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- Review of: Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Nina Emma Mba. For women and the nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Books Supplement
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- Review of: Clara Osinulu & Nina Mba (Eds.). Nigerian women in politics, 1986-1993. Kagos: Malthouse Press, 1996.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Books Supplement
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- Civil society comprises various interest groups such as human rights groups, co-operatives, trade unions and the church through which individuals collectively carry out their social enterprises. The rise of the centrality of civil society in much of Africa, in both development discourse and the democratization process, has been in response to state weakness. As a result it has become the cutting edge of the effort to build a viable democratic order. This paper contends that the success of civil society in forcing political concessions in Africa relates to the availability of opportunity to mobilize, agitate and bargain with the state from a position of strength. However, the notion that ageneric civil society is uniformly progressive in challenging the African authoritarian state and advancing democratization may not be accurate. This comparative study attempts to bring out the underlying similarities and differences in the contribution of the Christian church and NGOs as civil society organizations to the democratization process in Kenya and Uganda.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
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- Discusses Wole Syinka's politics and writing in the 1960s, and his autobiography, Ibadan : the penkelemes years : a memoir: 1946-1965.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Review
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- Peace symbol on left side and UFW symbol on right side. White font with purple background.
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
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- UFW seal on left side. Aldine Co., L.A. Cal. 90015. Orange font with brown background.
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
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- Red font with yellow background.
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
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- UFW seal on left side. Black font with orange background.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)
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- Red background on upper half, and blue background on lower half with bold white lettering. LCAA in lower left corner.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)