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MANOEUVRING IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF UNCERTAINTY

The Making of Modern Africa

Series Editors: Abebe Zegeye and John Higginson

Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
A view from the South
Edited by Hussein Solomon and Ian Liebenberg

Ghana in Search of Development
The challenge of governance, economic management and institution building
Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo

Regional and Local Economic Development in South Africa
The experience of the Eastern Cape
Etienne Louis Nel

Agrarian Economy, State and Society in Contemporary Tanzania
Edited by Peter G. Forster and Sam Maghimbi

Entrepreneurial Ethics and Trust
Cultural foundations and networks in the Nigerian plastic industry
Yakubu Zakaria

Growth or Stagnation? South Africa heading for the year 2000
Mats Lundahl

Sudan's Predicament
Civil war, displacement and ecological degradation
Edited by Girma Kebbede

Doctors and the State
The struggle for professional control in Zimbabwe
Dorothy Mutizwa-Mangiza

Manoeuvring in an Environment of Uncertainty

Structural change and social action in sub-Saharan Africa

Edited by
Boel Berner and Per Trulsson
Linkping University, Sweden

First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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ISBN 13: 978-1-138-74050-1 (hbk)
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Guide

Said Adejumobi is Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. He is presently Research Fellow at the Centre For African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also the editor of the Nigerian The Journal of Politics, and co-author (with Abubakar Momoh) of The Political Economy of Nigeria under Military Rule (1984-1993), 1995.

Boel Berner is Professor at the Department of Technology and Social Change, Linkping University, Sweden. She has previously worked on development issues in Turkey and China. In recent years her main research interest has been the role of expertise in modernisation processes and problems of risk and uncertainty in areas of high complexity. She is the author of several books and a large number of articles, e.g. the recent edited volume on Gendered Practices. Feminist Studies of Technology and Society , 1997.

Mette Bovin is a Danish social anthropologist, employed at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden (1993-98). She has conducted fieldwork in West Africa and among nomadic people in the Sahel region since the 1970s, with a special emphasis on pastoral societies. She is the author of several books, articles and reports on the subject, e.g. Adaptive Strategies in African Arid Lands, 1990, and Nomads who Cultivate Beauty. Woaae Dances and Visual Arts in Niger, 2000. She also has an extensive production in visual anthropology, with films, television productions, museum exhibitions, etc.

Tanya Elder obtained her doctorate at the Department of Technology and Social Change, Linkping University, Sweden. She is the author of Capturing Change. The Practice of Malian Photography, 1930s-1990s, 1997. Her research interests include questions of appropriate technology and the issue of 'bricolage'. She has also worked in development programmes in West Africa.

Amanda Hammar originates from Zimbabwe, where she has worked for over a decade on infrastructural development programmes and on decentralisation and local government reform. She is currently based at the Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen and at Roskilde University, Denmark, doing research on the relationship between the politics of place and the politics of land in Zimbabwe. She is the author of 'Speaking with space: Displacements and claims in the politics of land in Zimbabwe' in, In The Name of the Poor, forthcoming, edited by Neil Webster and Lars Engberg-Pederson.

Goran Hyden is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida, Gainesville, United States. He has written extensively on issues of politics and development in Africa and has done field work in several countries in eastern Africa. His publications include Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania , 1980; No Shortcuts to Progress, 1983; Governance and Politics in Africa (co-edited with Michael Bratton), 1992. He has a new manuscript entitled 'Social Capital in Crisis: The Demise of African Collective Action', in press.

Achille Mbembe is Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Dakar, Senegal. He has done several studies of the post-colonial state in Africa, including La naissance du maquis dans le Sud-Cameroun (1920-1960): histoire des usages de la raison en colonie, 1996, and Le politique par le bas en Afrique noire: Le politique par le: contributions une problmatique de la dmocratie (with Jean-Franois Bayart and Comi Toulabor), 1992.

Anders Nrman is Associate Professor of Human and Economic Geography, and the Director of the Centre for Africa Studies, both at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has done extensive research on education, regional development and general development issues in Eastern and Southern Africa, and recently also in Sri Lanka. Among his publications are Education and Nation Building in Kenya, 1995; Structurally Adjusted Africa (co-edited with Simon, D, van Spengen, W. and Dixon, C), 1995; Development as Theory and Practice , 1999 (coedited with Simon, D.). He was also guest editor of Geografiska Annaler for the special issue on 'Current Development Thinking', 1997.

Antoine Socpa is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Non-western Studies (CNWS) at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His current research interest is ethnicity and multiparty politics in Cameroon. He is the author of 'L'hgmonie ethnique cyclique au nord Cameroun' in Africa Development, 1999, and 'Les dons dans le jeu politique au Cameroun' in Cahiers d 'Etudes Africaines, 2000.

Per Trulsson received his doctorate at the Department of Technology and Social Change, Linkoping University, Sweden. He is the author of Strategies of Entrepreneurship. Understanding Industrial Entrepreneur ship and Structural Change in Northwest Tanzania, 1997. He has also been involved in a research project studying how Swedish women entrepreneurs handle obstacles and opportunities in fields dominated by men. His current position is as Associate Expert within the ILO programme on Start and Improve Your Business in the Southern and Eastern Africa region.

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