George Ngwane

Book Review - Meddlers or Mediators?: African Interveners in Civil conflicts in Eastern Africa

Reviewed by Mwalimu George Ngwane (Originally published in Conflict Trends Magazine, Issue 2; August 2008).

Khadiagala, Gilbert M. 2007. Meddlers or mediators?: African interveners in civil conflicts in Eastern Africa. International negotiation series, v. 4. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff. 274 pages.

In eight chapters, 274 pages and five case studies Gilbert M. Khadiagala’s graphically detailed and well researched book sheds light on the vagary of conflict mediation through citizen-led (elder statesmen), state-centric and regionally – driven initiatives. At first reading the book concentrates on cases studies of civil wars within the Eastern region of Africa but beyond this, lies a profile portrait of those involved or intend to be involved in the complex and cumbersome search for peace in a conflict – prone Africa.

BOOK REVIEW: Settling Disputes in Africa: Traditional Bases for Conflict Resolution

By Isaac Njoh Endeley, PhD, JD (Endeley@aol.com)

George Ngwane. (1996). Settling Disputes in Africa: Traditional Bases for Conflict Resolution. Buma Kor House Publishers Ltd., B.P. 727 Yaoundé, Cameroon. 236 pages. [Forward by Dr. Jean-Emmanuel Pondi, International Relations Institute of Cameroon (IRIC)]

As the title suggests, the purpose of this book is to explore traditional African methods of resolving the continent's many conflicts. The author, Mr. George Ngwane, displays an uncanny familiarity with his subject matter in this well-written essay. From Algeria to Zimbabwe, he examines virtually all of the festering crisis situations in Africa and recommends different ways of resolving them peacefully.

Book Review: George Ngwane's "Way Forward for Africa"

Reviewer: Canute A. Ngwa, Ph.D, Senior Lecturer in Economic History, University of Buea.

Ngwane, George (2003). Way Forward for Africa: A Revolutionary Call to Reject Predatory Politics and Actualize the Renaissance. Colorado Springs, USA: International Academic Publishers. 106 p.

Africa is a continent replete with amazing contradictions; it is generally acclaimed to be the cradle of civilization, it possesses huge and mouth whetting human and natural resources. In fact, it is a continent blessed with nature’s prodigality. Yet, it is also a continent that habours a third of the world’s poorest countries and a population which has been emasculated socially, politically and economically.

African scholars as well as their Africanist counterparts have been alive to the debate as to why the continent’s fate has remained on the edge of a precipice. Through prismatic spectrums such scholars have appreciated Africa’s problems from Afrocentric, Eurocentric, radical and conservative perspectives. The culmination of their collective efforts is an avalanche of literatures on Africa.