| | With this edition ROAPE moves to publish four issues a year. It is hoped that this extra issue will be an annual 'review of books' , focused on various aspects of African research. In part, this will permit us each year to provide readers with notes and listings of current activities and publications - we are particularly pleased to be able to restore Chris Allen's Current Africana to our pages after far too long an absence. In part, too, it will provide a forum for discussion of current trends and ideas concerning (and of concern to) Africa's political economy and development. As part of such a process, we welcome responses to what is written. |