Marina Ottaway

TL;DR: The authors argued that the end of apartheid meant a transition from authoritarianism to democracy like that experienced in Latin America during the 1980s, and that it is useless to seek parallels and learn lessons from what has happened elsewhere in the continent in the process of decolonisation.

TL;DR: In the four years since the signing of the Nkomati accord in March 1984, Mozambique has undergone a quiet but far-reaching process of policy reform.

TL;DR: The political movement that started then was the result of significant social and economic changes which took place during the last 15-20 years of the Emperor's reign as discussed by the authors. But despite the fact that the army played, and is still playing, the central role, it would be wrong to regard the change simply as a coup d'etat which replaced one authoritarian regime with another.

TL;DR: In the last few years, there has been a sharp upsurge in the popularity of Marxism among intellectuals in African countries as mentioned in this paper, and the earlier African ideologies with their softer, reconciliatory attitudes, and their stress on brotherhood rather than class struggle have lost some of their appeal for progressive or radical African intellectuals.