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 Leiden University catalogue |
| Title: | Africa |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Current History (ISSN 0011-3530) |
| Volume: | 107 |
| Issue: | 708 |
| Pages: | 147-192 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Philadelphia, PA |
| Publisher: | Current History |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Algeria Ethiopia Kenya Nigeria South Africa |
| Subjects: | politics political conditions |
| Abstract: | The articles in this issue of 'Current History' on Africa range from Algeria to South Africa, via Ethiopia and Nigeria, covering post-election predicaments, crisis points, and politics as usual: Will the Kenya settlement hold? (Joel D. Barkan on the violent aftermath of the December 2007 elections in Kenya and the power-sharing pact between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga) - Ethiopia's convergence of crises (Terrence Lyons on the internal and regional crises facing the fragile regime in Ethiopia) - South Africa after the age of heroes (Jeffrey Herbst on Jacob Zuma, the new leader of the African National Congress) - Nigeria confronts Obasanjo's legacy (Richard Joseph and Darren Kew on the problems facing Nigeria's new president, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua) - Algeria in limbo: stable now, but still underperforming (William B. Quandt on the political and economic situation in Algeria) - Africa's religious resurgence and the politics of good and evil (Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar on religion and politics in Africa) - The problem with peacekeeping (François Grignon and Daniela Kroslak on the failure of peacekeeping missions to protect civilians in the absence of political settlements in Sudan, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and elsewhere). [ASC Leiden abstract] |