Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2105730
Mossa Hussen Negash, M. Salih
Abstract Once entangled in an intense ideological contest and power play with the Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa (HOA) during the Cold War, the US saw little geopolitical interest to defend in the sub-region in the first decade of the post-Cold War period. Terrorism-induced security threats since the late 1990s, and particularly the 9/11 incident, have drawn the US's attention back to the geostrategic Horn region. This article explores the factors behind the US's return to the Horn in the aftermath of the new millennium with a militarised and securitised presence involving the establishment of permanent and ad hoc military bases. The study employs a qualitative research approach, with data drawn from articles, books, and reports. The study reveals that although the war on terror was the immediate reason for the US's focus and militarised presence, subsequent developments such as piracy, economic interest, and the advent of rival powers increased the strategic importance of Africa to the US. The US foreign and security policy priorities are currently shifting away from the war on terror to containing strategic and economic competitors, notably China and Russia, across the globe, including in the HOA.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-12DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2095922
Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba, A. Akinola
Abstract The post-apartheid South African government continues to struggle with its transformation posture, including the quest to redress the racially based land inequalities that have plagued the country since its colonial past. The Covid-19 pandemic, the 2015 #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements, and the July 2021 #FreeZuma violence have highlighted both the fragility and the resilience of South African political institutions. Since the formation of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a left-leaning and militant political party, in 2013, the South African land question has become more vociferously contested within government purview and in the public domain. Unresolved land issues have exposed the failure of the state to resolve one of its most sensitive national questions. We interrogate the land conflict and locate it within the broader national questions that have continued to haunt post-apartheid South Africa. Indeed, the South African land question must be understood holistically, and not solely as an agrarian question. Although the ANC-led government has implemented a land reform scheme under four pillars—land restitution, land redistribution, tenure security, and land development—there are still compelling cases of land hunger and conflict, as well as widespread confusion about the proposed land expropriation without compensation. Despite the rhetoric by government officials, we hold that the land debacle is a manifestation of a failing national question, state fragility, and an incomplete decolonisation process wherein the so-called “political power” held by the majority has not transformed into economic power and the effective redistribution of land to meet the targets of successive administrations.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2139045
Siphamandla Zondi
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2139046
Koffi Kouakou
This book is an eclectic collection of beautiful essays. It is a surprisingly delectable mosaic of incisive essays from corners of neglected intellects—surprising because of the seemingly unrelated essay topics that are bound by a common thread, namely the communication of a set of diverse worldviews. Anton Pillay, the editor, has carefully selected meaningful essays that at first glance have little to do with each other. But the embedded stories reflect a rapidly changing world, as the title teaser snaps at the reader.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2105732
Ashton Mudzingiri, Hugh Mangeya
Abstract The study unpacks some of the frames of reference that people use to explain and understand Covid-19 in Zimbabwe. The study used a qualitative research approach to explore participants’ frames of reference. A phenomenological research design was adopted. Purposive sampling was used to select research participants, whilst two online focus group discussions were held. Data were collected through the use of semi-structured interview questions, which were administered online. The study revealed five salient themes as frames of reference, each with its own sub-themes. These are religion, politics, race, the rural–urban dichotomy, and age. The study concluded that people use their frames of reference to understand pandemics. Certain myths about Covid-19 emanate from people's frames of reference, without any scientific basis. It was also noted that frames of reference give rise to the construction and perpetuation of misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories. It is recommended that stakeholders take a systematic and integrated approach which appeals to all people's frames of reference when disseminating information.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2105733
Nzokizwa Benoit
Abstract Although palm oil production and commoditisation has grown tremendously over the years, issues of deforestation, exploitation of locals, limited access to palm oil markets, administrative costs, land rights, and continued loss of natural capital (ecological resources) continue to obscure its contribution to sustainable development in rural areas. Amid these tensions, smallholder farming enterprises have been identified as key to reducing poverty and erosion of natural capital. A key challenge is how to balance the needs of small farmers, palm oil producers, and local communities without compromising ecological resources. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, this paper examined the politics of palm oil and its impact on poverty alleviation efforts in Rumonge District, Burundi. Survey respondents included 100 farmers and 300 stakeholders purposively selected from the local palm oil sector. Findings revealed that farmers’ contribution to poverty alleviation and nature conservation efforts is constrained by power relations, land tenure insecurity, inadequate support systems, and limited access to financial and technological resources. The paper contributes to development literature by contextualising the sociopolitical dynamics affecting small farmers’ contribution to livelihoods and natural capital. The paper recommends a phased approach to transform and integrate smallholder farming as part of agrarian reforms.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2128839
