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What colonialism ignored 'African potentials' for resolving conflicts in southern Africa
Title
What colonialism ignored [electronic resource] : 'African potentials' for resolving conflicts in southern Africa / edited by Sam Moyo & Yoichi Mine.
ISBN
9789956763757
9956763756
9789956763399
Published
[Oxford, England] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xxi, 365 pages))
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Notes
"In collaboration with The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan"--Title page verso,
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
As Julius Nyerere once noted, Africa has largely been the continent of peace, though this fact has not been widely publicised. In reality, Africa possesses dynamic potentials for resolving contradictions and violent ruptures that colonial authorities, post-colonial states and global actors have failed to capture and capitalise upon. Drawing on the everyday experience of rural and urban people in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia and Zambia, this book brings into conversation leading Japanese scholars of Southern Africa with their African colleagues. The result is an exploration in comparative perspective of the fascinating richness of bottom-up 'African potentials' for conflict resolution in Southern Africa, a region burdened with the legacy of settler capitalism and contemporary neoliberalism. The book is a pacesetter on how to think and research Africa in fruitful collaboration and with an ear to the nuances and complexities of the dynamic and lived realities of Africans.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 African Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Political Science and Policy Studies.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 27, 2016
Series
African potentials
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction : African potentials for conflict resolution and transformation
part I : Structure and agency
2. Southern African potentials to address land-based conflict
3. Utilising 'African potentials' to resolve conflicts in a changing agrarian situation in central Zimbabwe
4. Guardian or misfeasor? Chiefs' roles in land administration under the 1995 Land Act in Zambia
part II. National projections
5. History as an African potential : Namibia, Southern Africa and East Asia in historical connectedness and contemporaneousness
6. Creating space for productive deviance : the latent function of the Truth and reconciliation Commission of South Africa
7. Sharing power for conflict resolution? Pluralism, integrationism and African potentials
part III. The power of conversation
8. Potential of African philosophy in conflict resolution and peace-building
9. Guided by weak conviction : tentative order and morality among urban dwellers in the unconventional economy of 2008 Zimbabwe
10. Thinking an African politics of peace in an era of increasing violence.
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