TY - JOUR
T1 - Indirect rule redux
T2 - the political economy of diamond mining and its relation to the Ebola outbreak in Kono District, Sierra Leone
AU - Frankfurter, Raphael
AU - Kardas-Nelson, Mara
AU - Benton, Adia
AU - Barrie, Mohamed Bailor
AU - Dibba, Yusupha
AU - Farmer, Paul
AU - Richardson, Eugene T.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 ROAPE Publications Ltd.
PY - 2018/10/2
Y1 - 2018/10/2
N2 - This article explores the relationship between the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak and the political economy of diamond mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone. The authors argue that foreign companies have recycled colonial strategies of indirect rule to facilitate the illicit flow of resources out of Sierra Leone. Drawing on field research conducted during the outbreak and in its aftermath, they show how this ‘indirect rule redux’ undermines democratic governance and the development of revenue-generation institutions. Finally, they consider the linkages between indirect rule and the Ebola outbreak, vis-à-vis the consequences of the region’s intentionally underdeveloped health care infrastructure and the scaffolding of outbreak containment onto the paramount chieftaincy system.
AB - This article explores the relationship between the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak and the political economy of diamond mining in Kono District, Sierra Leone. The authors argue that foreign companies have recycled colonial strategies of indirect rule to facilitate the illicit flow of resources out of Sierra Leone. Drawing on field research conducted during the outbreak and in its aftermath, they show how this ‘indirect rule redux’ undermines democratic governance and the development of revenue-generation institutions. Finally, they consider the linkages between indirect rule and the Ebola outbreak, vis-à-vis the consequences of the region’s intentionally underdeveloped health care infrastructure and the scaffolding of outbreak containment onto the paramount chieftaincy system.
KW - Ebola
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - diamonds
KW - illicit financial flows
KW - indirect rule
KW - neocolonialism
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U2 - 10.1080/03056244.2018.1547188
DO - 10.1080/03056244.2018.1547188
M3 - Article
C2 - 31772418
AN - SCOPUS:85063591134
SN - 0305-6244
VL - 45
SP - 522
EP - 540
JO - Review of African Political Economy
JF - Review of African Political Economy
IS - 158
ER -
