Institutional development
- Dealing with uncertainty in contemporary African lives
- L. Haram;C.B. Yamba / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2009
- This report deals with African societies undergoing rapid transformation, brought about by forces such as modernisation and globalisation, and the way such processes increase stress and uncertainties ...
- Causes and cures of oil-related Niger Delta conflicts
- Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2009
- This paper details the root causes and possible solutions to the insecurity raging in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The Delta is the world’s third largest wetland and c...
- Chad - towards democratisation or petro-dictatorship?
- H. Eriksson;B. Hagstromer / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2005
- Chad is currently undergoing two processes of significant importance for its future development - political democratisation and transformation into an oil economy. A strong increase of financial resou...
- Governance and state delivery in Southern Africa
- H. Melber (ed);G. Totemeyer;C.J. Makgala;S.J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
- This document is composed of three papers: the contributions on Namibia and Botswana look at the extent to which these countries are able to set standards in terms of well functioning democracies; the...
- Political opposition in African countries: the cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- K. Hulterstrom;A.Y. Kamete;H. Melber (ed) / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
- This document is a compilation of three research papers originally presented to the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology at the XVI World Congress of Sociology held in 2006. The first chapter e...
- Young female fighters in African wars
- C. Coulter;M. Persson;M. Utas / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2008
- Young women are not only combatants in contemporary African wars, they also participate in a whole array of different roles. By and large, though they remain invisible in these contexts to northern po...
- The search for sustainable democracy, development and peace: the Sierra Leone 2007 elections
- A.B. Zack-Williams / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
- This collaborative work discusses Sierra Leone’s quest for sustainable democracy, peace and development. It traces the problems back to the root and examines what course the future ...
- No choice, but democracy: prising the people out of politics in Africa?
- C. I. Obi / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2008
- Since the late 1980’s most of Africa’s countries have moved from one party or military dictatorships to multiparty democratic rule. This paper scrutinises these transitions to democracy in...
- African agriculture and the World Bank: development or impoverishment?
- K. Havnevik;D. Bryceson;L-E. Birgegård / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
- Smallholder agriculture is the dominant occupation in many sub-Saharan African nations. The influence of World Bank policies on this sector is well-doucmented, particularly with reference to Struct...
- The Western Sahara conflict: the role of natural resources in decolonization
- P. Leite / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2006
- This collection of articles looks at the role of natural resources in Western Sahara and outlines the framework for Western Sahara’s independence from Morocco.There is no doubt that the question of...
