history. It's based on research into the role of keepers of social memory in African society. Today these are academic intellectuals. In feudal Africa they were griots and spokespersons, and in ancient Egypt (known to the inhabitants themselves as KMT) they were scribes. Though these three groups have conventionally been thought of as unrelated or only tenuously connected, current research, especially from Francophone historians and Egyptologists, makes it possible to see professional, thematic and philosophical connections between them. The novel investigates these ties.

The PER ANKH cooperative publishing house aims to publish accurately-researched and well-produced books focused on Africa in a world context, shipping direct to buyers, by air mail.

South Africa’s political transition was astonishing. The reversal of overall economic decline has also been remarkable. However, the social change process has been chequered, mixed, arduous, open to diverse interpretations and often contradictory. Proud moments and excitement co-exist with disappointments. This book tells South Africa’s story of change in the best way that it can be told – through multiple viewpoints and different ways of conveying it: articles, interviews, short stories, poetry, and photography. It combines intensely personal reflections with broad-sweep viewpoints and assessments.

The idea of an International Criminal Court has captured the international legal imagination for over a century. In 1998 it became a reality with the adoption of the Rome Statute. This book critically examines the fundamental legal and policy issues involved in the establishment and functioning of the Permanent International Criminal Court. Detailed consideration is given to the history of war crimes trials and their place in the system of international law, the legal and political significance of a permanent ICC, the legality and legitimacy of war crimes trials, the tensions and conflicts involved in negotiating the ICC Statute, the general principles of legality, the scope of defences, evidential dilemmas, the perspective of victims, the nature and scope of the offences within the ICC's jurisdiction - aggression, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, questions of admissibility and theories of jurisdiction, the principle of complementarity, national implementation of the Statute in a range of jurisdictions, and national and international responses to the ICC.

Springing from an unprecedented meeting between the sons and daughters of the Holocaust and the children of the Third Reich, Justice Matters: Legacies of the Holocaust and World War II takes readers on an unparalleled journey of hatred and ethnic resentments. Although more than half a century has passed, recollections of the Holocaust and WWII still sear the lives of survivors, their children and grandchildren. Weissmark’s book shows how the cycle of ethnic and religious strife is kept alive generation after generation through story-telling, with each side recounting the injustice it suffered and the valour it showed in avenging its own group.

For many indigenous African people, magic still governs the life of the individual and the course of the universe. If you have ever been intrigued by the healing arts of the witchdoctor, this is the book for you. Discover in detail the methods used to cast demons out of the possessed, call spirits from trees, and use medicinal plants to cure physical illnesses.

How can organisations, managers and directors be efficient in Africa today? Managing towards Self-Reliance presents tools and techniques which enable organisations to function in the complex and often paradoxical environment which surrounds them. The authors discuss the notion of self-reliance, the purpose and the efficiency of organisations, strategic management, human resources and project management. The book is the result of research work done during a pilot training programme held over a year at the Gorée Institute in Senegal, in which over 60 African based organisations participated.

This workbook is a response to the many requests we have received over the years for a ‘toolkit’ to make our exercises and methods transparent. It outlines a developmental process for the reader to undertake with a speaking partner. It is based on the principle that you cannot do with others what you have not been through yourself. Users of this workbook will find that going through this journey will put them in a good position to adapt those exercises and methods which work for them and include them in their own development practice.

The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. It is now being re-launched on its own website that continues to provide free access to tables of contents and abstracts for all titles - but also provides a number of additional facilities. AJOL offers a document delivery service, and full (improved) searching and browsing facilities, as well as a new Email alert function. The service remains free to both users and participating journals (with charges only for document delivery requests from outside developing countries).

During the month of February the cultural program at the Goree Institute organized a celebration to commemorate, inform and educate various publics of the contributions of the enslaved Africans after the transatlantic slave trade. The celebration included an exhibit at the History Museum. The students at the Senegalese American Bilingual School in Dakar constructed the displays at the museum. The displays highlighted some of the contributions of Africans residing in the six region of Africa. The students made sketches of various African Americans and provided a brief summary of their contributions in French and English.

Table of Contents:
* The South African "African Renaissance'' Debate: A Critique
* The Challenges of an African Renaissance in the 21st Century
* Globalisation and African Renaissance: An Ethical Reflection
* African Renaissance and African Unity in the Era of Globalisation
* Renaissance - Romantic Realism?

The Banjul Charter commonly known as the African Charter on Human and People's Rights was formally adopted in 1981. The rationale behind the treaty was to challenge Africa's own neglect of human rights abuses in the post-colonial period, and to urge members of the OAU, now the AU, to adopt a regional human rights instrument. This paper presents a brief introduction to the tenants of the Banjul Charter, procedures and areas of divergence. It examines the rationale behind keeping the proceedings of relevant bodies confidential. It critically analyses the achievements of some African states in implementing human rights and their relationships with the OAU, and provides a view of what future role the AU might play in the protection process.

“To most people, nuclear physics may seem very far removed from Indian classical music - but not to South African Indian scientist Raju Kala…”

With nimble fingers, Sobo Cgara digs around a plant and unearths a calabash-shaped root full of water. Cgara, 24, is a San guide who shows tourists his people's unique knowledge of the Kalahari at a community-owned game farm near D'kar in Ghanzi district, in central-west Botswana. He is one of the few San youth with education, a job and a future. For centuries and up to the present, the San have been the losers in the conflict between their need for land on which to forage and the demands of cattle ranching.

Ibrahim offers a comparative study of the democratic transitions in the Anglophone countries of West Africa, identifying regional trends and discreet factors. He argues that democracy is creeping up the agenda, owing to a determined struggle for human rights and because democracy has been denied to the people for so long. He identifies a number of common issues across the region: the rise of a militarised secular state; a significant increase in public corruption; the primitive accumulation of capital; an intense battle to deepen democracy between civil society and the state; the appropriation of gender politics by the state through the office of the 'first ladies'; and the growing dissidence between elections and political choice.

Zimbabwe's suspension and decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth in November 2003 have confirmed the country's status as an international pariah. There has been steady criticism of President Robert Mugabe and his government in the media but scant appreciation of the ways in which violence and repression emerge from the very nature of state structures in Zimbabwe. Pan-African scholar Horace Campbell's new book posits that it is possible to break with the analysis of implicating individuals and to link murder, mayhem and masculinity to the European ideation system inherited by the post-colonial state.