Dirk Kohnert
Biographic Data
| ID | 99648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk Kohnert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohnert |
| SIGNATURE | KOHNERT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Global and Area Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3921-1158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
French Domination of Francophone African Markets: Post-Colonialism at its Finest?
African migrants plight in China: Afrophobia impedes China's race for Africa's resources and markets
amp; RÉSUMÉ : Discrimination against the approximately 500,000 African (mostly irregular) immigrants has recently spread in China. During the corona pandemic, it degenerates into a true Afrophobia. Shortly before, five Nigerians in Guangzhou had reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. Africans are widely accused as drug traffickers and criminals. Also, they would endanger China's global competitiveness for Africa's resources through media baitin…
Magic and Witchcraft Implications for Democratization and Poverty-Alleviating Aid in Africa
amp; RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of modernization. Most often magic and witchcraft accusations work to the disadvantage of the poor and deprived, but under particular c…
Togo -2020: Politique intérieure, affaires étrangères, le développement socio-économique
amp; RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: Controversial constitutional and institutional reforms voted in May 2019 in parliament opened the way for President Gnassingbé to stand for a fourth and fifth term because the law does not apply retroactively. In February 2020, the President won again the disputed presidential elections and thus consolidated his power, assisted by the loyal army and security services. The outbreak of the Corona epidemic in Togo in M…
Sur l'impact socio-économique des pandémies en Afrique: Leçons tirées du Covid-19, de la trypanosomiase, du VIH, de la fièvre jaune, du choléra
Au cours de l'histoire, rien n'a tué plus d'êtres humains que les maladies infectieuses et la fièvre hémorragique. Bien que les taux de mortalité dus aux pandémies aient chuté de près de 1 % par an dans le monde, environ 0,8 % par an, tout au long du XXe siècle, le nombre de nouvelles maladies infectieuses comme le Sars, le VIH et le Covid-19 a presque quadruplé par rapport au passé. En Afrique, on a signalé un total de 4 522 489 cas confirmés de…
On the Impact of the Occult on State Legitimacy and Democratization Aid in Africa
Les élections présidentielles de 2019 au Sénégal ou la lente ascension des nouvelles générations
Les présidentielles de 2019 au Sénégal, pays considéré comme la vitrine de la démocratie en Afrique notamment pour ses alternances politiques pacifiques, semblent susceptibles de modifier cette perception. La transhumance politique, élevée au rang de religion au mépris de la moralité, pourrait aujourd’hui en menacer la stabilité. Les réseaux sociaux dominés par de jeunes militants engagés dans la société civile développent un plaidoyer auprès de …
The impact of Brexit on francophone Africa
The Brexit election in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2019 which brought Boris Johnson to power made it clear beyond doubt that Brexit will come soon. With or without an EU deal, the impact on Africa will be considerable too. Brexit affects not only Commonwealth but also francophone Africa. The range of the impact stretches from having a direct economic bearing on commodity prices and national budgets, to indirect political effects on progress…
An Expository Study of Witchcraft among the Basoga of Uganda
Trump's tariff impact on Africa and the ambiguous role of African agency
The current debate on Trump’s tariffs focuses on the big global players and competitors of the USA. Africa plays virtually no role in international scholarly perceptions of the impact of US protective tariffs on imported steel, aluminium and cars. Nevertheless, there are such effects and these are more than peanuts, as will be shown in this Briefing
More Equitable Britain-Africa Relations Post-Brexit: Doomed to Fail
High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions on the part of the sceptics have characterised the controversy around Brexit. The article assesses five key issues at stake for post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct investment (FDI), aid, security, and the nature of the partnership. The analysis focuses on those sub-Saharan African countries that belong to the Commonwea…
Horse-trading on EU–African Economic Partnership Agreements
EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In July 2014 the Head of States of ECOWAS endorsed the negotiated compromise EPA after prolonged negotiations. However, last-minute objections of the heavy-weight Nigeria which wants to protect its infant industries as well as promising trade relations with new global players still could prevent the deal. Whether the ECOWAS EPA in its current form would really create a win-win si…
