The papers in the collection are divided into two main nation building and regional problems and prospects; and the 'weird wind of democratisation and governance'. Some examples of topics covered the effects of the foreign debt burden on saving ratios in the CEMAC Zone; the Nepad initiative as a basis for fostering economic recovery in the CEMAC Zone; foreign states' elites and the DRC conflicts 1997- 2002; traumas, memories and 'modern' politics in Central Africa; and human rights abuses in the Central Africa the case of children.