African Affairs Reader - Cheeseman, Nic

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Résumé :
African Affairs is the top journal in African Studies and has been for some time. This book draws together some of the most influential, important, and thought provoking articles published in its pages over the last decade. In doing so, it collates essential cutting-edge research on Africa and makes it easily available for students, teachers, and researchers alike. The African Affairs Reader is broken down into four sections that cover some of the biggest themes and questions facing the continent today, including: the African State, the Political Economy of Development, Africa's Relationship with the World, and Elections, Representation & Democracy. Within each section, articles deal with some of the most significant recent trends and events, such as the prospects for democratization in Ghana and Nigeria, the factors underpinning Rwanda's economic success, the rise of political corruption in South Africa, the spread of the drugs trade, the struggle against gender based violence, and the growing influence of China. Each section is introduced by a new purpose-written essay by the journal's editors that explains the evolution of the wider debate, highlights key contributions, and suggests new ways in which the discussion can be taken forward. Taken together, the essays and articles included in the volume provide both a coherent introduction to the study of Africa and a compelling commentary on the current state of play on the continent....

Biographie:

• 1: Nic Cheeseman, Carl Death and Lindsay Whitfield: An introduction to African Affairs and African Studies


• PART ONE: THE AFRICAN STATE


• 2: Nic Cheeseman, Carl Death and Lindsay Whitfield: An introduction to the African state


• 3: Crawford Young: The End of the Post-Colonial State in Africa? Reflections on Changing African Political Dynamics


• 4: Catherine Boone: Property and Constitutional Order: Land tenure reform and the future of the African state


• 5: Stephen Ellis and Mark Shaw: Does organized crime exist in Africa?


• PART TWO: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT


• 6: Lindsay Whitfield: An introduction to the political economy of development


• 7: Stefano Ponte: The Politics of ownership: Tanzania coffee policy in the age of liberal reformism


• 8: Deborah Br??utigam: Close Encounters: Chinese business networks as industrial catalysts in Sub-Saharan Africa


• 9: David Booth and Frederick Golooba-Mutebi: Developmental patrimonialism? The case of Rwanda


• PART THREE: ELECTIONS, DEMOCRACY AND REPRESENTATION


• 10: Nic Cheeseman: An introduction to elections, democracy and representation


• 11: J. Shola Omotola: Elections and Democratic Transition in Nigeria under the Fourth Republic


• 12: Anja Osei: Elites and Democracy in Ghana: A social network approach


• 13: Tom Lodge: Neo-Patrimonial Politics in the ANC


• PART FOUR: AFRICA AND THE WORLD


• 14: Carl Death: An introduction to Africa and the world


• 15: Frederick Cooper: What Is the Concept of Globalization Good for? An African Historian's Perspective


• 16: Peace Medie: Fighting gender-based violence: The women's movement and the enforcement of rape law in Liberia


• 17: Giles Mohan and Ben Lampert: Negotiating China: Reinserting African Agency into China-Africa relations


• 18: Tim Murithi: Briefing: The African Union at Ten: An appraisal