I have been asked by Heinemann and Curry to revise my 1987 book,
AFRICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY. For various reasons this task does not
excite me and I would be happy to consider any applications for
co-authorship of the new edition. The major revisions would involve
the chapter on South Africa and the addition of (with some possible
subtraction elsewhere) of a chapter on "The Age of Structural
Adjustment".
I will be teching a course this fall called "Rethinking African
Economic History" in which we will be doing some of the above as well
as reading Zeleza's, *A Modern Economic History of Africa* (a
competing book, very critical of me and much else) as well as some of
the recent work of Jane Guyer. I am not sure that either arguments
with Zeleza or the major theoretical questions raised by JG should be
seriously incorporated into a revision. They (espeically JG) inform
my newer work, which is one reason I do not like the idea of revising
the old, for which there is nevertheless a substantial, if modest,
market.