westernised Governance
an essay of comparative governance
Lusaka : African Lions Club
Johannesburg : Pan African Parliament
Two struggles
The cases selected involve plenary meetings, and this analysis is inspired by the conflict and rebellion approach of political anthropology (Gluckman 1963). The associations are the parallel or marginal places of politics where lessons can be learned.
The objective is to observe what the divergences or consensuses are about, and how they are expressed. And, in a longer ethnographic period, the associations show how the solutions and strategies to eventually fight them are applied.
The two associations are pan-African and reveal the endogenous, nationalistic tensions that are created when power is shared, when the enemy is no longer the outside. They operate with centrifugal and centripetal energies.
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