Identification and Citizenship in Africa

Dalberto, Séverine Awenengo; Banégas, Richard

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“…As we will show, not all provincial archives were affected by such logics and constraints; in fact, many were not. In our case studies, the treatment of the 'dead archive' remained conditioned by it being an inconvenient but necessary product of bureaucratic culture; while that bureaucratic culture might have been rooted in colonial practices (Awenengo Dalberto and Banégas 2021;Awenengo Dalberto 2020), it proved to be powerful enough to preclude the destruction of the holdings of provincial archives. This explains why reports about the destruction of such archives by officials wishing to clean up their place of activity (Machava and Gonçalves 2021: 557) and circulating stories about files from the archives being sold to street vendors for wrapping up merchandise are not the general experience.…”

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Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville

Keese,

Urbano

2023

Africa

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Africa’s regional archives offer crucial records to explore the continent’s postcolonial past. Although these archives are often difficult to locate and access and are exposed to several challenges that might even threaten their existence, this article presents a solid case for reconsidering their importance. Recent trends, aptly labelled ‘postcolonial African archival pessimism’, have mainly pointed to problems and often to the limited accessibility of state archives in some regional and local contexts. This article instead engages with their potential, discussing four case studies in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville. Results stemming from these case studies are brought into contact with wider debates on custodial cultures and the regional archives’ role in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The intention is to provide a more positive and empirically based overview of research possibilities at regional archives and ultimately to change the nature of our approach to these resources.

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Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville

Keese,

Urbano

2023

Africa

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Identifying the Rich: Registration, Taxation, and Access to the State in Tanzania

Bowles

2023

Am Polit Sci Rev

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How do states build their informational capacity? This article argues that distributive politics conditions how the state’s capacity develops. I study civil registration, where citizens comply with the state’s informational demands in exchange for documentary proof of identity, which may simultaneously facilitate access to public resources and exposure to taxation. Though the rich are particularly threatened by taxation, the narrow benefits of registration induce their compliance over that of the poor. I leverage a set of reforms in early postindependence Tanzania which provide quasi-random variation in citizens’ registration status and show that registration promotes access to narrow-based resources, rather than broad-based ones, while increasing tax payment. In turn, citizens’ decisions to comply reflect the economically stratified local incidence of these net benefits. The results suggest how nominally universal state-building schemes can have regressive effects on the state’s coverage.

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An air of legality – legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia

Lund

2022

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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Identification and Citizenship in Africa

Cited by 9 publications

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Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville

Researching post-independence Africa in regional archives: possibilities and limits in Benin, Cabo Verde, Ghana and Congo-Brazzaville

Identifying the Rich: Registration, Taxation, and Access to the State in Tanzania

An air of legality – legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia

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