Africa Today Volume 52, Number 1, Fall 2005 CONTENTS Oppong, Joseph R. Kalipeni, Ezekiel, 1954- z The Geography of Landmines and Implications for Health and Disease in Africa: A Political Ecology Approach [Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF] Subjects: { Land mines -- Environmental aspects -- Africa. { Environmental policy -- Africa. { Public health -- Africa. Abstract: With more than 37 million landmines in at least nineteen countries, no region suffers more than Africa from the presence of landmines. Angola alone has an estimated 15 million landmines and an amputee population of 70,000, the highest rate in the world. Multiple conflicts throughout the continent produce new minefields every day, denying people access to critical resources and severely obstructing healthcare delivery. This paper examines the health and environmental implications of Africa's landmine crisis. It analyzes how landmines undermine human livelihoods and overpower healthcare systems. Without a ban on the laying of landmines and proper compliance with existing landmine agreements, solutions to Africa's development and health problems will prove elusive. Donkor, Martha. z Marching to the Tune: Colonization, Globalization, Immigration, and the Ghanaian Diaspora [Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF] Subjects: { Ghana -- Emigration and immigration. { Toronto (Ont.) -- Emigration and immigration. { Women immigrants -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Social conditions. { Women immigrants -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Economic conditions. Abstract: This paper examines the ideological basis for colonization and globalization as essential props for an unequal global political economy, and links this idea to the impetus for formerly colonized people to turn to migration as an option to living difficult lives. Then it highlights the experiences of Ghanaian immigrant women as they created a sense of community in Canada. Kraxberger, Brennan M. z The United States and Africa: Shifting Geopolitics in an "Age of Terror" [Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF] Subjects: { Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States. { United States -- Foreign relations -- Africa. { Africa -- Foreign relations -- United States. { United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001- { Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960- Page 1 of 5 Africa Today, Volume 52, 2006-2005 - Table of Contents 10/1/2005 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/toc/at52.1.html