From Empires to NGOs in the West African Sahel: The Road to Nongovernmentality (African Studies)

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This book looks beyond the familiar history of former empires and new nation-states to imagine newly transnational communities of solidarity and aid, social science and activism. In a while after independence from France in 1960, the people living along the Sahel – a long, thin stretch of land bordering the Sahara – became the subjects of human rights campaigns and humanitarian interventions. Just when its states were strongest and most ambitious, the postcolonial West African Sahel became fertile terrain for the production of novel kinds of governmental rationality realized through NGOs. The roots of this ‘nongovernmentality’ lay partly in Europe and North The united states, however it flowered, satirically, in the Sahel. This book is unique in that it questions not only how West African states exercised their new sovereignty but also how and why NGOs – ranging from CARE and Amnesty International to black internationalists – started to assume elements of sovereignty right through a period during which it used to be so highly valued.

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