Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power in West African Societies
Author: Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783825835491
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On Private Indirect Government
Author: Achille Mbembe
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo hypothesis form the basis of this study. First, that development in African countries follows many models, on many time-scales; and secondly that private indirect government is taking the place of the state in controlling individual conduct. The author concludes that a new form of the organisation of power is emerging based on the control of the means of coercion - in effect, privatisation of public violence.
Social Spaces of African Societies
Author: Jürgen Ossenbrügge
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9783825878504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransnational social spaces" have emerged in recent years as a research area within migration and area studies. This volume is about African social spaces. It incorporates examples of Central and Western Africa as well as of African-European relations. Contributors from different disciplines, such as anthropology, geography, and political and educational sciences outline their interpretations of transnational social spaces, based on theoretical and empirical work within a wider research project at the University of Hamburg about contemporary transformations of African societies. Jrgen O?enbrgge is professor of economic and political geography at the University of Hamburg. Mechthild Reh is professor for African Studies at the University of Hamburg
Grassroots Governance?
Author: Donald Iain Ray
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1552380807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional leadership is a factor that has been long overlooked in evaluations of rural local government in much of contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa -- this volume addresses it head-on. Case studies drawn from Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Commonwealth countries in West, East, and Southern Africa, as well as Jamaica are included. An interdisciplinary and intercontinental collection that addresses this gap in dialogue about African politics. The book brings new perspectives on the integration, or reconciliation, of traditional leadership with democratic systems of local government.
Traditional Leadership and Democratisation in Southern Africa
Author: Sandra Düsing
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9783825850654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the impacts of ethnically based, traditional political institutions on democratic state and nation building in Southern Africa and how do heterogeneous sources of legitimacy affect the prospects of long-term democratic regime consolidation? What are the impacts of "traditionalism" employed for purposes of party-political mobilization? An indicator for the political influence of traditional leadership in Southern Africa is the fact that a considerable number of democratically elected politicians in high office originate from aristocratic families, representing hereditary traditional leadership structures for centuries. This is evident for the charismatic founding president of the new South Africa; Nelson Mandela, as well as for his adversary, the prime minister-in-office, Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The careful reconsideration of this "state behind the state" has been identified as crucial, in this study, to make any realistic assessments of the prospects for sustainable democratization in Southern African countries in the near future.
Africa since Independence
Author: Paul Nugent
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-06-13
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 023039356X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn indispensable introductory textbook that provides students with a genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. Paul Nugent explores a range of key concerns including the impact of HIV and AIDS, the contagion of warfare, and efforts at achieving national reconciliation both in the past and today. This is an ideal core text for modules on Modern African History, African Politics or Africa since Independence - or a supplementary text for broader modules on African History - which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate History, Politics or African Studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying modern African history for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in African History, African Politics or African Studies. New to this Edition: - Revised and updated throughout in light of the latest research - Reflects recent developments on issues such as AIDS, urbanization, the secession of South Sudan, questions of citizenship and the importance of transnational spaces - This second edition now features photographs
Ambiguous Restructurings of Post-apartheid Cape Town
Author: Christoph Haferburg
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9783825866990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat will tomorrow's Cape Town look like? This volume reflects a variety of aspects of urban development and restructuring efforts in Cape Town in the last years. A focus lies on the question if the "apartheid city" is reproducing itself. This leads to an evaluation whether current policies really counter societal imbalances. The essays presented here illuminate possible pathways towards the urban futures unfolding in a South African city in transition.
Asante Identities
Author: T.C. McCaskie
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-08-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1474470823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsante Identitiesis an account of life in the Asante village of Ade beba in West Africa during a century of rapid change, told as far as possible in the words of the villagers themselves. Asante is the most intensely studied of all sub-Saharan African cultures, and this book takes Asante and African historiography to new levels of reconstruction , analysis and understanding. This is the most closely focused historical study thus far achieved of African people engaging with issues of selfhood, identity and agency in an era that saw the continent fall under European domination.Key Features:- Major contribution to African studies in its historical depth and analytic sophistication- A book of wider interest to non-Africanist historians, social scientists and others- Considers issues of broad and current concern never before studied at this levelAsante Identities is a volume in the International African Library series, a major monograph series from the International African Institute which complements its quarterly periodical Africa, the premier journal in the field of African Studies.
Access to Justice
Author: Christina Jones-Pauly
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2002-11-27
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9789041118806
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Writing and Colonialism in Northern Ghana
Author: Sean Hawkins
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002-12-15
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 1442658452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a new perspective on colonialism in Africa. Drawing on work from a variety of subjects and disciplines – from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology – the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing and the particular world it belonged to. Focusing on the LoDagaa of northern Ghana and their relationship with British colonialism, Hawkins describes colonialism as an encounter between a world of experience – a world of knowledge, practice, and speech – and "the world on paper" – a world of writing, rules, and a linear concept of history. The various ways in which "the world on paper" affected the LoDagaa are examined thematically. The first four chapters explore how writing imposed a form of historical consciousness on different aspects of LoDagaa culture – identity, politics, and religion – that was alien to them. The second half of the book examines how both the British colonial state and its postcolonial successor, the Ghanian state, attempted to regulate indigenous forms of knowledge, gender relations, and social reckoning through courts. This ambitious and richly detailed book will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in African history, British colonialism, and cultural and postcolonial studies.
