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Who is an African?
The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African origins in some communities of Kwa-Zulu Natal and areas of Johannesburg during 2008 and 2015 has raised questions about the social cohesion of South African society linked to unresolved structural identity issues bequeathed by the nation’s past colonial and apartheid legacy. This publication argues that there is an embedded schizophrenic identity crisis within the society that requires scholarly interrogation. The chapters assemble scholarly voices from different ethnic groups that examine the central research question of this study: Who is an African? Within the wider Southern African context, identity and ethnicity politics are framing nationalist economic policies and are impacting on social cohesion within many countries. Writing from different social and racial locations the authors have critically engaged with the central question and offer some important insights that can serve as a resource for all nations grappling with issues of race, ethnicity, identity constructed politics, and social cohesion.
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Thabo Mbeki
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki is a complex figure. He was a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; and a champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign capital. As a key liberation leader in exile, he was instrumental in the ANC's antiapartheid struggle. Later, he helped build one of the world's most respected constitutional democracies. As president, though, he was unable to overcome inherited socioeconomic challenges, and his disastrous AIDS policies will remain a major blotch on his legacy. Mbeki is the most important African political figure of his generation. He will be remembered as a foreign policy president for his peacemaking efforts and his role in building continental institutions, not least of which was the African Union. In this concise biography, ideally suited for the classroom, Adekeye Adebajo seeks to illuminate Mbeki's contradictions and situate him in a pan-African pantheon.
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Historical dictionary of the chechen conflict
The Historical Dictionary of the Chechen Conflict covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.
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Rwanda : from genocide to precarious peace
A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Susan Thomson, who witnessed the hostilities firsthand, has written a provocative modern history of the country, its rulers, and its people, covering the years prior to, during, and following the genocidal conflict. Thomson's hard-hitting analysis explores the key political events that led to the ascendance of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its leader, President Paul Kagame. This important and controversial study examines the country's transition from war to reconciliation from the perspective of ordinary Rwandan citizens, Tutsi and Hutu alike, and raises serious questions about the stability of the current peace, the methods and motivations of the ruling regime and its troubling ties to the past, and the likelihood of a genocide-free future.
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Nostalgia after Apartheid
In this engaging book, Amber Reed provides a new perspective on
South Africa's democracy by exploring Black residents' nostalgia
for life during apartheid in the rural Eastern Cape. Reed looks at
a surprising phenomenon encountered in the post-apartheid nation:
despite the Department of Education mandating curricula meant to
teach values of civic responsibility and liberal democracy, those
who are actually responsible for teaching this material (and the
students taking it) often resist what they see as the imposition of
\"white\" values. These teachers and students do not see South
African democracy as a type of freedom, but rather as destructive
of their own \"African culture\"-whereas apartheid, at least
ostensibly, allowed for cultural expression in the former rural
homelands. In the Eastern Cape, Reed observes, resistance to
democracy occurs alongside nostalgia for apartheid among the very
citizens who were most disenfranchised by the late racist,
authoritarian regime. Examining a rural town in the former Transkei
homeland and the urban offices of the Sonke Gender Justice Network
in Cape Town, Reed argues that nostalgic memories of a time when
African culture was not under attack, combined with the
socioeconomic failures of the post-apartheid state, set the stage
for the current political ambivalence in South Africa. Beyond
simply being a case study, however, Nostalgia after
Apartheid shows how, in a global context in which nationalism
and authoritarianism continue to rise, the threat posed to
democracy in South Africa has far wider implications for thinking
about enactments of democracy.
Nostalgia after Apartheid offers a unique approach to
understanding how the attempted post-apartheid reforms have failed
rural Black South Africans, and how this failure has led to a
nostalgia for the very conditions that once oppressed them. It will
interest scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies,
anthropology, and education, as well as general readers interested
in South African history and politics.
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Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland
This book uses the case of Northern Ireland to evaluate theoretical approaches in international relations. It investigates the process of negotiation that led to the signing of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement and the continuing challenges to peace reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Incorporating the work of leading scholars, it explores a wide range of topics, including the function of deception in promoting peace, the question of partition and how it was reimagined by nationalists such as John Hume, and how the decommissioning process led to a role in internal policing for paramilitaries. The influence of outside actors - notably the United States and the European Union - is also considered, along with the involvement of the Catholic Church and the marginalization of women. This book will be important for academics interested in theories of international relations and to a wider public interested in understanding the Northern Ireland peace process.
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Singing, Speaking and Writing Politics. South African political discourses
The discourses of the post-apartheid South Africa embody symbols of change and promises of new lessons in history. This is the first volume that brings together analyses of a variety of discourses produced in South Africa through which we follow the evolution of transitional processes in the country's political institutions and in the opinions of its populace. The book offers to the reader a visit to the Parliament, a peek into the internet forums, analyses of the country's official papers and speeches, and the media accounts. Through all these discourses we see the burning questions - Who Are We Now? and Who Do We Want To Be? - being repetitively examined and identities cross-formed while the country deals with new, post-apartheid challenges, as well as successes.
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