Routledge Handbook of Social Cohesion in Africa

Preface

Alexander Makulilo

1. Capturing Social Cohesion

Constanze Blum, Ulf Engel, and Christi van der Westhuizen

Section 1: Social Cohesion and Related Concepts

2. Social Capital

Ute Rietdorf

3. Resilience: Strengthening Resilience and Social Cohesion Through a Portfolio Approach in Borderland Development

Zeynu Ummer and Enock Omweri

4. Trust: Barriers to Governance Mechanisms for Facilitating Trust and Belonging in South African Cities

Fundiswa T. Khaile and Nicolette V. Roman

Section 2: African Knowledges on Social Cohesion

5. Unveiling the Weave: Social Cohesion in African Post-Colonial State- and Nation-Building

Eli Wortmann-Kolundžija and Julia Leininger

6. Two Types of “Group Feeling”: Ibn Khaldun’s Asabiyyah and Its North African Legacies

Gilad Ben-Nun

7. Gadaa and Social Cohesion: Ethiopia

Ezra Abate and Dechasa Abebe

8. Social Cohesion in Guinea: Is It Not True That the Tongue and Teeth Rub Together in the Mouth Without Ever Tearing?

Saïkou Oumar Sagnane

9. Social Cohesion or Tattered Bonds: Reimagining the Family Regulation System
Mechthild Nagel

10. Performing Peace in Francophone West Africa: Discourses of Cohésion Sociale in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Burkina Faso

Therese Mager

11. Vivre-Ensemble among Anglophones and Francophones in Cameroon: A Historical Challenge

Alain Belmond Sonyem

Section 3: Measuring Social Cohesion

12. Elections on the Edge: How Lack of Social Cohesion Fuels Political Violence in Côte d’Ivoire

Bertrand Baldet and Kando Serge Gbagbeu

13. Social Cohesion in Kenya: The Complexities of Developing a National Social Cohesion Index

Munini Mutuku

14. Social Cohesion in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: Insights from a Barometer in Northern Mozambique

Salvador Forquilha and Euclides Gonçalves

15. The History, Methodology, and Impact of the South African Reconciliation Barometer

Elnari Potgieter

16. Reflecting on a Framework for an African Measure of Social Cohesion

Kate Lefko-Everett

17. Measuring Social Cohesion in Africa: An Empirical Overview from the Afrobarometer and the World Values Survey

Cindy Steenekamp

Section 4: The Policy Environment for Social Cohesion

18. Inequality and Social Cohesion in Africa

Francesco Burchi and Gabriela Zapata-Román

19. Is Social Cohesion the Panacea for Populism?

Christi van der Westhuizen

20. Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion: Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa

Roman Loimeier

21. Jihadism and Social Cohesion

Andreas Lind Kroknes, Kristian Lefdal, and Morten Bøås

22. Contested Social Cohesion in Independent Namibia

Constanze Blum and Henning Melber

23. Ideological Contestations over Social Cohesion: The Case of Somali Refugees at the Dadaab Camps, Northeastern Kenya

Fred Nyongesa Ikanda

24. On Centering Black Male Performativities: Social Cohesion in Recent African Diaspora Online Activism

Izuu Nwankwọ

25. Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Sector and its Contribution to Social Cohesion in Botswana

Nonofo Mokwakwa and Gabriel Faimau

26. Social Cohesion through Sports in Africa

Kristin Richter, Jonas Sell, and Tom Völkel

27. Transitional Justice and Social Cohesion     

Ulrike Lühe and Pamela Vicky Atim

28. Social Cohesion in South Africa Through the Lens of Queer Justice, Incorporating Ubuntu

Amy Duvenage

Section 5: Policies of Social Cohesion

29. The Political Economy of Social Cohesion: The Role of African Regional Organizations and International Donors

Ulf Engel

30. Social Cohesion in Development Cooperation Policies and Practices 

Haifa Aboubaker, Bakary Sanou, and Mohamadou Abdoul

31. Queering Community Kitchens Toward Safer Spaces Through Social Cohesion: Narrative Research in Cape Town, South Africa

Bonang Libuke, Aqeela Singlee, Sanelisiwe Nyaba, and Nicole Paganini

32. Bottom-Up Social Cohesion Policies in Western and Central Africa: Experiences and Challenges

Flaubert Djateng and Christiane Kayser

33. Social Cohesion After War in Northern Ethiopia: Transitional Justice and National Dialogue as Security Issues

Fana Gebresenbet and Yonas Tariku

34. “This Is Now the Time to Beat Our Swords into Ploughshares”: Mugabe, Race, and the Politics of Social Cohesion in Zimbabwe

Oliver Nyambi

35. South Africa’s State-Led Social Cohesion and Nation-Building Project

Caryn Abrahams

Section 6: Concepts, Cosmologies, and Contexts of Social Cohesion Politics in Africa

36. Concepts, Cosmologies, and Contexts of Social Cohesion Politics in Africa

Ulf Engel, Christi van der Westhuizen, and Constanze Blum

Biography

Constanze Blum is a post-doctoral researcher at the Research Institute Social Cohesion (RISC) at Leipzig University (Germany). Her research focuses on the diverse and competing understandings of social cohesion in Southern and East Africa, as well as their transnational entanglements. She also works on the African Union, particularly the organization’s external partnerships and practices in international development cooperation.

Christi van der Westhuizen is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). She is also a former visiting professor at the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe) and the Institute of African Studies, both at Leipzig University (Germany). As a transdisciplinary scholar and political analyst, she writes both academically and popularly on ideology, identity, and difference, with a focus on colonial, apartheid, and post-apartheid South Africa.

Ulf Engel is Professor of Politics in Africa at the Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University (Germany). He is also a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) and Professor Extraordinary at the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Since 2006, he has advised the African Union Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security in the fields of conflict prevention, early warning, preventive diplomacy, and knowledge management.