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By Gregory Mann
This publication appears past the usual heritage of former empires and new realms to think about newly transnational groups of unity and relief, social technological know-how and activism. almost immediately after independence from France in 1960, the folk dwelling alongside the Sahel - an extended, skinny stretch of land bordering the Sahara - grew to become the themes of human rights campaigns and humanitarian interventions. simply while its states have been most powerful and such a lot formidable, the postcolonial West African Sahel turned fertile terrain for the creation of novel varieties of governmental rationality discovered via NGOs. The roots of this "nongovernmentality" lay in part in Europe and North the US, however it flowered, mockingly, within the Sahel. This ebook is exclusive in that it questions not just how West African states exercised their new sovereignty but additionally how and why NGOs - starting from CARE and Amnesty foreign to black internationalists - started to suppose parts of sovereignty in the course of a interval during which it was once so hugely valued.
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