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The present volume sets forth to analyse illustrative aspects of the deep-rooted immersion of the populations of the eastern coasts of Africa in the vast network of commercial, cultural and religious interactions that extend to the Middle-East and the Indian subcontinent, as well as the long-time involvement of various exogenous military, administrative and economic powers (Ottoman, Omani, Portuguese, Dutch, British, French and, more recently, European-Americans).

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Au Sénégal, les uns réclament des emplois, avec tout ce que cela peut supposer comme sécurité en termes de régularité des revenus et de protection sociale. Les autres, plus modestes, veulent tout simplement un travail qui leur permette de vivre décemment, de payer la scolarité des enfants, d’accéder à des soins de santé de qualité, de participer dignement aux dépenses du foyer. Travail et emploi comptent incontestablement parmi les préoccupations majeures du pays. Mais comment en rendre compte, sans tomber dans la polémique ou sans se faire le porte-parole du politiquement correct ? Eveline Baumann donne des réponses, en scrutant les données chiffrées et leurs lacunes, en analysant les potentialités de création d’emploi des secteurs économiques, en s’inquiétant de l’exploitation des ressources naturelles, en interrogeant aussi l’éducation et la formation professionnelle, ainsi que la protection sociale. Les politiques publiques sont centrales, avec leur foisonnement de projets de toutes sortes, qu’ils s’appellent Opération maîtrisards, Plan Sésame ou Sénégal émergent, des projets souvent initiés sous la pression de la rue et rarement évalués. Un ouvrage qui, au-delà d’un pays du Sud, contribue aux débats des sociétés contemporaines.

Africa --- Senegal

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With the rise of the ‘knowledge for development’ paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of ‘technical assistance’ – a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed – has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the ‘effectiveness’ of expert support if their technocratic recommendations are taken up. This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning. As a result, recipient governments find themselves caught in a perpetual cycle of dependency, continuously advised by experts who convey the shifting paradigms and agendas of their respective donor governments. For young democracies, the persistent presence of external actors is hazardous: ultimately, it poses a threat to the legitimacy of their governments if their policy-making becomes more responsive to foreign demands than to the preferences and needs of their citizens.

policy, Africa, knowledge, Tanzania, South Africa

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Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing and hotly contested.In this collection, a mix of renowned academics and newer voices reflect on some of the realities of international research partnerships. They both question and highlight the agency of academics, donors and research institutions in the geopolitics of knowledge and power. The contributors offer fresh insights on institutional transformation, the setting of research agendas, and access to research funding, while highlighting the dilemmas researchers face when their institutions are vulnerable to state and donor influence.Offering a range of perspectives on why academics should collaborate and what for, this book will be useful to anyone interested in how scholars are adapting to the realities of international networking and how research institutions are finding innovative ways to make North–South partnerships and collaborations increasingly fair, sustainable and mutually beneficial.

knowledge, networks, universities, Africa

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This e-book is the result of a panel organized in the Fifth European Congress of African Studies (ECAS 5) that took place in Lisbon in June 2013. We thought of organizing this panel on “Press Freedom and Right to Information in Africa” since the question of freedom, especially press freedom, is presently extremely important in all African countries. However, it is not yet well known, both in the academic context and by the public.

Africa, journalism, press, democracy