African Agency and EU–African Economic Partnership Agreements
Review Article: European Parliament (EP) (ed.) (2014), African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries’ Position on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) , Brussels: European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies, Policy Department, April, ISBN 978-92-823- 5667-8, 84 pp. Contemporary Politics (2014), vol. 20, issue 1, Special Issue: Perspectives on the Trade–Development Nexus in the European Union, London: Routledge, ISSN: 1356-97…
The successful Ghana election of 2008: A Convenient Myth
Ghana's 2008 election has been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. The perception of success has prevailed despite persistent concerns about an inflated voters' register and electoral fraud perpetrated by the two major parties, the NPP and NDC, in their strongholds in the Ashanti and Volta Regions respectively. Electoral malpractice in Ghana's virtual two-party system could acquire a decisive importance as a 'thi…
New Nationalism and Development in Africa
Review Article: Chipkin, Ivor (2007), Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of the “People”. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, ISBN 1868144453, 261 pages. Dorman, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa. African Social Studies Series, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 9004157905, 282 pages. Simpson, Andrew (ed.) (2008), Language and National Identity…
Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung
Der neue Nationalismus in Afrika und anderswo unterscheidet sich in Ursachen und Auswirkungen wesentlich von dem nationaler Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen der 1960er Jahre. Anders als der erste Nationalismus setzt der zweite weniger auf Einschluss denn auf Ausschluss von Bevölkerungsgruppen; Entfremdung, Xenophobie und deren politische Instrumentalisierung sind sein Fluch. Der neue Nationalismus wird maßgeblich geprägt durch die Folgen der Globalisier…
Election observation in Nigeria & Madagascar: Diplomatic vs. technocratic bias
International election observation has become a valuable means of supporting African democratic polity. Notably, EU observer missions adopting a professional approach are meant to shield against political pressures from partisan stakeholder interests. However, this growing professionalism did not necessarily lead to less biased observation results. Available evidence suggests that in crucial cases, the origin and orientation of the bias changed f…
Occult Beliefs, Globalisation and the Quest for Development in African Societies: The Example of South Africa
The second wind of change, the democratic renewal in Africa and elsewhere in the early 1990s was greeted with great enthusiasm. In South Africa it gave rise to additional expectations as it was linked to liberation from the apartheid regime. But as years went by without tangible improvement in the social and economic standing of the majority of the population, those who believed in occult forces such as magic and witchcraft started to view effort…
Witchcraft and transnational social spaces: Witchcraft violence, reconciliation and development in South Africa's transition process
The strange collusion between occult belief systems and different trans-national social networks, embedded in specific transformations of local and global modes of production, results in unique but reinforcing modifications of witchcraft belief, its underlying structures and its impact on the process of democratisation. The amazing range of possible results has been indicated by the analysis of two outstanding examples of witchcraft violence in S…
The Modernity of Witchcraft: Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Originally Published in French as Sorcellerie et Politique en Afrique - La Viande des autres
Magic and witchcraft: Implications for democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
The New Mission of Agricultural Research and Extension in African Agriculture
Socialism Without Liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land reclamation projects during colonial and post-colonial times reveals astonishing similarities: especially the centralization of development efforts in the hands …
The transformation of rural labour systems in colonial and post‐colonial Northern Nigeria
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis of the socio-economic effects of forced and bonded labour during colonial times, …
Magic and witchcraft: Implications for democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
The successful Ghana election of 2008: A Convenient Myth
Ghana's 2008 election has been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. The perception of success has prevailed despite persistent concerns about an inflated voters' register and electoral fraud perpetrated by the two major parties, the NPP and NDC, in their strongholds in the Ashanti and Volta Regions respectively. Electoral malpractice in Ghana's virtual two-party system could acquire a decisive importance as a 'thi…
