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JOURNAL OF 
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 
IN AFRICA 1 
Editorial 
Indigenous NGOs 
Gerry Salole 
Child Labour in Zimbabwe 
Rene Loewenson 
Social Work Practice in Zimbabwe 
Eddie Kaseke 
AIDS and Social Work in Africa 
Helen Jackson 
Work Attitudes and Life Goals of Zambian Youth 
Kwaku Osei-Hwedie 
Book Reviews 
Volume 6 No 11991
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 
School of Social Work 
P/Bag 66022 Kopje 
Harare, Zimbabwe 
The journal publishes critical analyses of social development issues as they affect the poor and 
marginalised in society. It deals with concerns especially but not exclusively relevant to 
Southern Africa, and is addressed to development practitioners, social workers, planners and 
policy makers, academics in a variety of fields such as economics, geography, politics, 
sociology, psychology, social administration, and to other concerned individuals. 
Published twice annually, the journal seeks to enhance understanding of the social 
development processes that contribute to the planning and implementation of appropriate 
intervention strategies at different levels. Its goal is to discover how best to target relevant and 
successful projects to those most in need, and how to maximise popular participation, thereby 
creating egalitarian and productive communities. 
Editor 
Ms B Willmore 
Editorial Board 
Mr E Kaseke (Chairperson), Principal, School of Social Work, Harare, Zimbabwe. 
Fr Joe Hampson SJ, Provincial, Zimbabwe Province of the Society of Jesus, Harare, 
Zimbabwe 
Professor G Chavunduka, Faculty of Social Studies, University of Zimbabwe 
Dr S Agere, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of the Public Service, Zimbabwe 
Mr A Nyanguru, School of Social Work, Harare, Zimbabwe 
Mr R Mupedziswa, School of Social Work, Harare, Zimbabwe 
Editorial Advisors (1991-93) 
Dr J F Jones, Dean, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, USA 
Dr J Midgley, Dean, School of Social Work, Louisiana State, USA 
Dr R Mutiso, Associate Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Nairobi, Kenya 
Dr P Muzaale, Makerere University, Kampala.Uganda (temp: University of West Indies) 
H K Oyeh, Principal, School of Social Work, Osu, Accra, Ghana. 
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Journal of Social Development in Africa 
Vol6Noll991 
Editorial 3 
Articles 
Not Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Searching for Indigenous 5 
Non Government Organisations in the Forest of Voluntary 
'Self-Help' Associations 
Gerry Scdole 
Child Labour in Zimbabwe and the Rights of the Child 19 
Rene Loewenson 
Social Work Practice in Zimbabwe 33 
Eddie Kaseke 
AIDS and Social Work in Africa 47 
Helen Jackson 
Work Attitudes and Life Goals of Zambian Youth 63 
Kwaku Osei-Hwedie 
Book Reviews 75 
Social Development in Africa 1950-1985, Arega Yimam; The Role of 
Community Participation in Development Planning and Project 
Management, Report of a Workshop on Community Participation, Michael 
Bamberger; Successful Development in Africa. Case Studies of Projects, 
Programmes and Policies, World Bank; Agricultural Extension in Africa, 
Nigel Roberts; The End of the Third World: New Industrialising Countries 
and the Decline of an Ideology, Nigel Harris; Africa and Empire: W M 
MacMillan, Historian and Social Critic, HughMacMillanandShulaMarks; 
Maids and Madams: Domestic Workers under Apartheid, Jacklyn Cock; No 
Child's Play: In Prison Under Apartheid, Caesarina Kona Makhoere; 
Women, Race and Class,Angela Davis; Nelson Mandela's Speeches, 1990. 
Intensify the Struggle to Abolish Apartheid, Greg McCarten (ed); 
Agroforestry in SubSaharan Africa. A Farmer's Perspective, World Bank, 
Zimbabwe: A Revolution that Lost its Way?, Andre Astrow; Zimbabwe: 
Politics, Economics and Society, Colin Stoneman and Lionel Cliffe. 
Books Received and Abstracting Services 95
New titles from 
Hans Zell Publishers - July to December, ism 
Carol Sicherman 
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: The Making of a Rebel. A 
Source Book in Kenyan Literature and Resistance 
505pp. July 1990 £48.00l$80.O0 cased 
ISBN 0-905450-66-3 (Documentary Research in 
African Literatures, 1) 
Richard Fredland 
A Guide to African International Organizations 
320pp. August 1990 U5.00IS75.00 cased 
ISBN 0-905450-90-6 
Robin Cohen, Yvonne Muthien, and Abebe Zegeye 
(eds.) 
Repression and Resistance: Insider Accounts of 
Apartheid 
320pp. October 1990 c.C35.00l$58.00 cased 
ISBN 0-905450-86-8 (African Discourse Series, 2) 
Julian Davies/Refugee Studies Programme, 
University of Oxford (eds.) 
Displaced Peoples and Refugee Studies: 
A Resource Guide 
232pp. October 1990 c.£35.00/$58.00 cased 
ISBN 0-905450-76-0 (Hans Zell Resource Guides, 2) 
Robert Collins 
The Waters of the Nile: An Annotated 
Bibliography 
c.496pp. October 1990 c.£55.00/$90.00 cased 
ISBN 0-905450-84-1 
Shelagh Gastrow (ed.) 
Who's Who in South African Politics 
3rd fully revised and expanded edition 
c.400pp. October 1990 c.£45.00/$75.00 
ISBN 0-905450-37-X (Co-published with Ravan 
Press) 
Anne Thurston 
Guide to Archives and Manuscripts Relating to 
Kenya and East Africa in the United Kingdom 
Volume I: Official Records 
Volume II: Non-Official Archives and Manuscripts 
c.l,248pp. set two wls. November 1990 
c.a20.00l$200.00 set two vols. 
ISBN 0-905450-47-7 set two vols. 
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A.H.M. Kirk-Greene (ed.) 
A Biographical Dictionary of the British 
Colonial Service, 1939-1966 
c.500pp. December 1990 c.£75.00/$125.00 cased 
ISBN 0-904550-96-5 
Cherry Gertzel 
Uganda: An Annotated Bibliography of 
Source Materials 
c.320pp. December 1990 c.£45.00/$75.00 cased 
ISBN 0-905450-83-3 
Announcing a new monograph series, 
published for the African Centre for Applied 
Research and Training in Social 
Development (ACARTSOD): 
"African Social Challenges" 
Chairman of the Editorial Board: 
Professor Adebayo Adedeji 
United Nations Under-Secretary-General, and 
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for Africa 
No. 1: Understanding Africa's Food 
Problems: 
Social Policy Perspectives 
ISBN 0-905450-39-6 
No. 2: The African Social Situation: 
Crucial Factors of Development and 
Transformation 
ISBN 0-905450-78-7 
No. 3: Social Determinants of Labour 
Productivity in West Africa 
by Austin N. Isamah 
ISBN 0-905450-48-5 
No. 4: Social Development in Africa: 
Strategies, Policies, and 
Programmes after the Lagos Plan 
ISBN 0-905450-28-0 
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