Overcoming the Oppressors
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-767420-8 (ISBN)
But what did the new republics make of their hard-won freedoms? Having liberated themselves successfully, several soon dismantled democratic safeguards, established effective single-party states, closed their economies, deprived citizens of human rights and civil liberties, and exchanged economic progress for varieties of central planning experiments and stunted forms of protected economic endeavors. Only Botswana, of the new entities, embraced full democracy and good governance. The others, even South Africa, at first tightly regimented their economies and attempted to severely limit the degrees of economic freedom and social progress that citizens could enjoy. Corruption prevailed everywhere except Botswana. Today, as the chapters on contemporary southern Africa reveal, most of the southern half of the African continent is returning, if sometimes struggling, to the patterns of probity and good governance that many countries abandoned in the decades after independence.
Robert I. Rotberg is the Founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict.
Preface
I "Partnership" and Multiracialism in the New Africa
II Consummating Zambian Nationhood
III King Cobra and Other Menaces: Zambia Banishes Autocracy
IV The Hijacking of Malawi: Banda's One-Man Rule
V Promises, Promises: Modern Malawi Seeks Prosperity and Plenty Through Pot
VI Mandela's Triumph: The Liberating of South Africa
VII Surviving State Capture: the Path Forward
VIII Botswana: Africa's Democratic Exception
IX The Promise of Democracy Lost: Zimbabwe
X Namibia: Throwing Off the Long Yoke
XI Leaders of Integrity Conquer Africa's Consummate Challenges
Acknowledgements
Notes
For Further Reading
Maps Prepared by Dylan A. Gattey
Southern Africa
Zambia and Malawi
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Botswana and Namibia
Portraits By Joanna G. Cloutier
Kenneth Kaunda
Kamuzu Banda
Nelson Mandela
Desmond Tutu
Thabo Mbeki
Seretse Khama
Robert Mugabe
Helen Suzman
Nthato Motlana
Jacob Zuma
Nthato Motlana
Jacob Zuma
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2023 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 237 x 163 mm |
Gewicht | 757 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-767420-8 / 0197674208 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-767420-8 / 9780197674208 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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