This article examines the challenges to building a civil society based on strong voluntary associations in Ethiopia, a country like most others in sub-Saharan Africa where neither the social structures nor the institutional setting is congenial to the growth and sustenance of a civic tradition....

Goran Hyden takes a critical look at African development in relation to today's global world. He offers some insights into why Africa has gone backwards rather than forwards. He questions both African governments and the international community and suggests that through a new approach to global...