Burkina Faso: from Thomas Sankara to popular resistance

Zeilig, Leo

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“…In 2014, the ruling president for twenty-seven years, Blaise Compaoré, was dismissed and sent into exile in Côte d'Ivoire after a very short and intense period of insurrection populaire (popular uprising) led by a grass-roots organization called Balai Citoyen (Citizens' Broom) in collaboration with trade unions and a range of non-governmental organizations, including women's organizations. The popular protests were triggered by a proposed new electoral code whereby the ruling president would be eligible for re-election more than twice; this would have allowed Compaoré to stand for another term as president (Hagberg et al 2018;Zeilig 2017). After a short-lived military coup in September 2015, elections were held in November 2015; Roch Marc Kaboré, an ex-member of the old regime, won in the first round with 53.49 per cent of the vote (Zeilig 2017: 159).…”

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“…The Compaoré government never managed to improve the living conditions of the poor and Burkina Faso is consistently ranked at the bottom end of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index. In 2016, the country was ranked 185 out of 188 countries and 46 per cent of the population lived below the poverty line (Zeilig 2017). The period after the insurrection in 2014, when Blaise Compaoré was forced to resign, and since Roch Marc Christian Kaboré won the elections in 2015 has seen a further weakening of the state (Hagberg et al 2015; Hagberg 2019; Samuelsen forthcoming n.d.).…”

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“…The popular protests were triggered by a proposed new electoral code whereby the ruling president would be eligible for re-election more than twice; this would have allowed Compaoré to stand for another term as president (Hagberg et al . 2018; Zeilig 2017). After a short-lived military coup in September 2015, elections were held in November 2015; Roch Marc Kaboré, an ex-member of the old regime, won in the first round with 53.49 per cent of the vote (Zeilig 2017: 159).…”

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“…2018; Zeilig 2017). After a short-lived military coup in September 2015, elections were held in November 2015; Roch Marc Kaboré, an ex-member of the old regime, won in the first round with 53.49 per cent of the vote (Zeilig 2017: 159). During this period, the Sahel region, including Burkina Faso, was being challenged by an increasing number of attacks by various jihadist groups such as AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and Ansaroul Islam (Hagberg et al .…”

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Accelerated fragility: exploring the supply–demand nexus in health facilities in rural Burkina Faso

Samuelsen¹

2020

Africa

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In Burkina Faso, political turmoil, escalating insecurity and a looming pandemic challenge the population's trust in the state. This article contributes to the debates about state–citizen relationships in fragile countries by connecting local health-seeking practices with the global trends of datafication and a strong focus on the fight against malaria in this part of Africa. Drawing on long-term research engagement in Burkina Faso, I examine the health-seeking practices of rural citizens and look into diagnostic routines and reporting in two rural dispensaries. I show how the routinization of diagnostic procedures combined with a strong national and global political focus on the fight against malaria create what I term a ‘supply–demand nexus’ in which rural citizens selectively ask for the health services that they know the system can supply. I argue that the routinized diagnostic practices that mainly focus on malaria serve as a ‘technology of invisibility’ by not capturing other important diseases among the rural population. Finally, I ask whether the limited healthcare services in the current context of political insecurity, instability and a global pandemic spur a process of further fragilization of the social contract between rural citizens and the state.

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Section: Political Commotion and Paradoxes Of The Statementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Political Commotion and Paradoxes Of The Statementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Political Commotion and Paradoxes Of The Statementioning

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Accelerated fragility: exploring the supply–demand nexus in health facilities in rural Burkina Faso

Samuelsen¹

2020

Africa

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“…Furthermore, studies have documented how insufficient and unstable infrastructure, such as lack of continuous electricity and running water, as well as inadequate number of ambulances and other means of transport for referral and outreach activities, further exacerbate the working conditions at rural front-line facilities (Dieleman et al, 2006(Dieleman et al, , 2009Prytherch et al, 2012). Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, and around 46% of the population lives below the poverty line (Zeilig, 2017). With a large rural population and a weak economy with a narrow export base (gold and cotton), it is not surprising that the health care system of Burkina Faso faces enormous challenges.…”

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Balancing professional autonomy and authority at the margins of a fragile state: Front-line health workers’ experiences in Burkina Faso

Toé

Samuelsen

2020

Global Public Health

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The availability of diagnostic equipment, medical products and basic infrastructure is limited in most low-income societies. Poor motivation among health workers as well as recruitment and retention problems are key factors contributing to poor health care services in developing countries. The current paper describes how the front line cope with these difficult working conditions. Data for this study come from anthropological fieldwork in two districts of Burkina Faso and include a total of 27 unstructured and 40 semi-structured interviews with staff at dispensaries and medical centres in the two districts. Analytically, we make a distinction between their professional autonomy and their professional authority. We find that while the health workers experience a certain degree of professional autonomy, in the sense that they rely on their own clinical judgement and their discretion as decision makers and gatekeepers, their professional authority is constantly challenged when working at the margins of the state. Through improvisations and bricolaging, they compensate for the many shortcomings, but many of them feel that their skills are waning and that their professional identity threatened. Thus, massive strengthening of the front-line health worker's capacity is imperative for future improvement of health care services in Burkina Faso.

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Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa

Obeng‐Odoom

2020

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So, in this book, my focus is on stratification in the Global South or what Frantz Fanon (1961) called "the wretched of the earth"; their experiences of appalling economic inequalities; the dire implications for society, economy, and environment; why this compartmentalization continues to deepen; and what can be done about it. Analytically, the focus on stratification provides a more comprehensive approach to studying the Global South because the concern about stratification leads to additional questions about inequality in relation to whom, what, where, why, and how, and hence throws the searchlight on the bigger question of "economic backwardness" in the Global South. According to Alude Mahali and her colleagues (2018, p. 3), we should understand the Global South to be "the countries of Africa, Central and Latin America, the Pacific and Carribean islands, and most of Asia." I accept this geographical interpretation of the phrase, but I apply it in a broader sense to include those social relations in the Global North that resemble or shape conditions that pertain to geographical Global South (think of, for example, black Americans and the Indigenous peoples of Australia). Politically, the focus on the Global South emphasizes its revolutionary potential, as Samir

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Burkina Faso: from Thomas Sankara to popular resistance

Cited by 23 publications

References 2 publications

Accelerated fragility: exploring the supply–demand nexus in health facilities in rural Burkina Faso

Accelerated fragility: exploring the supply–demand nexus in health facilities in rural Burkina Faso

Balancing professional autonomy and authority at the margins of a fragile state: Front-line health workers’ experiences in Burkina Faso

Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa

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