Power and Need in Africa (1988) examines the mechanisms for giving the poor of Africa the means to develop their own future – a renaissance which has as its constituent elements environmental sustainability, women’s emancipation and social justice.
1. Background and Debate: Need as a Verb, Not a Noun 2. Health For All Means Power For All: Primary Health Care, Basic Services and the Legitimacy of the African State 3. Short-cuts Can Be Hazardous to Your Health: Campaign Approaches to Water Supply, Sanitation and Housing 4. A Child Survival and Development Revolution? UNICEF’s Answer to the ‘Head Wind of Recession’ 5. An African Food Dilemma? National Self-Reliance Versus Family Food Security 6. Rural Development: The Super Shopping List? 7. Basic Needs in Conflict: Technology to the Rescue? 8. Power and Need: Conclusions
