| From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel Contributor(s): Mann, Gregory (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107016541 ISBN-13: 9781107016545 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - West - Political Science | Ngos (non-governmental Organizations) |
| Dewey: 966.032 |
| LCCN: 2014021443 |
| Series: African Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to consider newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. Shortly after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel - a long, thin stretch of land bordering the Sahara - became the subjects of human rights campaigns and humanitarian interventions. Just when its states were strongest and most ambitious, the postcolonial West African Sahel became fertile terrain for the production of novel forms of governmental rationality realized through NGOs. The roots of this "nongovernmentality" lay partly in Europe and North America, but it flowered, paradoxically, in the Sahel. This book is unique in that it questions not only how West African states exercised their new sovereignty but also how and why NGOs - ranging from CARE and Amnesty International to black internationalists - began to assume elements of sovereignty during a period in which it was so highly valued. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mann, Gregory: - Gregory Mann is Associate Professor in the History Department at Columbia University, specializing in the history of Francophone West Africa. Mann's articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of African History, and Politique Africaine. |