| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 230 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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text file |
| Series |
Codesria book series
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Codesria book series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230). |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. "The failed state" : a hegemonic discourse? -- 3. The emergence of the Nande : a socio-political history -- 4. Theoretical issues in the Nande trading networks -- 5. Strategies and structural frameworks that facilitated economic growth in the Nande Region -- 6. Playing the ethnic card in the formation of a postcolonial African state -- 7. The elite question -- 8. Gold and guns : protecting capitalist investment during social fragmentation and violence -- 9. Nande trust networks in new globalised relations : invention of post-postcolonial state? -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography. |
| Summary |
Within the context of the absence of effective state sovereignty and the presence of numerous armed struggles for power, Nande traders have managed to build and protect self-sustaining, prosperous, transnational economic enterprises in eastern Congo. This book discusses the commercial enterprises of the Nande trust networks and the subsequent transnational community they have produced, thereby challenging the assumption that a ìweak stateî or a ìfailed stateî or even a ìcollapsed stateî can be presumed to signal a ìfailedî society. It demonstrates the fact that several sovereignties and proper. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 1997-
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Congo (Democratic Republic) |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1997- |
| Subject |
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1960- |
| Subject |
Nande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) -- Economic conditions.
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Nande (Congolese (Democratic Republic) and Ugandan people) |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1960 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kabamba, Patience, 1965- Business of civil war. 9782869785526 2869785526 |
| ISBN |
2869785623 (electronic book) |
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9782869785625 (electronic book) |
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9782869785649 (electronic book) |
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286978564X (electronic book) |
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9782869785526 |
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2869785526 |
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