Some Aspects of the Sudan Economy

The address that follows was given by His Excellency Sayed AwadSatti, the Sudanese Ambassador in London, to a joint meetingof the Royal African Society and the Royal Empire Society onNovember 1, 1956. Lt.-Col. Sir Stewart Symes, G.B.E., K.C.M.G.,D.S.O., a former Governor-General of the Sudan, took the Chair.     

Two perspectives on Zimbabwe's National Democratic Revolution: Thabo Mbeki and Wilfred Mhanda

The concept of the ‘National Democratic Revolution’ (NDR) is often used by left-leaning scholars and political actors in attempts to explain or justify the lack of socialism in third-world societies governed by rulers who consider themselves ‘scientific socialists’. It has been invoked in analyses of Zimbabwe by both the former president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in 2001 as he was embarking on his ‘quiet diplomacy’, and Wilfred Mhanda, a Zimbabwean guerrilla leader imprisoned by the Mozambican government in the late-1970s for posing problems to the leadership aspirations of Robert Mugabe, who later became president of the country posing problems for Thabo Mbeki among others. Analysis of both these political intellectuals’ writing sheds light on the concept of the NDR (evoked often in contemporary South African politics and Zimbabwean discourse about the current crisis) as well as the theoretical and practical aspects of the authors’ careers.     

温特制:美国新经济与全球产业重组的微观基础

上个世纪七八十年代至 90年代初 ,学界普遍关注美国经济实力的相对下降。但是进入 90年代中后期 ,美国经济持续高增长 ,而日本经济却在 90年代停滞不前。作者认为 ,是温特制使美国公司扭转了对日本的竞争劣势 ,并最终创造出了 2 0世纪 90年代美国经济近 130个月繁荣的奇迹。温特制与美国创新能力突出、人才储备强大、金融市场灵活、消费者偏好新产品等优势结合起来 ,以高新科技为基础 ,塑造了一大批新兴企业 ,使得美国公司在 1990年代国际竞争力列世界前茅。温特制是经济全球化的必然结果 ,它使美国成为经济全球化的主导。     

In search of elusive humanity: Philosophy in 159 years of Africa's independence

ABSTRACT

This article was developed from a paper presented at the Unesco World Philosophy Day Symposium hosted by the University of South Africa, 21 November 2006, under the theme ‘Philosophy and 159 years of Africa's Independence.’ It explores the subject through the prism of African humanity from the perspectives of Western philosophy, traditional African philosophy and contemporary African philosophy, exposing the weaknesses of each in their treatment of the African. Throughout, the article endeavours to deconstruct the elitist self-image of the discipline and concludes by questioning the utility of philosophy in enhancing development in modern Africa.     

Victor Klemperer. Munich 1919. Diary of a Revolution

Victor Klemperer. Munich 1919. Diary of a Revolution . Translated by Jessica Spengler (Cambridge: Polity, 2017), pp.x + 190. Sixteen b/w plates. £15.51 (hb).     

日本与越南的经贸合作及日越关系的发展

在日越关系的建立与发展过程中,经贸合作始终是重要的纽带,也是起决定性作用的因素。日本不仅通过贸易、援助和投资等经济合作方式打开了越南市场,而且将其作为进一步实现地区政治和战略利益的重要手段。     

A critical understanding of good governance and leadership concepts written in the context of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and the challenges to contextual discourse on Africa's development paradigms1

ABSTRACT

Good governance is a value-laden concept that is characteristically nebulous; it can mean different things to different people, depending on the context in which it is used. The same applies to leadership. Concepts, as Pauw (1999a, 465) puts it, are ‘tools of thinking’ and contexts are ‘the environments or frameworks in which they [concepts] operate’. Lucidity in the meanings of concepts is fundamentally important for shaping debate and enriching discourses. To maintain their power, concepts must be used in their proper contexts. This necessitates an understanding of the art of contextual discourse. Good governance is used in NEPAD as a principle and emphasised as a sine qua non for sustainable development in Africa. On the other hand, NEPAD premises Africa's re-birth or Renaissance on good governance and leadership, with a vision and commitment to repositioning the continent in global power balances. In this article good governance and leadership are considered as concepts. NEPAD is a textual context within which the two key concepts are used and should, consequently, be engaged. The article attempts a critical review of African scholarship engagement with good governance and leadership within the NEPAD context to determine the extent to which contextual discourse is practised. It further grapples with the immediate historical background to scholarship on Africa's development between the 1960s and early 1990s. The exercise reveals that much of the accumulated body of African scholarship and scholarship on Africa's development reviewed does not suffciently contextualise discourse on good governance and leadership within NEPAD, and its key assessment and monitoring device, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), and offers an alternative framework.