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| Title: | The social contract in Africa |
| Editor: | Osha, Sanya |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Pages: | 182 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | Pretoria |
| Publisher: | Africa Institute of South Africa |
| ISBN: | 0798304448; 9780798304443 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Nigeria South Africa Swaziland - Eswatini |
| Subjects: | democracy political systems patronage conflict |
| Abstract: | This volume addresses the various kinds of bonds or social contracts between rulers and the ruled in Africa. The Arab Spring revolution is used as a template to examine the issue during colonialism and in the post-colonial era in order to formulate alternatives to state oppression, misrule and neglect. Chapters: 1. Transnationalization, denationalization and deterritorialization: contemporary cultures in the context of globalisation (Toyin Falola); 2. African relational democracy: reframing diversity, economic development and society-centered governance for the twenty-first century (Seth N. Asumah); 3. European 'Democracy Promotion': dynamic versus passive revolution in the Arab Spring (Steve McGiffen); 4. Arab Spring: implications for South Africa and Swaziland (Tseliso Thipanyane); 5. No longer with the bourgeoisie: Fanonian considerations on social movements and forms of organisation (Nigel C. Gibson); 6. What is beyond discourses of alterity? Reflections on the constitution of the present and construction of African subjectivity (Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni); 7. Literature as political critique in Nigeria: mobilisation, dialogue and indictment (Sule E. Egya); and 8. Violent ethno-communal conflicts as a legacy of indirect rule in Africa: understanding the Jesse Urhobo-Benin-Edo land conflicts of 1998 (Uyilawa Usuanlele and Victor Osaro Edo); tragedy, loss, finality (Sanya Osha). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
