Alfred Babatunde Zack-Williams

lives and works in United Kingdom

Alfred Babatunde Zack-Williams is Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK and a member of the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy. His many books and essays include Tributors, Supporters and Merchant Capital: Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone (1995), ”Child Soldiers in the Civil War in Sierra Leone”, Review of African Political Economy (2001), ”Sierra Leone: the Political Economy of Civil War, 1991-98”, Third World Quarterly (1999), ”Kamajors, ‘Sobel’ & the Militariat: Civil Society & the Return of the Military in Sierra Leonean Politics”, Review of African Political Economy (1997), ”Peacekeeping and an ‘African High Command: Plus ça Change, c’est la Même Chose’”, Review of African Political Economy (1997), ”Development and Diaspora: Separate Concerns?”, Review of African Political Economy (1995), ”Crisis, Structural Adjustment and Creative Survival in Sierra Leone”, Africa Development (1993), ”Sierra Leone: Crisis and Despair”, Review of African Political Economy (1990), and ”Diamond Mining and Underdevelopment in Sierra Leone – 1930/1980”, Africa Development (1990).... He co-authored Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impact (2000), and co-edited Africa in Crisis: Possibilities and New Challenges (2002).