Harvey Glickman

Conflict in Africa

Introduction The colonial legacy External influences - end of the Cold war and Eastern European revolutions The north-south flow of arms technology Liberia The Sahara The Sudan Ethiopia and Eritrea Uganda Chad Zimbabwe Angola and Mozambique Namibia Effect of conflict - human rights and refugees Effect of conflict-economic Child soldiers.

The Nigerian “419” Advance Fee Scams: Prank or Peril?

ResumeUne enquete preliminaire sur la nature et l’etendue des escroqueries par l’intermediaire de courriels venus d’Afrique, et qui auraient debute au Nigeria revele des effets plus importants que le multipostage electronique excessif. Ces messages appeles “quatre-un-neuf” — comme la clause juridique du Code criminel nigerian — sont recus par des millions de personnes essentiellement en Amerique du Nord et en Europe, creant ainsi une economie clandestine considerable. Des offres frauduleuses de partager des millions de dollars avec des beneficiaires depourvus de la moindre mefiance ont affecte des millions de gens qui avaient repondu aux lettres, aux telecopies et courriels depuis les annees 1980, avec pour consequence des pertes individuelles de sommes d’argent, des sommes a payer pour se battre en justice, la subversion de l’activite economique legitime et une contribution importante a une culture de corruption, pas necessairement limitee au Nigeria. Nous enquetons sur l’identite des expediteurs, sur l’...

Africa in the War on Terrorism

Locating the African political scene within the new global paradigm of the war on terrorism, we inquire into the impact of the events of 9/11 on the international relations of African states within emerging new transnational forces, centering on American foreign policy toward Africa and on possible scenarios of African responses. We explore pressures and opportunities emerging and contemplate practical reactions by a new generation of African leaders. Africans have a stake in resisting terrorism and playing a role in a winning coalition. Their interests in development, security, open societies, and decent governance are enhanced by cooperation in the war on terrorism that also include elements of the African diaspora and the North American Africanist community.

Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara: A Biographical Dictionary

Preface Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara Listing of Subjects by Country Chronology Bibliographical Note Index

Reflections on state-centrism as ideology in Africa

This chapter asks the question: ‘what role can ideology play in establishing the norms by which power is exercised and policy is made in African states today?’. The discussion is aided by the distinctions made by Franz Schurmann between pure and practical ideology,2 and by Robert Lane between forensic and latent ideology.3 Pure ideology reflects the beliefs of leaders; practical ideology grows out of the experience of organizations in implementing policy; forensic ideology represents political goals as expressed in public speeches; latent ideology describes the political beliefs and values applied by ordinary people to their own lives. Our argument is that the pure ideology of the post-colonial African state focuses overwhelmingly on the creative and positive aspects of a single line of authority for politics and state control of the economy, failing to justify a role for non-state institutions as practical ideology. But the actual practice of authoritarian and bureaucratic rule to implement a monistic state conflicts with the latent ideology of patronage-clientage. Economic decline and conditions for outside aid are creating pressures for a reduced state role in the economy, thus creating conditions for the uneasy co-existence of authoritarianism and client-age as a system of rule, but also some possibility for reducing the gap between rhetoric and reality, i.e., between the forensic ideology of leaders arid the latent ideology of the masses.

The Crisis and Challenge of African Development

Preface Part One European Colonialism and Postcolonial Crises in Africa by David B. Abernethy The Present and Future of the African State in an Age of Adversity by Harvey Glickman The Crisis of African Development and the Lagos Plan of Action by Vremudia P. Diejomaoha African Capitalism and African Economic Performance by Sayre P. Schatz Contemporary Policy Responses to Economic Decline in Africa by Ravi Gulhati and Satya Yalamanchili Images and Realities of Responsibility toward Africa by Princeton Lyman Part Two Overburdened Government and Underfed Populace: The Role of Food Subsidies in Africas Economic Crisis by Raymond F. Hopkins Institutionalizing Rural Development: Lessons from Evaluation by Ruth S. Morgenthau Getting Women on the African Development Agenda by Barbara Lewis Development and Deviance: A Situational Perspective on African Governmental Corruption by Robert Washington Accepting the Challenge of the Crisis of Development in Africa: Conclusions and Implications by Harvey Glickman

Perspectives on Africa from the fourth American-Soviet Symposium on Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

The fourth meeting of the U. S.-Soviet Symposium on Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa was held in Moscow, July 11-14, 1988. The American delegation is a national representation of American Africanists, led by Carl G. Rosberg, the Director of the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. The symposium, which has been held bi-annually since 1982, alterately in the USA and the USSR, is an activity of the American Council of Learned Societies USSR Academy of Sciences, administered in the United States by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). Approximately twenty host country scholars and ten from the visiting country participate in each symposium.