Witchcraft and transnational social spaces: Witchcraft violence, reconciliation and development in South Africa's transition process
The strange collusion between occult belief systems and different trans-national social networks, embedded in specific transformations of local and global modes of production, results in unique but reinforcing modifications of witchcraft belief, its underlying structures and its impact on the process of democratisation. The amazing range of possible results has been indicated by the analysis of two outstanding examples of witchcraft violence in S…
Election observation in Nigeria & Madagascar: Diplomatic vs. technocratic bias
International election observation has become a valuable means of supporting African democratic polity. Notably, EU observer missions adopting a professional approach are meant to shield against political pressures from partisan stakeholder interests. However, this growing professionalism did not necessarily lead to less biased observation results. Available evidence suggests that in crucial cases, the origin and orientation of the bias changed f…
More Equitable Britain-Africa Relations Post-Brexit: Doomed to Fail
High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions on the part of the sceptics have characterised the controversy around Brexit. The article assesses five key issues at stake for post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct investment (FDI), aid, security, and the nature of the partnership. The analysis focuses on those sub-Saharan African countries that belong to the Commonwea…
Horse-trading on EU–African Economic Partnership Agreements
EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In July 2014 the Head of States of ECOWAS endorsed the negotiated compromise EPA after prolonged negotiations. However, last-minute objections of the heavy-weight Nigeria which wants to protect its infant industries as well as promising trade relations with new global players still could prevent the deal. Whether the ECOWAS EPA in its current form would really create a win-win si…
Socialism Without Liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land reclamation projects during colonial and post-colonial times reveals astonishing similarities: especially the centralization of development efforts in the hands …
Trump's tariff impact on Africa and the ambiguous role of African agency
The current debate on Trump’s tariffs focuses on the big global players and competitors of the USA. Africa plays virtually no role in international scholarly perceptions of the impact of US protective tariffs on imported steel, aluminium and cars. Nevertheless, there are such effects and these are more than peanuts, as will be shown in this Briefing
African Agency and EU–African Economic Partnership Agreements
Review Article: European Parliament (EP) (ed.) (2014), African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries’ Position on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) , Brussels: European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies, Policy Department, April, ISBN 978-92-823- 5667-8, 84 pp. Contemporary Politics (2014), vol. 20, issue 1, Special Issue: Perspectives on the Trade–Development Nexus in the European Union, London: Routledge, ISSN: 1356-97…
Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung
Der neue Nationalismus in Afrika und anderswo unterscheidet sich in Ursachen und Auswirkungen wesentlich von dem nationaler Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen der 1960er Jahre. Anders als der erste Nationalismus setzt der zweite weniger auf Einschluss denn auf Ausschluss von Bevölkerungsgruppen; Entfremdung, Xenophobie und deren politische Instrumentalisierung sind sein Fluch. Der neue Nationalismus wird maßgeblich geprägt durch die Folgen der Globalisier…
African migrants plight in China: Afrophobia impedes China's race for Africa's resources and markets
amp; RÉSUMÉ : Discrimination against the approximately 500,000 African (mostly irregular) immigrants has recently spread in China. During the corona pandemic, it degenerates into a true Afrophobia. Shortly before, five Nigerians in Guangzhou had reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. Africans are widely accused as drug traffickers and criminals. Also, they would endanger China's global competitiveness for Africa's resources through media baitin…
Magic and Witchcraft Implications for Democratization and Poverty-Alleviating Aid in Africa
amp; RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of modernization. Most often magic and witchcraft accusations work to the disadvantage of the poor and deprived, but under particular c…
New Nationalism and Development in Africa
