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The author of this book analyses the development of education during the colonial history of Zimbabwe to contribute to the debate on the present situation and future trends of the Zimbabwean education system. He tries to demonstrate that all problems - like inadequate schools and educational equipment, irrelevant curricula and too few qualified teachers - have their roots in the specific methods of the implementation of colonial policies in Zimbabwe. (DÜI-Hff)

This book is based on the papers presented at the Conference "South Africa: Which Way Forward?", which was held in Cape Town, South Africa, August 18-22, 1992. It analyses the problematic inheritance left by 48 years of unified white supremacy. The classic results of settler colonialism - dispossession from the land, malnutrition, racialism, discriminatory access to schools, health and welfare - challenge the new government. (DÜI-Hff)

Der Band vereinigt sechs Aufsätze zur Demokratieentwicklung in Botsuana. Die Autoren kommen zu dem Ergebnis, daß das Mehrparteiensystem in Botsuana (entgegen landläufiger Meinung) bislang die politische Partizipation der breiten Masse aufgrund der Dominanz der Botswana Democratic Party nicht gefördert hat, daß es aber deshalb nicht verurteilt werden darf, sondern weiterentwickelt werden muß. (DÜI-Sbd)

The book brings together a collection of five articles on gender issues. Keshia Abraham ("Resistance innovations in African feminist literary discourses") navigates the relationship between culture as a source of identity for African (read black) women, and the imperative of constructing new identities and realities which do not replicate a patriarchal, racist status quo. Martine Renee Galloy ("The electoral process and women contestants: identifying the obstacles in the Congolese experience") sets out some of the constraints which women in the Congo have encountered in their bid to enter the politicized spaces in that society. Mwenda Ntarangwi's article "Musical practice as a gendered experience: examples form Kenya and Zimbabwe" makes a critical assessment of music in terms of its gendered practices which construct women through stereotypes. Maya Cawthorne's article ("The third Chimurenga") deals with reforming the law as it impacts upon the lives of women, in particular poor black women (with special focus on Zimbabwe). Edmore Mufema ("Empowerment and development of women in Egypt: salient challenges of the 1990s") makes observations about the impact of secular religious values on the lives and circumstances of Egyptian women. (DÜI-Sbd)

The debate on whether or not to introduce a de jure one-party state in Zimbabwe has been a contested issue since independence but especially in 1990 with the expiry of certain sections of the Lancaster House Constitution whose provisions ruled out the one-party system. The debate has extended to questions on the accountability of government and party institutions, the forms and levels of popular democratic participation in those institutions and the relationship between civil society and the state. This book presents contributions of Zimbabwean intellectuals, public figures, journalists, trade unionists and students. Most of them counsel against the adoption of the one-party state model arguing that it is an anachronistic and undemocratic system which restricts democratic space which is the right of the masses to have