Note from the Editor
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A message from the President: African studies in Australia today
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African Studies Conference 1994
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Articles
Impressions of the Inauguration of the President Nelson Mandela – Sheila Suttner
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Flora Nwapa (1931-1993) – Sue Thomas
5-7
Transforming Uganda? Constitutional and political change 1986-1994 – Anthony Regan
8-13
Education reforms in The Gambia – Geoffrey Coyne
14-19
About Books, Research Materials and Research
Twaddle, Michael: Kakangulu and the creation of Uganda 1868-1928 – Donald Denoon
20-22
Ardener, Shirley (ed): Defining females: The nature of women in society – Elaine Bliss
23-24
Mazrui, Ali: Cultural forces in world politics – John Fitzpatrick
25-26
Wesley, David: Mental health and psychiatry in Africa: An annotated bibliography – John McCulloch
27-28
The African Centre for Applied Research and Training in Social Development: The African social situation: Crucial factors of development and social transformation; and The human dimension of Africa’s persistent economic crisis – Scott MacWilliam
29-31
Sustainable peace: Angola’s recovery – Roger Woods
32-33
Limb, Peter: The ANC and the black workers in South Africa, 1912-1992 – Joan Wardrop
34
Reference guides: Research and the state of African Studies – Peter Limb
35-38
Distribution of African publishers ‘Titles in Australia’
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African Publishers Networking Directory 1993/94
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Africa on the Internet, some resources – John Laidler
39-40
African labour history
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Centre of African Studies, Copenhagen
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The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
43-44
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford
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Report on Field Trip to Zimbabwe and Tanzania – Roger Woods
46
Research Project – on the South African Police: Contested policing in Soweto – Joan Wardrop
47-48
New publications from the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Oxford
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World Bank’s Open Information Policy
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Ghana Human Rights Quarterly
49
Hal-Abuur
49
Research in African Literatures
49-50
News and Notes
50-58
Africa at the HRC: 1995 programme
59-62
Note from the Editor
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Letter from the President
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Final Call for Papers for 1995 AFSAAP Conference
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These days – Ama Ata Aidoo
4-7
African women’s fiction and a politics of the everyday – Pam Stavropoulos
8-15
Archaeological field research in the Wester Rift Valley of Uganda – Graham Connah
16-19
Observations of an Australian Peace Monitor in South Africa April 1994 – Mary Paton
20-22
A Zambian participant’s impressions of the First International Conference for Women in Agriculture. Melbourne, 1994 – Cecilia Makota
23-24
About Books, Research Materials and Research
Christopher Adam, William Cavendish & Percy S. Mistry: Adjusting privatization: Case studies for developing countries – Scott MacWilliam
25-26
Michael Mann & Valerie Sanders (compilers): A bibliography of African texts in the collections of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, to 1963 – Peter Limb
27-28
Schmidt, Nancy J.: Sub-Saharan African films and filmmakers 1987-1992: An annotated bibliography – Rosaleen Smyth
28-30
Omer-Cooper, J. D.: History of Southern Africa – Norman Etherington
30-31
Mkhondo, Rich: Reporting South Africa – Joan Wardrop
32-33
Dorothy Driver, Ann Dry, Craig MacKenzie & John Read: Nadine Gordimer: A bibliography of primary and secondary sources, 1937-1992 – Peter Alexander
33-34
Hatchard, John: Individual freedoms and state security in the African countries: The case of Zimbabwe – Martin Chanock
34-35
Ward, W. E. F.: My Africa; Onyeka Nwanunobi, C.: African social institutions; Kwame A. Ninsin & F. K. Drah: Political parties and democracy in Ghana’s Fourth Republic; and Nwabueze, B. O.: Military rule and constitutionalism in Nigeria – Peter Limb
36-38
Enahoro, Peter: The complete Nigerian – Taban lo Liyong
39-40
African newspapers in Australia: New acquisitions
41
New book on Namibia
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News and Notes
42-52
First HRC 1995 Africa Conferences. Africa: Precolonial acheivement – Graham Connah
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The second HRC 1995 Conference. Out of Africa: Texts for understanding the African past – David Dorward
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1994 AFSAAP AGM Minutes
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