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Examining the public enterprise record in Kenya, Grosh shows which firms performed well, which had problems, and when and why those problems developed. She concludes that, although neither privatization nor policies designed to bring firms and their managers under control, approaches gaining popularity with African policymakers, is likely to solve the problems, most of the problems are susceptible to limited and feasible reforms.

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In this analysis of South Africa's postapartheid security system, Peter Vale moves beyond a realist discussion of interacting states to examine southern Africa as an integrated whole. Vale argues that, despite South Africa's manipulation of state structures and elites in the region for its own ends, the suffering endured under the apartheid regime drew the region together at the popular level; and economic factors, such as the use of migrant labor, reinforced the process of integration. Exploring how the region is changing today—as transnational solidarity and a single regional economy remove the distinctions between national and international politics—he asks whether South African domination can finally be overcome and considers what sort of cosmopolitan political arrangement will be appropriate for southern Africa in the new century.

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Critically examines the political economy of change in South Africa, considering prospects for the development of majority-rule government, the social and cultural dynamics of black South Africa, and the interaction of external and domestic factors in structuring the processes of change.

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Makinda addresses both the internal sources of the Somali tragedy and the external factors that served sometimes to exacerbate and sometimes to alleviate it.

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Was South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) a "miracle" that depended on the unique leadership of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu? Or does it provide a working model for other traumatized nations? Addressing these questions, Lyn Graybill explores the political origins, theological underpinnings, and major achievements of the world's most ambitious truth commission—an institution that offered indemnity to perpetrators of gross human rights abuses, and a process that urged victims to forgive. Graybill distills in one concise and very readable volume a vast amount of information on the TRC, including discussions of a number of groups—the media, religious communities, and the medical and business sectors—that came under the scrutiny of the commission. She also addresses the theory and practice of forgiveness and the relative advantages of amnesty vs. prosecution. She concludes with an indictment of the ANC government's failure to enact the commission's recommendations for substantial reparations to victims and with an overview of NGO efforts to continue the reconciliation process.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African.