Patience Kabamba
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Johannesburg
Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, University of Notre Dame
"New Forms of Life from the Debris of the State in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
Thursday, January 19, 2012
4:00 pm - C103 Hesburgh Center
Abstract
In a post–Cold War era of civil wars and genocidal ethnic cleansing, what might explain the remarkable economic prosperity of the Nande in the Eastern Congo amidst the particularly severe civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)?
The paper shows how in the absence of effective state sovereignty and national government and in the presence of numerous armed contenders for power, traders manage to build and protect a self-sustaining, prosperous transnational economic enterprise in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
