African Politics of Survival Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World

Yaya Fonye Odette

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This volume addresses two primary research concerns: first, considering extraversion (or extroversion) as a term for characterizing a region that is "mobilizing resources from their (possibly unequal) relationship with the external environment", a dynamic that constitutes a possible African potential; and, second, a survey of competing systems and strategies with a focus on relationships between formal and informal institutions in terms of their collaborations and conflicts. In addition, this volume contains three chapters examining very recent African responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic from a variety of perspectives. The final part of this volume contains an important contribution to the conceptualization of 'African Potentials'. This has proven to be a significant conceptual innovation, that allows intellectual access to alternative ways of thinking about latent ideas of universality.

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• Publié par: Langaa RPCIG
• Date de parution: 11 mars 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789956551224
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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African Politics of Survival Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World Edited by Mitsugi Endo, Ato Kwamena Onoma & Michael Neocosmos In collaboration

 L a ng a a R P CIG  M a nk on B a m end a

 CAAS Kyoto U niversity

Publisher: LangaaRPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon [e-mail] www.langaa-rpcig.net In Collaboration with The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective [e-mail] www.africanbookscollective.com

ISBN-10: 9956-551-68-6 ISBN-13: 978-9956-551-68-2 ©Mitsugi Endo, Ato Kwamena Onoma & Michael Neocosmos 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical or electronic, including photocopying and recording, or be stored in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher

Notes on Contributors Toshihiro ABE(PhD) is Professor of Sociology at Otani University in Japan. His research interests principally relate to social reconciliation, transitional justice, migration and social movements in the South African and Cambodian contexts. His publications include Unintended Consequences in Transitional Justice: Social Recovery at the Local Level(2018, Lynne Rienner Publishers) andThe Khmer Rouge Trials in Context(2019, editor, Silkworm Books). Mitsugi ENDOis Professor of Graduate School of Arts (DPhil) and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He is also chair of the Graduate Program on Human Security at the Graduate School. He specialised in comparative politics and international relations, recently focusing on the Greater Horn of Africa. His major works includeCollapsed States and International Security: Experiences of Somalia and New Sovereign Statehood(2015, Yuhikaku, in Japanese). Tamara ENOMOTO(PhD) is Professor at Meiji University, Japan. Her most recent works include:The Arms Trade Treaty: The Self, Sovereignty, and Arms Transfer Control(2020, Kouyou Shobou, in Japanese),Weapon Taboos: Genealogies of Pariah Weapons, (2020, editor, Nihon Keizai Hyouronsha, in Japanese), ‘Demarcating Battle Lines: Citizenship and Agency in the Era of Misanthropy’ in I. Hazama, K. Umeya and F. B. Nyamnjoh, eds.,Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese Scholars in Conversation(2019, chapter contribution, Langaa RPCIG). Eisei KURIMOTOProfessor of Anthropology and currently is Vice President in charge of student affairs at Osaka University. His research topics are Nilotic ethnography, civil wars and ethnic conflicts, refugee and displacement issues, peacebuilding and humanitarianism. His major works includePeople Living through Ethnic Conflict(1996, Sekai Shisosha, in Japanese),Primitive and Modern Wars (1999, Iwanami Shoten, in Japanese),Conflict, Age and Power in North East Africa(1998, co-edited, James Currey),Remapping Ethiopia(2002,

co-edited, Ohio University Press) andKyosei Studies Manifesto (2020, co-edited, Osaka University Press, in Japanese). Kumiko MAKINO is Director of African Studies Group at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO). Her main research field is South Africa. Her research topics include distributional politics, social movement and Africa–Japan relations. Her major works includeProtest and Social Movements in the Developing World (2009, co-edited with Shinichi Shigetomi and Edward Elgar) andEconomic and Social Transformation in Democratic South Africa (2013, co-edited with Chizuko Sato, IDE- JETRO, in Japanese). Motoji MATSUDA is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Kyoto University, Japan. His research fields are Nairobi and Western Kenya. His research topics are urbanisation, migration and conflict. His major works includeUrbanisation from BelowKyoto (1998, University Press),The Manifesto of Anthropology of the Everyday Life World (2008, Sekai Shisosha, in Japanese),African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality: Exploring Local Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions(2017, co-edited with Itaru Ohta and Yntiso Gebre, Langaa RPCIG) and The Challenge of African Potentials: Conviviality, Informality and Futurity (2020, co-edited with Yaw Ofosu-Kusi, Langaa RPCIG). Michael NEOCOSMOS is Emeritus Professor in Humanities at Rhodes University in South Africa andDistinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute in the United States. He is the author of many articles and several books includingFrom Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa(2010, CODESRIA) andThinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics(2016, Wits University Press). This last book was awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize for outstanding work by theCaribbean Philosophical Associationin 2017. He is currently working on a book provisionally titledThe Dialectics of Emancipation in Africato be published by Daraja Press as well as onAn Anthology of African Political Thought from Ancient Egypt to the Presentto be published byCODESRIA.

