Hunting the Ethical State - The Benkadi Movement of Cote D'ivoire

Zusammenfassung In 1990s the Ivoirian police failed to control the situation! so a group of poor! politically marginalized! and mostly Muslim men took on the role of the people's protectors as part of a movement they called Benkadi. This title reveals how dozos worked beyond the divisions to derive their new roles as enforcers of security.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Hellweg, Hellweg Joseph
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2011
• EAN: 9780226326542
• ISBN: 978-0-226-32654-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Ethnic Studies, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, HISTORY / Africa / West, Political activism, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Ivory Coast, Political activism / Political engagement