On Miscellaneous African Topics

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, while I was living first in Zimbabwe and later in Brazil, I worked closely with the journalists Steve Askin and Carole Collins. Steve especially was a patient mentor, teaching me how to construct and write a story in 800 or 1500 words. He encouraged me to cover stories that I would not have imagined from angles I would not have dreamed of, for publications I hadn't even heard of. We wrote together, and we wrote separately. I also began to reflect on Southern African as a region in conference papers.

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Africa and Its Regions

♦ With Carole Collins. Southern Africa: getting crumbs from the UNCED table. Africa Information Afrique, 24 June 1992. Click here to download PDF file, 1.5 Mb.

♦ Structures for liberation: prospects for the OAU liberation Committee, the Frontline States and SADCC in the 1990s. Paper presented to the Annual Conference on Peace and Security in Southern Africa (6th: Arusha: 25-28 February 1991). Not yet available.

♦ Africa Austral: as forças em jogo. In: A Africa do Sul hoje: a voz da mídia. Organizadores: Caetana Damasceno e outros (Rio de Janeiro: Instituto de Estudos da Religião, ISER, 1991), pages 73-80. Click here to view or download a PDF file [820 Kb.]

♦ With Steve Askin. Southern Africa - hope deferred. The Nation, 28 May 1990, second lead story. Click here to download PDF file, 600 Kb.

♦ Has the leopard changed its spots? Peace processes in southern Africa, 1988-1989. Paper presented to the Annual Conference on Peace and Security in Southern Africa (5th: Arusha: 16-21 October 1989). Not yet available.

Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland

♦ Lesotho: prigioniero del gigante. Nigrizia, March 1994, page 16. Click here to view or download a PDF of this article [1.4 Mb].

♦ Botswana: non solo diamanti. Nigrizia, December 1993, page 11. Click here to view or download a PDF of this article [1.4 Mb].

♦ Monarchia fuori dal tempo [Swaziland]. Nigrizia, December 1993, pages 12-13. Not yet available.

♦ Botswana's democracy: a model or a mirage? Toward Freedom vol.39 no.7, October-November 1990, p.17. Not yet available.

♦ Il regno delle montagne magiche [Lesotho]. Nigrizia, May 1990, pages 27-38. Click here to view or download a PDF of this article [4.3 Mb].

South Africa

♦ Remembering Ruth First at the CEA. Review of African Political Economy vol. 41 no.139, 2014, pages 38-43. Click here to view or download a PDF of this article [74 kb].

♦ A África do Sul pós-Mandela: democratização ou momento democrático perdido? Palestra oferecida no Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia, no Auditório Agostinho da Silva, Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Largo Dois de Julho, 42, Centro, Salvador, 5 de julho de 2010 às 19h00. A palestra foi repetida no Departamento de História, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana no dia 6 de Julho de 2010. Clique aqui para ver ou baixar um ficheiro tipo PDF do datashow [1.2 Mb.]

♦ Biography lacks heft and precision. Cape Times, Friday 15 January 2010. Click here to view or download a PDF file. [370 Kb.]
Review of Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp's biography of Chris Hani, A Life Too Short.

♦ Boesak stakes his claim to a future in politics. Cape Times, Friday 20 November 2009. Click here to view or download a PDF file. [543 Kb.]
A review of Allan Boesak's book Running with Horses.

♦ Constructed as a historical novel, this is neither fish nor fowl. Cape Times, Friday 11 September 2009. Click here to view or download a PDF file. [165 Kb.]
Review of Harvey Tyson's historical novel Blood on the path.

♦ Jaundiced view of new democracy. Cape Times, 5 June 2009. Click here to view or download a PDF file. [395 Kb.]
Review of R. W. Johnson's book South Africa's Brave New World.

♦ Africanism versus non-racialism: an overview of race and class as categories in contemporary South African political discourse. Paper presented to the Seminário Internacional sobre Racismo e Relações Raciais nos Países da Diáspora Africana (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: 6-11 April 1992). Not yet available.

♦ South Africa and the Total Strategy in the late 1980s: an overview. Paper presented to the Annual Conference on Peace and Security in Southern Africa (4th: Arusha: July 1988). Not yet available.

Tanzania

♦ Introduction. In: Colin Darch, Tanzania. rev.ed. Oxford: Clio Press, 1996, pages xix-xxxii. Not yet available.

♦ Class and state in Tanzanian development. Africa Today, vol.32, no.4, 4th quarter 1985, pages 68-70. Click here to view or download a PDF, 500 Kb. JSTOR's stable URL here.

♦ With Marc Wuyts, published anonymously. Memorando sobre a Tanzania: tendências políticas e económicas. Maputo: Centro de Estudos Africanos, 21 de Abril de 1982. 7 pages, 2 tables. Not yet available.

Zimbabwe

♦ Mango chutney or mango achar? How public e-mail got started in Zimbabwe. In: Rowing upstream: snapshots of pioneers of the information age, ed. Liz Levey, and S. Young (Johannesburg: Sharp Sharp Media, 2004), pages 93-94. Click here to see an HTML version of this text.

♦ As José Manuel Fontes. Eleições sob desconfiança. África [Lisbon] 21 February 1990. Not yet available.

♦ As José Manuel Fontes. Sabotagens afectam Zimbabwe. África [Lisbon] 14 February 1990, page 12. Not yet available.
Three Renamo attacks in three days on the Beira Corridor pipeline resulted in losses of fuel for Zimbabwe in January alone equivalent to nearly half the total losses for 1989.

♦ Published anonymously. Zimbabwe: universidade abre mais cedo. África [Lisbon] 24 January 1990, page 1, 39. Not yet available.

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