Todd Moss (Georgetown): Zimbabwe’s Meltdown: Anatomy of a Peacetime Economic Collapse. From LRB, a review of When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of Aids in South Africa by Didier Fassin and The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight against Aids by Helen Epstein. Will the new African oil rush doom these countries or save them? A review of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian. Biafran lessons: More attention has to be paid to the traditional tribal boundaries of Africa rather than the European enforced "countries". From the Journal of Pan African Studies, a special issue on literature, politics and music.
