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Title: | Solidarity and Africa in the New Century |
Author: | Sachikonye, Lloyd M. |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 102 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 649-656 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | NGO action groups political action international solidarity nationalism Politics and Government History and Exploration |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305624042000327804 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=RJK8X4PVEHMPDKE35VTN |
Abstract: | This paper provides a synopsis of the changing content and forms of international solidarity since the 1970s. Solidarity responses have shaped, and themselves been affected by, developments both in the developing countries (struggles against colonialism and apartheid; stagnation of economic growth and democratization; conflicts and civil war) and in the industrialized and developed heartlands (the end of the Cold War, the imposition of neoliberal reforms). In this context, the formation of a global forum of social movements - the World Social Forum - in 2000 was a major development. In Africa, there has been a proliferation of social movements and NGOs, but most remain organizationally weak. While the international and regional contexts of solidarity have undergone change, most of the issues around which it has been mobilized remain the same: poverty and redistribution; democracy and human rights; citizenship, migration and labour rights; as well as the role of academia (national and international) in forging solidarity. In conclusion, the paper examines how these issues are reflected at the national level in Zimbabwe. Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |