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The contribution of the overseas Chinese, particularly from Southeast Asia (Nanyang), to China's early modernization constitutes an important and neglected chapter in Chinese history. During the same years which saw the emergence of the Reform and Revolutionary movements, the ruling Manchu government also turned to the overseas Chinese for needed capital and expertise. Exposed to Western values and often successful in capitalist ventures, leading overseas entrepreneurs were in a special position to introduce new concepts into China. Dr Michael R. Godley's study traces the rise of overseas Chinese capitalism together with the emergence of an aggressive campaign on the part of the Ch'ing dynasty to attract overseas support. The ways in which Southeast Asian Chinese capitalists were ultimately recruited into the Chinese bureaucracy and the conditions under which they were permitted to begin new enterprises cast light upon many socio-economic problems while revealing much about the acculturation process

The first three novels of Ngugi wa Thiong' o (aka James Ngugi) are situated in colonial Kenya, of which the third, A Grain of Wheat(1967), focuses on the Mau Mau rebellion & the attainment of independence. Ngugi presents a class analysis of postcolonial Kenya in his fourth novel, Petals of Blood (1977): a bourgeoisie is emerging that enjoys unfettered political control & privileged access to the resources controlled by the newly independent state while the masses are proletarianized. Ngugi takes a quite different view of contemporary Kenya in his next novel, Devil on the Cross (1980 in Gikuyu, English translation in 1982): now Kenyan businesspeople appear as compradores, utterly subservient to foreign interests. This neocolonialist perspective corresponds to the position taken by some social scientists at the time, in particular by Colin Leys in his influential Underdevelopment in Kenya: The Political Economy of Neo-Colonialism, 1964-1971 (1975). Most social scientists, including Colin Leys, soon abandoned this position to acknowledge the strength of the Kenyan bourgeoisie. Ngugi, however, maintains his stance in his next, & so far last, novel, Matigari (1987 in Gikuyu, English translation in 1989). Modified AA

In 1995 the Namibian Development Corporation commissioned NEPRU and GOPA to conduct a feasibility study for two small-scale industry parks to be erected at the coast and in the north. One of the two planned estates was to be established in either Swakopmund or Walvis Bay, while the second park was planned for Ondangwa or Oshakati. This report as a part of the feasibility study first evaluates the strengths, weaknesses and the development potential of existing small enterprises in the project regions by means of interviews with entrepreneurs. The objective of the second survey was to obtain a quantitative and qualitative indication of the specific strengths and weaknesses of potential entrepreneurs. In each of the project regions, young people who are competent and willing to set up their own businesses were interviewed. (DÜI-Hff)