Africa: Falling Off the Map?

Thomas M. Csallaghy is an associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; he is coeditor, with John Ravenhill, of Hemmed In: Responses to Africa’s Economic Decline (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). This article is a revised and updated version of a chapter in Africa in World Politics, 2d edition, edited by John Harbeson and Donald Rothchild (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, paper-back, 1994; cloth, 1995), and appears by permission.