Год выпуска: 2011
Автор: Samuel Gbaydee Doe
Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Страниц: 332
ISBN: 9783845471914
Описание Liberal values of individualism, democracy, markets, human rights, etc. drive contemporary post-conflict state reconstruction to the disregard for values and resources indigenous to the societies where states are reconstructed. Indigenous sodality institutions, pejoratively called secret societies, are the most neglected in the case of Africa, despite historical evidence of their central role in African politics. This book investigates interactions between state reconstruction practitioners and authorities of the Poro and Sande sodalities in Liberia and Sierra Leone. These sodalities, prior to the state, were the sole political institutions that guarenteed security, order, and wellbeing in the Upper Guinea Coast (the area known as Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Cote d'Ivoire). They remain pervasive in the interiors of the region. The book concludes that viable, responsive, and resilient states are those anchored on and built from the historical, socialogical, political, and... |
