Eyoh, Dickson. “African Perspectives on Democracy and the Dilemmas of Postcolonial Intellectuals.” Africa Today 45, no. 3/4 (1998): 281–306.

This article is a preliminary assessment of the African debate on democracy. A swirl of economic, political, and social difficulties has creates despair, but the difficulties also motivate us to articulate new collective social visions. An insistence on political democratization underpins man) views of a less malign future for African societies. Indeed, the embrace or democracy and debate about its appropriate forms are central to postcolonial African intellectual discourse. A reassessment is needed, however, o0 ideological and analytical approaches to relationships among the organization of state power, nation formation, and economic development. This article explores the premises of the debate in order to determine the extent to which they signal continuities and shifts in key postulates or postcolonial African intellectual thought about the relationship between political organization and development.

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Eyoh, D. “Through the Prism of a Local Tragedy : Political Liberalisation, Regionalism and Elite Struggles for Power in Cameroon: The Politics of Primary Patriotism.” Africa (London. 1928) 68, no. 3 (1998): 338–59.

A prominent feature of political liberalisation in Cameroon (as elsewhere in Africa) is the increasing resort by elites to idioms of community (regional, religious and ethnic) and neo-traditional institutions like chieftaincy as a means of mobilising political support and reasserting control of local populations. Focusing on the anglophone part of Cameroon this study examines the historical roots of the salience of these phenomena in current struggles for power. It uses the circumstances surrounding the death of a chief in the South West Province to explain the ways in which elite reliance on these phenomena facilitates the linkage of locally specific, culturally encoded political conflict with competition for power at the national level, and provokes local populations into resisting state power, often through the reinvention of traditions of their own.

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Tieku, Thomas Kwasi, and Megan Payler. "From Paternalism to the Chambas Formula for Mediation: Conceptualizing Cooperation between the UN and Regional Organizations in Mediating Conflicts", International Negotiation 27, 3 (2021): 448-474, doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15718069-bja10040

This article explores the working relationship between the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU), and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in mediating conflicts in West Africa and the Sahel regions. We argue that through the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), the UN, ECOWAS and the AU are working on mediation efforts to transcend traditional conceptualizations of the relationship between the world body and regional organizations. We show that the partnership is grounded on the logic of subsidiarity, informality, elite networks, technical competence, soft skills, and robust social trust. For heuristic purposes, we call the six principles the Chambas Formula, with reference to the centrality of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, and the emergence and consistent application of the principles in the mediation setting in West Africa and the Sahel regions.

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Coleman, Katharina P. and Tieku, Thomas K.. African Actors in International Security: Shaping Contemporary Norms. Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626377295

What impact have African actors had on perceptions of and responses to current international security challenges? Are there international peace and security norms with African roots? How can actors that lack the power and financial resources of Western states help to shape prevailing conceptions of appropriate behavior in international politics? Addressing these questions, the authors of African Actors in International Security identify and explore the diverse pathways by which African governments, IGOs, NGOs, and individuals can and do influence the normative structure of contemporary international relations.

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Morgan, Philip D., and Sean Hawkins (eds), Black Experience and the Empire, Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford, 2006; online edn, Oxford Academic, 3 Oct. 2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199290673.001.0001

This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or travelled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves — hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion.

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Musisi, Nakanyike B. “A Personal Journey into Custom, Identity, Power, and Politics: Researching and Writing the Life and Times of Buganda's Queen Mother Irene Drusilla Namaganda (1896–1957).” History in Africa 23 (1996): 369–85. doi:10.2307/3171949.

The popularity of African novels lies in their ability to convey to the reader how a society might have functioned with or without a state. Since most often a novelist tries to recreate a historical moment, a novel becomes a pedagogical tool of what Klein has called a “reasonable representation of what society may have been like.” In the most popularly utilized novels, an individual is cast at the center of the unfolding story. Most often, the African novel concerns itself with the impact of colonialism and the transition from traditional to contemporary African realities. This is frequently done with the aim of conveying to the reader the processes of adjustment and the pros and cons of this adjustment.

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