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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017): Africa Review of Books, volume 13, n° 2, 2017

Issue Published : December 13, 2017

2 - The Commodification of African Politics I

https://doi.org/10.57054/arb.v13i2.4892
Alex de Waal

Corresponding Author(s) : Alex de Waal

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Africa Review of Books, Vol. 13 No. 2 (2017): Africa Review of Books, volume 13, n° 2, 2017
Article Published : January 9, 2017

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Can a book be both inspiring and disappointing? The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa might just fall into this rare category. Alex de Waal’s book is theoretically original and empirically rich, but it is also reductionist and, in the case of Ethiopia, biased. The book makes sense of the Horn of Africa’s complex contemporary politics through the prism of three elements. Firstly, de Waal proposes an innovative theory centred on the idea of the ‘political marketplace’. This theory grasps the causal interactions between violence, political finance and big man politics in East Africa and elsewhere. The ‘political marketplace’ framework is arguably the book’s most important contribution and it speaks to political scientists and policy analysts. Secondly, as the title suggests, the book sets out to explain the Horn of Africa’s ‘real politics’.

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Commodification African Politics Real Money War Business

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Alex de Waal

a British researcher on African elite politics, is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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