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The author looks at life in Kenya in modern times and in traditional ways including different cultures of various ethnic groups which collectively constitute the nation.

This work looks at South Africa in contemporary times since the end of apartheid. It is also a short history of South Africa since the arrival of the first Dutch settlers at the Cape more than 300 years ago. The author also look at some of the main events in the struggle against apartheid which were important milestones in the transformation of South Africa from a white-dominated country to a multiracial democratic society. Other subjects covered include structural reforms and institutional accountability in the post-apartheid era and the problems of immigration, with South Africa being the...

This is an autobiographical work covering a wide range of subjects including a number of major events relevant to Africa and the African diaspora.

This work focuses on life under British colonial rule in Tanganyika and Southern Rhodesia. An African from Tanganyika, now Tanzania, shares his experiences. A British administrator who worked in colonial Tanganyika and in Southern Rhodesia also shares his. It is a work of shared memories although a generation apart – the British administrator being old enough to be a father to the African colonial subject who remembers not only the good times but also some of the injustices he and others suffered during that period. Godfrey Mwakikagile also addresses the enduring legacy of colonial rule ...

This work is a general survey of Africa during the post-colonial era. The author looks at how African countries have fared under post-colonial governments, the challenges they have faced through the years, and their successes and failures.He also looks at Africa as a whole during the lost decades – wasted years – when performance of most countries in the political and economic arena was not what the people had expected. They were some of the worst years in the history of post-colonial Africa.Poor economic performance, abuse of power, the brain drain caused by bad government policies and...

The author who comes from Tanzania in the Southern Highlands in the Great Rift Valley in the southwestern part of the country in a district surrounded by misty blue mountains that borders Malawi north of Lake Nyasa looks at ways in which the dispute the two countries have on the lake can be resolved. He contends that the dispute cannot be resolved without compromise and bold concessions by both sides. The work contains a number of proposals which may help pave the way towards resolving the conflict. Failure to do so means only one thing: maintaining the status quo which has existed since ...

This is third edition in which Godfrey Mwakikagile examines the problems of post-colonial Africa. He contends that the problems have existed since independence in the sixties and have been made worse through the years by a combination of factors. It is a blunt assessment and prescribes some solutions to Africa's problems focusing on internal factors but without exonerating external forces from what has happened on the continent through the decades.

Nyerere's economic policies, his successes and failures in pursuit of economic development under socialism, are some of the subjects addressed by Godfrey Mwakikagile in this book. A Tanzanian himself., he also looks at how life was under Nyerere since the sixties. The work is also a critical examination of the political situation in Tanzania since independence when the country was known as Tanganyika before uniting with Zanzibar. Mwakikagile also looks at the transition that has taken place in Tanzania from one-party rule to multiparty democracy, and from socialism to capitalism since the ...

The challenges Africans and African Americans face in their relations is one of the main subjects addressed by the author; so are prospects for improved relations and greater cooperation in areas of mutual interest and concern because of their shared identity and common heritage as a people of African origin.

The author looks at the racial and ethnic composition of South Africa constituting a nation known for its diversity and which is still trying to build a truly united society after centuries of racial oppression by the former white minority rulers.

THIS work looks at some of the ways to achieve lasting peace and stability in Rwanda and Burundi whose destiny is inextricably linked with the entire Great Lakes region of East Africa. Conflicts in the two countries affect the entire region, especially their neighbours – Tanzania, Congo, and Uganda – and have ripple effects which go far beyond the region.Therefore all the countries in the region have direct interest in what goes on in Rwanda and Burundi and in the resolution of the conflicts in the twin nations.But resolution of the conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi in Rwanda and ...

The author examines the negative impact of colonial mentality on Africa's well-being as a continental crisis and how it impedes Africa's progress and the quest for an African renaissance. The book is an expanded version of his previous work, Conquest of the Mind: Imperial subjugation of Africa.

Godfrey Mwakikagile looks at the fate of black African immigrants in South Africa and the xenophobic attacks against them which have taken place in many parts of the country through the years since the end of apartheid. The xenophobic violence has been perpetrated by black South Africans, prompting some people to describe this phenomenon as the new apartheid - by blacks against other blacks - after the end of white minority rule. Besides the violence directed against them, black African immigrants also face hostility in general from a significant number of South Africans including educated ...

The work focuses on the history and multicultural nature of Belize, formerly British Honduras, whose national identity is a product of multiple ethnic and cultural identities amalgamated, and sometimes fused, to form a single nation.

This work focuses on the early years of independence and the problems African countries faced soon after the end of colonial rule. They include poverty and underdevelopment; adoption of alien ideologies and economic and political systems; structural flaws of the modern African state and its institutions inherited at independence; nation-building, democratization, national integration, and ethno-regional rivalries among others. The work also looks at prospects for continental unification from the perspectives of leaders such as Nkrumah and Nyerere. As a demographic portrait, it depicts the ...

The author looks at relations between Africans and African Americans and how they see each other. There are a lot of misconceptions which have an impact on how Africans and African Americans interact, with the media playing a major role in perpetuating myths about both.

How to restructure the modern African state to make it an effective machinery responsive to the needs and aspirations of the people and facilitate regional integration is the focus of this study.