The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics

Young, Crawford

doi:10.1093/afraf/adh003

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“…Several aspects of continuity are evident between late colonial and postcolonial African government policy and development ideology (Young 2004;Mamdani 1996). Both the colonial and maendeleo development models emphasized formal education (in a national language), religious conversion, and agricultural commercialization.…”

Section: Maendeleo: Official Development Ideology In Postcolonial Tanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Rights and Rites of Defiance in Northern Tanzania

Winterbottom¹,

Koomen²,

Burford³

2009

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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This article reviews campaigns against female genital cutting (FGC) directed at Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. The authors argue that campaigns against FGC using educational, health, legal, and human rights-based approaches are at times ineffective and counterproductive when they frame the practice as a "tradition" rooted in a "primitive" and unchanging culture. We suggest that development interventions that do not address local contexts of FGC, including the complex politics and history of interventions designed to eradicate it, can in fact reify and reinscribe the practice as central to Maasai cultural identity.

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Section: Maendeleo: Official Development Ideology In Postcolonial Tanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Rights and Rites of Defiance in Northern Tanzania

Winterbottom¹,

Koomen²,

Burford³

2009

Afr. Stud. Rev.

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“…And for the simple reason that man desires comfort, he rebels against oppressive tendencies in the rulers. Young (2004) makes a similar comment on this claim thus:…”

Section: Journal Of English Studies Vol 8 (2010) 73-102mentioning

confidence: 77%

Rulers agains writers, writers against rules : the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction

Kehinde

2010

J. engl. stud. (Logroño, internet)

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ABSTRACT. Various literary critics have dwelt on the nature, tenets and trends of commitment in Nigerian literature. However, there is paucity of studies on the imaginative narration of the impediments facing the actualization of theRESUMEN. Diversos críticos literarios se han detenido a analizar la naturaleza, los principios y modos de compromiso en la literatura de Nigeria. Sin embargo, hay una carencia de estudios sobre la narración imaginativa de los impedimentos a los que se enfrenta la actualización de la esfera pública en la Nigeria poscolonial. Este ensayo examina las estrategias y técnicas en la representación de la promesa fallida de la esfera pública en la ficción poscolonial nigeriana, utilizando los ejemplos que proporcionan Chinua Achebe en Anthills of the Savannah, Ben Okri en The Famished Road y Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie en Purple Hibiscus. La metodología implica una lectura detallada de los textos seleccionados, usando el término "esfera pública" de Jurgen Habermas como marco conceptual. En las novelas seleccionadas, Nigeria se representa como un país donde los gobernantes desestiman la existencia de la "esfera pública", que se supone que proporciona un espacio liminal entre los ámbitos privados de la sociedad civil y la familia, así como en la esfera de la autoridad pública. Esto se revela en el rechazo de los personajes que tipifican a los gobernantes a ignorar un status todos juntos.

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“…Contrary to Crawford Young's (2004) postulate proclaiming the [probable] demise of the postcolonial moment, the postcolonial era has not passed. It has basically been reconfigured and reinvented.…”

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The War on Terror and the Crisis of Postcoloniality in Africa

Omeje¹

2008

AJIA

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Back in the early 1990s when a section of the American foreign policy think tank and the intelligentsia were euphorically forecasting scenarios for the consolidation of western victory in the Cold War, James Woolsey, then head of the US Central Intelligence Agency forewarned that the widely celebrated victory and transition to the post-Cold War era was akin to the West, having slain the dragon (of Soviet threat), now living in a jungle full of poisonous snakes (Woolsey 1993). There can hardly be a better metaphoric representation of the post-9/11 projection of American power in the postcolonial world, especially in Africa. This article argues that the US-led war on terror tends to reinforce the crisis of postcoloniality in Africa by deliberately producing metaphors, images, discourses, doctrines and policies aimed at magnifying and mainstreaming terrorism scares on the turbulent politico-economic landscape of Africa, as a means to justify imperial governance and supervision. It is a project that ideologically feeds into influential transhistorical discourses and portrayal of Africa as a timespace of infantilism, requiring endless western propping and chaperoning. Evidently, African political regimes serve as satellite collaborators in the enterprise in a trajectory that the author captures within the discursive framework of postcoloniality. RésuméAu début des années 1990, lorsqu'une partie du groupe de réflexion américain en matière de politique étrangère et l'intelligentsia prévoyaient euphoriquement des scénarios pour la consolidation de la victoire de l'Occident dans la guerre froide, James Woolsey, qui était alors le chef de l'Agence centrale de renseignement (CIA) des États-Unis, avait averti que la victoire largement célébrée, ainsi que la transition vers la période d'après-guerre froide, était à l'image de l'Occident, qui, après avoir tué le dragon (la menace soviétique), vit maintenant dans une jungle pleine de serpents venimeux. Il ne peut guère y avoir une meilleure représentation métaphorique de l'image post-11 septembre de la puissance américaine dans le monde postcolonial, en particulier en Afrique. Cet article soutient que la guerre contre la terreur menée par les États-Unis d'Amérique tend à renforcer la crise de la postcolonialité en Afrique en produisant délibérément des métaphores, des images, des discours, des doctrines et des politiques visant à amplifier la peur du terrorisme dans le turbulent paysage politico-économique de l'Afrique. Ceci se trouve être un moyen de justifier la gouvernance et la supervision impériales. Il s'agit d'un projet qui est idéologiquement fondé sur des discours transhistoriques influents et la représentation de l'Afrique comme un espace d'infantilisme, qui nécessite le soutien et le chaperonnage interminables de l'Occident. Evidemment, les régimes politiques africains servent de collaborateurs satellites dans cette entreprise, dans une trajectoire que l'auteur place dans le cadre discursif de la postcolonialité.

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The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics

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Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Rights and Rites of Defiance in Northern Tanzania

Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Rights and Rites of Defiance in Northern Tanzania

Rulers agains writers, writers against rules : the failed promise of the public sphere in postcolonial Nigerian fiction

The War on Terror and the Crisis of Postcoloniality in Africa

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