Roots of African Conflicts

Professor Alfred G. Nhema is the Director of the School of Government. His research interests are in the areas of Democracy and Governance, Public Administration, Public Policy, Peace and Conflict. He is the Editor of The Resolution of African Conflicts: the Management of Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction (2008) and The Roots of African Conflicts: the Causes and Costs (2008). Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Vice Chancellor at United States International University-Africa. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Vice Chancellor at United States International University-Africa.

• Introduction by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Conflict in Africa by Ali A. Mazrui; When states implode: Africa's civil wars, 1950-92 by Errol A. Henderson; The Sudan conundrum by Abdel Ghaffar M. Ahmed; Citizenship, the State & Africa's conflicts: reflections on the Ivory Coast by John Akokpari; The terrible toll of post-colonial 'rebel movements' in Africa by Thandika Mkandawire; Fanon & the African woman combatant by Aaronette M. White; Fighting locally, connecting globally by Sandra J. MacLean; Legislative responses to terrorism & the protection of human rights by Cephas Lumina; Conflicts & implications for poverty & food security policies in Africa by Fondo Sikod; Two Africas? Two Ugandas? An African 'democratic developmental state'? Or another 'failed state'? by Timothy M. Shaw & Pamela K. Mbabazi.

By putting together these two comprehensive and well-researched volumes, Nhema and Zeleza have done a great service to the Africanist community as well as to interested laypersons. [They] should be commended for selecting and editing twenty well-researched and thoughtfully argued contributions to provide us with what is arguably one of the most comprehensive and perceptive treatments to date of conflict and conflict resolution in Africa from both a historical and contemporary perspective.