• Constructive disengagement from the hill. • The coup makers’ treason. • France the silent gendarme of Africa. • Is SFEM the answer? • The journey to SFEM. • How to buy currency in SFEM. • Endangered Species • Black market depression. • Naira’s rise. • Taking the good with the bad • Industries shy away. • Uganda’s bitter taste of SFEM. • Nigeria: Babangida drops co-pilot. • A titan is dismissed. • Less fish for demand. • NNSC: the last days. • Air travel crisis. • Uganda: Ministers charged with treason. • Uganda: Echoes of the Gaddafi visit. • Tanzania: Luxury goods flood market. • Zimbabwe: ‘Mr Mop' earns first million. • Southern Africa: Apartheid: brigade proposed. • USA: black heroes remembered. • Jamaica: an economic misadventure. • USA: triumph for US sanctions lobby • UN: Mugabe takes the rostrum • UN: “Don't forget the poor'. • Botha's threat to US grain shipments. • Caribbean focus tour 1986. • Book: a self-reliance strategy. • A troubled Cup of Nations.