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Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food
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Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food Hardcover - 2001

by Michael G. Schatzberg


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"... refreshing and provocative... a significant addition to existing literature on African politics." --Stephen Ellis

"It opens up a whole new field of investigation, and brings into focus the pertinence of an interdisciplinary approach to African politics." --Ren Lemarchand

In this innovative work, Michael G. Schatzberg reads metaphors found in the popular press as indicators of the way Africans come to understand their political universe. Examining daily newspapers, popular literature, and political and church documents from across middle Africa, Schatzberg finds that widespread and deeply ingrained views of government and its relationship to its citizenry may be understood as a projection of the metaphor of an idealized extended family onto the formal political sphere.

Schatzberg's careful observations and sensitive interpretations uncover the moral and social factors that shape the African political universe while showing how some African understandings of politics and political power may hamper or promote the development of Western-style democracy. Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa looks closely at elements of African moral and political thought and offers a nuanced assessment of whether democracy might flourish were it to be established on middle African terms.

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This book is about the cultural logic of legitimacy in middle Africa.

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  • Title Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food
  • Author Michael G. Schatzberg
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780253339928 / 0253339928
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.12 x 6.02 x 0.87 in (28.24 x 15.29 x 2.21 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Political culture - Africa, Political socialization - Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001002060
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.209

About the author

Michael G. Schatzberg is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (Indiana University Press) and Mobutu or Chaos? He is editor of The
Political Economy of Kenya, The Political Economy of Zimbabwe, and co-editor (with I. William Zartman) of The Political Economy of Cameroon.

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