Since independence in 1990, Namibia has witnessed only one generation with no memory
of colonialism-the'born frees', who voted in the 2009 elections. The anti-colonial liberation …

Social movements and civic organizations often face profound strategy dilemmas that can
hamper their effectiveness and prevent them from contributing to transformative change and …

Parties in Africa are often described as organisationally and programmatically weak. On the
other hand, they mobilise substantial numbers of voters at election time. This contradiction …

Following the events at the time of writing during early 2002 in Zimbabwe, the above lines
from a poem1 created in another time and context seem to suggest that certain mechanisms …

What has confounded African efforts to create cohesive, prosperous and just states in
postcolonial Africa? What has been the long-term impact of the Berlin Conference of 1884-5 …

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the interrelationship between long-standing caste
discrimination in Nepal, its vicious circle of impact upon the Dalit groups and the changes …

ECOWAS and the Dynamics of Conflict and Peace-building testifies to the fact that we
cannot talk of West African affairs, more so of conflict and peace-building, without talking …

This paper examines the role of the Nigeria labour movement in the struggles for democratic
restoration in Nigeria. The paper shows that the Nigerian labour is a forerunner of socio …

Human rights NGOs were the vanguard of the struggle for democratisation in Nigeria, but
they had to forge alliances with labour unions and other groups to galvanise this process …

This paper explores some aspects of the narrow translation of a liberation movement-an
agency of transformation-into an exclusivist apparatus claiming to represent the interest of …