A significant attempt by Africa's own scholarly community to unpack NEPAD and evaluate its practical potential. It raises key questions about the market economy, poverty, gender and regional development, and examines NEPAD's implications for agriculture, industrialization, trade, the digital divide, and the financing of future development. Index, 288pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

First in-depth study of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Includes a CD-Rom with the official APRM guidelines, final country reports, survey instruments and governance codes and standards. Index, bib, apps, 406pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Contains 30 essays based on papers and speeches delivered at the African Renaissance conference (Johannesburg, 1998). Their subject matter ranges from overviews of Africa's history- dealing with slavery and colonialism, but also with Africa's scientific and cultural heritage- to moral renewal, culture and education, political and economic transformation, science and technology, and the role of the media and telecommunications. Notes, refs, xxi, 467pp, SOUTH AFRICA. TAFELBERG PUBLISHERS.

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Theme: Leadership in Africa - Trends, Triumphs and Challenges. Focuses on the quality of leadership in the continent, looking at the challenges, triumphs and trends. In his paper, Gerrie Swart, argues that any mention of African leadership today regrettably always tends to conjure up the negative associations with Africa’s so-called Big Men and the ravages of dictatorship that has on frequent occasions laid waste to many African states political and socio-economic stability. He contends that while there are instances to buttress such observations, it is also necessary to evaluate the important initiatives, trends and responses that have emerged from the African continent to the challenges posed to, and by African leadership. He maintains that Africas leadership crisis is in a state of flux and is actually moving towards achieving stable, responsible and accountable leadership that the continent is in dire need of. Includes essays by Roger Southall, Henning Melber, Faten Aggad, Yolanda K. Spies and Gilbert M. Khadiagala, as well as the usual reviews and interviews. 108pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.

Theme: Consolidating the Democracy Project in Africa: Cases from South Africa, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia. In this issue: Usman Tar discusses some of the major challenges in instituting and sustaining the democracy project in Africa; Dirk Kotzé examines the democratic consolidation process in South Africa; Peter F. Z. Zaizay looks at security sector reform and the fight against crime and disorder in Liberia; T. Debey Sayndee discusses the post-conflict challenges in Liberia; Mats Utas analyses the recent elections in Sierra Leone; Abdurahman Abdullahi examines how Somali women achieved political empowerment in Somalia between 2000 and 2003. In addition there is a range of other contributions, from how to reposition family planning to reduce unmet needs to a discussion of the politics of resistance to dictatorship in Nurudin Farah's novels. 140pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.

Theme: The Democratic Republic of Congo: From Peace Rhetoric to Sustainable Political Stability? In this issue: Henri Boshoff discusses the demobilisation, disarmament and re-integration processes in the DRC in the context of the reform of the country’s security sector; Vasu Gounden & Karanja Mbugua wonder whether the DRC is finally emerging from hell after a four year transition period led by Jospeh Kabila, and the first multiparty election in the country since independence in 2006; Franco Henwood assesses some of the key issues at the root of country’s problems, blaming it on the country’s predatory elites; Gerrie Swart revisits the key actors in the conflict transformation processes in the country; Kongosi & Ben Mussanzi wa Mussangu argue that the humanitarian disaster in the country has only changed face since the 2006 elections, noting numerous instances of post-election conflicts; Sehlare Makgetlaneng examines the role of external and internal actors in the socio-economic and political configura-tions of the DRC; René Lemarchand uses the DRC, Rwanda and Burundi to discuss power sharing arrangements among different contending groups in Africa. UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.

Theme: The Horn of Africa: From Crises and Wars to Peace and Stability. In this issue: Daniel Aremu argues that European construction of Ethiopian historiography has largely rested on the hypothesis that the Ethiopian state and civilization were built by immigrants from South Arabia who colonized Ethiopia; Osman Farah and Mammo Muchie reflect on the 2006 Christmas war by Ethiopia on Somalia, noting that the two countries have had two wars since Somalias independence, the first being in 1964; Berhanu Gutema Balcha discusses ethnicity and federalism in Ethiopia; Mohamed Haji Mukhtar discusses the collapse of the Somali state, the various peace conferences and efforts at reconstituting the failed state and the recent Ethiopian military intervention; Abdurahman M. Abdullahi discusses the history of Somali women's political participation over four decades; Jesiah Selvam analyses the privatisation programme in Ethiopia, which began in the 1990s; Other contributions range from Professor Ali Mazrui's LIVING LEGEND AWARD 2007, acceptance speech to a tribute to music superstar James Brown's. UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.