Review Article: Chipkin, Ivor (2007), Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of the “People”. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, ISBN 1868144453, 261 pages. Dorman, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa. African Social Studies Series, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 9004157905, 282 pages. Simpson, Andrew (ed.) (2008), Language and National Identity…
The transformation of rural labour systems in colonial and post‐colonial Northern Nigeria
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis of the socio-economic effects of forced and bonded labour during colonial times, …
The transformation of rural labour systems in colonial and post‐colonial Northern Nigeria
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better qualitative and quantitative idea of this interrelation. After an analysis of the socio-economic effects of forced and bonded labour during colonial times, …
Socialism Without Liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land reclamation projects during colonial and post-colonial times reveals astonishing similarities: especially the centralization of development efforts in the hands …
The New Mission of Agricultural Research and Extension in African Agriculture
Magic and witchcraft: Implications for democratization and poverty-alleviating aid in Africa
The Modernity of Witchcraft: Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Originally Published in French as Sorcellerie et Politique en Afrique - La Viande des autres
Occult Beliefs, Globalisation and the Quest for Development in African Societies: The Example of South Africa
The second wind of change, the democratic renewal in Africa and elsewhere in the early 1990s was greeted with great enthusiasm. In South Africa it gave rise to additional expectations as it was linked to liberation from the apartheid regime. But as years went by without tangible improvement in the social and economic standing of the majority of the population, those who believed in occult forces such as magic and witchcraft started to view effort…
Witchcraft and transnational social spaces: Witchcraft violence, reconciliation and development in South Africa's transition process
The strange collusion between occult belief systems and different trans-national social networks, embedded in specific transformations of local and global modes of production, results in unique but reinforcing modifications of witchcraft belief, its underlying structures and its impact on the process of democratisation. The amazing range of possible results has been indicated by the analysis of two outstanding examples of witchcraft violence in S…
Election observation in Nigeria & Madagascar: Diplomatic vs. technocratic bias
International election observation has become a valuable means of supporting African democratic polity. Notably, EU observer missions adopting a professional approach are meant to shield against political pressures from partisan stakeholder interests. However, this growing professionalism did not necessarily lead to less biased observation results. Available evidence suggests that in crucial cases, the origin and orientation of the bias changed f…
Entfremdung und Ausgrenzung: Afrikas neuer Nationalismus in Zeiten der Globalisierung
Der neue Nationalismus in Afrika und anderswo unterscheidet sich in Ursachen und Auswirkungen wesentlich von dem nationaler Unabhängigkeitsbewegungen der 1960er Jahre. Anders als der erste Nationalismus setzt der zweite weniger auf Einschluss denn auf Ausschluss von Bevölkerungsgruppen; Entfremdung, Xenophobie und deren politische Instrumentalisierung sind sein Fluch. Der neue Nationalismus wird maßgeblich geprägt durch die Folgen der Globalisier…
New Nationalism and Development in Africa
Review Article: Chipkin, Ivor (2007), Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of the “People”. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, ISBN 1868144453, 261 pages. Dorman, Sara, Daniel Hammett, and Paul Nugent (eds.) (2007), Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa. African Social Studies Series, Leiden: Brill, ISBN 9004157905, 282 pages. Simpson, Andrew (ed.) (2008), Language and National Identity…
The successful Ghana election of 2008: A Convenient Myth
Ghana's 2008 election has been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. The perception of success has prevailed despite persistent concerns about an inflated voters' register and electoral fraud perpetrated by the two major parties, the NPP and NDC, in their strongholds in the Ashanti and Volta Regions respectively. Electoral malpractice in Ghana's virtual two-party system could acquire a decisive importance as a 'thi…
African Agency and EU–African Economic Partnership Agreements
Review Article: European Parliament (EP) (ed.) (2014), African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries’ Position on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) , Brussels: European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies, Policy Department, April, ISBN 978-92-823- 5667-8, 84 pp. Contemporary Politics (2014), vol. 20, issue 1, Special Issue: Perspectives on the Trade–Development Nexus in the European Union, London: Routledge, ISSN: 1356-97…
