Bibliograph

From empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel, the road to nongovernmentality, Gregory Mann

Type

Label

From empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel, the road to nongovernmentality, Gregory Mann

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

From empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

899467387

Responsibility statement

Gregory Mann

Series statement

African studies, 129Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

the road to nongovernmentality

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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