58 research outputs found
Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya
African Elite: the Big Men of a small town by Joan Vincent New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1971. Pp. ix+309. $11.00 £5.25.
Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa
Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of long-standing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics
Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture. By Frederic C. Schaffer. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1998. 168p. $39.95.
Museveni's Uganda: paradoxes of power in a hybrid regime by A. M. Tripp Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010. Pp. vii+223, $22.00 (pbk).
Expulsion of a Minority: Essays on Ugandan Asians. Edited by Michael Twaddle. (London: Athlone Press, published for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1975. Pp. 240. Price not given.)
The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo. By John F. Clark. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008. 309p. $59.95.
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