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Oil, Democracy, and Development in Africa presents an optimistic analysis of the continent's oil-producing states. With attention to the complex histories, the interactions of key industry actors and policy makers, and the goals of diverse groups in society, this contribution fills a gap in the literature on resource-abundant countries. John R. Heilbrunn presents a positive assessment of circumstances in contemporary African oil exporters. The book demonstrates that even those leaders who are among the least accountable use oil revenues to improve their citizens' living standards, if only a little bit. As a consequence, African oil producers are growing economically and their people are living under increasingly democratic polities. Heilbrunn thus calls for a long-overdue reassessment of the impact of hydrocarbons on developing economies.

#SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:327.4H61 --- #SBIB:327.4H21 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Derde wereld: economische ontwikkeling --- Kolonisatie / dekolonisatie / post-kolonisatie

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How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durée explanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as a result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power.

Education and state --- Education, Bilingual --- Language and education --- Language and languages --- Multilingualism --- #SBIB:324H71 --- #SBIB:327.4H63 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Educational linguistics --- Education --- Bilingual education --- Bilingualism --- Multilingual education --- Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Linguistics --- Study and teaching --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- Derde wereld: ontwikkelingspolitiek, hervormingen (binnenlands, onderwijs-, gezondheidsbeleid e.a.) --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen

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Land. Real estate --- Law of real property --- Economic geography --- Africa --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:35H6050 --- Land tenure --- Land use, Rural --- Land use --- Central-local government relations --- Ethnicity --- Ethnic conflict --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Center-periphery government relations --- Local-central government relations --- Local government-central government relations --- Political science --- Decentralization in government --- Federal government --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Rural land use --- Agriculture --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Afrika --- Political aspects --- Government policy