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The State in Africa
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Sub-Saharan Africa Mind Map on The State in Africa, created by Hannah Fillier on 15/05/2013.
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The State in Africa
Relationships and Power
Common to talk about politics in terms of food
politics of the belly
how big is yours slice of cake?
Asking for money
Nigeria - money for chai
South Africa - money for bread/coke
Decentralization
pushing power down through the classes
local govt officials always at higher levels than should be
Relationships vital
how elites maintain support
Economy of Affection
Hyden (80s)
domestic SSA societies rents<social relations
not strange but logical
how you raise money
high level not interested in local level
local level are interested in higher level
pays to have power
need to be in state
bribe others to give them a uniform
worthwhile investment
State power
Western World associate state with welfare
post colonial countries
associate with control over your life
power over who belongs to country
Main Authors
Bayart
despite huge amount of knowledge
still little understanding of African societies - ordinaryness
Extraversion
logic of elite
main objective - accumulate wealth
don't manage economy but relationships
provide main income for political elite
lasted from pre-colonial to post-colonialism
throughout African history
historicity
Implications for Aid Industry
Corruption
aid is encouraged as brings income
Attempts to Avoid
Donors impose conditions
corrupt leaders get round this by using money for specified use and taking money they would have spent on that for themselves
Direct assistance popular
send text books
pay school fees etc
avoids corruption problem
Logic in Post-Colonial Period
reflects weak economies and state structures
more powerful than reforms
Historicity
Past Dependence
past important in making sense of present
reforms don't replace but add to what's already there
whether reforms work depends on what happened in past
certain logics, structures etc embedded in African politics
African politics rooted in longer duree
easy to adopt chronology of country
power doesn't fit countries as easily as it should
"the goat eats where it is tethered"
individuals consume as much as possible while they can
what/who tethered to?
Politics of the Belly
Corruption
not just object but look at mechanisms through which it is achieved
Schatzeberg
Father, Family, Food
Father
authority figures
Family
supporters
Food
role of system is to get food to trickle down
power used to gain rents
extraverted position
Mamdani
dislikes
Patrimonialism
Patrimony
embodied in particular leaders in form of personal rule
uncertainty
suspicion
fear
makes sense of how presidents in weak state can stay in power
Neo-Patrimonialism
still important concept
common way to describe African politics in literature
Bates
Bratton
History by analogy
Africa history compared to Europe
not taken seriously in own right
Africa often seen as lots of ethnic conflict
Europe - lots more death - 2 WWs, breakup of Yugoslavia
Colonial Legacy
Racism
Bifurcated State
one entity facing in two directions
Citizens and Subjects
Citizens
treated well under laws of state
rights
state = responsive to them
mainly non-Africans in urban areas
Subjects
not protected by govt institutions
own customary law
administered by chiefs
lack rights
rural areas
Janus Faced
Peter Pan Children
need looking after but never allowed to grow up
went with independence but legacy remains
"colonialism is what made ethnicity so culturally powerful"
Violence
lasting character
Rupture
imposed hierarchies where there were none
violence persisted
Decentralised Despotism
Despot = nasty ruler
not always at the top
middlemen
e.g. priest, chief, tax collector
force people to do stuff
Institutional segragation
indirect rule, association, customary law
pushes coercive aspects of state to lower administrative levels
shifting of how power organised
many previous attempts at decentralization
way for elites to govern rural areas
post colonialism has reformed but not erased this
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