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A team of scholars examine the radical political changes that have
taken place since 1990 in eleven key countries in Africa. Radical
changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the
realities of these changes? What significant differences have
emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy
in the continent? The editors have chosen eleven key countries to
provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate
discussion among students. They have brought together a team of
scholars who are actively working in the changing Africa of
today.Each chapter is structured around a framing event which
defines the experience of democratisation. The editors have
provided an overview of the turning points in African politics.
They engage with debates on how to study andevaluate democracy in
Africa, such as the limits of elections. They identify four major
themes with which to examine similarities and divergences as well
as to explain change and continuity in what happened in the past.
Abdul Raufu Mustapha is University Lecturer in African Politics at
Queen Elizabeth House and Kirk-Greene Fellow at St Antony's
College, University of Oxford; Lindsay Whitfield is a Research
Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Studies,
Copenhagen.
A team of scholars examine the radical political changes that have
taken place since 1990 in eleven key countries in Africa. Radical
changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the
realities of these changes? What significant differences have
emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy
in the continent? The editors have chosen eleven key countries to
provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate
discussion among students. They have brought together a team of
scholars who are actively working in the changing Africa of
today.Each chapter is structured around a framing event which
defines the experience of democratisation. The editors have
provided an overview of the turning points in African politics.
They engage with debates on how to study andevaluate democracy in
Africa, such as the limits of elections. They identify four major
themes with which to examine similarities and divergences as well
as to explain change and continuity in what happened in the past.
ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA is University Lecturer in African Politics at
Queen Elizabeth House and Kirk-Greene Fellow at St Antony's
College, University of Oxford; LINDSAY WHITFIELD is a Research
Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Studies,
Copenhagen.
The dramatic sociopolitical crisis which befell C te d'Ivoire in
September 2002 gave birth to an unprecedented political zeal.
Immigration, the other, ethno-nationalism, nationalism, patriotism,
civil war, youth at risk - such are the words that describe the C
te d'Ivoire' situation. Attempts to explain the 'crisis' in this
country, known in recent past as 'relatively peaceful', mainly
happen through media 'sensationalism'. This translates at the same
time the almost complete control of the scoop media which renders
the understanding of the situation only possible through such
outlets. The ability of media professionals to coin words through
which social history is reflected upon has the effect of
complicating the task of social and human sciences while also
appearing as stimulating at the same time. Understanding complex
situations is now a crossroad of confusion between the simple and
the simplified. The challenge for social and human sciences is,
therefore, to resume its rightful place by presenting social and
political realities in their complexity. Contributions in this book
attempt to rid simple words of their excessive simplification to
enable an understanding of social and political ills as well as the
sense of history. This book is to be taken as a look from within.
The challenge here is to take a step back and disconnect the real
from the surprising which prevents a deep analysis of realities
emanating from a historical process that is relatively long. At the
heart of that process resides the paradoxical re-invention of the
self through violence, though in the name of democracy. The 2010
post-electoral crisis and the intensity of the violence which
characterized it are once again a demonstration of the relevance of
the violence-democracy paradox and the on-going exercise of
objectivity.
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