Civil Society and the State in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil Society and the State in Africa write by John Willis Harbeson. This book was released on 1994. Civil Society and the State in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text examines the potential value of the concept of civil society for enhancing the current understanding of state-society relations in Africa. The authors review the meanings of civil society in political philosophy, as well as alternative approaches to employing the concept in African settings. Considering both the patterns of emerging civil society in Africa and issues relating to its further development, they give particular emphasis to the cases of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire.
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa
Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa write by John L. Comaroff. This book was released on 1999. Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in this important new collection explore the diverse, unexpected, and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has recently entered into populist politics and public debate throughout Africa. In a substantial introduction, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff offer a critical theoretical analysis of the nature and deployment of the concept—and the current debates surrounding it. Building on this framework, the contributors investigate the "problem" of civil society across their regions of expertise, which cover the continent. Drawing creatively on one another's work, they examine the impact of colonial ideology, postcoloniality, and development practice on discourses of civility, the workings of everyday politics, the construction of new modes of selfhood, and the pursuit of moral community. Incisive and original, the book shows how struggles over civil society in Africa reveal much about larger historical forces in the post-Cold War era. It also makes a strong case for the contribution of historical anthropology to contemporary discourses on the rise of a "new world order."
Between State and Civil Society in Africa
Between State and Civil Society in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between State and Civil Society in Africa write by Eghosa E. Osaghae. This book was released on 1994. Between State and Civil Society in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization
The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization write by Abadir M. Ibrahim. This book was released on 2016-12-08. The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tests many of the assumptions, hypotheses, and conclusions connected with the presumed role of civil society organizations in the democratization of African countries. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at countries that have successfully democratized, those that are stuck between progress and regression, those that have regressed into dictatorship, and those that are currently in transitional flux and evaluates what role, if any, civil society has played in each instance. The countries discussed—South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt and Tunisia—represent a diverse set of social and political circumstances and different levels of democratic achievement, providing a rich set of case studies. Each sample state also offers an internal comparison, as each has historically experienced different stages of democratization. Along the course of each case study, the book also considers the effect that other traditionally studied factors, such as culture, colonization, economic development and foreign aid, may have had on individual attempts at democratization. The first extensive work on civil society and democratization in Africa, the book adds new insights to the applicability of democratization theory in a non-Western context, both filling a gap in and adding to the existing universal scholarship. This book will be useful for scholars of political science, economics, sociology and African studies, as well as human rights activists and policy makers in the relevant geographical areas.
Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa
Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa write by Nelson Kasfir. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of long-standing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics.
