Governance and Societal Adaptation in Fragile States

280 Pages·2020·2.916 MB·English

by  John Idriss Lahai, Helen Ware

GOVERNANCE AND LIMITED STATEHOOD
Governance and Societal
Adaptation in Fragile States
Edited by
John Idriss Lahai
Helen Ware
Governance and Limited Statehood
Series Editor
Thomas Risse
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Freie Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
This ground-breaking monograph series showcases cutting edge research
on the transformation of governance in countries with weak state institu-
tions. Combing theoretically informed and empirically grounded scholar-
ship, it challenges the conventional governance discourse which is biased
towards modern developed nation states. Instead, the series focuses on
governance in Africa, Asia and Latin America including transnational and
trans-regional dimensions. Located at the intersection of global gover-
nance and international relations, on the one hand, and comparative pol-
itics, area studies, international law, history, and development studies, on
the other, this innovative series helps to challenge fundamental assump-
tions about governance in the social sciences.
More information about this series at
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15020
·
John Idriss Lahai Helen Ware
Editors
Governance
and Societal
Adaptation in Fragile
States
Editors
John Idriss Lahai Helen Ware
University of New England Development Practice
Armidale, Australia University of New England
Armidale, Australia
Governance and Limited Statehood
ISBN 978-3-030-40133-7 ISBN 978-3-030-40134-4 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40134-4
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer
Nature Switzerland AG 2020
This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the
Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights
of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on
microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and
retrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology
now known or hereafter developed.
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc.
in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such
namesareexemptfromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreefor
general use.
Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinforma-
tion in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither
the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with
respecttothematerialcontainedhereinorforanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeen
made.Thepublisherremainsneutralwithregardtojurisdictionalclaimsinpublishedmaps
and institutional affiliations.
Cover credit: Alamy, A4X3FH
Photographer: NASA/digitaleye
This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature
Switzerland AG
The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
Introduction 1
Helen Ware and John Idriss Lahai
The Realities of Governance: Conflict and Context Across
Africa 11
Helen Ware
State Institutions and the Consolidation of Popular
Government in Nigeria 65
Ibraheem Oladipo Muheeb
Local Institutional Designs and Reforms in Rwanda and
Burundi 95
Paul Odhiambo
Community-Based Organisations and the Development
Agenda in Zimbabwe: The Case of Marange Development
Trust, 2014–2017 119
Bernard Kusena
v
vi CONTENTS
Framing Resilience and Adaptability: A Critical Discourse
Analysis of ZANU PF Policy Texts in the Zimbabwean
Post-2000 Context 143
Tsiidzai Matsika
Good Governance Under Zuma Administration: Fad or
Reality? 171
Mbekezeli Comfort Mkhize, Kongko Louis Makau,
and Phathutshedzo Madumi
Claiming the State: The Political Economy of Social
Welfare Access in Rural South Africa 189
Andrew Skuse
Prospects for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity to Enhance
African Political Governance 211
Finex Ndhlovu
The Struggles of Adoption and Adaptation in the
Governance Space of Vanuatu: The Incorporation of Jifly
Authority and Kastom Governance into the Legal-Rational
System 237
Gregoire Nimbtik
Index 269
Notes on Contributors
Bernard Kusena is a Lecturer in Economic History at the University of
Zimbabwe and a Doctoral fellow at Rhodes University. His research in-
terests include food security and rural development.
Dr. John Idriss Lahai is an applied development studies scholar; and a
research fellow in the Social and Philosophical Inquiry (SPI) programme
at the University of New England. He is the author and editor of about
adozenbooks—allpublishedbyinternationallyreputablepresses.Hisre-
search is motivated by the desire to understand the intersectional, engen-
dered, sociological, political and economic drivers, and contexts of state
fragility, societal resilience and statehood in the Global South, especially
in sub-Saharan African countries.
Phathutshedzo Madumi is a Lecturer in the Department of Military
Economics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Kongko Louis Makau is a Lecturer in Military History at Stellenbosch
University,SouthAfricawithaninterestinxenophobiaandblackwomen
in politics.
Tsiidzai Matsika lectures in English at the University of Zimbabwe and
the University of the Free State in South Africa. Her special interest is in
criticaldiscourseanalysisofpoliticaltextsintheEnglishlanguage.Shehas
vii
viii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
published women’s accounts of the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle and
how they conflict with the male accounts promoted by the Government.
Mbekezeli Comfort Mkhize is a researcher at the Centre for Military
Studies, Stellenbosch University. He wrote his prescient masters’ politics
thesis in 2008 on the lack of viability of South Africa’s strategy of quiet
diplomacy with Zimbabwe. He has also researched and written on the
impactofcommunitygardeningonalleviatingruralpovertyandonreap-
praising illegal artisanal mining in South Africa.
Ibraheem Oladipo Muheeb has published extensively on the 1999
ConstitutionandgovernanceinNigeriaincludinghisstudyof“TheLeg-
islatureandRepresentativeGovernmentinOgunState”.Hehasaspecial
interest in the relationships between legislative provisions as written and
actual practices on the ground at both the national and the sub-national
(State) level in Nigeria and how these matters impact upon corruption
and the pursuit of corruption even to the level of impeachment.
Finex Ndhlovu is an Associate Professor of Language in Society at the
UniversityofNewEngland,Australia.Hissixbooksandoverfiftyjournal
articlesandbookchaptersfocusonlanguagepolicyandpolitics,postcolo-
nial African identities, multilingualism and multilingual citizenship and
Africanmigrantlanguagesandlives.His2017radiointerviewwithPower
FM in Johannesburg is typical in addressing “Why Africa must discard
borrowed robes and embrace its rich cultural resources”.
Gregoire Nimbtik writes about the governance space and chiefly (jifly)
authority and custom (kastom) in Vanuatu based upon his extensive ex-
pertisefrombothatraditionalandagovernmentalperspective.Heisone
of the twenty-one children of the famed late Paramount Chief Virambat
of Amok of North West Malekula who had ten wives. His mother gave
him her life savings of fifty US dollars so that he could take up founda-
tionstudiesatuniversity.HewentontocompleteaPh.D.onthetopicof
“Worlds in Collision: An Inquiry into the Sources of Corruption within
Vanuatu Government and Society”. In Vanuatu he has held a range of
senior advisory positions as well as being Director of the Department of
Strategy, Policy, Planning and Aid Coordination.
Paul Odhiambo is a consultant who has worked extensively on gover-
nance issues in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa.
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix
Andrew Skuse is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthro-
pology and Development Studies at the University of Adelaide, South
Australia. His professional work focuses on how the poor interact with
information resources and how these resources affect areas such as liveli-
hoods, health, education, peacebuilding and social equity. He has con-
sulted widely on the role of communication for the development for a
range of international development agencies and regularly publishes in
both applied and academic fields.
Helen Ware isthe FoundationProfessorofPeaceStudies atthe Univer-
sity of New England, Australia. She has knowledge of governance from
a broad range of perspectives having been an Australian development aid
bureaucrat,adiplomat,astatisticalconsultantandahumanrightsadvisor.
She is currently an academic researcher with a special interest in working
with Ph.D. students who are researching peacebuilding, governance and
development in countries searching for sustainable futures for youths of
all genders in the coming generations.