The Criminalization of the State in Africa
Title | The Criminalization of the State in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Fran= Bayart (LPcois) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
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This text charts the growth of fraud and smuggling in African states, the development of an economy of plunder and the growth of private armies. It argues that the state itself is engendering organized criminal activity.
Criminology in Africa
Title | Criminology in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Mwene Mushanga |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2004-12-29 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9966031960 |
Criminology in Africa has been produced with contributions from leading African authors who have focussed on the various problems facing Africa today regarding crime and criminal justice, and they have, at the same time, put forward their ideas and suggestions for coming to terms with these massive problems.
The State in Africa
Title | The State in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Francois Bayart |
Publisher | Polity |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 2009-07-20 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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The State in Africa is one of the important and compelling texts of comparative politics and historical sociology of the last twenty years. Bayart rejects the assumption of African ‘otherness’ based on stereotyped images of famine, corruption and civil war. Instead he invites the reader to see that African politics is like politics anywhere else in the world, not an exotic aberration. Africans themselves speak of a ‘politics of the belly’ – an expression that refers not only to the necessities of survival but also to a complex array of cultural representations, notably those of the ‘invisible’ world of sorcery. The ‘politics of the belly’ attests to a distinctively African trajectory of power that we need to understand as part of a long-term historical development. While acknowledging the insights of Western social scientists from Weber to Foucault, Bayart never loses sight of the realities of African politics and social life and he is careful to allow African voices – from the ‘small boy’ in the street to the ‘big men’ in the presidential palaces – to speak for themselves. This new edition of Bayart’s classic book includes a new introduction on Africa in the world today. This book has established itself as an indispensable text on the state and politics in Africa. It also provides a nuanced reading of what we have come to call ‘development’ and opens the way for a more general reflection on the invention of politics in African and Asian societies.
Africa and the International Criminal Court
Title | Africa and the International Criminal Court PDF eBook |
Author | Gerhard Werle |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2014-09-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9462650292 |
The book deals with the controversial relationship between African states, represented by the African Union, and the International Criminal Court. This relationship started promisingly but has been in crisis in recent years. The overarching aim of the book is to analyze and discuss the achievements and shortcomings of interventions in Africa by the International Criminal Court as well as to develop proposals for cooperation between international courts, domestic courts outside Africa and courts within Africa. For this purpose, the book compiles contributions by practitioners of the International Criminal Court and by role players of the judiciary of African countries as well as by academic experts.
This Present Darkness
Title | This Present Darkness PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Ellis |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 331 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019049431X |
Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American and Russian counterparts. Yet in 1944, a British colonial official wrote that 'the number of persistent and professional criminals is not great' in Nigeria and that 'crime as a career has so far made little appeal to the young Nigerian'. This book traces the origins of Nigerian organised crime to the last years of colonial rule, when nationalist politicians acquired power at a regional level. In need of funds for campaigning, they offered government contracts to foreign businesses in return for kickbacks, in a pattern that recurs to this day. Political corruption encouraged a wider disrespect for the law that spread throughout Nigerian society. When the country's oil boom came to an end in the early 1980s, young Nigerian college graduates headed abroad, eager to make money by any means. Nigerian crime went global at the very moment new criminal markets were emerging all over the world.
National Accountability for International Crimes in Africa
Title | National Accountability for International Crimes in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Charlene Lubaale |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 652 |
Release | 2022-02-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030880443 |
This book critically examines the issues pertaining to the Rome Statute’s complementarity principle. The focus lies on the primacy of African states to prosecute alleged perpetrators of international crimes in their respective jurisdictions. The chapters explore states’ international and domestic obligations to hold perpetrators of international crimes to account before the national courts, and demonstrate the complexity of enforcing national accountability of alleged perpetrators of international crimes while also ensuring that post-conflict African states achieve national healing, reconciliation, and sustainable peace. The contributions reject impunity for international crimes whilst also considering these complexities. Emphasis further lies on the meaning of accountability in the context of the politics of selective international criminal justice for crimes committed before the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
Combating International Crime in Africa
Title | Combating International Crime in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 74 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN |
Examines organized crime in West Africa and its impact on the United States.