Africa's crisis

Abstract

Papers from a workshop held at the Institute for African Alternatives on 11th and 12th October 1986. African scholars discussed conditions in their countries and on the continent in the context of the current world crisis. Papers were presented tracing the roots of Africa's problems and bringing out how contemporary regimes were failing to deliver on the promises made over the past two decades. Using interdisciplinary approach, the speakers analysed the man-sided facets of the situation across the continent