Hemmed In: Contributors

Hemmed In: Responses to Africa's Economic Decline

Thomas M. Callaghy and John Ravenhill, editors

New York

1993

Contributors

Thomas M. Callaghy is Associate Professor of Political Science, and the Max N. and Heidi L. Berry Term Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The State-Society Struggle: Zaire in Comparative Perspective (1984) and editor of South Africa in Southern Africa: The Intensifying Vortex of Violence (1983). His current work centers on the politics of economic reform in the Third and former Second Worlds. As part of a six-person team he contributed to Fragile Coalitions: The Politics of Economic Adjustment (1989) and Economic Crisis and Policy Choice: The Politics of Adjustment in the Third World (1990), both edited by Joan Nelson.

John Ravenhill is Senior Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He is author of Collective Clientelism: The Lomé Conventions and North-South Relations (1985) and coauthor of Politics and Society in Society in Contemporary Africa (2nd ed., 1993). He is editor of Africa in Economic Crisis (1986) and No Longer an American Lake? (1989) and coeditor of Pacific Economic Relations in the 1990s: Conflict or Cooperation? (1993).

Sarah S. Berry is Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. For over twenty-five years, she has specialized in the study of economic, social and agricultural change in Sub-Saharan Africa, with particular emphasis on southwestern Nigeria. She is author of Cocoa, Custom and Socio-economic Change in Rural Nigeria (1975) and Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community (1985).

Naomi Chazan is Professor of Political Science and African Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a former director of its Harry S. Truman Institute. She is currently a member of the Israeli Knesset. She is author of An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics: Managing Political Recession (1983), coauthor of Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa (2nd ed., 1992), and coeditor of The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (1988) and Civil Society and the State in Africa (1993).

David F. Gordon is the senior Africa specialist on the staff of the Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. House of Representatives. He was previously Associate Professor of International Relations and African Studies at Michigan State University. From 1989 to 1991 USAID's regional office for east and southern Africa in Nairobi. He is author of Decolonization and the State in Kenya (1986) and the coeditor of Cooperation for International Development: The U.S. and the Third World in the 1990's (1989).

Reginald Herbold Green is a Professional Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex) and Senior Policy Advisor to the Mozambique Directorate of Planning. For over thirty years he has published extensively on the political economy of Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a regular consultant to UNICEF, the Southern African Development Community, and the African Development Bank. His current interests focus on livelihood rehabilitation and absolute poverty reduction.

Jeffrey Herbst is Assistant Professor at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. He is the author of The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 (1993), State Politics in Zimbabwe (1990), and articles on African politics. In 1992-1993, he was a Fullbright Professor at the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

Michael F. Lofchie is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles where he also served as Director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center. Among his most recent books are The Policy Factor: Agricultural Performance in Kenya and Tanzania (1989) and (coeditor) Africa's Agrarian Crisis: The Roots of Famine 1986.

Matthew Martin is currently Senior Research Officer, External Finance for Africa, at the International Development Centre, Oxford University, and advisor to two African governments on their external finance negotiations. He is the author of The Crumbling Facade of African Debt Negotiations: No Winners (1991); he has also worked on the issues of aid, debt, and adjustment in Africa for the Overseas Development Institute, Swedish International Development Authority, UNCTAD, UNDP, and the World Bank.

Roger Riddell is a Senior Research Associate of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London and has worked on African development issues for twenty years. He is author of Manufacturing in Africa: Performance and Prospects of Seven Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (1990) and Zimbabwe to 1996: At the Heart of a Growing Region for the Economist Intelligence Unit. He is completing a book on the impact of NGO's on development for ODI and working with the African Development Bank on economic integration in a post-apartheid southern Africa.

Donald Rothchild is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis, and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institute for 1992-93. He is author of Racial Bargaining in Independent Kenya (1973) and coauthor of Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa (2nd ed., 1992(. He is also editor of Ghana: the Political Economy of Recovery (1991) and coeditor of The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (1988).

Nicolas van de Walle is Assistant Professor of Political Science and a member of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University. He coauthored Of Time and Power: Leadership in the Modern World (1991). He is currently working on a book on the politics of economic reform in Cameroon.

Jennifer A. Widner is Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. She is author of The Rise of a Party-State in Kenya: From Harambee! to Nyayo!(1993) and articles on the political economy of Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire. She is currently working on a book on the latter topic.