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This book explores the instability of the African postcolonial
state and demonstrates that such a fundamental crisis can be solved
only through discourses and practices that are designed beyond the
Westphalian model of the modern state and out of the
neo-patrimonialistic system of African governance. The challenge of
instability will not be overcome by rebuilding the African
nation-state undermined by social contradictions and complex
emergencies; rather stability will be achieved by opening a public
space of agonistic democracy that is supported mainly by an
overlapping consensus on justice. The author argues that by reading
critically, the African philosophy of solidarity is contradicted by
structural violence and inequality. The political
instrumentalization of kinship provokes the exclusion of
minorities, the marginalization of masses, and the instability of
the entire society. Governance is reduced to mere conflict
management. The solution of legitimate violence becomes another
version of the problem of institutional incapacity. The author's
contention is people are the ultimate and permanent agents of
stability, and the ground of stability must not be a strong state,
but the politics of reciprocity and union among people that implies
a sense of justice in the power sharing and in the decision making
process.
Can religion help promote human security in war-torn country (like
the Democratic Republic of the Congo)? Religion, I suggest, as a
set of symbolic forms, can empower a people's action by giving them
the tools to overcome oppression. I attempt to demonstrate it at
three different levels. First, I analyze the current situation of
the Congolese People entangled in the web of foreign domination,
regional invasion and local oppression. Second, through an
interpretative reflection on resistance, I show how religion can be
a process of conversion from impoverishment to freedom and self-
reliance. And third, at the anthropological level, I argue that the
imbedded poor sense of the self and the social imagination of the
Congolese can be renewed and reformed by an updated reflection on
religion. It is my hope that this reflection can contribute to
rejuvenate the transformative hope of a people for whom I have so
much love.
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