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THE JOURNAL OF

AFRICAN STUDIES

VOLUME 23 NUMBER 2

GUY MARTIN Bases of France's African Policy SAMUEL DECALO African Personal Dictatorships COLIN KIRKPATRICK & DIMITRIS DIAKOSAVVAS Food Insecurity and Foreign-Exchange Constraints DAN WEINER, SAM MOYO, BARRY MUNSLOW & PHIL O'KEEFE Land Use and Agricultural Productivity in Zimbabwe ELAINE A. FRIEDLAND S.A.D.C.C. and the West: Co-operation or Conflict? EDWIN S. SEGAL Projections of Internal Migration in Malawi: Implications for Development KASSIM SHEHIM Ethiopia and Nationalities: the Case of the Afar JOHN W. BURTON Christians, Colonists, and Conversion: a View from the Nilotic Sudan

A QUARTERLY SURVEY OF POLITICS, ECONOMICS & RELATED TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA EDITED BY DAVID KIMBLE

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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THE JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES

VOLUME 23 JUNE I985 NUMBER 2

ARTICLES THE HISTORICAL, ECONOMIC, AND POLITICAL BASES

OF FRANCE'S AFRICAN POLICY DR GuY MARTIN, Visiting Lecturer, Diplomacy Training Programme,

University of Nairobi 189

AFRICAN PERSONAL DICTATORSHIPS DR SAMUE L DECALO, Professor of African Government, University of

Natal, Durban 209

FOOD INSECURITY AND FOREIGN-EXCHANGE CONSTRAINTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

D R C o L I N K I R K P A T R I C K, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Manchester, and currently Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, and DR DIMITRIS DIAKOSAVVAS, Economic Consultant, F.A.O., Rome 239

LAND USE AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN ZIMBABWE

DAN WEINER, Graduate Student, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts; SAM MOYO, Research Fellow, Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies, Harare; DR BARRY MU N SLOW, Lecturer, Department of Political Theory and Institutions, University of Liverpool; and DR PHI L O0K E E FE, Senior Research Fellow, Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm 251

THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATION CONFERENCE AND THE WEST: CO-OPERATION OR CONFLICT?

D R E L A I N E A. F R I E D L A N D, Analyst of International Political Economy, New rork City 287

PROJECTIONS OF INTERNAL MIGRATION IN MALAWI: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT

DR EDWIN S. SEGAL, Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisville, Kentucky, and Fulbright Professor of Sociology, Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba 315

ETHIOPIA, REVOLUTION, AND THE QUESTION OF NATIONALITIES: THE CASE OF THE AFAR

DR KASSIM SHEHIM, Department of History, Bowie State College, Maryland 331

CHRISTIANS, COLONISTS, AND CONVERSION: A VIEW FROM THE NILOTIC SUDAN

D R J O H N W. B U R T O N, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Connecticut College, New London 349

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