Africanus: Journal of Development Studies最新文献

The Case for Enhancing the Quality of Primary Evaluations through Metaevaluation in Developing Country Contexts 发展中国家背景下通过元评价提高初级评价质量的案例

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/5708

Peter Misigalo Wandwasi

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COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in an Informal Economy: Reflections from Zimbabwe’s Informal Sector Livelihoods 非正规经济中的COVID-19大流行限制:来自津巴布韦非正规部门生计的思考

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-17 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/8398

P. Hlungwani, Edwin Yingi

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Displacement and Livelihoods through the Construction of Small Dams: Legacies of Magunje Dam in Hurungwe District, Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe 小型水坝建设带来的流离失所和生计:津巴布韦西部马绍纳兰省胡隆韦地区马贡杰水坝的遗产

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-17 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/8298

Joshua Chakawa, Tawanda Valentine Chambwe

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Evaluation of Youth Empowerment Strategies in Rural Zimbabwe 津巴布韦农村青年赋权战略评价

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-23 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/6657

P. Hlungwani

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Unpacking Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: An Account of Smallholder Farmer Experiences in Chimanimani District, Zimbabwe 解读气候变化适应策略:津巴布韦奇马尼马尼地区小农的经验

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-22 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/5730

Happwell Musarandega, W. Chingombe, Rajendran Pillay

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Migration Dynamics and the Making of New Diasporic Language and Cultural Communities in South Africa, 2000–2020: An Entrepreneurial Perspective 2000-2020年，南非移民动态和新散居语言和文化社区的形成:一个企业家的视角

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-22 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/7942

Medicine Magocha, Johannes Ratsikana Rammala

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Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Africa 非洲的集体记忆与国家建设

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-22 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/5797

Obinna Iroanya

{"title":"Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Africa","authors":"Obinna Iroanya","doi":"10.25159/2663-6522/5797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6522/5797","url":null,"abstract":"Based on documentary analysis, this article argues that lessons of violent conflicts are rarely appropriated positively for nation-building in the context of post-conflict African societies. The article further stresses that the reasons often projected as causes of ineffective nation-building, such as multiple ethnicity and neo-colonialism, are unjustifiably projected as causal factors. It argues that diverse ethnicity remains a dormant destructive force until operationalised for political gains through misappropriation and deployment of collective memories. In the African context, post-conflict societies adopt the mixed approach of selective amnesia which emphasises amnesty, reconciliation, rehabilitation and reintegration as necessary for nation-building. Experience, however, suggests that the operationalisation of this approach is always marred by inconsistencies and repression. Consequently, repressive mechanisms suppress violence and achieve relative stability. True reconciliation which is critical for nation-building is never achieved. Among loser ethnic groups (hereafter loser groups), resistance to selective amnesia and simultaneous preoccupation with collective memory of victimisation, discrimination and injustice continue to reinforce sentiments of group exceptionality and separatist impulses rather than national consciousness. Therefore, cautious expression of citizenship among segments of the loser groups continues to attract mutual suspicion and distrust from leadership of post-conflict states. It is concluded that the challenge of social contradictions in post-conflict societies is serious because neither the state nor loser groups positively deploy memory of conflict for nation-building. A new reconciliatory approach drawn largely from lessons of history is recommended for post-conflict nation-building efforts in post-conflict African states. Positive appropriation and deployment of memory for nation-building ensures amnesty and restoration without repercussions; and remembrance without resentment.","PeriodicalId":253851,"journal":{"name":"Africanus: Journal of Development Studies","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131172527","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}

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Monogenesis to Homogenesis: Conversations on Race 单生到同生:关于种族的对话

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2019-10-31 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/6255

I. Negedu

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Partnerships and Power: Community Partners’ Experiences of Service-Learning 伙伴关系与权力:社区伙伴的服务学习经验

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2019-10-31 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/5641

S. Matthews

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The Agrarian Question in Contemporary Zimbabwe 当代津巴布韦的土地问题

Africanus: Journal of Development Studies Pub Date : 2019-08-30 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6522/5713

T. Shonhe

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