The anthropology of anger : civil society and democracy in Africa

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Title:

Author:

Monga, Célestin.

ISBN:

9781555876449

Personal Author:

Monga, Célestin.

Uniform Title:

Anthropologie de la colère. English

Publication Information:

Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.

Physical Description:

xi, 219 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. The Need for Some Alternative Ideas -- 2. How Africa Fits into Democratic Theory -- 3. Changing Identities: Memory, Culture, and Revolt -- 4. The Emergence of New Patterns of Free Expression -- 5. Democracy and the Politics of the Sacred -- 6. Civil Society and Public Sphere: The New Stakeholders -- 7. A Theory of Disenchantment and Violence: Rwanda and Other Tragedies.

Subject Term:

Democracy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Civil society -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Representative government and representation -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Geographic Term:

Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960-

Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions -- 1960-

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Many scholars argue that ongoing democratisation in Africa is doomed to fail because political reforms have been imposed by external donors; others challenge the roots of the current changes. This work believes that both views are wrong, as Africa has a long tradition of indigenous activism.