Leeds African Studies Bulletin No. 77 (2015/16)

This issue includes the LUCAS 2015-16 Annual Lecture on the excesses of power given by Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate, who studied at Leeds in the 1950s. Other articles include pieces by Emma Camp, Jethro Norman and Christian Høgsbjerg and a tribute to the late Prof Vic Allen by Alex Beresford.

Studying Africa

• Narcissus and other Pall Bearers: Morbidity as Ideology
  Wole Soyinka

Analysing Africa

• Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS Denialism: Neoliberalism, Government and Civil Society in South Africa
  Emma Camp
• Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) in Somalia since the End of the Cold War: Historical and Theoretical Implications
  Jethro Norman

Reading Africa

• Review of Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology
  Rachel Bower
• Review of Zimbabwe: Challenging the Stereotypes
  Jack Mapanje
• Review of Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend
  Ruth Daly
• Review of Achebe and Friends at Umuahia
  Jane Plastow
• Review of Building a Peaceful Nation
  Jane Plastow

Remembering Africa

• Remembering the Fifth Pan-African Congress
  Christian Høgsbjerg
• Tribute to Professor Vic Allen
  Alex Beresford