Security sector governance and development in Africa: a historical approach/ created by Herbert Sobha and Lucky Bangidza
Material type: TextSeries: Journal of public policy in Africa ; Volume 7, number 1Johannesburg: OSISA, 2020Content type:- text
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Journal Article | Main Library - Special Collections | HC800.A1 JOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Vol. 7, no.1 (pages 75-86) | SP33474 | Not for loan | For In House Use Only |
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Security sector reform in Africa as advocated by the Western powers and the donor community also tend to ignore the origins and evolution of the security system in Africa and the role of the historical experience of the Africans in shaping the current security sector they so want reformed. The inkling is to understand the role of the security sector in Africa's development and provide policy recommendations on the future contribution of the sector to sustainable development. It is pertinent to trace the origin and evolution of the sector including the historical experiences of Africa with the security sector and how this has shaped the contemporary African security policy architecture based on the Elite model and the Group theory of governance. The research method was based on interrelating security sector governance to determine and understand the meaning of SSG. Bridging the gap between SSG from a historical evolution of the security sector. The research method is Hermeneutical in nature as the theory and methodology. Some of the countries that were considered include Angola, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique Namibia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe in order to capture countries with a diverse historical background. Findings are from secondary data and discussions with the security officers in the region. The security sector is understood to encompass all the organisations that have the authority to use, or order the use of force in order to protect society, individuals and the state. It is this article's assertion that the proliferations of village vigilantes, local security militias as well as warlords in the conflict zones of Africa could be the residues of this pre-colonial security arrangement as the locals resort to their traditional security arrangements in cases where the state is failing to provide the security.
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