An introduction to African politics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2010
London ; New York : c2010 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; New York : [2010], ©2010 London ; New York : [2010] |
| Edition: | 3rd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: State, civil society and external interests
- History : Africa's pre-colonial and colonial inheritance ; Case study : Kenya's historical inheritance
- Ideology : nationalism, socialism, populism and state capitalism ; Case study : socialism and ujamaa in Tanzania
- Ethnicity and religion : 'tribes', gods and political identity ; Case study : ethnicity, religion and the nation-state in Nigeria
- Social class : the search for class politics in Africa ; Case study : social class in Botswana
- Legitimacy : neo-patrimonialism, personal rule and the centralisation of the African state ; Case study : personal rule in Côte d'Ivoire
- Coercion : military intervention in African politics ; Case study : Uganda's 1971 military coup
- Sovereignty I : external influences on African politics ; Case study : Somalia's international relations
- Sovereignty II : neo-colonialism, structural adjustment and Africa's political economy ; Case study : Ghana's structural adjustment
- Authority : the crisis of accumulation, governance and state collapse ; Case study : Zaire, Mobutu's vampire state
- Democracy : re-legitimising the African state? ; Case study : Zimbabwe's fall from democractic grace
- Conclusions: State and civil society in post-colonial Africa