LEADER 02458nam 2200481 450 001 9910796709703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a3-905758-96-2 035 $a(CKB)3840000000346352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5200680 035 $a(OCoLC)1019666789 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66804 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5200680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11498010 035 $a(OCoLC)1020032692 035 $a(PPN)228024390 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000346352 100 $a20180208h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aKingdom, State and civil society in Africa $epolitical and conceptual collisions /$fNelson Kasfir 210 1$aBasel, Switzerland :$cBasler Afrika Bibliographien,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (60 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aCarl Schlettwein Lectures ;$v11 311 $a3-905758-89-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aCivil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of long-standing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics. 410 0$aCarl Schlettwein lectures ;$v11. 606 $aCivil society$zAfrica 615 0$aCivil society 676 $a300.96 700 $aKasfir$b Nelson$01521878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796709703321 996 $aKingdom, State and civil society in Africa$93761319 997 $aUNINA