The State in Africa: The Politics of the Belly, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-7456-4437-0
Paperback
420 pages
July 2009, Polity
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· The State in Africa is widely recognized as one of
the most important books of the last 20 years on Africa and African
politics: it is a modern classic by one of the world’s
leading political scientists.
· Bayart rejects the assumption of African
‘otherness’ based on stereotyped images of famine,
corruption and civil war and invites the reader instead to see that
African politics is like politics anywhere else in the world, not
an exotic aberration.
· At the same time, we need to see that African politics
has distinctive characteristics – what Bayart calls
‘the politics of the belly’, an expression that refers
not only to the necessities of survival but also to the
‘invisible’ world of sorcery.
· This new edition of Bayart’s classic book includes a major new introduction on Africa in the world today.
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