Ulf Engel - The African Exception

The African Exception

Series Editors
JOHN MUKUM MBAKU
Weber State University, USA
MWANGIS. KIMENYI
The University of Connecticut, USA and The Kenya Institute
for Public Policy Research and Analysis, Kenya

The Contemporary Perspectives on Developing Societies series was founded to serve as an outlet for policy relevant research. Books published in this series provide rigorous analyses of issues relevant to the peoples of the Third World and their efforts to improve their participation in the global economy.

Mentan, T. (2004), Dilemmas of Weak States: Africa and Transnational Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century .

Akiba, O. (ed.) (2004), Constitutionalism and Society in Africa .

Kimenyi, M.S. and Meagher, P. (eds) (2004), Devolution and Development: Governance Prospects in Decentralizing States .

Kieh, Jr., G.K. and Agbese, P.O. (2004), The Military and Politics in Africa: From Engagement to Democratic and Constitutional Control .

Bangura, A.K. (2004), Sweden vs Apartheid: Putting Morality Ahead of Profit .

Kalu, K.A. (ed.) (2004), Agenda Setting and Public Policy in Africa .

Kimenyi, M.S., Mbaku, J.M. and Mwaniki, N. (eds) (2003), Restarting and Sustaining Economic Growth and Development in Africa: The Case of Kenya .

Darkoh, M.B.K. and Rwomire, A. (eds) (2003), Human Impact on Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa .

Mainuddin, R.G (ed.) (2002), Religion and Politics in the Developing World: Explosive Interactions .

Saitoti, G. (2002), The Challenges of Economic and Institutional Reforms in Africa .

Mbaku, J.M., Agbese, P.O. andKimenyi, M.S. (eds) (2001), Ethnicity and Governance in the Third World .

Ngoh, V.J. (2001), Southern Cameroons, 1922-1961: A Constitutional History .

Udogu, E.I. (ed.) (2001), The Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa .

Magnarella, P.J. (2000), Justice in Africa: Rwanda's Genocide, its Courts, and the UN Criminal Tribunal .

Edited by
Ulf Engel
University of Leipzig, Germany
Gorm Rye Olsen
Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen

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PATRICK CHABAL, a political scientist, is a Professor at the University of London (King's College). He has taught and carried out research in a number of African countries as well as in the USA, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK. He has published widely on the history, politics, and culture of African countries. His main book publications are A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa (London, 2002, with others); Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (Oxford, 1999, with J.-P. Daloz); The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa (London, 1996, with others); Power in Africa: An Essay in Political Interpretation (Basingstoke, 1992 and 1994); Political Domination in Africa: Reflections on the Limits of Power (Cambridge, 1986, editor); and Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War (Cambridge, 1983).

SCARLETT CORNELISSEN, a political scientist, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch. She has published on a variety of topics, ranging from Japan's involvement in Africa to the impact of international economic changes on South African cities, and more recently, the tourism dimensions of sporting mega-events. Articles have appeared in the Journal of Modern African Studies , Pacific Review , Third World Quarterly and Review of International Political Economy .

ULF ENGEL, a political scientist, is Associate Professor of Politics in Africa at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig. He has published widely on Germany's Africa policy, crisis prevention and conflict management, and politics in particular in Southern and Eastern Africa. He has published Die Afrikapolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949-1999: Rollen und Identitten (Hamburg, 2002); Die beiden deutschen Staaten in Afrika: Zwischen Konkurrenz und Koexistenz 1949-1990 (Hamburg, 1998, with H.G. Schleicher); and The Foreign Policy of Zimbabwe (Hamburg, 1994). Among others, he has co-edited Africa and the North: Between Marginalisation and Globalisation (London, forthcoming 2005, with G.R. Olsen); Germany's Africa Policy Revisited. Interests, Images and Incrementalism (Hamburg, 2002, with R. Kappel); and Tanzania Revisited: Political Stability, Aid Dependency and Development Constraints (Hamburg, 2000, with G. Erdmann and A. Mehler).

JANE FREEDMAN is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton. Amongst others she has published Immigration and Insecurity in France (Aldershot, 2004) and Feminism (Buckingham, 2001). She has also edited Gender and Insecurity: Migrant Women in Europe (Aldershot, 2003) and Women , Immigration and Identities in France (Oxford, 2000). In addition she has worked on a number of reports for the UN Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa.

TIM KELSALL is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle. He has previously been Lecturer in the History and Politics of Africa at Oxford University between 1999 and 2000. He has published 'Contentious Politics, Local Governance and the Self. A Tanzania Case Study' (Uppsala, 2004). Other selected writings include 'Rituals of Verification: Indigenous and Imported Accountability in Northern Tanzania', Africa , 2003, vol. 73, no. 2; 'Governance, Democracy and Recent Political Struggles in Tanzania', Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics , 2003, vol. 41, no. 2; 'Contentious Politics, Local Governance and the Self: A Tanzanian Case Study', Research Report, Nordic Africa Institute , 2004; and 'Truth, Lies, Ritual: Preliminary Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone', Human Rights Quarterly (forthc. 2005).

ANDREAS MEHLER, a political scientist, is Director of the Institute of African Affairs (Hamburg). Previously he was Senior Researcher at the EU Conflict Prevention Network (managed by the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin). He has published extensively on the causes of violent conflict, conflict prevention, state and statehood in Africa, democratisation processes and elections in Francophone Africa. Among his most recent publications are 'Structural Stability in an African Context' (discussion paper, Nordic Africa Institute , 2003, with R. Kappel and H. Melber); 'Legitime Gewaltoligopole - eine Antwort auf strukturelle Instabilitt in Westafrika?' (Hamburg, Diskussionsbeitrge des IAK, 2003); Die Vielfalt von Gewaltkonflikten. Analysen aus regional-wissenschaftlicher Perspektive (Hamburg, 2002, edited with S. Kurtenbach); 'Structural Stability: Meaning, Scope and Use in an African Context', Afrika Spectrum , 2002, vol. 37, no. 1; CPN Practical Guide , electronic version (Berlin, 2001, with L. van de Goor and C. Moyroud); and Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management in Technical Cooperation. An Overview of the National and International Debate (Wiesbaden, 2000, with C. Ribaux).