Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
Henry Kissinger is supposed to have said that the situation in Southern Africa was the most complex in the world today, and I sometimes wonder which of us has more of a problem dealing with it–we South Africans in trying to solve the sometimes intractable dilemmas of a divided and heterogeneous society, or Americans in trying to work out what on earth is going on down there.
The text of this article was delivered as a speech to the panel of the Current Issues Committee at the African Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 2, 1978.