Hearn, Bruce, Roger Strange, and Jenifer Piesse. “Social Elites on the Board and Executive Pay in Developing Countries: Evidence from Africa.” Journal of World Business : JWB 52, no. 2 (2017): 230–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2016.12.004.

This study applies a new multi-focal actor-centered institution-theoretic approach to examine the association between executive pay and the recruitment of social elites to the board of directors in developing countries. Using a sample of 119 initial public offerings (IPOs) from 17 African stock markets to model this relationship, the results suggest that a higher proportion of elites on the board is associated with lower executive pay. This is moderated by institutional quality; that is, lower institutional quality is associated with more directors drawn from social elites and with higher pay, while the opposite is true in higher-institutional-quality environments. The findings confirm the importance of the social environment within which governance is embedded.

Source: Article abstract

Hedin, Emily. Between African Nationalism and Structural Adjustment: How Senegalese Elites Redefined Neoliberalism. March, 26, 2008. Macalester College. Political Science Project, 8. 

In 2001, African leaders adopted "The New Partnership for African Development" (NEPAD), a departure from previous policies that rejected Western influence in favour of embracing neoliberal economics. This study examines the shift in development policies and the factors that led elites to transition from opposing neoliberalism to embracing it. It argues that elites redefined neoliberalism within NEPAD by combining African nationalism and Western economics to address criticisms and diffuse accusations of neo-colonialism, ensuring the survival of neoliberalism on the continent. This research not only delves into the role of African elites in perpetuating neoliberalism but also offers a theory explaining its global diffusion.

Source: Culled from article's abstract

Heller, Peter. “The Market with Traditional African Art.” Released in March 2019. Video, 52:00. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNqTqDieCwg

The film takes us to a journey of discovery in museums and galleries, of the everyday objects and the cult ones, of the mysterious fetishes and masks - of the art of our neighboring continent. We follow artworks from Africa in fashionable galleries, in safes of the ethnography and anthropology museums and in private houses from passionate collectors. The art market turns often collectors into calculating speculators. New is transforming old art from Africa into financial investment. The market for traditional African art booms worldwide. Individual works reached millions at auctions. The film searches for traces from poor carvers in West Africa till in fashionable exhibitions from gallerists in Brussels and Paris. Finally, historical aware Africans accuse museum directors of looting art.

[Source: Video description].

Hendrickson Hildi

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Long Island University, USA

hildi.hendrickson@liu.edu‍

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Hendrickson, Hildi. Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press, 1996.

This volume examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa and raises questions that have previously been directed almost exclusively to a Western and urban context. Unusual in its treatment of the body surface as a critical frontier in the production and authentication of identity, Clothing and Difference show show the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and other African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times. Grounded in the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, these essays investigate the relations between the personal and the public, and between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups. They explore the bodily and material creation of the changing identities of women, spirits, youths, ancestors, and entrepreneurs through a consideration of topics such as fashion, spirit possession, commodity exchange, hygiene, and mourning. By taking African societies as its focus, Clothing and Difference demonstrates that factors considered integral to Western social development — heterogeneity, migration, urbanization, transnational exchange, and media representation — have existed elsewhere in different configurations and with different outcomes.

[Source: Duke University Press].

Hensell, Stephan, and Felix Gerdes. “Exit from War: The Transformation of Rebels into Post-War Power Elites.” Security Dialogue 48, no. 2 (2017): 168–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010616677713.

The reintegration of rebels after war is a key security challenge. This article analyses the post-war transformation of rebels as a process of joining the established political elite. The political careers of former rebels vary. While some rise to senior political positions, others fail to consolidate their power. Taking theoretical notions of Pierre Bourdieu as its point of departure, this article outlines the central role of social capital in the post-war political field, which allows for an analysis and explanation of differences in rebel inclusion and exclusion. The article argues that the political careers of rebels are dependent on the accumulation of vertical and horizontal social capital in elite–mass and intra-elite networks. Case studies of Liberia and Kosovo demonstrate the plausibility of our thesis and the fruitfulness of a Bourdieusian approach in studying the political transformation of armed groups. This article contributes to the debate on the post-war reintegration of rebels as well as to the debate on practice approaches in international relations and security studies.

Source: article's abstract

Heritage Institute for Policy Studies

Think-Tank

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Mogadishu, Somalia

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The Heritage Institute undertakes policy research and training for organizations and decision-makers in the African region, especially those who work in the fields of peace and security, good governance, and safeguarding human rights and democracy.

Hernandez, Jasmin. “The New Generation of Black, Women and Nonbinary Galleries.” Artsy, March 1, 2022.

“Black women are the present and future of contemporary art. It’s something I’ve said on Instagram and a fact that continues to prove itself over and over again. From Simone Leigh becoming the first Black woman artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale later this spring, to the recent high-profile appointments of Isolde Brielmaier as the New Museum’s deputy director and Crystal Williams becoming the Rhode Island School of Design’s first Black (and Black woman)president. Black women historically and relentlessly define, preserve, ideate art and move culture. And they’ve undoubtedly helped construct the past as well.”

[Source: Excerpt from article].