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Biomedical loopholes, distrusted state, and the politics of HIV/AIDS ‘cure’ in Nigeria / Ebenezer Obadare in African Affairs, Vol. 110/439 (April 2011)
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Titre : Biomedical loopholes, distrusted state, and the politics of HIV/AIDS ‘cure’ in Nigeria Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur ; Iruka N. Okeke, Auteur Année de publication : 2011 Article en page(s) : pp. 191-211. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : As socio-medical phenomena, epidemics are revealing of the cultures in which they are experienced. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa exposes antecedent tensions between state and society, and, on a broader canvas, between the global north and south. As a contribution to the emerging literature on the social ramifications of HIV/AIDS, this article examines the saga of the Nigerian physician and immunologist, Dr Jeremiah Abalaka, who like other innovators in sub-Saharan Africa claims to have developed a curative HIV vaccine. Whilst articulating the social conditions that enabled Abalaka to thrive, the article explores the marked differences in the reaction to his ‘discovery’ among state representatives, the scientific establishment, the general public, people living with HIV, and the media. Finally, the article valorizes the emergence of new actors in the African health sector, and the diversity of strategies used by ordinary people to achieve and maintain wellness.
in African Affairs > Vol. 110/439 (April 2011) . - pp. 191-211.[article] Biomedical loopholes, distrusted state, and the politics of HIV/AIDS ‘cure’ in Nigeria [texte imprimé] / Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur ; Iruka N. Okeke, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 191-211.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 110/439 (April 2011) . - pp. 191-211.
Résumé : As socio-medical phenomena, epidemics are revealing of the cultures in which they are experienced. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa exposes antecedent tensions between state and society, and, on a broader canvas, between the global north and south. As a contribution to the emerging literature on the social ramifications of HIV/AIDS, this article examines the saga of the Nigerian physician and immunologist, Dr Jeremiah Abalaka, who like other innovators in sub-Saharan Africa claims to have developed a curative HIV vaccine. Whilst articulating the social conditions that enabled Abalaka to thrive, the article explores the marked differences in the reaction to his ‘discovery’ among state representatives, the scientific establishment, the general public, people living with HIV, and the media. Finally, the article valorizes the emergence of new actors in the African health sector, and the diversity of strategies used by ordinary people to achieve and maintain wellness. Response to ‘Similarity and difference, context and tradition, in contemporary religious movements in West Africa’ by J. D. Y. Peel / Ebenezer Obadare in Africa, 86/4 (2016)
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Titre : Response to ‘Similarity and difference, context and tradition, in contemporary religious movements in West Africa’ by J. D. Y. Peel Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur Année de publication : 2017 Article en page(s) : 640-645 Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Africa > 86/4 (2016) . - 640-645[article] Response to ‘Similarity and difference, context and tradition, in contemporary religious movements in West Africa’ by J. D. Y. Peel [texte imprimé] / Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur . - 2017 . - 640-645.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Africa > 86/4 (2016) . - 640-645The Uses of Ridicule / Ebenezer Obadare in African Affairs, Vol. 108/431 (2009)
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Titre : The Uses of Ridicule : Humour, ‘Infrapolitics’ and Civil Society in Nigeria Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur Année de publication : 2009 Article en page(s) : pp. 221-240. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : As post-military ‘democratic’ regimes across Africa perpetuate norms and practices that were characteristic of the previous openly authoritarian era, humour and ridicule have emerged as a means through which ordinary people attempt to deconstruct and construct meaning out of a reality that is decidedly surreal. In Nigeria jokes serve a double function as a tool for subordinate classes to deride the state (including its agents) and themselves. Jokes are therefore a means through which an emergent civil society, ‘behaving badly’, subverts, deconstructs, and engages with the state. Yet, for all its significance as a form of agency, humour has been neglected in the civil society literature, partly because of the mentality which frames civil society in terms of organizations (humour is not organized), and partly because of its almost exclusive attention to the ‘civil’ attributes of civil society (humour is, inter alia, rude). This article argues for incorporating humour into the civil society discourse, and suggests that doing so will enrich civil society analysis by focusing on both the constructions of sociality and their associated politics, and the hidden spaces in which most of visible political action originates.
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 221-240.[article] The Uses of Ridicule : Humour, ‘Infrapolitics’ and Civil Society in Nigeria [texte imprimé] / Ebenezer Obadare, Auteur . - 2009 . - pp. 221-240.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in African Affairs > Vol. 108/431 (2009) . - pp. 221-240.
Résumé : As post-military ‘democratic’ regimes across Africa perpetuate norms and practices that were characteristic of the previous openly authoritarian era, humour and ridicule have emerged as a means through which ordinary people attempt to deconstruct and construct meaning out of a reality that is decidedly surreal. In Nigeria jokes serve a double function as a tool for subordinate classes to deride the state (including its agents) and themselves. Jokes are therefore a means through which an emergent civil society, ‘behaving badly’, subverts, deconstructs, and engages with the state. Yet, for all its significance as a form of agency, humour has been neglected in the civil society literature, partly because of the mentality which frames civil society in terms of organizations (humour is not organized), and partly because of its almost exclusive attention to the ‘civil’ attributes of civil society (humour is, inter alia, rude). This article argues for incorporating humour into the civil society discourse, and suggests that doing so will enrich civil society analysis by focusing on both the constructions of sociality and their associated politics, and the hidden spaces in which most of visible political action originates.