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Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide
This book deals with literary representations of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled ‘Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire’ (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. This work emphasizes the Afropolitan cultural frame in which the texts were conceived and written. Instead of using Western and Eurocentric tropes, this volume looks at a so-called ‘minority trauma’: an African conflict situated in a collectivist society and written about by writers from African origin. This approach enables a more situated study, in which it becomes possible to draw out the local notions of ubuntu, oral testimonies, mourning traditions, healing and storytelling strategies, and the presence of the ‘invisible’. As these texts are written in French and to date not all of them have been translated into English, most academic research has been done in French. This book thus assists in connecting English-speaking readers not only to a set of texts written in French with significant literary and cultural value, but also to francophone trauma studies research.
Les maquisards de Hemley Boum
"Roman politico-historique, Les Maquisards de Hemley Boum révèle qu'une nation résulte toujours d'une violence fondatrice dont il faut savoir transmettre l'odyssée. Aussi constitue-t-elle une narration du point de vue du peuple, de sorte qu'elle se manifeste effectivement comme l'émanation de son H/histoire narrée. Pour ce qui est du Cameroun, la nation émane du maquis, ce hors-monde au coeur du monde où se projette ce que doit être le Cameroun. Territoire relationnel et symbolique, le maquis s'impose à la mémoire collective comme ce lieu d'enracinement d'humanité qui rappelle la sacralité de la nation née du sacrifice des maquisards, ces hommes et femmes qui se sont faits proches parce qu'ils se sont rapprochés, animés d'un même idéal : la liberté de vivre ensemble. Telle est l'économie du présent essai que nous livrent Stéphane Amougou Ndi et Raphaël Ngwe"--Page 4 of cover.
Jacques Fame Ndongo
On le sait, en Afrique, c'est la parole (la bouche) qui fait l'homme. C'est dans son discours que l'homme se réalise et réalise ; par son verbe, il réorganise le monde, laissant la création première du Verbe organisateur du néant. C'est dans l'esprit de cette aventure, aventure de la réorganisation d'un monde par Jacques Fame Ndongo, que le lecteur du présent ouvrage est invité à suivre les dix articles retenus dans cet ouvrage.
Résonances
Ce deuxième numéro de la revue Résonances met au centre du débat la problématique de l'auctorialité et celle de la notoriété dans le champ littéraire aujourd'hui. Les questions liées à l'identité et au statut de l'auteur, en tant qu'il est le sujet énergétique de la parole scripturale, qui ont toujours préoccupé depuis l'Antiquité, au même titre que celles liées à la légitimité et la notoriété auctoriales, interpellent, de nos jours, par leur acuité. En effet, à l'heure où l'évolution vertigineuse et l'utilisation quasi addictive des technologies de l'information bouleversent profondément nos habitus, y compris notre rapport à la fiction, il peut être intéressant de s'interroger sur les nouveaux ressorts de la littérature, ainsi que sur les récentes stratégies déployées par les écrivains pour s'affirmer dans le champ littéraire, et tenter de construire une légitimité et une renommée à l'échelle planétaire.
Innovations as Key to the Green Revolution in Africa
Africa can achieve self sufficiency in food production through adoption of innovations in the agriculture sector. Numerous soil fertility and crop production technologies have been generated through research, however, wide adoption has been low. African farmers need better technologies, more sustainable practices, and fertilizers to improve and sustain their crop productivity and to prevent further degradation of agricultural lands. The agricultural sector also needs to be supported by functional institutions and policies that will be able to respond to emerging challenges of globalization and climate change.
Regionalism versus Multilateralism
November 1996 Do the forces that regional integration arrangements set up encourage or discourage a trend toward globally freer trade? We don't know yet. The literature on regionalism versus multilateralism is growing as economists and political scientists grapple with the question of whether regional integration arrangements are good or bad for the multilateral system. Are regional integration arrangements building blocks or stumbling blocks, in Jagdish Bhagwati's phrase, or stepping stones toward multilateralism? As economists worry about the ability of the World Trade Organization to maintain the GATT's unsteady yet distinct momentum toward liberalism, and as they contemplate the emergenc...
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007
110th Congress, 2nd Session. Jacket 41-228PDF or 41-228 PDF. The promotion of human rights is an essential piece of our foreign policy. This effort will be a global one that reaches beyond government alone. The reports in this volume will be used as a resource for shaping policy, conducting diplomacy, and arranging assistance, training, and other resource allocations. The reports will also serve as a basis for the U.S. Government’s cooperation with private groups to promote the observance of internationally-recognized human rights. The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices cover internationally-recognized civil, political and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These rights include freedom from torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; from prolonged detention without charges; from disappearance or clandestine detention; and from other flagrant violations of the right to life, liberty and the security of the person.
Regionalism in Africa
Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new 'frontier' for global trade, investment and the conduct of international relations. This book surveys the socio-economic, intellectual and security related dimensions of African regionalisms since the turn of the 20th century. It argues that the continent deserves to be considered as a crucible for conceptualizing and contextualizing the ongoing influence of colonial policies, the emergence of specific integration and security cultures, the spread of cross-border regionalisation processes at the expense of region-building, the interplay between territory, space and trans-state networks, and the int...
Management of Large River Basins
The river basin continues to be seen as the best basis for the management of the water environment. Water resources and receiving water impacts urban and rural environments, diffuse and point-source pollution- in the context of the river basin there is the prospect of a rational balancing of competing and interacting elements. Much exciting research on catchment management has been carried out in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years, which led to the 8th conference of IAWQ's River Basin Management Specialist Group being held in Budapest to disseminate the knowledge and experience of some of the world?s leading experts. Anyone who is involved in carrying out research or implementing river basin management strategies will find these proceedings an excellent source of information and insight. Amongst the 26 papers selected for these proceedings, work on the Danube Basin features strongly, but papers from the rest of the world are also well represented, with papers on: Policy Management and legislation Nutrients balances Catchment management Water quality modelling.
