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Exploring an African Civil Society: Development and Democracy in Malawi, 1994–2014

by Clive Gabay
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780739184349
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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  • Pages: 132
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 346 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): World / African

Are civil society organizations in Africa agents of democratization, legitimators of corrupt ruling elites, agents of imperial control, or all of these things and more? Based on nearly five years of engagements with civil society organizations in Malawi, including interviews and broader ethnographic methods, this book presents a contemporary account of civil society activism in a country which provides some intriguing contextual background to these questions. Since Malawi adopted multi-party democracy in 1994 international donors have expended sustained energy on building civil society groups dedicated to accountability, good governance, and development. This effort appeared to pay off in the early 2000s with important development milestones being reached, and most spectacularly in 2011 when civil society organizations took to the streets in protest against the increasing authoritarianism of the democratically elected Bingu wa Mutharika. This book takes a critical approach to the events which have marked out the post-1994 civil society journey in Malawi, from the disciplinary relationship between civil society organizations and international donors, to the political economy of the activism which has marked these organizations through the period. In doing so this book reveals the ambiguities that plague the donor project in Malawi, with lessons for other African countries as well. While this donor project may be more embedded now than it ever has been, this book illustrates how it continues to suffer from the deleterious effects of domestic class and international neo-imperial relations.

Clive Gabay is senior lecturer in international politics at the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London.

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