Abebe Zegeye teaches in the Sociology Department at the University of South Africa. Pal Ahluwalia teaches in the Politics Department at the University of Adelaide.

• Introduction 1 The Boundaries of the State: Africa and Modernity 2 Colonial Communities in Africa and Asia: Toward a Comparative History of European Identity in 19th Century Java and the Cape 3 Between Modernism and Memory: The Art of the !Xu and Khwe of Schmidtsdrift 4 Women, Resistance and the Armed Struggle in Southern Africa 5 The Tragedy of Sierre Leone: Diamonds, Warlords and the Failure of the United Nations 6 Democratic Revival in Africa: is it Sustainable? 7 Crisis in the Union and Multi-Party Democracy in Tanzania 8 Ethnic Clashes in Kenya and the Politics of the ‘Ethnic Enclave’: the Ruling Party, the Opposition, and the Post-Moi Succession 9 Uganda: No-Party State or One-Party State? 10 Collective Co-operatives in Zimbabwe 1980-1998 11 Labor and Beer in Africa: Xhosa Work Parties, Index.