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The anthropology of anger : civil society and democracy in Africa
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Year: 1996 Publisher: Boulder, Colo. ; London Lynne Rienner Publishers

L'autre Afrique : entre don et marché
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ISBN: 2226105425 9782226105424 Year: 1998 Volume: *3 Publisher: Paris : Albin Michel,

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Observant le don mauritanien, les forgerons soninké, la sorcellerie à Douala ou, encore, l'économie informelle à Dakar, Serge Latouche rompt avec "l'afropessimisme" et propose une analyse marginale du don et du marché, ainsi qu'une réflexion sur notre avenir. L'autre Afrique est le laboratoire de la postmodernité, au-delà de l'économie de marché.


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Crises and recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 9264127496 9789264127494 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris Development centre of the organisation for economic co-operation and development [Washington, D.C : OECD Publications and Information Center, distributor]


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Une Afrique en marche : la révolution silencieuse des paysans africains
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ISBN: 2259021085 9782259021081 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris : Librarie Plon,

Postcolonial identities in Africa
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ISBN: 1856494152 1856494160 9781856494168 9781856494151 Year: 1996 Publisher: London : Zed Books,

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'The end of Apartheid', 'the decay of the state', the escape of refugees', 'the increasing fatalities from AIDS' - from crisis to catastrophe, Africa has come to be globalized for media consumption, grossly misrepresented and, above all, marginalised. In this book, distinguished anthropologists, political scientists and social historians from Africa, Europe and America make a radical break with much conventional wisdom in postcolonial discourse to explore contemporary African identities in transition. They look at the colonial legacy and how colonial identities are being reconstructed in the face of deepening social inequality across the continent. They ask how the postcolonial imagination as a highly specific, locally created and historical force reconfigures personal knowledge and how that reconfiguration shapes the moral and religious realities around the uses and abuses of postcolonial power. Using case-studies, the book explores why postcolonial studies has to enunciate and interpret the distinctive languages of identity politics in all the cultural richness of their specific metaphors. It asks whether the very idea of the postcolonial conceals the continued dependence of African countries? Is the postcolonial thus merely a neo-colonial mystification, a Eurocentric product of Western scholarship in collusion with Western imperialism?

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