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Can policy intervention beat the resource curse? Evidence from the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project
Pegg, Scott
Article
Countries that are heavily dependent on natural resource exports have performed poorly on various measures of economic, social, and political development — a phenomenon usually described as ‘the resource curse’. In spite of this, many Western policymakers believe that natural resources will ultimately provide Africa’s road to development. The World Bank argues that the resource curse is not inevitable and that good governance and sound economic policies are intervening variables that can mitigate its ill effects. This article critically evaluates the Chad–Cameroon pipeline project in order to assess whether or not policy interventions can ameliorate the resource curse. The largest single private sector investment in sub-Saharan Africa, the Chad–Cameroon pipeline project has also featured unprecedented World Bank policy interventions designed to address the complex environmental, social, and budgetary implications of large-scale oil production. The pipeline project is the World Bank’s most significant attempt yet to modify the intervening variable of government policy and transform the equation from one of resource extraction + bad governance → poverty exacerbation to one of resource extraction + good governance → poverty reduction. This article finds that these policy interventions are not working well and that the Chad–Cameroon pipeline project is unlikely to lead to poverty alleviation.
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Briefing: Burundi: A Peaceful Transition After a Decade Of War?
Reyntjens, Filip
Article
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi092
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Notes and News
Notes and News
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2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Africa in International Politics: External involvement on the continent, edited by Ian Taylor and Paul Williams. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. xi + 225 pp. {pound}60 hardback. ISBN 0415318580 (hardback); {pound}20.99 (paperback). ISBN 0415358361.
Tull, Denis M.
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Eroding the Commons: The politics of ecology in Baringo, Kenya 1890-1963, by David M. Anderson. Oxford: James Currey, 2002. xvi + 336 pp. {pound}45.00 hardback. ISBN 0852554699 (hardback); {pound}16.95 paperback. ISBN 0852554680 (paperback).
Brockington, Dan
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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The Church of Women: Gendered encounters between Maasai and missionaries, by Dorothy L. Hodgson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2005. xvii + 307 pp. $65.00 hardback. ISBN 0253345685 (hardback); $29.95 paperback. ISBN 0253217628 (paperback).
Wright, Marcia
Book Reviews
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2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Priests, Witches, and Power: Popular Christianity after mission in southern Tanzania, by Maia Green. Cambridge and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xiii + 180 pp. {pound}40.00 hardback. ISBN 0521621895 (hardback).
Engelke, Matthew
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi097
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Worlds of Power: Religious thought and political practice in Africa, by Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar. London: C. Hurst and Company, 2004. viii + 263 pp. {pound}16.50 paperback. ISBN 1850657343 (paperback); {pound}45.00 hardcover. ISBN 1850657351 (hardcover).
Peel, J. D. Y.
Book Reviews
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2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Ngecha: A Kenyan village in a time of rapid social change, edited by Carolyn Pope Edwards and Beatrice Blyth Whiting. Lincoln, NE, and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xiii + 280 pp. {pound}45.95 hardback. ISBN 0803248091 (hardback).
Lonsdale, John
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Red Strangers: The White tribe of Kenya, by C. S. Nicholls. London: Timewell Press Limited, 2005. 368 pp. {pound}18.99 hardback. ISBN 1857252063 (hardback).
Hughes, Lotte
Book Reviews
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2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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The Ambiguities of History: The problem of ethnocentrism in historical writing, by Finn Fuglestad. Oslo: Oslo Academic Press, 2005. {pound}22.00. 152 pp. ISBN 827477204.
Ellis, Stephen
Book Reviews
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2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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An African Peace Process: Mandela, South Africa and Burundi, by Kristina A. Bentley and Roger Southall. Cape Town: HSRC Press, Nelson Mandela Foundation & Human Science Research Council, 2005. xix + 220 pp. {pound}18.50 paperback. ISBN 0796920907 (paperback).
