FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING

CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
OCTOBER 9 - 11, 1997

RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT:
The Role of the Third World in the New World Order

CO-EDITORS

Marcia W. Jones Nancy Shumaker
ATWS President Information Services Chair

CO-SPONSORS
Central Connecticut State University, Hartford, Connecticut
Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus, Georgia
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia
Georgia Consortium, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

TABLE OF CONTENTS

   
THE AUTHORITARIAN STATE AND THE QUESTION OF DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNANCE IN POST-COLONIAL AFRICA: LESSONS FROM NIGERIA
Dauda Abubakar


3
 
SOLDIERS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA
Philip C. Aka

11
 
INFLATION AND FOREIGN MONEY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES:
SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GHANA
Samuel Kojo Andoh


21
 
ACCELERATED LANGUAGE DEATHS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD:
A CONSEQUENCE OF THE NEW WORLD
Abdul Karim Bangura


26
 
CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND THE IMPOSITION OF ETICS
Stephen E. Buggie

32
 
BARRIERS TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FEMALE TRADITIONAL
DOCTORS IN AFRICA'S HEALTH DEVELOPMENT PURSUITS
H.I. Carew


37
 
HAS SOUTH AFRICAN EDUCATION COME OF AGE 21 YEARS
AFTER SOWETO?
David J. Cranmer


50
 
MANAGING MAQUILADORA PLANTS OF LATIN AMERICA:
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WOMEN'S PERCEPTIONS
Marcia W. Jones and Nancy W. Shumaker


121
 
COUNTERING SUB SAHARAN AFRICA'S MARGINALIZATION IN THE NEW
WORLD ORDER: GLOBALIZATION AS CURRENT FOE BUT POTENTIAL ALLY?
Paul Kennedy


58
 
THE MILITARY AND THE MAKING OF POSTCOLONIAL IDENTITY IN KEN
SARO-WIWA'S SOZABOY AND MANUEL RUI'S YES, COMRADE!
Sandra Meek


70
 
THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN AFRICA IN THE KNOWLEDGE
EXPLOSION ERA
Frederick Muyia Nafukho


80
 
THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA: EDUCATION FOR RECONSTRUCTION IN
THE POST-COLD WAR ERA
Anne Nangulu-Ayuku


88
 
NATIONAL LANGUAGE OR INTERNATIONAL FOLLY? THE QUESTION
OF BILEEZ KRIOL
Michael D. Phillips


92
 
EXPORT-LED GROWTH IN CHILE, MALAYSIA, AND THAILAND:
A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Nola Reinhardt


97
 
DISILLUSIONMENT IN THE DELTA: DEATH OF IDEALISM
William Seraile

108
 
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS IN CHINA IN 1997: HAVE PRISONS
AND FORCED LABOR CHANGED?
Daniel C. Turack


114
 
ABSTRACTS 131
 
INDEX 151
 

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