Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region

Peoples' Agency, Popular Participation, and Democratization

Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse Lotshwao, Thekiso Molokwane, Norbert Musekiwa

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978778917
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region: Peoples' Agency, Popular Participation, and Democratization, edited by Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse Lotshwao, Thekiso Molokwane, and Norbert Musekiwa, engages in the debate associated with "the people of Southern Africa" (people of the Region)—democratization and integration nexus envisaged in the 1980 treaty which established the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Using political and public administration perspectives, the editors argue that for democratization and integration to be tangibly consolidated and institutionalized, direct involvement of the people of Southern Africa, the peoples' agency, is paramount and would lead to what is dubbed in this book as sadcness and sadcnization. More specifically, democratization and integration are about people (citizens), the sovereigns, and not merely the abstract actors called nation states. Using the case studies of Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, the contributors have, from political and public administration dimensions, engaged in this epistemology assessing, among other things, the peoples' of Southern Africa-the Southern Africa Development Community integration nexus.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• SADC Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation and Democratization of the Region
• Angola
• Evaluating Botswana’s Participatory Democracy as a Prelude to Regional Democratization
• Regional Integration of Madagascar within SADC
• Terrorism in Cabo Delgado and Lessons for Enhancing Sadcnization of the Southern Africa Region
• Southern African Development Community, Power, Politics and People
• Rethinking the Concept of the People‌‌ in the Context of Democratization and Integration
• SADC Citizens’ Sovereignty, Popular Participation and Democratization of the Region
• Southern Africa Sadcnization
• Public Administration in the Southern African Development Community Region
• Democratization in the Light of the Challenge of the Regional Integration of Madagascar in SADC‌‌‌
• Sovereignty and Direct Citizen Participation in Government Policies in Mozambique in the Context
• Inclusive Governance for Effective Public Administration in Southern African Development Community
• Citizen and Civil Society Participation in Public Administration and Governance Processes
• Conclusion and Recommendations
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors