Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Les Cahiers du CEDAF
Author: The Crisis in Zaire
Author: Georges Nzongola-NtalajaPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865430235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Geneva-Africa
Author: Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter
Author: Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Acquisition of foreign publications
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Living for the City
Author: Miles LarmerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108968007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
Living for the City is a social history of the Central African Copperbelt, considered as a single region encompassing the neighbouring mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Haut Katanga and Zambian Copperbelt mine towns have been understood as the vanguard of urban 'modernity' in Africa. Observers found in these towns new African communities that were experiencing what they wrongly understood as a transition from rural 'traditional' society – stable, superstitious and agricultural – to an urban existence characterised by industrial work discipline, the money economy and conspicuous consumption, Christianity, and nuclear families headed by male breadwinners supported by domesticated housewives. Miles Larmer challenges this representation of Copperbelt society, presenting an original analysis which integrates the region's social history with the production of knowledge about it, shaped by both changing political and intellectual contexts and by Copperbelt communities themselves. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Zaire
Author: Winsome J LesliePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000011305
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book describes the historical setting of Zaire and focuses on economic and political developments during the Mobutu era. It examines the corrupt and closed political system, with its roots in the colonial state and precolonial political patterns.
Zaire
Author: Jean-Claude WillamePublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 0788170422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Presents a broad-ranging examination of the growing economic, political, and humanitarian struggle in Zaire, along with suggestions for preventative action to ameliorate Zaire's problems. Topics include: understanding the unending crisis in Zaire, the structure of society, economic structures and prospects, political structures and prospects, urgent issues, a framework for action to arrest further violence, and how best to provide international economic aid in Zaire. Includes a discussion on Rwandan refugees in Zaire and a chronology of the situation in Zaire from 1960-1996. Charts and tables.
Transnational Companies and Security Governance
Author: Jana HönkePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136219900
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book investigates governance practiced by non-state actors. It analyses how multinational mining companies protect their sites in fragile contexts and what that tells us about political ordering 'beyond' the state. Based on extensive primary research in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Europe and North America, the book compares companies' political role in the 19th and 21st centuries. It demonstrates that despite a number of disturbing parallels, many contemporary practices are not a reversion to the past but unique to the present. The book discloses hybrid security practices with highly ambiguous effects around the sites of contemporary companies that have committed to norms of corporate social and security responsibility. Companies invest in local communities, and offer human rights training to security forces alongside coercive techniques of fortress protection, and stability-oriented clientele practice and arrangements of indirect rule. The book traces this hybridity back to contradictory collective meaning systems that cross borders and structure the perceptions and choices of company managers, private security officers, NGO collaborators and others practitioners. The book argues that hybrid security practices are not the result of an encounter between a supposed ‘local’ with the liberal ‘global’. Instead, this hybridity is inherent in the transnational and part and parcel of liberal transnational governance. Therefore, more critical reflection of global governance in practice is required. These issues are sharply pertinent to liberal peacebuilding as well as global governance more broadly. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in business, politics and human rights; critical security studies; peacebuilding and statebuilding; African politics; and ethnographic and sociological approaches to global governance and international relations more generally.
Growing Old in Cameroon
Author: Charles Che FonchingongPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761861262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book discusses the problems Cameroon faces in caring for its older population. It also proposes policy options that can make a difference in the lives of older citizens and finds that they are not a burden to society, but rather key players in the development process.
Democratisation in the Dr Congo from Joseph Mobutu to Joseph Kabila
Author: Hubert Kabasu Babu KatulondiPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728382874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced one of the most complex, meandering, and uncertain democratisation processes in Africa. In 2016 the third cycle of elections was not organised. The Presidential Majority (M.P) was accused of concocting an amendment of the constitution aimed at granting a third term to the incumbent President Joseph Kabila. Furthermore, the introduction of a Voting Machine by the electoral commission fuelled violent protests and a political impasse. The DRC tittered on the brink of collapse into another civil war in 2016. Yet, against all odds, the Congolese electoral commission organised peaceful elections in December 2018. Stunningly, the presidential election was won by the opposition. A peaceful transfer of power at the helm of the state occurred for the first time in the country after 58 years of independence. The DRC is now regarded as a model of political alternation in power in Central Africa. The essay stems from the observation that predominant theorisations of Congolese politics fail to grasp the fecundity of the Congolese democratisation. Most scholars and analysts tend to focus on the deficits and flaws inherent in Congolese politics. Hence, they are often oblivious to foundational strides accomplished in this process as it unfolded in the DRC. This essay undertakes a modelled exploration of the democratisation process that unfolded in the DRC from the era of President Joseph Mobutu (1990–1997) to the dispensation of President Joseph Kabila (2001–2018). The effort utilises a paradigmatic framework to unravel the intricacies of a phenomenon occurring in a country which, at first glance, is often assumed to escape any ideal type. To this effect, the essay utilises Dr. Samuel Huntington’s Model of the Third Wave of Democratisation. It elucidates the causes, patterns, problems, and prospects of furthering this process in the DRC. The book proposes a dialectical approach propounding the possibility of the consolidation of democratisation in the DRC.