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Author: J.-A. Mbembé Publisher: KARTHALA Editions ISBN: 9782845860780 Category : Political Science Languages : fr Pages : 336
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Sur la base d'une dramatisation caricaturale, la guerre sévirait partout en Afrique. Grand corps mou et fantasque, le continent, impuissant, serait engagé dans un processus d'autodestruction ravageante. L'action humaine, stupide et folle, y suivrait presque toujours autre chose qu'un calcul rationnel. Cannibalisme, pandémies et pestilence partout imposeraient leur loi. Non point que de détresse, il n'y en ait point. D'horribles mouvements, des lois qui fondent et ordonnent la tragédie et le génocide, des dieux qui se présentent sous le visage de la mort et de la destitution, des cadavres errant au gré des flots, des menaces de toutes sortes, des ondes aveugles, des forces terribles qui, tous les jours, arrachent les êtres humains, les animaux, les plantes et les choses à leur sphère de vie et les condamnent à mort : il y en a, en effet. Ce qui fait cependant défaut, loin des culs-de-sac, des constats à l'aveuglette et des faux dilemmes (afropessimisme contre afrocentrisme), c'est la radicalité du questionnement. Car ce que l'Afrique en tant que notion met en crise, c'est la façon dont la théorie sociale a, jusqu'à présent, pensé le problème du basculement des mondes, de leurs oscillations et de leurs tremblements, de leurs retournements et de leurs déguisements. C'est aussi la façon dont cette théorie a échoué à rendre compte du temps vécu dans sa multiplicité et ses simultanéités, sa volatilité, sa présence et ses latences, au-delà des catégories paresseuses du permanent et du changeant qu'affectionnent tant d'historiens.
Author: J.-A. Mbembé Publisher: KARTHALA Editions ISBN: 9782845860780 Category : Political Science Languages : fr Pages : 336
Book Description
Sur la base d'une dramatisation caricaturale, la guerre sévirait partout en Afrique. Grand corps mou et fantasque, le continent, impuissant, serait engagé dans un processus d'autodestruction ravageante. L'action humaine, stupide et folle, y suivrait presque toujours autre chose qu'un calcul rationnel. Cannibalisme, pandémies et pestilence partout imposeraient leur loi. Non point que de détresse, il n'y en ait point. D'horribles mouvements, des lois qui fondent et ordonnent la tragédie et le génocide, des dieux qui se présentent sous le visage de la mort et de la destitution, des cadavres errant au gré des flots, des menaces de toutes sortes, des ondes aveugles, des forces terribles qui, tous les jours, arrachent les êtres humains, les animaux, les plantes et les choses à leur sphère de vie et les condamnent à mort : il y en a, en effet. Ce qui fait cependant défaut, loin des culs-de-sac, des constats à l'aveuglette et des faux dilemmes (afropessimisme contre afrocentrisme), c'est la radicalité du questionnement. Car ce que l'Afrique en tant que notion met en crise, c'est la façon dont la théorie sociale a, jusqu'à présent, pensé le problème du basculement des mondes, de leurs oscillations et de leurs tremblements, de leurs retournements et de leurs déguisements. C'est aussi la façon dont cette théorie a échoué à rendre compte du temps vécu dans sa multiplicité et ses simultanéités, sa volatilité, sa présence et ses latences, au-delà des catégories paresseuses du permanent et du changeant qu'affectionnent tant d'historiens.
Author: Jean-François Bayart Publisher: Longman Publishing Group ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 412
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Examines the role and structure of the state in Africa. Amongst the areas considered are: the genesis of the state; the decision to pursue conservative modernization or social revolution; the formation of an historic postcolonial bloc; and entrepreneurs, factions and political networks.
