CONTENTS
 

Obituary: John Omer-Cooper        1

Note from the Editor        2

Letter from the President        3

Inaugural Postgraduate Essay Prize        3

1999 AFSAAP conference: First call for papers        4

Articles

The Desert Ecological Research Unit of Namibia: Creating partnerships for sustainable development        5
    Robin Burns

A glimpse at Uganda’s Land Act, 1998        10
    Rae Porter

African Growth and Opportunity Act: American re-colonization of Africa        18
    David Dorward

Studying the mammals of Africa        23
    David Happold

Review Articles

Mau Mau from below        26
    Geoffrey Reeves

Guerrillas and/or warlords        30
    David Moore

Book Reviews

Keyes, Caroline Adenaike & Jan Vansina (eds):  In pursuit of history. Fieldwork in Africa        35
    Kristine Ryan

Scully, Pamela: Liberating the family and British slave emancipation in the rural Western Cape, South Africa, 1823-53        37
    Penelope Hetherington

Geiger, Susan: TANU women: Gender and culture in the making  of Tanganikan nationalism, 1955-65      38
    Catherine MacDonald

Schmidt, Peter R.: Iron technology in East Africa: Symbolism, science and archaeology        39
    Robin Derricourt

Thiong'o, Ngugi wa: Writers in politics: A re-engagement with issues of literature and society       41
    Dianne Schwerdt

Cook, David and Michael Okenimpke: Ngugi wa Thiong'o: An exploration of his writings        41
    Dianne Schwerdt

Sherwood, Marika: Kwame Nkurmah: The years abroad 1935-47
    David Brown

Prof. Adu Boahen, A.: Mfantsipim and the making of Ghana: A centenary history 1876-1976       44
    David Brown

Throup, David and Charles Hornsby: Multi-party politics in Kenya: The Kenyatta and Moi states and the triumph of the system in the 1992 election        45
    Scott MacWilliam

Pazzanita, Anthony G.: Historical dictionary of Mauritania        48
    Peter Limb

Imperato, Pascal James: Historical dictionary of Mali        48                 
    Peter Limb                              

Ahluwalia, D. Pal & Paul Nursey-Bray (eds): Post-colonialism: Culture and identity in Africa        49
    Sue Kossew

Ahluwalia, D. Pal & Paul Nursey-Bray (eds): Post-colonialism: Contemporary politics in Africa        50
    Cherry Gertzel


Notes and News        53

African Studies in Belgium: Challenges at the end of the 1990s

Conference on the Boer war at UNISA

The Rex Collings Memorial Fund

Manchester Symposium on Land/lessness: Issues, rights, perspectives

African Studies in La Trobe's inter-semester program

Mozambique Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation officials: Visit to Australia

Curtin University collaboration with South African universities: Collaborative staff development health services management

People        61

Visitors        62

Conferences         63

AFSAAP news        66