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100	1		_aSundberg, Anne _eauthor
245	1	0	_aClass and ethnicity in the struggle for power: _bthe failure of democratization in the Congo-Brazzaville/ _ccreated by Anne Sundberg
264	1		_aDakar: _bCODESRIA, _c1999.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
440			_aAfrica development _vVolume 24, number 1/2
520	3		_aIn Africa, the big issues on the agenda are those of rights and freedoms, war, violence and insecurity within society. From my research in Congo, I would like to say that society is increasingly fragmented and disorganized. In the paper, I tried to show that ethnicity is used by both politicians and people to compete and compete for power; young people have become more individualistic, feeling abandoned and betrayed by their political leaders; thus they organized themselves into militias to get involved in the struggle for the distribution of resources. In addition, these militias and the proliferation of banditry appear to be a challenge to those who govern. In such a situation of frustration without happy prospects, populations find themselves in total insecurity. The imagination, with its own modes of interpretation or cultural/ethnic mobilization, seems to be the only means of reading reality. The reading of reality according to the symbolic order relies on the power of politicians and their ability to use the dynamics of the imagination for their own purposes.
650			_aDemocracy _vEthnicity _xEconomic development _zCongo-Brazzaville
650			_aMilitias _xSecurity _zCongo-Brazzaville
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.4314/ad.v24i1.22115
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