$6
Tenkir Bonger
ISBN: 0850-2633
CODESRIA 1996
Abdelali Doumou
CODESRIA, 1987, 172 p
ISBN 2-86978-001-x
African Literature as Political Philosophy (Printed)
The politics of development in Africa have always been central concerns of the continent’s literature. Yet ideas about the best way to achieve this development, and even what development itself should look like, have been hotly contested.
African Literature as Political Philosophy looks in particular at Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and Petals of Blood by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, but situates these within the broader context of developments in African literature over the past half-century, discussing writers from Ayi Kwei Armah to Wole Soyinka. M.S.C. Okolo provides a thorough analysis of the authors’ differing approaches and how these emerge from the literature. She shows the roots of Achebe’s reformism and Ngugi’s insistence on revolution and how these positions take shape in their work. Okolo argues that these authors have been profoundly affected by the political situation of Africa, but have also helped to create a new African political philosophy.
Facteurs de transition de la micro-entreprise à l’entreprise capitaliste moderne : un examen du cas de la République démocratique du Congo (Printed)
Pour faire face à l’inefficacité du modèle étatique de développement des années 1960-1970, les initiatives privées et l’entreprenariat ont été encouragés comme un moyen de sortir les économies africaines au sud du Sahara de leur marasme chronique. Dans le cas de la République démocratique du Congo, ce changement d’orientation économique a entrainé l’émergence de micro et petites entreprises qui -compte tenu de leur manque de structuration, de leur évolution en marge du cadre légal, de leurs insuffisances intrinsèques à pourvoir des emplois durables et de leur faible impact socio-économique- ont montré leur limite quant à leur capacité de fournir un gage de développement durable. Avec une approche méthodologique basée sur la micro-économie, la statistique et l’économétrie, ce livre scrute l’environnement économique, mais aussi légal et financier dans lequel évoluent les PME congolaises. Ce livre tente aussi de répondre aux questions liées aux facteurs de croissance, aux conditions et mécanismes qui doivent constituer le soubassement du développement des PME dans le contexte de la RDC. Un développement qui facilitera la transition vers l’ère de l’entreprise capitaliste moderne.
Masculinities in Contemporary Africa (Printed)
Although gender and non-gender scholars have studied men, such an academic exercise requires a critical and focused study of masculine subjects in particular social contexts, which is what this book attempts to do. This empirically rich collection of essays, the seventh of the CODESRIA Gender Series, deals with critical examinations of various shades and ramifications of Africa’s masculinities and what these portend for the peoples of Africa and for gender relations in the continent. So much has changed in terms of notions and expressions of masculinities in Africa since ancient times, but many aspects of contemporary masculinities were fashioned during and since the colonial period.
The papers in this volume were initially discussed at the 2005 month-long CODESRIA Gender Institute in Dakar. The contributors are gender scholars drawn from various disciplines in the wide fields of the humanities and the social sciences with research interests in the critical study of men and masculinities in Africa.
The CODESRIA Gender Series aims at keeping alive and nourishing the African social science knowledge base with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. The series strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for emerging new talents to flower.
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