The Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa

The Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa
Author: Stefaan Marysse
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2005-10-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230523897

This book examines the international factors such as enforced democracy and globalization that have affected the Great Lakes region of Africa. The horrendous consequences in terms of violence and human suffering of the events in this area have been exhibited in the media, however news coverage after 1994 was at times unreliable. This book takes a look at life since then, adopting an independent, and on occasion controversial perspective.

Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Natural Resources and Local Livelihoods in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Author: A. Ansoms
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-03-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230304990

This book looks at how the benefits of economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa are not being equally distributed. It studies the impact of the increasing scramble for natural resources upon local livelihoods and considers the ambiguities that characterise the relationship between mining and development.

Peace, Security and Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Peace, Security and Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
Author: Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 2869787529

The Great Lakes region of Africa is characterized by protest politics, partial democratization, political illegitimacy and unstable economic growth. Many of the countries that are members of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) which are: Burundi, Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia, have experienced political violence and bloodshed at one time or another. While a few states have been advancing electoral democracy, environmental protection and peaceful state building, the overall intensity of violence in the region has led to civil wars, invasion, genocide, dictatorships, political instability, and underdevelopment. Efforts to establish sustainable peace, meaningful socio-economic development and participatory democracy have not been quite successful. Using various methodologies and paradigms, this book interrogates the complexity of the causes of these conflicts; and examines their impact and implications for socio-economic development of the region. The non-consensual actions related to these conflicts and imperatives of power struggles supported by the agents of savage capitalism have paralysed efforts toward progress. The book therefore recommends new policy frameworks within regionalist lenses and neo-realist politics to bring about sustainable peace in the region.

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The value of livestock to the natives, was af rmed seventeen years later by the DC in a correspondence to the PCWP about the loss of cows which the indigenous people were incurring through forced milk contributions to the individual missionaries of CMS. [...] The main tool of production - the hoe - was in the hands of women and children While the tools of defence, ownership and discipline were in the hands of men. [...] Politics and Gender Relations in Pre-colonial Kigezi Taking politics as the expression of cont radictions and their resolution at the superstructural level and the relations at the economic level, it is clear the nyineeka was the dominant gure at the household level. [...] However, the wife was expected to continue feeding the people in the whole compound, working for the mother-in-law at the beginning of the 60 Politics, Religion and Power in the Great Lakes Region planting season and thereafter. [...] Mothers-in-laws had a big say in the management of the households, and the distribution of resources like land and livestock to the sons and their wives.

Weaving Peace

Weaving Peace
Author: Samuel Kale Ewusi
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-08-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1466954175

Weaving Peace: Essays on Peace, Governance and Conflict Transformation in the Great Lakes Region of Africa provides a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on issues of peace, governance, and conflict transformation by academics and practitioners from eight partner institutions of the United Nations Mandated-University for Peace in the Great Lakes region of Africa. It is an essential tool for scholars and policymakers seeking contextual clarity behind the headlines about the nature and extent of conflicts in the region and how to go about transforming the region. It provides a rather nuanced perspective of the complexity of the peace/conflict dynamics of the region and underscores the inescapable truth of the need for a more indigenous and context-based approach to understanding the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Politics, Religion, and Power in the Great Lakes Region

Politics, Religion, and Power in the Great Lakes Region
Author: Murindwa Rutanga
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 2869784929

"This book ... focuses on the European invasion of the GLR. It analyses the factors that underlay the invasion, the demarcation process that followed and the indigenous people’s responses to it. What is worth noting is that most of the anti-colonial struggles in the GLR were anchored in religion. Reference is made to the Maji Maji Rebellion, the Nyabingi Movement, the Lamogi Movement, Dini Ya Misambwa and the different independent churches that arose in the GLR during colonialism. Even the more secular Mau Mau Movement integrated religious cultural practices in its bondings through oath taking. The most pronounced was the Nyabingi Movement, which covered almost the whole region – Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC and Uganda ... This work investigates why [the groups] resisted, the nature of their resistance and the reasons why they were defeated. It explains why and how the European colonisation of this region created material conditions and seeds for thesubsequent recurrent conflicts in the GLR."--Page 6.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy

The Palgrave Handbook of African Political Economy
Author: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1099
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030389227

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphasizes the uniqueness of African political economy within a global capitalist system that is ever changing and complex. Chapters in the book discuss how domestic and international political economic forces have shaped and continue to shape development outcomes on the continent. Contributors also provoke new thinking on theories and policies to better position the continent’s economy to be a critical global force. The uniqueness of the handbook lies in linking theory and praxis with the past, future, and various dimensions of the political economy of Africa.

Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region

Conflict and Peacebuilding in the African Great Lakes Region
Author: Kenneth Omeje
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-06-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0253008484

Driven by genocide, civil war, political instabilities, ethnic and pastoral hostilities, the African Great Lakes Region, primarily Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burundi, has been overwhelmingly defined by conflict. Kenneth Omeje, Tricia Redeker Hepner, and an international group of scholars, many from the Great Lakes region, focus on the interlocking conflicts and efforts toward peace in this multidisciplinary volume. These essays present a range of debates and perspectives on the history and politics of conflict, highlighting the complex internal and external sources of both persistent tension and creative peacebuilding. Taken together, the essays illustrate that no single perspective or approach can adequately capture the dynamics of conflict or offer successful strategies for sustainable peace in the region.