B. Dasaolu, E. Ofuasia, Ibiyemi Sheriff Olasunkanmi
Abstract Medical and technological breakthroughs opened the way for ectogenesis as a way of carrying to full term foetuses that would otherwise have been lost to death. Subsequently, most Western feminists have found in ectogenesis a plausible tool for combating patriarchy. Hence, some Western feminist scholars have recently started questioning the essence of natural birth and whether it is even necessary at all, considering the bodily and psychological discomforts it entails for women. Using comparative analysis, this article engages prominent Western feminists’ arguments on ectogenesis in the light of what some African feminists maintain. This article concludes that the position of most Western feminists—that ectogenesis is potentially a tool for liberation from patriarchy— is not a position held among African feminists. This article explores the positions of some prominent African feminists on ectogenesis and its implications for motherhood. The article concludes that the scholars in these two orientations have divergent views on ectogenesis because of the ideologies underlying their strands of feminism.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2105729
Pumlani Majavu
Abstract A careful reading of the literature reveals that the significance of race in development discourse is something that is hardly mentioned or discussed. In response to this gap in the literature, this article firstly builds on and contributes to the available literature—albeit scarce—that critically analyses the significance of race in development. Secondly, the article argues that the absence of critical race analysis is due to the dominant white-centric ideology of “colour-blindness”, which serves as an ideological and institutional tool to mask the whiteness that remains central to development discourse. The centrality of white racial ideology, namely whiteness, in development translates into a sophisticated maintenance of long-established racial hierarchies, which translates into white privilege and the preservation of white racial projects. The article maintains that, rather than a phenomenon of the past, the white racial project continues to be central to development discourse, albeit under the guise of colour-blindness. The key argument of the article is that critical analysis of race, rather than being dismissed or marginalised, should be central in efforts to dismantle white racial development discourse. As a discourse that is seemingly concerned with addressing inequality, freedom, and the empowerment of societies, critical race analysis is needed in order to dismantle entrenched racial inequalities.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2128840
F. Lekaba
Abstract This article argues that SADC (the Southern African Development Community) and local role players in Madagascar missed the opportunity to use the notion of fihavanana in the country’s reconciliation process. Literature on Madagascar’s post-2009 instability predominantly deals with the successes and failures of SADC’s mediation. Less focus is placed on how fihavanana can serve as a political tool in addressing issues of nation-building. This article employs a critical literature review and a discussion of the African philosophy of fihavanana to analyse the utility of fihavanana in Madagascar’s reconciliation and mediation processes. Madagascar is a country with vast and varying ethnic groups, categorised as the Côtiers (coastal ethnic groups) and the Merina. The island has a history of ethnic divisions and polarisation, exacerbated by the consolidation of the Merina kingdom and French colonisation. The reconciliation process is analysed in the broader context of nation-building. The aim of this article is to contribute an analysis of how endogenous concepts and principles could contribute to the body of knowledge on peacebuilding from below.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/18186874.2022.2082878
E. Shoko, Maheshvari Naidu
Abstract To optimise water as a “vehicle” for development, strategies are necessary that are appropriate in a situated African setting. On the one hand, many African scholars advocate public governance that is rooted in African philosophy and culture. This type of governance is viewed as potentially capable of employing indigenous knowledge systems that are familiar to African people and local communities. On the other hand, some scholars posit that Africanisation should not be a total rejection of certain progressive western concepts. This article, in turn, attempts to demonstrate the importance of community-based water resource governance as a resource for Africanisation and the basis for community development, while acknowledging the challenges to the realisation of this goal. Using rhizomatic discourse analysis, the article connects seemingly diverse arguments to suggest the efficacy of Africanising water resource governance. Citing several examples from the African continent, the article argues for using locally available indigenous and scientific methods of water use and distribution. The article provides a rationale for using storytelling to shape the narratives and actions that enable communities to solve their water conflicts or challenges. The article concludes that while localising water governance and peacebuilding is key, due to technological advances it is practical to merge some western methods of water governance with locally based initiatives.
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