Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- Comparative Analysis of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in West Africa -- Ecowas Community Court of Justice, Human Rights and Transitional Justice -- The Rise and Fall of Charles Taylor: Lessons and Impacts on Peace in Liberia -- The Special Court for Sierra Leone and Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone -- Triumph of the Victims: Trial of Hissène Habré at the Extraordinary African Chambers Within the Courts of Senegal -- Distant Justice: The International Criminal Court in West Africa -- Amnesties and Transitional Justice in Africa -- Justice on an Empty Stomach: Transitional Justice and Victims' Rights in West Africa -- Reconciliation as an Event: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in West Africa -- Transitional Justice and Peace in West Africa -- Conclusion: Big Ideas. Shallow Justice.

Introduction: Thinking automobility, feeling automobility -- The hum of progress: motorcars and the modernization of West Africa -- "No danger no delay": Wole Soyinka and the perils of driving -- Moving pictures, mired cars: The automobile in African francophone -- The return of the Mercedes: Upward mobility, the good life, and Nigerian video film -- Women in traffic: towards a feminist automobility -- Conclusion: Global (be)longings

"Education in West Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. Written by regional experts, the book explores the education systems of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. It critically examines the development of education provision in each country, whilst exploring both local and global contexts. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole and guides to available online datasets, this handbook is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels"--

"This study, the first to cover ransoming in African regions south of the Sahara, ranges over a broad temporal and geographical area-from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and including present-day Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Morocco. It focuses particularly on the nineteenth-century jihad era and on the Sokoto Caliphate and the Umarian States. The overall period was a time of intense intellectual debate over the questions of who was and who was not a Muslim, how Islamic law could and should be implemented, what rights and protections recognized freeborn Muslims should have, and what role governments should play in ensuring those rights especially during a time when slavery was legal. Ransoming discourses and procedures expose Muslim West African answers to these questions as well as providing a lens on broader issues and ideas on slavery, freedom, and religious and ethnic identity. Based on research conducted mostly in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and France and on Arabic-, French-, and English-language archival sources, treatises, personal correspondence, oral sources and testimony, biographical data, travel reports, and early colonial documents, this study approaches the question of ransoming of captives through an examination, first, of intellectual debates amongst pre-nineteenth-century West African scholars on issues of ransoming; second, of nineteenth-century policies based on understandings of those intellectual debates in the context of the jihads; and, finally, of West African practices of ransoming in the nineteenth century"--

Since independence, the West African subregion has been the arena for a number of large-scale conflicts and civil wars, as well as various low-intensity conflicts, with conflicts largely clustered around subregional conflict systems. Contrary to perceptions however, the subregion in its post-independence history has seen fewer conflict events, and fatalities as a result of conflict, than have the other subregions on the continent. The turn of the millennium has witnessed the recession of large-scale and conventional conflict, but ushered in a series of new and emerging threats. The spectre of religious extremism, maritime piracy, and narcotics trafficking threatens to undermine some of the progress achieved in recent years. This book seeks to critically examine the challenges of fragility and security in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience. It seeks to investigate key drivers of conflict and violence, and the way in which they impact the countries of the subregion. Along with emerging threats and challenges, these include the challenge of youth inclusion; migration; regional imbalances; extractives; the fragility of political institutions and managing the competition for power; security; and land. The book explores how the subregion, under the auspices of the regional organization ECOWAS has become a pioneer on the continent in terms of addressing regional challenges. This book also seeks to identify key lessons in the dynamics of resilience against political violence and civil war, drawn from countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Cote d'Ivoire that can be useful for countries around the world in the midst of similar situations. Finally, it draws on knowledge and findings from a series background papers written by leading experts, and provides insights from the perspectives of academics and development practitioners

"Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanisation in West Africa delivers a theoretically informed, ethnographic exploration of the African urban world through concrete. Emblematic of frenetic and capitalistic urban development, this pervasive material is shaping contemporary urban landscapes and societies across West Africa and transforming the region's links to the world. Concrete stands and circulates at the heart of major financial investments, political powers, and environmental debates. As a result, it has come to epitomize values of modernity and success, and has redefined social practices, forms of dwelling, and popular imaginaries. The book invites readers to follow bags of cement as they travel from industrial production plants to construction sites along the 1000-kilometer urban corridor that links Abidjan to Accra, Lome̹, Cotonou and Lagos. This cement traverses the lives of industrial tycoons, entrepreneurs and political stakeholders, as well as the ordinary men and women who plan, build, and dream of the Concrete City. In this innovative exploration of the urban life of concrete, Armelle Choplin delivers an incisive reflection on the material limits to the world's sustainable urban future."--

Chapter 1: West Africa's changing environment 1.1. Landscapes and physical geography -- 1.2. Approach to monitoring land resources -- 1.3. Drivers of land changes -- 1.4. Land productivity -- 1.5. Land use and land cover trends from 1975 to 2013 -- Chapter 2: Country profiles, land use and land cover, and trends 2.1. Benin -- 2.2. Burkina Faso -- 2.3. Cabo Verde -- 2.4. Côte d'Ivoire -- 2.5. Gambia (The) -- 2.6. Ghana -- 2.7. Guinea -- 2.8. Guinea-Bissau -- 2.9. Liberia -- 2.10. Mali -- 2.11. Mauritania -- 2.12. Niger -- 2.13. Nigeria -- 2.14. Senegal -- 2.15. Sierra Leone -- 2.16. Chad -- 2.17. Togo