• African mediation and the horn of Africa. • Zimbabwe: stalemate and escalating violence. • A hard look at Uganda. • Western Sahara: no military victory. • World Bank activities in Africa. • Hope for African technology. • Cocoa: surplus this year? • The economy: high input, low output. • Neo-colonialism or decolonization. • Christianity and Islam: threat to African unity? • The sweet the sour. • Killings in Uganda’s national theatre. • Coup d’etat in recent Nigerian novels. • A state of blood: Inside Story of Idi Amin's reign of fear. • How long will South Africa survive.