Horse-trading on EU–African Economic Partnership Agreements
EU- Africa Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) are on the brink. In July 2014 the Head of States of ECOWAS endorsed the negotiated compromise EPA after prolonged negotiations. However, last-minute objections of the heavy-weight Nigeria which wants to protect its infant industries as well as promising trade relations with new global players still could prevent the deal. Whether the ECOWAS EPA in its current form would really create a win-win si…
Trump's tariff impact on Africa and the ambiguous role of African agency
The current debate on Trump’s tariffs focuses on the big global players and competitors of the USA. Africa plays virtually no role in international scholarly perceptions of the impact of US protective tariffs on imported steel, aluminium and cars. Nevertheless, there are such effects and these are more than peanuts, as will be shown in this Briefing
More Equitable Britain-Africa Relations Post-Brexit: Doomed to Fail
High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions on the part of the sceptics have characterised the controversy around Brexit. The article assesses five key issues at stake for post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU, and Africa: market access, foreign direct investment (FDI), aid, security, and the nature of the partnership. The analysis focuses on those sub-Saharan African countries that belong to the Commonwea…
Les élections présidentielles de 2019 au Sénégal ou la lente ascension des nouvelles générations
Les présidentielles de 2019 au Sénégal, pays considéré comme la vitrine de la démocratie en Afrique notamment pour ses alternances politiques pacifiques, semblent susceptibles de modifier cette perception. La transhumance politique, élevée au rang de religion au mépris de la moralité, pourrait aujourd’hui en menacer la stabilité. Les réseaux sociaux dominés par de jeunes militants engagés dans la société civile développent un plaidoyer auprès de …
The impact of Brexit on francophone Africa
The Brexit election in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2019 which brought Boris Johnson to power made it clear beyond doubt that Brexit will come soon. With or without an EU deal, the impact on Africa will be considerable too. Brexit affects not only Commonwealth but also francophone Africa. The range of the impact stretches from having a direct economic bearing on commodity prices and national budgets, to indirect political effects on progress…
An Expository Study of Witchcraft among the Basoga of Uganda
On the Impact of the Occult on State Legitimacy and Democratization Aid in Africa
Togo -2020: Politique intérieure, affaires étrangères, le développement socio-économique
amp; RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: Controversial constitutional and institutional reforms voted in May 2019 in parliament opened the way for President Gnassingbé to stand for a fourth and fifth term because the law does not apply retroactively. In February 2020, the President won again the disputed presidential elections and thus consolidated his power, assisted by the loyal army and security services. The outbreak of the Corona epidemic in Togo in M…
Sur l'impact socio-économique des pandémies en Afrique: Leçons tirées du Covid-19, de la trypanosomiase, du VIH, de la fièvre jaune, du choléra
Au cours de l'histoire, rien n'a tué plus d'êtres humains que les maladies infectieuses et la fièvre hémorragique. Bien que les taux de mortalité dus aux pandémies aient chuté de près de 1 % par an dans le monde, environ 0,8 % par an, tout au long du XXe siècle, le nombre de nouvelles maladies infectieuses comme le Sars, le VIH et le Covid-19 a presque quadruplé par rapport au passé. En Afrique, on a signalé un total de 4 522 489 cas confirmés de…
French Domination of Francophone African Markets: Post-Colonialism at its Finest?
African migrants plight in China: Afrophobia impedes China's race for Africa's resources and markets
amp; RÉSUMÉ : Discrimination against the approximately 500,000 African (mostly irregular) immigrants has recently spread in China. During the corona pandemic, it degenerates into a true Afrophobia. Shortly before, five Nigerians in Guangzhou had reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. Africans are widely accused as drug traffickers and criminals. Also, they would endanger China's global competitiveness for Africa's resources through media baitin…
Magic and Witchcraft Implications for Democratization and Poverty-Alleviating Aid in Africa
amp; RÉSUMÉ & ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of modernization. Most often magic and witchcraft accusations work to the disadvantage of the poor and deprived, but under particular c…
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