Daley, Patricia
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Civil Society and Ethnic Conflict Management in Nigeria, edited by Thomas A. Imobighe. Ibadan: Spectrum Books, 2003. xii + 329 pp. N2000 paperback. ISBN 9780294848 (paperback); N2500 hardback.
Ukiwo, Ukoha
Book Reviews
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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Barringer, T A
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2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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A Select list of articles on Africa appearing in non-Africanist periodicals: July-September 2005
Barringer, T A
Periodicals
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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On the limits of liberal peace: Chiefs and democratic decentralization in post-war Sierra Leone
Fanthorpe, Richard
Article
Liberal peace, the explicit merging of international security and development policy, has arrived fairly late on the scene in Sierra Leone. One of its primary foci is regimes of customary governance and sociality associated with chiefdom administration. Many international agencies consider these regimes irredeemably oppressive towards the rural poor and a root cause of the recent civil war. While the present government of Sierra Leone remains supportive of chieftaincy, international donors are supporting a fast-track decentralization programme that, it is hoped, will supply a new system of democratic governance to a rural populace already straining against the leash of ‘custom’. This article, drawing upon the author’s recent fieldwork in Sierra Leone, undertakes a critical examination of this policy. It is argued that, popular grievances notwithstanding, chieftaincy is the historic focus of struggles for political control over the Sierra Leonean countryside. Both the national elite and the rural poor remain deeply engaged in these struggles, and many among the latter continue to value customary authority as a defence against the abuse of bureaucratic power. Fast-tracking decentralization in the war-ravaged countryside may therefore only succeed in shifting the balance of political power away from the poor.
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi091
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'Power to Uhuru': Youth Identity and Generational Politics in Kenya's 2002 Elections
Kagwanja, Peter Mwangi
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Faced with the challenge of a new, multi-ethnic political coalition, President Daniel arap Moi shifted the axis of the 2002 electoral contest from ethnicity to the politics of generational conflict. The strategy backfired, ripping his party wide open and resulting in its humiliating defeat in the December 2002 general elections. Nevertheless, the discourse of a generational change of guard as a blueprint for a more accountable system of governance won the support of some youth movements like Mungiki. This article examines how the movement’s leadership exploited the generational discourse in an effort to capture power. Examining the manipulation of generational and ethnic identities in patrimonial politics, the article argues that the instrumentalization of ethnicity in African politics has its corollary in the concomitant instrumentalization of other identities — race, class, gender, clan, age and religion.
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi067
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Islam in Mali in the neoliberal era
Soares, Benjamin F.
Article
If before 11 September 2001, many praised Mali as a model of democracy, secularism and toleration, many have now begun to express concern about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Mali. I consider a number of recent public debates in Mali over morality, so-called women’s issues, and the proposed changes in the Family Code and show how the perspectives of many Malians on these issues are not new but rather relate to longstanding and ongoing debates about Islam, secularism, politics, morality and law. What is new is the way in which some Muslim religious leaders have been articulating their complaints and criticisms. Since the guarantee of the freedom of expression and association in the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of independent newspapers and private radio stations and new Islamic associations with a coterie of increasingly media-savvy activists. I explore how some Muslim activists have used such outlets to articulate the concerns of some ordinary Malians, who face the contradictions of living as modern Muslim citizens in a modernizing and secularizing state where, in this age of neoliberal governmentality, the allegedly un-Islamic seems to be always just around the corner.
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi088
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The politics and ethnography of environmentalisms in Tanzania
Brockington, Dan
Article
This article explores the forms of environmentalism flourishing in Tanzanian villages and district and central government. It argues that their apparent unity should be explained by several factors. In central government, there is support for environmentalist policies because they generate revenue. In local government, environmentalism diverts attention away from bureaucratic failure, while simultaneously being the subject of intense politicking among the legislature. In villages, environmentalism reflects realities of environmental change, different ecologies of agricultural activity, competition and jealousy and the manipulation of official discourse. This article highlights the diversity of sources of environmentalist prominence in different sites of political activity.
Oxford University Press
2006-01-01 00:00:00.0
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi071
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