Political Reform in Francophone Africa by John F Clark

Author:John F Clark [Clark, John F]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ethnic Studies, African Studies, African, Social Science, Political Science, World
ISBN: 9780429966736
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Goodreads: 38497069
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

I wish to thank the Scarecrow Press for granting permission to incorporate portions of the Introduction to my Historical Dictionary of Gabon (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1994) into this essay.

I wish to express my gratitude to François Gaulme of Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens and Sennen Andriamirado of Jeune Afrique for sharing their insights into recent Gabonese history during my sabbatical in Paris in 1993 and 1994. The bibliographical sources for the study of history and politics in Gabon are discussed in my reference work, Gabon (Oxford: Clio Press, 1992).

1. Gardinier, Historical Dictionary of Gabon (hereafter HDG), pp. 14–15, 27. The economic development and politics of the period of the Fourth French Republic are discussed in Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff, The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960), and in Brian Weinstein, Gabon: Nation-Building on the Ogooué (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1966). For political evolution, including during the Mba era and relations with France, see John A. Ballard, “Four Equatorial States,” in Gwendolen Carter, ed., National Unity and Regionalism in Africa (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1966), pp. 231–336. For the development of the oil economy, see Douglas A. Yates, The Rentier State in Africa: Oil Rent Dependency and Neocolonialism in the Republic of Gabon (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1996).

2. Gardinier, HDG, pp. 15–16, 64–65. The best introductions to the eras of Mba and Bongo are found in François Gaulme, Le Gabon et son ombre (Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1988), and James F. Barnes, Gabon: Beyond the Colonial Legacy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992). For the French role in selecting Bongo as Gabon’s president, see Foccartparle: Entretiens avec Philippe Gaillard (Paris: Fayard and Jeune Afrique, 1995), pp. 65–67.

3. Gardinier, HDG, pp. 253–254, 279; Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg, Personal Rule in Black Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), pp. 156–159. Essential for understanding the evolution of the PDG are François Hervouet, “Le processus de concentration des pouvoirs par le président de la République au Gabon,” Penant 93 (January-March 1983):5–35, and Penant 93 (April-June 1983):200–215 (article in two parts); and N’Dong Obiang, “Le Parti Démocratique Gabonais et l’état,” Penant 93 (April-June 1983): 131–152.

4. Pierre Péan’s Affaires africaines (Paris: Fayard, 1983), despite a certain failure to control its sources, provides generally accurate accounts of the involvement of French interests in Gabon and their relations with the notables of the Bongo regime. See also Martin Edzodzomo-Ela, De la démocratie au Gabon (Paris: Éditions Karthala, 1993), pp. 5–22.

5. Gardinier, HDG, pp. 200–201.

6. Ibid., pp. 3–5, 19–20, 201–202. An analysis of the 1993 census may be found in Albert Ondo Ossa, “Le phénomène d’urbanisation dans les pays sub-Sahariens: Le cas du Gabon,” Mondes en développement 22, no. 85 (1994):75–81.

7. Gardinier, HDG, pp. 253–254, 267–268.

8. Ibid., pp. 218, 225–232.

9. Ibid., pp. 21–22. For the origins of the economic crisis, see Hugues-Alexandre Barro-Chambrier, L’économie du Gabon. Analyse: Politiques d’ajustement et d’adaptation (Paris: Économica, 1990); Gabriel Zomo Yebe, Comprendre la crise de Véconomie gabonaise (Paris: L’Harmattan, 1993).

10. Le Monde, February 25, 1989.

11. Le Monde, March 20, 1990.

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