From Empires to Ngos in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality Tapa dura - 2014

Cambridge University Press, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover book in very good condition. A children's drawing on ffep, otherwise unmarked, and a beautiful copy.Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally, please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe, quick, and secure transaction. 10+ years in online bookselling experience.

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book explains the shift from the government of empires to that of NGOs in the region just south of the Sahara. It describes the ambitions of newly independent African states, their political experiments, and the challenges they fac

Cambridge Univ Pr, 2015. Hardcover. New. 300 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. This book explains the shift from the government of empires to that of NGOs in the region just south of the Sahara. It describes the ambitions of newly independent African states, their political experiments, and the challenges they faced. No other book places black American activism, Amnesty International, and CARE together in the history of African politics.

Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. 300, 3 Maps . Hardback. New.

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ISBN: 9781107016545
Cambridge University Press, 01 January 2015
Hardback, 281 pages
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… Leer más