CONTENTS


Note from the Editor        1

Note from the President        2

Australia and Africa: A brief overview        4
    Steve Etheridge

Africa: The French connection        10
    Richard Curnow

Listening to the radio in Malawi: The MBC Radio Listener Survey        15
    Graham Mills

Politics and literature in African universities: Some notes        18
    Philip Darby and Albert Paolini

 
About Books, Research Materials and Research

Awe, Bolanle (ed): Nigerian women in historical perspective        21
    Liz Dimock

Veit-Wild, Flora: Teachers, preachers, non-believers: A social history of Zimbabwean literature    24
    Geoffrey Reeves

Veit-Wild, Flora: Dambudzo Marechera: A source book on his life and work        24
    Geoffrey Reeves

Roscoe, Adrian & Mpalive-Hangson Msiska (eds): The quiet chameleon: Modern poetry from Central Africa        27
    Peter F. Alexander

Maja-Pearce, Adewale: A mask dancing         30
    Suvendrini Perera

Dunton, Chris: Make man talk true: Nigerian drama in English since 1970        32
    Joanne Tompkins

Wardrop, Joan: The new South Africa: Rhetoric and reality        34
    Donald Denoon

Kenya from space: An aerial atlas        36
    R. L. Heathcote

African historical dictionaries        37

Pan Africa Occasional Paper series        38

Peace and Human Rights: A new journal        39

Oxfam Report on Africa        40

African Studies abstracts        40

Research on South African informal settlements        41

Postgraduate research at UWA        42

Postgraduate research in the Dept. of Politics at University of Melbourne        42

News and Notes        43

AFSAAP Annual General Meeting, October 1993 minutes        54

AFSAAP Financial Statement 1993        56

AFSAAP 1994 Annual General Meeting, Preliminary Notice        58

AFSAAP state representatives