...Joshua Lustig For a brief period in the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet Union sought to use West Africa as a proving ground for a new model of state-led development. Its African partners had their own priorities. Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968...

...Jeffrey W. Paller The prospects for sustainable urban development are embedded in larger political struggles. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Jeffrey Paller Africa Ghana Accra Lagos urbanization cities megacities slums...

... of California Adekeye Adebajo UN peacekeeping pax Africa African AU union economic community states ECCAS SADC development Southern ECOWAS west Ethiopia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Ghana China Aesop colonial postcolonial Darfur Lumumba Angola Mozambique Mali CAR central...

... financial crisis South Africa Kenya Senegal Ghana economics poverty institutions oil 193 Near-term prospects for the region s economies are encouraging when one con- siders the enormous shocks of the recent crisis and the depth of the global down- turn. African Economies New Resilience peteR...

... democracy Ethiopia federalism Ghana Nigeria postcolonial South Africa Uganda 225 Africa s well-known developmental political problems remain. . . . But these problems also exist in political communities in every other part of the world. More important, they do not exhaust the story of politics...