N°165 – Patrimoines africains : Les performances politiques des objets
Comment les chefs d’État africains, les grands commis de l’État ou les militants politiques ont-ils envisagé le rôle politique du patrimoine en Afrique et dans...
Auteur : mathieulonglade
Annigje van Djik, Roger Zerbo, “Between Drugs and Society: Moral Experiences and Drug Addiction in Ouagadougou” in Politique africaine Volume 163, Issue 3, July 2021, pages 45 to 60
This article engages with the local moral worlds and the reported experiences of people addicted to heroin and/or cocaine in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina...
Gernot Klantschnig, Ini Dele-Adedeji, “Opioid of the People : The Moral Economy of Tramadol in Lagos” in Politique africaine Volume 163, Issue 3, July 2021, pages 85 to 105
This article provides an in-depth examination of the illicit tramadol market in Lagos. It draws on interviews with tramadol regulators and traders to explore the...
Emery M. Kalema, “The Mulele “Rebellion”: Bodily Pain and the Politics of Death (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1963-1968) in Politique africaine Volume 163, Issue 3, July 2021, pages 145 to 172
This article discusses the various acts of “giving death” during the Mulele rebellion (1963–1968), the pain and suffering these actions caused, and the politics underpinning...
Introduction to the issue – Benjamin Chemouni, Translated and edited by Cadenza Academic Translations, “The debated research on the Rwandan state” in Politique africaine Volume 160, Issue 4, October 2020, pages 7 to 34
The vast majority of French-language academic works on Rwanda focuses on the genocide and the historical, memory, judicial, and diplomatic issues linked to it. English-language...
Guillaume Nicaise, Translated by Judy Albrecht, “The evolution of petty corruption on Kigali’s streeets” in Politique africaine Volume 160, Issue 4, October 2020, pages 87 to 112
This research demonstrates that Rwanda’s fight against corruption in the road transport sector conversely serves to increase the informal privatisation of the management of the...
Hugh Lamarque, “Policing small communities : Rwandan law enforcement and the co-production of security” in Politique africaine, Volume 160, Issue 4, October 2020, pages 113 to 138
This article investigates the community policing mechanisms that work to keep Rwandan neighborhoods safe. While they rely to a significant degree on local, ostensibly voluntary...
Amélie Grysole, Doris Bonnet, Translated and edited by Cadenza Academic Translations,”Introduction to the topic. Observing social mobilities : Families’ investment in migration”, in Politique africaine Volume 159, Issue 3, July 2020, pages 7 to 32
This special report on families’ spatial and social mobilities has been prompted by the renewal of the social class approach in sociology in general and by the...
Introduction to the topic – Jean-Nicolas Bach, Raphaël Chevrillon-Guibert, Alice Franck, Translated and edited by Cadenza Academic Translations, “An end to authoritarian rule in Sudan ?”, in Politique africaine Volume 158, Issue 2, April 2020, pages 5 to 31
This special issue on Sudan was initiated in 2018 with the aim of studying the authoritarian practices of the Omar al-Bashir regime (1989–2019). Our intention was...
Lucie Revilla, Translated by Hancock Hutton, “Kayzan in the neighbourhood : party milieu and trajectories of distinction in marginalized neighbourhoods in Greater Karthoum” in Politique africaine Volume 158, Issue 2, April 2010, pages 33 to 55
Analysis of the social anchoring of the National Congress Party (NCP) in the working-class neighbourhoods of Greater Khartoum reveals the multiple registers of party affiliation...
Anne-Laure Mahé, Translated by Hancock Hutton, “Manufacturing Sudanese Authoritarianism at the Local Level : Singularities and Banalities of Domination in North Kordofan” in Politique africaine Volume 158, Issue 2, April 2010, pages 57 to 79
Based on field research conducted in 2015, this article analyzes the implementation of a participatory development policy in the Sudanese state of North Kordofan. I...
Khadidja Medani, Translated by Hancock Hutton, “Is the Subsaharan Al-Azhar on the path to resilience ? The International University of Africa and the fall of Omar al-Bashir” in Politique africaine Volume 158, Issue 2, April 2010, pages 81 to 100
The International University of Africa is an Islamic university founded in Khartoum for the purpose of educating foreign students. Although officially a transnational, independent institution,...
