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Alix Boucher

Assistant Research Fellow, Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Sector: Peace Operations, Stability Operations, UN Sanctions, Countering Violent Extremism
Contact: Phone: +1  202-685-7351

Boucher, Alix

Assistant Research Fellow, Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Coercive
Professional Contact

Boudreaux, Karol. 2007. "State Power, Entrepreneurship, and Coffee: The Rwandan Experience". Mercatus Policy Series, Policy Comment No. 15, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1026935 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1026935

In the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Paul Kagame's new government embarked upon a revolutionary restructuring of the economy. It lifted tight government controls on the production, sale, and distribution of a variety of goods, liberalized many sectors of the economy, and gave people the freedom to trade openly. Perhaps the biggest success story of Rwanda's liberalization is the revitalization of the country's coffee sector, particularly the development of a new niche product: specialty coffee. A mainstay of the Rwandan economy since the 1930s when Belgian colonial officials encouraged coffee production, coffee remains a key export crop for Rwandans, generating millions of dollars of export revenue and garnering international attention for the high quality of the local beans. This study highlights two positive results flowing from Rwandan coffee production: Liberalization strategies alleviate poverty and develop human capital. By removing pervasive and oppressive government controls over coffee production and sale, the Rwandan government has created space for smallholder farmers to be entrepreneurial, create new ties with foreign buyers, develop valuable skills, and increase their incomes; Liberalization has had the unanticipated benefit of reconciliation. Liberalization in the coffee sector creates new incentives for smallholder farmers in Rwanda to work together for a common goal: improving their lives through the production of high quality specialty coffee. Working together toward this common goal has helped Rwandans to reconcile with each other in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide.

Economic liberalization has improved the lives of thousands of Rwandans. With increasing income and new opportunities for entrepreneurship, Rwandans are better able to care for themselves and their families. Surprisingly, economic liberalization also seems to be playing a role in reconciliation. These positive outcomes suggest that a focus on economic liberalization in post-conflict environments may pay large dividends in terms of both economic development and peace.

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Boudreaux, Karol. 2007. "State Power, Entrepreneurship, and Coffee

his study highlights two positive results flowing from Rwandan coffee production: Liberalization strategies alleviate poverty and develop human capital. By removing pervasive and oppressive government controls over coffee production and sale, the Rwandan government has created space for smallholder farmers to be entrepreneurial, create new ties with foreign buyers, develop valuable skills, and increase their incomes; Liberalization has had the unanticipated benefit of reconciliation. Liberalization in the coffee sector creates new incentives for smallholder farmers in Rwanda to work together for a common goal: improving their lives through the production of high quality specialty coffee. Working together toward this common goal has helped Rwandans to reconcile with each other in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide.

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Anwar Bougroug

Creative Director

Sector: Fashion
bougroug.com

Bougroug Anwar

Creative Director, Fashion, Bougroug

Aesthetic
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Anouar Boukhars

Professor, Africa Center  for Strategic Studies

Sector: Counterterrorism, Countering Violent Extremism, Radicalization
Contact: Phone: +1  202-685-7343

Boukhars, Anouar

Professor, Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Coercive
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Bourgouin, France. “Cosmopolitan Culture as Elite Distinction among African Business Professionals in Johannesburg.” Comparative Sociology 10, no. 4 (2011): 571–90. https://doi.org/10.1163/156913311X590637.

This article unpacks the practices of cosmopolitan elite distinction among a group of successful business professionals of African origin, who were employed in middle and senior management positions in Johannesburg during the height of the “bull market” in 2004. It considers the self-identification of these professionals as cosmopolitan in light of our theoretical understanding of social distinction. Building on Veblen, Bourdieu, and Goffman, this article shows how these business professionals claiming to belong to a cosmopolitan community enacted these hierarchies through everyday distinctions in place, leisure and dress. The article concludes that while cosmopolitanism is an escape from local African identity, appeals to a cosmopolitan community transform and reconfigure society through the inscription of new inequalities and particularities.

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Bourgouin, France. Cosmopolitan Culture as Elite Distinction among African Business Professionals in Johannesburg

This article unpacks the practices of cosmopolitan elite distinction among a group of successful business professionals of African origin, who were employed in middle and senior management positions in Johannesburg during the height of the “bull market” in 2004.

Economic
Bibliographic

Alain Michel Boyer

Professor, African Art, Université de Nantes, France

Tél: 0240141050/Alain-Michel.Boyer@univ-nantes.fr

Boyer Alain, Michel

Professor, African Art, Université de Nantes

Aesthetic
Professional Contact

Boyer, Alain-Michel. Comment regarder les arts d’Afrique [How to Look at Arts from Africa]. Paris: Hazan, 2017.

Dealing with African art, the black continent scale in its variety and specificities. This book invites the reader to a journey in four steps. In the first section, by tracing out the main periods of African civilizations, we discover that these arts sometimes go back millennia. Secondly, this book identifies some formal and stylistic principles based on leading artforms such as statuettes or masks. In the third section, emphasis is put on so-called ‘minor’ arts that created the conditions of ‘major’ art forms such as cutlery, jewellery, etc. Finally, the last section covers an area from the Sahara to South Africa to illustrate how diverse African creation is and the countless solutions which are each time unexpected.

[Source: Hazan publishing house, adapted and translated from French].

Boyer, Alain-Michel. Comment regarder les arts d’Afrique [How to Look at Arts from Africa]

Boyer, Alain-Michel
2017

This book examines the scale and variety of African art.

Aesthetic
Bibliographic

Amelia Broodryk

Director of Communication, Institute  for Security Studies

Sector:

NGO

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South Africa

Contact:

iss@issafrica.org

Broodryk, Amelia

Broodryk, Amelia

Director of Communication, Institute for Security Studies

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