Artwell NHEMACHENAis a Senior Lecturer at the University of Namibia and has been appointed visiting Associate Professor at Kobe University. He is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa and is a member of editorial boards of a number of international journals. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town. He has published over 18 books and over 80 book chapters and journal articles in the areas of security, environment, development, sociology and social anthropology of science and technology studies, relational ontologies and decoloniality. His research interests lie in these areas. Ato Kwamena ONOMA is a Senior Programme Officer at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He holds degrees in Philosophy and Political Science. He is the author ofThe Politics of Property Rights Institutions in Africa(2009, Cambridge University Press) andAnti-refugee Violence and African Politics(2013, Cambridge University Press). His current work uses epidemics and interment practices to explore mobility, identity and intercommunal relations in Africa. Akira SATOis a Senior Researcher at the Institute of (PhD) Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE- JETRO). His Research field is Francophone West Africa, especially Côte d’Ivoire. His research topics are political history and conflict resolution. His major works includeModernity in a Cocoa Republic: History of Associations and Integrative Revolution in Côte d’Ivoire (2015, IDE-JETRO, in Japanese) and ‘Ambiguity and Paradox Finding African Solutions to Africa’s Problems: Evaluation of the Unintended Outcomes of the Enhancement of African Regional Organizations’ Capacity to Respond to Conflicts’,International Relations, 194, pp.79–94 (2018, in Japanese). Shinichi TAKEUCHI (PhD) is Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Director of its African Studies Center. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) with a cross- appointment status. He has a PhD from the University of Tokyo. With a background of political economy, he has been interested in

topics related to conflicts and land problems in Africa. His major publication includesConfronting Land and Property Problems for Peace (2014, editor, Routledge).

Table of Contents Series Preface: African Potentials for Convivial World-Making ......................................... ix Motoji Matsuda Introduction – African Politics of Survival: Extraversion and Informality in the Contemporary World .............................................. 1 Mitsugi Endo, Ato Kwamena Onoma and Michael Neocosmos 1. A Legitimate Proxy? The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire from the Perspective of African Regional Organizations .............................. 15 Akira Sato 2. Overcoming the Dichotomy between Africa and the West: Norms and Measures for Arms Transfers to Non-State Actors (NSAs).......... 35 Tamara Enomoto 3. Competing Local Knowledges of an Indigenous Plant: The Social Construction of Legitimate Rooibos Use in Post-Apartheid South Africa ............................. 69 Toshihiro Abe 4. The Working Collapsed State as a Resilient Reaction in the Contemporary World: The Case of Somalia .................................................... 99 Mitsugi Endo

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5. When African Potentials Fail to Work: The Background to Recent Land Conflicts in Africa ......................................................... 121 Shinichi Takeuchi 6. ‘Peace from Below’ as an African Potential: Wars and Peace in South Sudan ................................... 147 Eisei Kurimoto 7. Institutional Bricolage in Responses to Public Health Crises in South Africa: Between Path Dependency and Flexibility .................. 181 Kumiko Makino 8. akuendweKusina Amai H : Diasporan Zimbabweans, COVID-19 and Nomadic Global Citizenship ................................. 203 Artwell Nhemachena 9. Epidemics, Negotiability and Futurity in Africa and Beyond .................................................... 227 Ato Kwamena Onoma 10. African Potentials and the Thought of Universal Humanity: The Latent Universalism in African Popular Cultures .................... 253 Michael Neocosmos Index.................................................................................. 277

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Series Preface African Potentials for Convivial World-Making Motoji Matsuda 1. The Idea of ‘African Potentials’ TheAfrican Potentialsseries is based on the findings since 2011 of the African Potentials research project, an international collaboration involving researchers based in Japan and Africa. This project examines how to tackle the challenges of today’s world using the experiences and wisdom (ingenuity and responsiveness) of African society. It has identified field sites across a variety of social domains, including areas of conflict, conciliation, environmental degradation, conservation, social development and equality, and attempts to shed light on the potential of African society to address the problems therein. Naturally, such an inquiry is deeply intertwined with the political and economic systems that control the contemporary world, and with knowledge frameworks that have long dominated the perceptions and understanding of our world. Building on unique, long-standing collaborative relationships developed between researchers in Japan and Africa, the project suggests new ways to challenge the prevailing worldview on humans, society and history, enabling those worldviews to be relativised, decentred and pluralised. After the rose-coloured dreams of the 1960s, African society entered an era of darkness in the 1980s and 1990s. It was beleaguered by problems that included civil conflict, military dictatorship, national economic collapse, commodity shortages, environmental degradation and destruction, over-urbanisation and rampant contagious disease. In the early 21st century, the fortunes of Africa were reversed as it underwent economic growth by leveraging its abundant natural resources. However, an unequal redistribution of wealth increased social disparities and led to the emergence of new

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