{"title":"Rwanda : génocide et reconnaissance","authors":"Brice Poreau","doi":"10.57054/arb.v13i2.4904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4904","url":null,"abstract":"L’ouvrage se veut un travail de mémoire afin de ne pas oublier le génocide rwandais d’avril à juillet 1994. L’hypothèse développée dans l’oeuvre porte sur le concept de reconnaissance du génocide. Pour ce faire, l’auteur a privilégié une démarche multidisciplinaire faisant appel à trois approches : historique et anthropologique permettant une vision critique sans négationnisme. Aussi, pour placer le problème rwandais dans l’histoire, au sens où il doit être abordé dans les manuels scolaires et aussi pour montrer que l’histoire du Rwanda ne se réduit pas qu’au génocide. L’approche anthropologique exploite des outils qui font partie de la tradition orale des royaumes d’antan, telle la langue kinyarwanda, les contes traditionnels et également la poésie guerrière, pastorale et dynastique, les mythes et légendes et enfin, la médecine traditionnelle.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125963560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L’identité mutilée","authors":"Gaël Faye","doi":"10.57054/arb.v13i2.4903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4903","url":null,"abstract":"Le rappeur franco-rwandais Gaël Faye nous livre son premier récit, Petit Pays, paru en 2016. Il a été récompensé par le premier prix littéraire. Ce récit met en scène un enfant dans les années 1990. Il narre les maux engendrés par la Guerre du Burundi et du Rwanda. Le lecteur y retrouve l’air de l’enfance et de l’insouciance; en revanche, il y vit aussi et traverse avec amertume ce terrible génocide. On découvre un auteur qui écrit au même rythme que ses chansons : des mots qui retentissent en maux, en accordant un amour sans mesure pour son pays. Il s’agit d’un petit garçon qui tente de panser des souffrances en révélant son histoire à travers l’Histoire de son peuple mutilé... Une thématique préoccupante sur l’enfance en Afrique, un leitmotiv récurrent chez les auteurs africains tels l’auteur franco-congolais Alain Mabancou ou encore la talentueuse Franco-Camerounaise Calixthe Beyala, autour du génocide. Des péripéties qui nous font (re)penser à l’un des romans fondateurs Murambi, le livre des ossements de Boubacar Boris Diop, un texte qui a su mettre en lumière l’extrême génocide du XXe siècle : les dégâts des sentiments haineux ethniques.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128833658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les réalités rurales au Congo face aux exigences (au défi) du développement","authors":"Grégoire Ngalamulume Tshiebue","doi":"10.57054/arb.v13i2.4902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4902","url":null,"abstract":"En tant que premier docteur en développement, diplômé des instituts supérieurs de développement rural (ISDR), Grégoire Ngalamulume Tshiebue se donne une responsabilité pour orienter le débat en matière de développement rural en RD Congo. Dans ce travail, il relève les diverses opportunités permettant la réalisation du développement, tout en identifiant les contraintes qui y sont liées. Cette étude, prenant forme d’expertise, se veut un outil indispensable aux praticiens du terrain, aux décideurs et à tous les différents acteurs du développement rural.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124528055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Securitizing Development through Military Intervention?","authors":"Siyum Adugna Mamo","doi":"10.57054/arb.v13i2.4901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4901","url":null,"abstract":"Jessica Piombo’s edited collection, The US Military in Africa: Enhancing Security and Development, examines the US Department of Defence’s (DoD) shift from traditional to non-traditional role that blends security, governance and development in sub-Saharan Africa. The book shows this shift and examines the nexus in the context of the hegemonic discourse that the world will be a secure place if poor countries and fragile states got the opportunity to develop (Stern & Öjendal 2010). This nexus brought governance into the paradigm of securitization of development since attention to the multiple layers of governance, where security laws are made and brokered, is vital in the quest for development (Luckhamand Kirk 2013).","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126749621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of China and Southeast Asia in Africa’s Agricultural Transformation I","authors":"D. Henley, F. Nyamnjoh, I. Brudvig","doi":"10.57054/arb.v13i2.4895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4895","url":null,"abstract":"Is the Asian experience more relevant for African renaissance than it is generally assumed? I am alluding to the lessons that could be drawn from a close examination of the transformation that had occurred in the twentieth century in Japan and China, and particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. The answer, I argue, must be definitely yes. In each of these countries, positive economic change was preceded by a sustained and successful effort to raise the productivity and income of the majority of the population: the rural poor. In Africa, too, the vast majority of people live in the countryside. And yet agriculture has been a relatively neglected sector in Africa’s overall developmental strategy. When the sector received some attention, the specific policies in many African countries seemed to have been generally misguided. I argue that both of these trends should be corrected. What this also means is that the key for Africa’s economic modernization is to a large extent in the hands of Africa’s leaders. Ultimately, in other words, the improvement of the African condition hinges on the intent of Africans, particularly its leaders.