Africa Works by Patrick Chabal
An examination of the political instrumentalization of disorder.-
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
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Famine Crimes
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Fighting for the Rain Forest
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Identity Economics
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Lie of the Land
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Somalia
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Becoming Somaliland
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The Criminalization of the State in Africa
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Congo-Paris
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FGM/C in Africa and the Diaspora
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Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-2025
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Letting Them Die
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Land, Investment & Politics
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Volunteer Economies
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Inside Mining Capitalism
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Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley
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Women & Peacebuilding in Africa
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Electricity in Africa
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The Front Line Runs through Every Woman
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Losing your Land
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Sudan Looks East
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Disability Rights and Inclusiveness in Africa
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From the Pit to the Market
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Fortress Conservation
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Angola
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Peace without Profit
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Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana
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The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials
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The Development State
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Africa Rising?
.. provocative new book... -- Martin Woollacott * THE GUARDIAN *
...for those interested in international affairs, but lacking detailed knowledge of Africa, if you read only one book about Africa this year it should be this one. Two distinguished scholars of Africa have written a short, lucid and astringent corrective to the lazy complacency of much conventional wisdom about the plight of the continent. Indeed, if all the litany of disaster is true, it is astonishing that anything works in Africa at all. And yet it does. -- Gwyn Prins * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *
...Despite its iconoclastic tenor, however, the book's value is paradoxically as a good summary of the present orthodoxy in the study of African politics -- Jan Kees Van Donge * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *
...for those interested in international affairs, but lacking detailed knowledge of Africa, if you read only one book about Africa this year it should be this one. Two distinguished scholars of Africa have written a short, lucid and astringent corrective to the lazy complacency of much conventional wisdom about the plight of the continent. Indeed, if all the litany of disaster is true, it is astonishing that anything works in Africa at all. And yet it does. -- Gwyn Prins * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *
...Despite its iconoclastic tenor, however, the book's value is paradoxically as a good summary of the present orthodoxy in the study of African politics -- Jan Kees Van Donge * COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS *
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780852558140 |
| ISBN 10 | 0852558147 |
| Title | Africa Works |
| Author | Patrick Chabal |
| Series | African Issues |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | James Currey |
| Year published | 1999-09-21 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |