Kingdom State And Civil Society In Africa

Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783905758962

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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa by Nelson Kasfir Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1422139925

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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Eghosa E. Osaghae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa
ISBN : UVA:X004039841

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Between State and Civil Society in Africa by Eghosa E. Osaghae Pdf

Author : John Willis Harbeson,Donald S. Rothchild,Naomi Chazan
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555876412

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Civil Society and the State in Africa by John Willis Harbeson,Donald S. Rothchild,Naomi Chazan Pdf

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.

Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136323119

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Civil Society and Democracy in Africa by Nelson Kasfir Pdf

This work critically reviews the conventional uses of the concept of civil society in promoting democratization in Africa and suggests omissions and modifications are needed for more accurate analyses.

Author : Stephen N. Ndegwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002301159

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The Two Faces of Civil Society by Stephen N. Ndegwa Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Eghosa Osaghae
Publisher : Codesria
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 286978029X

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Between State and Civil Society in Africa by Eghosa Osaghae Pdf

The balance of power between an individual and the state they live in is the key to any country's political process. Concepts of citizenship, reciprocity of rights and citizen's duties intertwine in the struggle for assertion. With its largely collective citizenship, the civil society in Africa is alive and vibrant. But in the face of continuing global recession, the present phase of the African crisis is expected to sharpen contradictions within the continent's states. New paradigms have to be sought to explain the formations and realities. The ten chapters in this book, all written by African scholars, question the western, ethnocentric model of development and look at the wide diversity of African experience. From the Ormo cosmic framework and street-begging in Nigeria, through the role of labour and the part played by wage demands in the African crisis, this volume is a major contribution to the debate on Africa's future.

Author : Michael Walker
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928355137

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Church and Civil Society by Michael Walker Pdf

Germany and South Africa experienced drastic social transitions with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1986 and the end of Apartheid in 1994. This book consists of a collection of essays from German and South African theologians who analyse the role that religious communities had, and are still playing within the respective civil societies. The concept and texture of civil society are analysed; case studies are presented; theological perspectives are given on the relation between church, state and civil society; and guidelines are provided for the healing role that Christian religious communities can play in Germany and South Africa. This book is mainly directed at theologians and scholars in religious studies, however, sociologists and political philosophers may also find the essays informative. Besides the wide variety of theological approaches; sociological and empirical data; and practical theological perspective, the book also yields interesting comparative analysis on two societies in transition.

Author : African Association of Political Science
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0865436371

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The State and Democracy in Africa by African Association of Political Science Pdf

This book is a study of the issues of democracy and democratization in Africa, with emphasis on the roles of civil society and the state in the democratic transition. After clarifying the meaning of democracy as a universal principle of governance and the applicability of the concept to Africa, the book examines the major problems facing the democratic transition on the continent as a whole.The book contains four studies on the role of civil society organizations in the struggle for democracy and the expansion of the political space: one each on the women's struggle for equality in Botswana and state-civil society relations in Uganda, and two, in French, on the popular struggle for democracy in Zaire.More than half of the contributions to the volume are devoted to a critical assessment of the role the state plays in promoting, undermining, or blocking the democratic transition. There are three case studies on South Africa, four on Nigeria, and one each on Ghana and the Portuguese-speaking countries.The book concludes with two studies on democracy and human rights, with the first looking at the issue in a broad historical and international context, and the second focusing on the gender bias of ombudsman institutions in Africa.

Author : Ebenezer Obadare,Wendy Willems
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847010865

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Civic Agency in Africa by Ebenezer Obadare,Wendy Willems Pdf

Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed.

Author : Moses Khisa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350323568

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Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda by Moses Khisa Pdf

Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers. How has this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of Museveni's increasingly autocratic rule? Surveying that trajectory since 1986, the book takes as its primary focus the years since 2005; bringing to the fore the 'autocratic turn', placing it within a broader comparative lens, and enriching it with comparative references to cases outside of Uganda. While positing the notion of 'autocratic adaptability' as a defining hallmark of Museveni's rule, the book examines the factors and forces that have made that adaptability possible, analysing the dynamics around three keys themes: institutions, resources, and coalitions. Through empirical research, each chapter seeks to demonstrate how either one or two of these three variables have functioned in propelling autocratization and assuring regime resilience - producing theoretical and and comparative implications that reach beyond Uganda.

Author : W. Forje
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956551880

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Unravelling the Mysteries of Africa's Underdevelopment by W. Forje Pdf

Unravelling the mysteries of Africas underdevelopment presents an Afrocentric ideological understanding of the continents fragmentation; a scientific and objective (Mijadala) discourse as well as an approach of how to move progressively and sustainably Africa forward. The breadth and depth of the book shows the unwavering impoverishment and urgent need for the continent to stand up and take the bull by the horn. It offers an inspiring means of grappling with the continents problems to build the change we want An African Wealth of Nation not the continent of collapsed, failed states under the governance construct of centralised authoritarian regimes It is a thought-provoking discourse that challenges us all to be inherent participants in the reconstruction of a Brave New Africa far beyond the 21st Century.

Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521191128

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Democracy in Africa by Nic Cheeseman Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.

Author : Dieter Neubert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030171117

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Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa by Dieter Neubert Pdf

This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored. For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.

Author : Apollo N. Makubuya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527525962

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Protection, Patronage, or Plunder? British Machinations and (B)uganda’s Struggle for Independence by Apollo N. Makubuya Pdf

In the scramble for Africa, Britain took a lion’s share of the continent. It occupied and controlled vast territories, including the Uganda Protectorate – which it ruled for 68 years. Early administrators in the region encountered the progressive kingdom of Buganda, which they incorporated into the British Empire. Under the guise of protection, indirect rule and patronage, Britain overran, plundered and disempowered the kingdom’s traditional institutions. On liquidation of the Empire, Buganda was coaxed into a problematic political order largely dictated from London. Today, 56 years after independence, the kingdom struggles to rediscover itself within Uganda’s fragile politics. Based on newly de-classified records, this book reconstructs a history of the machinations underpinning British imperial interests in (B)Uganda and the personalities who embodied colonial rule. It addresses Anglo-Uganda relations, demonstrating how Uganda’s politics reflects its colonial past, and the forces shaping its future. It is a far-reaching examination of British rule in (B)uganda, questioning whether it was designed for protection, for patronage or for plunder.