• The Arabs and the horn of Africa. • South Africa. • A step too far. • The politics of politics. • Nuclear proliferation. • Grease for ship's longer life. • Lagos UNO Confab: politics of conscience. • Ghana: countdown to civil rule. • It takes more than tillage to yield the soil’s wealth. • Horn of Africa; Somali greed. • Nigeria: elites everywhere. • Kenya: unemployment versus politics. • The energy crisis. • Symposium on modern east African literature. • ECOWAS games: hopes and prospects.