Introduction : liberation and after -- Capitalism, socialism, democracy -- Sub-Saharan Africa in global capitalism / with Colin Leys -- "What is to be learned?" : the failure of African socialisms and their future -- Liberal democracy vs. popular democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Peace and reconciliation, authoritarianism, and "African socialism" -- On war and peace in Africa : the Mozambican case -- Lubango and after : "forgotten history" as politics in contemporary Namibia / with Colin Leys -- Mugabe, Gramsci, and Zimbabwe at twenty-five / with Richard Saunders -- Julius Nyerere's socialism : learning from Tanzania -- South Africa in transition -- The transition -- The post-apartheid denouement -- Starting from scratch? : a debate -- The hares, the hounds, and the ANC : on joining the third world in post-apartheid South Africa -- Africa : the next liberation struggle.