Lists of Maps and Tables - List of Boxes - Preface - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Beyond the Dialectics of Dependence - The African Condition: From Crisis to Conjuncture - The Continent in the 1990s: New Factors and Forces - Into the Twenty-first Century: Marginal or Central? - Conclusion: African Studies and African States - Appendix: OAU Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, June 1991 - References - Index