The New Elites of Tropical Africa
The New Elites of Tropical Africa

Author: P. C. Lloyd

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0429956959

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Originally published in 1966, this book brings together papers dealing with the emergence and development of elites in sub-Saharan Africa among social categories ranging from farmers and women market traders through foremen and merchants to administrators and managers in government and industry. The authors analyse distinctive social characteristics and attitudes and the development of class consciousness.

Modern African Elite of South Africa
Modern African Elite of South Africa

Author: Lynette Dreyer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-06-18

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1349101915

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A profile of the lives of 60 eminent Black Africans who have reached the top of their professions and social hierarchy in South African society despite the political system. It argues that White fears of a Black government destroying the economy of South Africa are unfounded.

Markets and States in Tropical Africa
Markets and States in Tropical Africa

Author: Robert H. Bates

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2014-04-12

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0520282566

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Following independence, most countries in Africa sought to develop, but their governments pursued policies that actually undermined their rural economies. Examining the origins of Africa’s “growth tragedy,” Markets and States in Tropical Africa has for decades shaped the thinking of practitioners and scholars alike. Robert H. Bates’s analysis now faces a challenge, however: the revival of economic growth on the continent. In this edition, Bates provides a new preface and chapter that address the seeds of Africa’s recovery and discuss the significance of the continent’s success for the arguments of this classic work.

Western Education and Political Domination in Africa
Western Education and Political Domination in Africa

Author: Magnus O. Bassey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1999-10-30

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0313003793

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The contribution of Western education to the creation of an African-educated elite is well documented. What is not equally well documented is the fact that African-educated elites have used their education and the schools to perpetuate their dominance by denying the poor the knowledge necessary to protect their political and economic rights and to advance in society. On the other hand, educated elites in Africa make opportunities available to their own members through selective ordering, legitimization of certain language forms and learning processes in schools, and legitimization of elite codes and experiences to the exclusion of the histories, experiences, and worldviews of the poor. This book highlights the processes by which the poor in Africa have been disenfranchised and marginalized through schools' ascriptive mechanisms, and explains why African economic development is very slow.

The Lumumba Generation
The Lumumba Generation

Author: Daniel Tödt

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-10-04

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 3110709376

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How and why did the Congolese elite turn from loyal intermediaries into opponents of the colonial state? This book seeks to enrich our understanding of the political and cultural processes culminating in the tumultuous decolonization of the Belgian Congo. Focusing on the making of an African bourgeoisie, the book illuminates the so-called évolués’ social worlds, cultural self-representations, daily life and political struggles. https://youtu.be/c8ybPCi80dc

Class Formation and Civil Society
Class Formation and Civil Society

Author: Patrick M. Boyle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 0429866992

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First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.