Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:-Fanon and Africa / by Derek Wright -- Planned decolonization and its failure in British Africa / John Flint -- Mau Maus of the mind : making Mau Mau and remaking Kenya / by John Lonsdale -- The road to independence in French tropical Africa / 'Ladipo Adamolekun -- The path to independence in French Africa : recent historiography / David E. Gardinier -- Strike movements as part of the anticolonial struggle in French West Africa / J. Suret-Canale -- Sekou Touré and the Guinean revolution / by R.W. Johnson -- Djibo Bakary, the French, and the Referendum of 1958 in Niger / by Finn Fuglestad -- Women in nationalist struggle : TANU activists in Dar es Salaam / by Susan Geiger -- An episode from the independence struggle in Zambia : a case study from Mwase Lundazi / Jan K. Van Donge -- Separatist agitations in Nigeria since 1914 / by Tekena N. Tamuno -- The 'Igbo Scare' in the British Cameroons, c. 1945-61 / Victor B. Amaazee -- The Youngmen [sic] and the porcupine : class, nationalism and Asante's struggle for self-determination, 1954-57 / by Jean M. Allman -- Patriotism and neo-traditionalism in Buganda : the Kabaka Yekka ('The King Alone') movement, 1961-1962 / by I.R. Hancock -- Ghana, the Congo, and the United Nations / by Jitendra Mohan -- Nationalisation and indigenisation in Africa / by Leslie L. Rood -- Toward cultural independence in Africa : some illustrations from Nigeria and Ghana / Robert W. July -- Whose dream was it anyway? Twenty-five years of African independence / Michael Crowder.