Ethnicity & conflict in the Horn of Africa

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Tom Herron and John Lynch

"After Bloody Sunday examines the portrayals of the day and its devastating repercussions in photography, film, theatre, poetry, television documentary, art installations, murals, commemorative events and legal discourse. The authors consider these representations' veridicity, their mechanisms of authenticity and their assumption that a particular medium - be it film, language, or visual art - can somehow articulate the 'truth' of Bloody Sunday." "The authors place special emphasis on the commemorative events held each year in Derry in which the families of the victims have - over many years - remembered their dead and injured, while at the same time building a highly-effective campaign that resulted, finally, in the new Inquiry." "Drawing on their expertise in the fields of literature, cultural theory, media studies and visual art, the authors have produced a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach towards the many representations that claim, with varying degrees of confidence, to tell the story of 'what really happened' on the streets of the Bogside on the afternoon of 30 January 1972."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fédération des Congolais de l'étranger

Deux causes objectives peuvent expliquer pourquoi le calendrier des élections avant la date du 30 juin 2005 n'a pas été tenu: le contexte de la transition et les acteurs de la transition. Cet ouvrage en dresse le bilan : bilan de la formation d'une armée nationale, bilan économique, des Droits de l'homme et de la justice, de la réconciliation nationale, du soutien de la communauté internationale. Il s'interroge ensuite sur les enjeux et perspectives, au-delà de la transition: quel Etat et quelle gouvernance ? quel défi économique, social, culturel ?

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John Mukum Mbaku, Julius O. Ihonvbere

Contains a mixture of analytical views on the transition to accountable, and democratic governance structures in Africa. The text looks at the struggles of creating appropriate and viable governance structures and economic systems that maximize the participation of citizens in national development.

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Angela D. Dillard

"In Guess Who's Coming to Dinner now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a conservatism which today cuts across the boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.". "To be an African American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conservative and a homosexual, is to occupy an awkward and contested political position. Dillard explores the philosophies, politics, and motivations of minority conservatives such as Ward Connerly, Glenn Loury, Linda Chavez, Clarence Thomas, and Bruce Bawer, as well as their tepid reception by both the Left and Right. Welcomed cautiously by the conservative movement, they have also frequently been excoriated by those African Americans, Latinos, women, and homosexuals who view their conservatism as betrayal. Central to this issue of their marginalization - or double marginalization - is the manner in which multicultural conservatives have conceptualized and presented their public, political selves. This, in turn, raises provocative questions about the connections between identity and politics, and the claims of cultural authenticity." "Dillard's study, among the first to take the history and political implications of multicultural conservatism seriously, will be a vital source for understanding contemporary American conservatism in all its forms."--BOOK JACKET.