Africa Yearbook 2004 : politics, economy and society South of the Sahara

... excellent submission...... an impressive range of scholarly expertise has been brought together...... offer the reader both detail and breadth...... libraries and archives should be encouraged to order this handsomely crafted, easily handled and easily read book, and make space for future volumes. - In: Transformation 61 (2006), Thembisa Waetjen - The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa - all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people. - Readership: Students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people. - Klaas van Walraven, Ph.D. (1997) in Political Science, University of Leiden, is a researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. He has published on various topics in Africa's international relations, in particular the Organisation of African Unity, the African Union and ECOMOG. In addition, he has written on democratisation and resistance. Currently, he is working on a history of the Sawaba rebellion in Niger (1954-1975). - Andreas Mehler, Ph.D. (1993) in Political Science, University of Hamburg, is Director of the Institute of African Affairs, Hamburg. He has published extensively on democratisation processes and violent conflicts in West and Central Africa. - Henning Melber, Ph.D. (1980) in Political Science, University of Bremen, is Research Director at The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala/Sweden. He has published extensively on Southern Africa and in particular Namibia including (as editor and contributor) Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa (HSRC, 2003).