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Book Synopsis The Real Economy of Zaire by : Janet MacGaffey
Download or read book The Real Economy of Zaire written by Janet MacGaffey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janet MacGaffey examines the case of Zaire where, according to the published statistics, wages are at starvation level, production is declining and the infrastructure is falling apart. The center is increasingly held by "system D," the second economy, whose activities, often illegal, take place outside the official economy.
Book Synopsis The Real Economy of Zaire by : Janet MacGaffey
Download or read book The Real Economy of Zaire written by Janet MacGaffey and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people survive in an African country where the economy is a disaster? Janet MacGaffey examines the case of Zaire where, according to the published statistics, wages are at starvation level, production is declining, and the infrastructure is falling apart. The center is increasingly held by "system D," the second economy, the activities of which, often illegal, take place outside the official economy.
Book Synopsis Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo by : Koen Vlassenroot
Download or read book Conflict and Social Transformation in Eastern DR Congo written by Koen Vlassenroot and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At head of title: Conflict Research Group.
Book Synopsis The African Stakes of the Congo War by : J. Clark
Download or read book The African Stakes of the Congo War written by J. Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-09-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Stakes in the Congo War analyzes the Congo conflict by looking at the roles played by various states and factors in the conflict. Part I introduces the conflict by showing the historical and regional context of the war. Part II examines those states and groups that worked to support the Kaliba regime; Part III examines the rebel groups working to overthrow Kabila and those intervening on their behalf. Part IV looks at the role of supposedly neutral states such as South Africa and looks at the social and economic effects of the war by examining trans-state factors such as rebel groups, arms trading, and economic consequences. The collection includes both African and US/UK scholars, and covers the recent transfer of power from Laurent to Joseph Kabila.
Download or read book Zaire written by Winsome J Leslie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the historical setting of Zaire and focuses on economic and political developments during the Mobutu era. It examines the corrupt and closed political system, with its roots in the colonial state and precolonial political patterns.
Download or read book Zaire written by Jean-Claude Willame and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a broad-ranging examination of the growing economic, political, and humanitarian struggle in Zaire, along with suggestions for preventative action to ameliorate Zaire's problems. Topics include: understanding the unending crisis in Zaire, the structure of society, economic structures and prospects, political structures and prospects, urgent issues, a framework for action to arrest further violence, and how best to provide international economic aid in Zaire. Includes a discussion on Rwandan refugees in Zaire and a chronology of the situation in Zaire from 1960-1996. Charts and tables.
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Book Synopsis The Flexible Economy by : Tony Killick
Download or read book The Flexible Economy written by Tony Killick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accelerating pace of global change demands that economies must be adaptable. Economies which are flexible flourish, as in Eastern Asia. Inflexible economies stagnate, as in Eastern Europe and Africa. However even though adaptability governs the long-term progress of economies, economists have had little to say about the nature and determinants of economic flexibility. This book redresses that situation. A prestigious team of contributors address the key theoretical and empirical issues, using a wide range of country studies.
Book Synopsis From Zaire to the Democratic Republic of the Congo by : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Download or read book From Zaire to the Democratic Republic of the Congo written by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected bibliography p.23.
Book Synopsis Zaire by : Library of Congress. Federal Research Division
Download or read book Zaire written by Library of Congress. Federal Research Division and published by Division. This book was released on 1994 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research completed December 1993.
Book Synopsis The Congo from Leopold to Kabila by : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Download or read book The Congo from Leopold to Kabila written by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over many years to establish democratic institutions at home and free themselves from foreign exploitation; indeed these are two aspects of a single project. Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja is one of his country's leading intellectuals and his panoramic understanding of the personalities and events, as well as class, ethnic and other factors, make his book a lucid, radical and utterly unromanticized account of his countrymen's struggle. His people's defeat and the state's post-colonial crisis are seen as resulting from a post-independence collapse of the anti-colonial alliance between the masses and the national leadership . This book is essential reading for understanding what is happening in the Congo and the Great Lakes region under the rule of the late President Kabila, and now his son. It will also stand as a milestone in how to write the modern political history of Africa.
Book Synopsis Multiparty Democracy and Political Change by : John Mukum Mbaku
Download or read book Multiparty Democracy and Political Change written by John Mukum Mbaku and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and it intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent. It contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on the transition to accountable, participatory, and democratic governance structures in Africa. It provides both students of African political economy and policymakers in the continent and in-depth analysis of the post-independence experience of African countries with institutional reforms. Specifically, it looks at the struggles of Africans, since independence, to provide themselves with more appropriate and viable governance structures and economic systems that enhance the ability to entrepreneurs to create wealth. The Book breaks new ground in that it places significant emphasis on the reconstruction of the neo-colonial state as an important first step to a successful transition to democratic and more accountable governance structures.
