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JOURNAL OF 
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 
IN AFRICA 
Editorial 
Relief-Development Strategics 
Roger W Hay 
Institutional Responsibility for Social Forestry 
Kay Muir and John Casey 
Rethinking Third World Development 
Ikechukwu G Eziakor 
Voluntary Agencies and Mental Health 
Kwaku Osei-Hwedie 
Role of the Social Sciences. A Reply 
Carole Pearce 
Comment on the Reply 
Leonard Bloom 
Book Reviews 
Index of Vols 3 and 4 
Volume 4 No 2 1989
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA 
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The journal publishes critical analyses of social development issues as they affect the poor and 
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Champaign, USA 
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Journal of Social Development in Africa 
Vol4No2 1989 
Editorial 3 
Articles 
Food, Aid and Relief-Development Strategics 7 
Roger W Hay 
Institutional Responsibility for Social Forestry in Zimbabwe 27 
Kay Muir and John Casey 
Rethinking Third World Development: Early Historical Paradigms vs 39 
Contemporary Paradigms 
Ikechukwu G Eziakor 
Voluntary Agencies and the Promotion of Mental Health 49 
Kwaku Osei-IIwedie 
Misconceptions on the Role of the Social Sciences: A Reply to Bloom 59 
(3/1 1988) 
Carole Pearce 
Comment on the Reply 71 
Leonard Bloom 
Book Reviews 75 
Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: Farm Household Economics 
and the Food Crisis, Allan Low, Popular Participation in Planning for Basic 
Needs. Concepts, Methods and Practices, FranklynLisk(ed); Five Hundred 
Million Children. Poverty and Child Welfare in the Third World, Stewart 
MacPherson; Development Psychiatry: Mental Health and Primary Health 
Care in Botswana, David Ben-Tovim; Sex Roles, Population and Development 
in West Africa, Christine Oppong (ed); South Africa: A New US Policy 
for the 1990s, Kevin Danaher; Multinational Joint Ventures in Developing 
Countries, Paul W Beamish; Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1985, 
Patrick Manning. 
Index of Volumes 3 (1988) and 4 (1989) 55
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