Focuses on African culture/philosophy and its possible relationship with the current crises of governance and development in the continent. Contributors argue that the issue of African culture/ philosophy has not been given adequate attention in the analyses of the current crises in which the continent is enmeshed. Are the current crises of governance and development in the continent facilitated by African culture and philosophy of life? Or are they the result of lack of, or insufficient incorporation of these into the models of development and governance imported into the continent from outside? Are these imported models of governance and development culturally and philosophically neutral? Contributors include: Garba Diallo, Bhekinkosi Moyo, Gerrie Stewart and Uzochukwu Njoku. 118pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.

Poses a number of fundamental questions: why did Somalia fail as a state? Should the failed state be reconstituted as one nation or should different nations be allowed to emerge from the ashes of the collapsed state? What are the challenges facing the state reconstitution efforts? And what are the implications of all these for the current democracy and development projects in Africa? Contributors include: Abdinur S. Mohamud, Abdi M. Kusow, Mohamed H. Mukhtar, Abdurahman Moallim Abdullahi and Abdulkadir Osman Farah. 164pp, UK. ADONIS & ABBEY.

Countries under review are Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Uganda. Examines democracy, human security, electoral and voter registration systems, party politics, term limitations and constitutional guarantees. Includes brief summary of each country history and vital statistics such as GDP, population and last election. Acronyms and abbrev, x, 99pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICAN HUMAN SECURITY INITIATIVE.

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Since the integration of NEPAD into the AU, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has started a process to address some of the obstacles on the basis of a voluntary assessment of African government policies. The contributions to this publication trace the recent developments from a policy perspective and explore the scope and limit of the current democratisation efforts. 56pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE.

New edition. Scepticism about corporate-driven globalisation is a thread running through the first round of civil society critiques of NEPAD. This book reproduces commentaries from major social movements, trade unions, and thirteen perspectives from progressive intellectuals and other community leaders. Also includes a major afterword essay on the politics of NEPAD through 2004. 295pp, USA, AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Sets out to identify the objectives of the NEPAD initiative and seeks to demonstrate how their successful implementation could arrest socio-economic decline on the African continent. It delineates specific areas where international bodies can support development initiatives. Index, bib, abbrev, 532pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RICHARD HAVENGA & ASSOCIATES.

In November 2005, four years after the adoption of the NEPAD program, the African Finance and Economic Association (AFEA) and the United Nations Institute of African Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), organized an international conference on the NEPAD, in Dakar, Senegal, attended by African and Africanist experts, researchers, academics and representatives of civil society from Africa, United States, and Europe. This volume is the result and offers recommendations for ways to improve the implementation of the NEPAD framework. Index, 366pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Enthusiastically embraced by African presidents, G-7 leaders, and the UN General Assembly alike, the New Partnership for Africa's Development has been advanced as the vehicle that will vitalize the continent's economies. Ian Taylor critically explores just what Nepad is, and what potential it has or lacks for promoting African development. 212pp, USA. LYNNE RIENNER.

From 24 to 26 February 2002, the Hanns Seidel Foundation, based in Germany, came together in Dar es Salaam with African counterparts for its annual workshop. This Discussion Paper publishes some of the presentations to the workshop in an effort to document the current debate and different positions therein. 141pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE, 9171064923

A collection of essays assessing African development over 40 years and new responses to development paradigms by African states and donor states. Notes, iv, 216pp, UK. CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES, 0954518306

A collection of papers addressing aspects of the debate surrounding the African intellectual, political and economic renaissance. Notes, refs, 92pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA, 0798301376

This book focuses on two major areas: first, the problems facing African states; and second, possible solutions and the potential role of the United Nations. 'Africa's future success lies in a combination of the need for expertise, capital, and democratic and transparent governance. The immediate need, however, is to create informed and sensitive domestic governments, a need which should be reflected in a similar shift in the focus of multilateral institutions such as the United Nations. Glos, xii, 129pp. SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OFSTRATEGIC STUDIES.

This paper argues that the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) is not infallible and its objectives and priority sector proposals can be problematic and unrealistic in the long term. The author propose some alternatives that can facilitate the realisation of NEPAD's goals. Notes, refs, iv, 11pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA, 0798301643

Africa and the Challenges of the Third Millennium

Presents the work of social leaders and intellectuals who worked over three years to identify the priorities and perspectives for Africa in the 21st century. It raises questions about the viability of NEPAD and its development and economic aims. Foreword by Amartya Sen. Appendices, tables, figs, 185pp, BENIN. PANAFRICAN SOCIAL PROSPECTS CENTER.