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The objectives of this study are to get into the insights of dynamite fishing and the reasons/forces behind it. It deals with four selected villages, namely, Ununio, Kunduchi, Msasani and Mjimwema

This paper focuses on the issues of globalization and citizenship. It takes to task the various ways in which the issue of African integration has been conceptualized, by bringing in the question of the partitioned communities. It examines the situation of a partitioned people in East Africa, the Wamaasai. (...) The Wamaasai people, cut nearly in half by the Kenya-Tanzania border, live in a situation whereby boundaries were drawn across well established lines of communisation including (...) an active sense of community. (...) These pastoralist groups, in both countries, have been facing harsh conditions because of being deprived of their lands and resources by their respective states, which have alienated them for agriculture and tourism. They have also been persecuted because of their resistance to "modernity". The paper is historical in its focus and analysis, with the aim to find ways of dealing with the problems facing the border/partitioned people through Pan-Africanist solutions. (Afr Dev/DÜI)

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The mining sector has played an historically central role in the economy of Africa, but large-scale investment in it declined after 1970. Structural adjustment and the dismantling of apartheid opens up the possibility of a revival of such investment, but also raises questions about the terms on which it will take place and the fate of local small-scale mining industries. These two studies examine tensions between large- and small-scale mining in Tanzania, and the emergence of new forms of relation between international mining houses and the national state in Zimbabwe.

"Globalisation" and "citizenship" have increasingly become part of the important organizing processes in the world and in Africa specifically in the past three decades or so with the implementation of a series of socioeconomic and political reforms aimed at creating a single market for goods, capital, services, skills and technology globally. (...) Given the fact that the history of post independence Africa has involved the struggle over citizenship as a consequence of the multi-ethnic composition of the continent and citizenship rights in a bid to redress the imbalances and inequalities inherited from colonialism, these reforms have complicated matters by reinforcing imbalances and inequalities. (...) Consequently, over the years Africa has witnessed an increased resurgence of conflicts (ethno-regional and religious ones), new forms of identities and further impoverishment and immiserization of the majority of the people. Various patterns of exclusion and inclusion (inequalities, exploitation and domination) on which the economic reforms rest over the years have necessitated the consolidation of repressive politics. (...) It is in this context that the theme of "citizenship and rights" has been placed at the centre of development and political discourse in Africa. (Afr Dev/DÜI)

This volume contains 13 of the 30 papers presented at the 9th National Economic Policy Workshop held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 28 to 30 November 1994. The theme of the Workshop was "Structural Adjustment and the State of the National Environment in Tanzania". (DÜI-Hff)

In neun Beiträgen behandelt der Sammelband Fragen von Nationalismus und Nation Building, Ethnizität und Identität, afrikanische Intellektuelle und afrikanische Erneuerung, afrikanische und europäische Sprachen und (am Beispiel Uganda) die Schwierigkeiten, eine nationale Befreiungsbewegung in ein demokratisches Mehrparteiensystem einzugliedern. Die Analysen konzentrieren sich auf die ostafrikanische Region und ihre Länder, reichen mit ihren Folgerungen (Panafrikanismus) jedoch teilweise darüber hinaus. Gemeinsam ist ihnen das Ziel, Faktoren zu identifizieren, die Entwicklung fördern oder behindern. (DÜI-Sbd)