Africa in crisis : new challenges and possibilities / edited by Tunde Zack-Williams, Diane Frost, and Alex Thomson.

Introduction : Why is Africa in this mess? / Tunde Zack-Williams -- Globalisation, imperialism, and exclusion : the case of Sub-Saharan Africa / Ankie Hoogvelt -- Youth, food, and peace : a reflection on some African security issues at The Millennium 1 / Paul Richards -- African Renaissance? / Lionel Cliffe -- The colonisation of political consciousness : states and civil society in Africa / Rob Dixon -- The unaccountable state / Bruce Baker -- The US democratic experiment in Ghana / Julie Hearn -- Globalisation and democracy : international donors and civil society in Zimbabwe / Donna Pankhurst -- Misconception about the "World Market" : implications for African export policies / H. Laurens van der Laan -- Cotton, food and work : contract farming, food security and the labour market in Northern Mozambique / Claire Melamed -- Continuity and change in French foreign policy toward Africa / Asteris C. Huliaras -- Subaltern terror in Sierra Leone / Jimmy D. Kandeh -- Problems of peace enforcement : lessons to be drawn from multinational peacekeeping operations in on-going conflicts in Africa / Christopher Clapham.