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1613747454 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 259
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This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Author: Gedion Onyango Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000513947 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 912
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This Handbook provides an authoritative and foundational disciplinary overview of African Public Policy and a comprehensive examination of the practicalities of policy analysis, policymaking processes, implementation, and administration in Africa today. The book assembles a multidisciplinary team of distinguished and upcoming Africanist scholars, practitioners, researchers and policy experts working inside and outside Africa to analyse the historical and emerging policy issues in 21st-century Africa. While mostly attentive to comparative public policy in Africa, this book attempts to address some of the following pertinent questions: How can public policy be understood and taught in Africa? How does policymaking occur in unstable political contexts, or in states under pressure? Has the democratisation of governing systems improved policy processes in Africa? How have recent transformations, such as technological proliferation in Africa, impacted public policy processes? What are the underlying challenges and potential policy paths for Africa going forward? The contributions examine an interplay of prevailing institutional, political, structural challenges and opportunities for policy effectiveness to discern striking commonalities and trajectories across different African states. This is a valuable resource for practitioners, politicians, researchers, university students, and academics interested in studying and understanding how African countries are governed.
Author: Kenneth Kalu Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351363719 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 372
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This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states. The contributors interrogate the evolution of Africa’s big men; the role of the big men in Africa’s political and economic development; and the relationship between the state, the big men and the citizens. Throughout the chapters the contributors engage with a number of questions from different disciplinary and methodological orientations. How did these states evolve to exhibit various deformities in their composition, functioning and in their relations with the societies that they govern? What roles did Atlantic and other slavery and European colonialism play in creating states that are unable to display the right and good relationships with citizens in civil society? Why did these forms of predatory state-society relations continue to thrive in Africa after the end of Atlantic slave trade and subsequent colonialism? Why did the emerging African leaders at independence fail to effectively dismantle the structures of exploitation and expropriation that were the defining features of slavery and colonialism? Who are Africa’s ‘big men’, and what are their trajectories? This book is essential reading for all students and scholars of African politics, public policy and administration, political economy, and democratisation.
Author: Achille Mbembe Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509551085 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 226
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In October 2016, thirty intellectuals and artists from Africa, its diasporas, and beyond gathered together in Dakar and Saint-Louis, Senegal, to reflect on the present and future of Africa in the midst of transformations that are sweeping through the contemporary world. The aim was to take stock of the renewal of Afro-diasporic critical thought and to discuss the new perspectives emerging from the ongoing projects constructing political, cultural, and social imaginaries for and from the African continent. This book brings together and makes available to the English-speaking world the material presented at the 2016 Ateliers de la pensée – Workshops of Thought – in Dakar. The authors deal with a wide range of issues, including decolonization, the development of social utopias, and the pursuit of new forms of political, economic, and social production on the African continent. Running throughout is a constant concern to interrogate the categories and frames of meaning that have served to characterize the dynamics of the African continent and a shared desire to produce new frames of intelligibility through which to see Africa’s present realities and its future. The contributions also attest to the view that there is no African question that is not also a global question, and that the Africanization of the global question will be a decisive feature of the twenty-first century. To Write the Africa World and its companion volume The Politics of Time will be indispensable for anyone interested in Africa – its past, present, and future – and in the new forms of critical thought emerging from Africa and the Global South.
Author: National Research Council Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309047978 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 94
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The global movement toward democracy, spurred in part by the ending of the cold war, has created opportunities for democratization not only in Europe and the former Soviet Union, but also in Africa. This book is based on workshops held in Benin, Ethiopia, and Namibia to better understand the dynamics of contemporary democratic movements in Africa. Key issues in the democratization process range from its institutional and political requirements to specific problems such as ethnic conflict, corruption, and role of donors in promoting democracy. By focusing on the opinion and views of African intellectuals, academics, writers, and political activists and observers, the book provides a unique perspective regarding the dynamics and problems of democratization in Africa.
Author: Patrick Chabal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 332
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Looks at contemporary black African politics and reviews the merits and failings of existing interpretations of Africa's post-colonial society
Author: J.-A. Mbembé
Author: J.-A. Mbembé
Author: Jean-François Bayart
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Author: Cheikh Anta Diop
Author: Gedion Onyango
Author: Kenneth Kalu
Author: Béatrice Hibou
Author: Achille Mbembe
Author: National Research Council
Author: Patrick Chabal