Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa

Conceptual and Political Collisions

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9352193
AutoresNelson Kasfir (0000-0002-5620-581X, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Data de publicação2017-11-28
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoKingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBasler Afrika Bibliographien (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/j.ctvh9vwvw
OpenAlexW4298207143
Open LibraryOL36744347M
ISBN9783905758962
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3

Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of long-standing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics

Civil society · Kingdom · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · African history and culture analysis · African history and culture studies · Computer Science · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law