Africa Consultancy & Research

Publications

Some 90 research articles/book contributions have been published over the last 25 years, of which the more important ones since 1995 are:

  • “What Role for Nepad, Peer Review, and the CSSDCA? The Centrality of Liberal Democracy and Good Governance for an African Renewal (unpublished paper, presented at an International Seminar on India-Africa Relations: Emerging Policy and Development Perspectives, Centre for African Studies, University of Mumbai, India, 23 to 25 July 2006).”
  • “Elections and Electoral Systems in Emerging Democracies: The Case for Electoral System Re-Design in Malawi” (unpublished paper, presented at the Malawi Constitutional Review Conference, Lilongwe, 28 to 31 March 2006).
  • “Africa in the New Millennium: Democracy, Governance, and Leadership”, in Uzodike, Ufo O, Mbaku, John M & S C Saxena (eds), Leadership in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects for Transformative Development, New York: Praeger, 2006 (forthcoming).
  • “Democracy and Governance in Africa: What Role for Nepad, Peer Review, and the CSSDCA Process in an African Renewal?” (unpublished paper, presented at a Conference on Integrated Governance: Integrating Government, Business, Labour, and Civil Society, organised by Intelligent Management Strategies (IMS), in association with the Foundation for the Development of Africa (FDA), in Cape Town on 8 April 2005).
  • “Peer Review and Nepad: Zimbabwe - The Litmus Test for African Credibility” (full text), in South African Institute of International Affairs Website: Zimbabwe Portal, Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs, March 2005; access at http://www.saiia.org.za
  • “Peer Review and Nepad: Zimbabwe - The Litmus Test for African Credibility” (abbreviated text), in African Politics Conference Group (APCG) Newsletter (Speaker's Corner), 1, 10 February 2005 - published for the APCG by the Department of Political Science, University of Lund, Sweden; affiliated to the American Political Science Association (APSA), the International Political Science Association (IPSA), and the African Studies Association (ASA); access at http://www.svet.lu.se
  • “The Issue of Name-Change in South Africa: A Political Commentary” (unpublished paper).
  • “Constitution-Making and Democratisation in Africa: Pointers for Malawi” -- co-authored with Goran Hyden (presented in a lecture series on “Constitutionalism, Constitutional Government, and the Need for Constitutional Review in Emerging Democracies”, December 2002), Occasional Paper Series, Lilongwe: Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 2006 (forthcoming).
  • “South Africa: A 'Stranger' in a Very Strange Country” (unpublished paper).
  • “Nepad: The African Magic Formula? II”, in Africa Week, Special Edition, August 2004: 26.
  • “Nepad: The African Magic Formula? I”, in Africa Week, Special Edition, July 2004: 35-36.
  • “The Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co-operation: Reality or Imagery?”, in Sheth, V S (ed), Indian Ocean Region: Conflict and Co-operation, Mumbai: Allied Publishers, 2004: 98-131.
  • “Democracy and Governance in Africa”, in Africa Week, Special Edition, May 2004: 28-29.
  • Democracy, Governance, and Leadership: Towards an African Renewal(Otto Krause Memorial Fund Occasional Papers Series No 1), Johannesburg: Centre for Good Governance, Rand Afrikaans University, April 2003, 57 pp.
  • “Multiparty Politics and Elections in Southern Africa: Realities and Imageries”, in Salih, M A Mohamed (ed), African Democracies and African Politics: Evolution, Institutionalisation, and Governance, London, and Sterling (Virginia): Pluto Press, 2003: 319-347.
  • “Democracy, Good Governance, and Leadership in Africa: What Prospects for an African Renaissance?”, in Oguejiofor, Josephat (ed), Philosophy, Democracy and Responsible Governance in Africa, London: LIT Verlag, 2003: 229-275.
  • “Democracy and Multiparty Politics in Africa: Recent Elections in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho”, in Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review (EASSRR), 19, 1, January 2003: 1-39.
  • “South African Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the African Context”, in Khadiagala, Gilbert M and Terrence Lyons (eds), African Foreign Policies: Power and Process (SAIS African Studies Library Series), Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001: 159-183.
  • “Constitution-Making in Africa: Political and Theoretical Challenges” (co-authored with Goran Hyden), in Hyden, Goran and Denis Venter (eds), Constitution-Making and Democratisation in Africa, Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2001: 1-24.
  • “The Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Co-operation: Reality or Imagery?”, in Africa Quarterly, 41, 3, 2001: 1-32.
  • “South Africa and Regional Security”, in Sheth, V S (ed), Globalisation and Interdependence: Africa and India, Mumbai: Allied Publishers, 2001: 262-298.
  • “Regional Security in Southern Africa”, in Jinadu, L Adele (ed), The Political Economy of Peace and Security in Africa: Ethno-Cultural and Economic Perspectives, Harare: AAPS Books, 2000: 179-227.
  • “South Africa and Southern Africa: Toward the Institutionalisation of Regional Security”, in Jürgen Brauer and Keith Hartley (eds), The Economics of Regional Security: NATO, the Mediterranean, and Southern Africa, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000: 265-297.
  • “The Central African Republic: Political Patrimonialism and Economic Malaise”, in Africa Insight, 29, 1/2, 1999: 17-28.
  • “Angola: Back from the Brink?”, in Africa Insight, 28, 3/4, 1998: 109-117.
  • “A Political and Socio-Economic Perspective on the 'New' South Africa”, in African Currents, XIV, 25, April 1998: 16-50.
  • “Comment -- Sustainable Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Interface between Politics and Economics”, in Africa Insight, 28, 1/2, 1998: 2-4.
  • “South African Foreign Policy in a Time of Change: The African Dimension”, in Journal of the Third World Spectrum, 5, 2, Fall 1998: 1-32.
  • “La Politica Estera Sudafricana”, in Relazioni Internazionali, 41, 1997: 48-52.
  • “South Africa and Regional Security in Southern Africa”, in Indian Journal of African Studies, VIII, 1/2, 1997: 53-88.
  • “South Africa and Africa: Relations in a Time of Change”, in Carlsnaes, Walter and Marie Muller (eds), Change and South African External Relations, Johannesburg: International Thomson Publishing, 1997: 73-101.
  • “Africa and the New World Order: From Marginalisation to Regeneration?”, in Vohra, N N and K Mathews (eds), Africa, India and South-South Co-operation, New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 1997: 675-746.
  • “The Indian Ocean Rim Initiative: A Vehicle for South-South Co-operation”, in Indian Journal of African Studies, VII, 1/2, 1996: 15-35.
  • “South Africa, Brazil and South Atlantic Security: Towards a Zone of Peace and Co-operation in the South Atlantic”, in Guimarães, S Pinheiro (ed), South Africa and Brazil: Risks and Opportunities in the Turmoil of Globalisation, Brasilia: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the International Relations Research Institute (IPRI), 1996: 17-48.
  • “Regional Security in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in Africa Insight, 26, 2, 1996: 162-176.
  • “South Africa and the Indian Ocean Region: The Emergence of a New Relationship”, in L'Afrique Politique 1996, Démocratisation: Arrêts sur Images, Editions Karthala (Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire de Bordeaux), Paris, 1996: 243-259.
  • “Regional Security in Southern Africa in the Post-Cold War Era”, in Keller, Edmond J and Donald Rothchild (eds), Africa in the New International Order: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Regional Security, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996: 134-148.
  • “Malawi's Transition to Multiparty Politics”, in Wiseman, John A (ed), Democracy and Political Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, London: Routledge, 1995: 152-192.