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  • 4 - Problematising the Normative Trajectory of Sustainable Development in Africa

  • from Part II - Universal, Pluriversal, and in Between
  • Godwin Eli Kwadzo Dzah, University of Alberta
  • Book:
    Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies
    Published online:
    16 May 2024
    Print publication:
    23 May 2024, pp 145-198

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 analyses the history, evolution, internalisation, and legal operationalisation of sustainable development in Africa. The analysis reveals how concepts like sustainable development flow through nations and regions without being influenced by the peoples and politics that matter to that part of the world. It reveals the colonial and postcolonial politics of natural resource access in Africa by mapping the concept’s progress. It discusses the concept and its link to the international law on nature conservation and how that history omitted Africa as a framework for analysing the law and politics of sustainable development. It also explores Africa’s perspectives on international law relative to the Global South’s position on sustainable development within the never-ending Third World international law-making project. It also reveals deficits in the dominant rights-based approach to sustainable development in Africa as uncritically empowering the state over non-state interests as the state has failed to purposefully incorporate customary and indigenous governance into sustainable development. In addressing this question, I examine the promise and failure of the implementation of sustainable development as seen through the work of Africa’s regional adjudicative institutions.

  • 23 - The laws of war

  • from Part IV - Rules of Engagement, Laws of War and War Crimes
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    09 January 2014, pp 615-638

  • Summary

    The significance of the First World War in African history was its place in the chronology of European colonisation. There are four striking features of Africa's entanglement with the 1914-18 war. The first essentially European war fought amongst and profoundly affecting African populations had been the major war waged by Britain to subdue Boer republicanism, the Anglo-Boer War, or South African War. A second feature is that the first and last shots of a war which was won and lost in Europe were discharged on opposite sides of the African continent. Thirdly, for many regions and numerous inhabitants, the absorption into a global war was virtually imperceptible, and its impact on life barely felt. Larger tremor is the fourth and deepest inroad made by the European war, as respective imperial powers set about trying to extract the maximum manpower and material resources from their colonial dependencies.

  • 22 - Genocide

  • from Part IV - Rules of Engagement, Laws of War and War Crimes
  • Edited by Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the First World War
    Published online:
    05 December 2013
    Print publication:
    09 January 2014, pp 585-614

  • Summary

    The Great War of 1914-18 began and ended as a global conflict that imperial powers waged in Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Africa and East Asia. Great Britain and France, with overseas colonies and control of the seas, relied on their possessions for men and materials to fight the war in Europe. European and native soldiers of the empires had fought in Europe and around the globe. As the war eroded the traditional prohibition against using coloured troops from the colonies to fight against Europeans, it heightened the fear of white people towards peoples of colour. The participation of African and Asian troops in the slaughter of white men, their access to white women in ways theretofore unimaginable and, the French use of Senegalese soldiers in the post-war occupation of western Germany, all threatened the traditional imperial order of racial supremacy.