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125592513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Commodification of African Politics I","authors":"Alex de Waal","doi":"10.57054/arb.v13i2.4892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4892","url":null,"abstract":"Can a book be both inspiring and disappointing? The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa might just fall into this rare category. Alex de Waal’s book is theoretically original and empirically rich, but it is also reductionist and, in the case of Ethiopia, biased. The book makes sense of the Horn of Africa’s complex contemporary politics through the prism of three elements. Firstly, de Waal proposes an innovative theory centred on the idea of the ‘political marketplace’. This theory grasps the causal interactions between violence, political finance and big man politics in East Africa and elsewhere. The ‘political marketplace’ framework is arguably the book’s most important contribution and it speaks to political scientists and policy analysts. Secondly, as the title suggests, the book sets out to explain the Horn of Africa’s ‘real politics’.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127779764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transcontinentality versus Afrocentricity","authors":"S. Osha, Samir Rebiai, S. Adem, Khedidja Mokeddem","doi":"10.57054/arb.v13i2.4886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4886","url":null,"abstract":"Wim M. J. van Binsbergen’s work, Before the Presocratics (2012), presents a kaleidoscopic assessment of regional and global epistemic traditions and configurations before the advent of ancient Greek thought (see also 2011a–d; 2012b–f;2013). He is concerned about interrogating worlds that relate to Afrocentricity, employing an impressive assemblage of specialties, namely, protohistory, archaeology, comparative ethnography, comparative mythology, comparative linguisticsand genetics. His central thesis is that rather than viewing different regional epistemic formations as singular and distinct,it is more appropriate to understand them as being part of a global and historical continuum of knowledge traditionsthat are perpetually subject to migration and transformation – in short, all the elements of transplantation and dispersal. In this light, the strict separation between regional and ethnic knowledge becomesmisguided and often preposterous.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124993827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ébène, couleur de la vie","authors":"Anne Damour","doi":"10.57054/arb.v12i2.5030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v12i2.5030","url":null,"abstract":"Si l’on devait dégager une thématique qui nous permet de formuler une quelconque appréciation du roman de NgoziAbiche, elle serait, sans conteste, celle de la vie. La vie telle qu’elle se décline sous les différentes nuances de l’ébène. À travers une prose suave, on apprend que « noir » est la couleur de l’amour, parfois interdit ; du bonheur, souvent compromis ; des fantasmes réalisés ; des désirs inassouvis. Bref de l’existence, de la vie dans sa forme la plus plate et la plus banale qui soit. Noir, à défaut d’être seulement un teint, est aussi un ton, un mode d’être, une philosophie et une identité.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115599362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Autobiographies exilées","authors":"Fouad Laroui","doi":"10.57054/arb.v12i2.5029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v12i2.5029","url":null,"abstract":"L’auteur Marocain Fouad Laroui est professeur de littérature à l’université d’Amsterdam, romancier et critique littéraire. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs textes : D’une année chez les Français1, La Vieille Dame du Riad2, L’étrange affaire du pantalonde Dassoukine 3 et Les Tribulations du dernier Sijilmassi 4. Dans son dernier essai intitulé D’un pays sans frontières, Fouad Laroui traite de la ‘‘littérature de l’exil’’. Il remet à jour des valeurs telles l’identité, la tolérance et le respect : des valeurs intrinsèques. Selon l’auteur : « elles sont malmenées ou mal comprises dans nos pays du Maghreb et peut-être aussi ailleurs en Afrique et dans les pays arabes » 5.","PeriodicalId":170362,"journal":{"name":"Africa Review of Books","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124991463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}