Some reflections on the civil society and the state in Africa
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Aug 31, 2005
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African state, civil society, social movements, structural adjustment policies
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In the realm of International Politics analysis, the concept of civil society was revitalized in the 1980s as a way to conceptualise resistance to state oppression, on the other hand and especially for African countries under the FMI and World Bank’s Structural Adjustment Policies, civil society was presented as the symbol of the faith in the private sector key importance for the political and economic health of the country. In this article the multiple meanings of State and Civil Society are considered taking into account African historical experiences.
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Cejas, M. (2005). Some reflections on the civil society and the state in Africa. Historia Regional, (23), 119-128. Retrieved from https://historiaregional.org/ojs/index.php/historiaregional/article/view/222
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LOCKE, John, Two Treatises of Civil Government. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1955.
MAMDANI, M. & WAMBA-DIA-WAMBA, E., African Studies in Social Movements and Democracy. Dakar, Codesria, 1995.
MARKOVITZ, I.L. (ed.), Studies of Power and Class in Africa. New York, Oxford University Press, 1987.
MBEMBE, Achille, Afriques indociles: Christianisme, povouir et Etat en la societé postcoloniale. Paris, Khartala, 1988.
MUDIMBE, V. Y., The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Orders of Knowledge. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1988.
NDEGWA, S.N., The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGO and the Politics in Africa. West Hartford, Kumarian Press, 1996.
OYEKARAN, Olasope O. and OLU ADEDIRAN, Michael, “Colonialism, Citizenship and Fractured National Identity: the African Case”, En: OOMMEN, T.K. (ed.), Citizenship and National Identity: From Colonialism to Globalism. New Delhi, Cloth, 1997.
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