Alden, Chris, and Lu Jiang. “Brave New World: Debt, Industrialization and Security in China–Africa Relations.” International Affairs (London) 95, no. 3 (2019): 641–57. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz083.

China's ties with Africa are evolving into a multi-faceted relationship of increasing complexity. After nearly two decades of debt-financed infrastructure development, Beijing's exposure to African debt is reaching disquieting proportions with an estimatedUS$132 billion owed to China in 2016. Managing this new role as Africa's creditor poses uncomfortable questions for creditor and debtor alike. Concurrently, the quiet surge of Chinese investment in manufacturing in Africa is transforming local economies in ways that are beginning to alter the continent's position within the global economy. Finally, the proliferation of Chinese businesses and migrants across Africa is inspiring greater Chinese involvement in UN peacekeeping and private security initiatives. This article examines how these structural changes are challenging core practices and principles which guided China–Africa relations in its formative decades. For instance, under the banner of an alternative to western policies China promoted the absence of conditionalities attached to its concessional loans and grants. Equally, promotion of industrialization of African economies marks a key shift away from China's resource-centric engagement with the continent. And, in the case of security, Beijing's commitment to avoid intervention in domestic affairs is being set aside with implications for its principles, and ultimately status, in Africa.

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Alders, Wolfgang. “Clientage, Debt, and the Integrative Orientation of Non-Elites on the East African Swahili Coast.” Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 73 (2024): 101553-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101553.

Ceramic trends on Unguja Island in Zanzibar, Tanzania provide insights into non-elite political strategies on the East African Swahili Coast. Synthesizing imported ceramic data from two seasons of systematic field survey across rural Unguja with historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence from coastal East Africa, this paper argues that an integrative orientation toward power characterized bottom-up action on the Swahili Coast over the second millennium CE. While theories of bottom-up action have emphasized commoner autonomy and resistance to clientage, debt, and social inequality, evidence from the Swahili Coast attests to efforts by non-elites to seek entrance into cycles of reciprocal obligation as a means for recognition and social mobility—a specifically non-egalitarian orientation toward power. In response, elites competed with one another to accumulate wealth-in-people, resulting in a competitive patron-client system that prevented political consolidation. Elucidating these dynamics contributes to an understanding of how non-elite political strategies have shaped sociopolitical systems globally.

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Ali, Merima,Odd‐Helge Fjeldstad and Abdulaziz B. Shifa. "European colonization and the corruption of local elites: The case of chiefs in Africa." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 179 (2020): 80-100.

The paper focuses on the legacy of British and French colonial rule on the corruption of local elites (chiefs) in Africa through a comparative analysis of levels of corruption among local elites (chiefs) in anglophone and francophone Africa. The study concludes that the level of corruption among local elites in anglophone countries was slightly higher than in francophone countries and chiefs in anglophone countries command a significantly lower level of public trust. The authors point to the British style of colonization(indirect rule) which may have contributed to the corrupt nature of local elite(chiefs) in some African countries. This system offered chiefs more autonomy, weakened the pre-existing local mechanisms of checks and balances and made them less accountable to their local communities rather accountable to their colonial masters. This meant they could abuse their power. In the long run, the formal legal system introduced by the central state had limited relevance to much of the population in anglophone countries. The French style of colonial rule on the other hand, undermined the power and autonomy of chiefs over the local population. Chiefs were stripped of their power to appoint sub-chiefs or handle legal matters. This limitation meant chiefs in francophone countries could not afford local patronage nor abuse power.

Nathaniel Allen

Professor, Africa Center for Strategic Studies

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Alliance Panafricaine des Scénaristes et Réalisateurs (APASER)

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Algiers, Algeria

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APASER  is the Alliance Panafricaine des Scénaristes et Réalisateurs. This international collaboration between Writers & Directors  Worldwide, CISAC and the Pan-African Federation of Filmmakers exists to  protect and promote the rights of audiovisual creators in Africa.

Allison Moore

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Jean Allman

Professor, African studies, Washington University in St. Louis

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Allman, Jean Marie, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi. Women in African Colonial Histories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women? farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders?in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a homogeneous "African women's experience." While recognizing the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the essays in this lively volume show that African women were not simply the hapless victims of European political rule. Innovative use of primary sources, including life histories, oral narratives, court cases, newspapers, colonial archives, and physical evidence, attests that African women's experiences defy static representation. Readers at all levels will find this an important contribution to ongoing debates in African women's history and African colonial history.

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