Book Synopsis Congo's Dancers by : Lesley Nicole Braun
Download or read book Congo's Dancers written by Lesley Nicole Braun and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family lives of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Among the various genres popular in the capital city of Kinshasa, Congolese rumba occupies a special place and can be counted as one of the DRC’s most well-known cultural exports. The public image of rumba was historically dominated by male bandleaders, singers, and musicians. However, with the introduction of the danseuse (professional concert dancer) in the late 1970s, the role of women as cultural, moral, and economic actors came into public prominence and helped further raise Congolese rumba’s international profile. In Congo’s Dancers, Lesley Nicole Braun uses the prism of the Congolese danseuse to examine the politics of control and the ways in which notions of visibility, virtue, and socio-economic opportunity are interlinked in this urban African context. The work of the danseuse highlights the fact that public visibility is necessary to build the social networks required for economic independence, even as this visibility invites social opprobrium for women. The concert dancer therefore exemplifies many of the challenges that women face in Kinshasa as they navigate the public sphere, and she illustrates the gendered differences of local patronage politics that shape public morality. As an ethnographer, Braun had unusual access to the world she documents, having been invited to participate as a concert dancer herself.
Book Synopsis Political Liberalization and Democratization in Africa by : Julius O. Ihonvbere
Download or read book Political Liberalization and Democratization in Africa written by Julius O. Ihonvbere and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1980s, Africans have been engaged in efforts to transform their societies and provide themselves with more effective governance and economic structures. Unfortunately, most of these efforts have not progressed beyond simple elections. The contributors to this volume provide strategies that Africans can use to deepen democracy, improve resource allocation, and enhance their ability to coexist peacefully. Mbaku, Ihonvbere, and their contributors, while adopting a critical approach to the study of African political economy, take a stand against Afro-pessimism. They articulate an holistic agenda for addressing Africa's mulitfarious problems, reject received knowledge, and, through a dialectical methodology, draw attention to the centrality of social categories/classes, the state, civil society, the environment, communities, and patterns of change in the continent. Relying on fieldwork, hard data, and critical reviews of the extant literature, the volume highlights the importance of democracy and democratization to the urgent restructuring that Africa needs in the new globalization. Paying attention to the continent's historical experiences and its specificities, the contributors draw attention to the importance of grassroots action, leadership, and the need to constitutionally entrench civil liberties.
Book Synopsis Women Resisting AIDS by : Beth E. Schneider
Download or read book Women Resisting AIDS written by Beth E. Schneider and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-27 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays discuss the increasingly rapid spread of AIDS among women, including the responses of women of color, lesbians, and low-income women.
Book Synopsis Reinventing Order in the Congo by : Theodore Trefon
Download or read book Reinventing Order in the Congo written by Theodore Trefon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinshasa is sub-Saharan Africa's second largest city. The seven million Congolese who live there have a rich reputation for the courageous and innovative ways in which they survive in a harsh urban environment. They have created new social institutions, practices, networks and ways of living to deal with the collapse of public provision and a malfunctioning political system. This book describes how ordinary people, in the absence of formal sector jobs, hustle for a modest living; the famous 'bargaining' system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and education. The NGO-ization of service provision is analysed, as is the quite rare incidence of urban riots. The contributors also look at popular discourses, including street rumor, witchcraft, and attitudes to 'big men' such as musicians and preachers. This is urban sociology at its best - richly empirical, unjargonized, descriptive of the lives of ordinary people, and weaving into its analysis how they see and experience life.
Book Synopsis The Democratic Republic of Congo by : Michael Deibert
Download or read book The Democratic Republic of Congo written by Michael Deibert and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been at the centre of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In this compelling book, acclaimed journalist Michael Deibert paints a picture of a nation in flux, inching towards peace but at the same time solidifying into another era of authoritarian rule under its enigmatic president, Joseph Kabila. Featuring a wealth of first-hand interviews and secondary sources, the narrative travels from war-torn villages in the country's east to the chaotic, pulsing capital of Kinshasa in order to bring us the voices of the Congolese - from impoverished gold prospectors and market women to government officials - as it explores the complicated political, ethnic and economic geography of this tattered land. A must-read for anyone interested in contemporary Africa, The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between, Hope and Despair sheds new light on this sprawling and often misunderstood country that has become iconic both for its great potential and dashed hopes.
