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Title: | The Environmental Problems and Politics of Power: Review on the African Elite |
Author: | Korvenoja, Tita |
Year: | 1993 |
Periodical: | Nordic Journal of African Studies |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 140-154 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | rural-urban relations political elite environment Politics and Government Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/724/547 |
Abstract: | This article examines the African elite and its political role from an environmental point of view. It argues that the concept of urban bias has often been used to shed light on the background of earlier economic policies, although the uncontrolled migration from rural areas in Africa to towns has continuously eroded the urban-rural income gap. In many sub-Saharan African countries that gap has never been clear and it has further narrowed after the 1970s. The old division between the favoured urban dwellers and the forgotten farmers has changed into a gap between the poor and the rich. The environmental problems of African countries not only result partially from the economic policies followed by African governments, but the resolution of these problems will in many ways endanger the political leadership of the elite. Bibliogr. |