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Activist, scholar, and political journalist Colin Legum assesses Africa's experience since independence and offers judicious predictions about the continent's future. Covering 50 years of sweeping change, this provocative and insightful book examines Africa's struggle for democracy, mounting economic problems, and AIDS.
"Colin Legum was a South African-born journalist and anti-apartheid activist. This archive collectively brings together a veritable goldmine of material relating to the modern development of South Africa, with particular reference to the anti-apartheid movement. These include cuttings of Legum's own reports and articles in the world press, arranged chronologically from 1936-1987; documents, papers and memoranda on the growth of the Pan-African Movement since 1952; resolutions of the Organisation of African Unity and other documents since 1963; South African press digests from the early years of apartheid, 1949-1972; Legum's own weekly (and later, fortnightly) newsletter, Third World Reports, 1990-1995, as well as various broadcast talks, journal articles and speeches between the 1940's and 1980's."--Collection metadata page.