Samenvatting
Contributors to this volume highlight the failure and socio-economic and political problems of post-colonial African state and make constructive and convincing suggestions of how the problems can be addressed. They do not argue for the scrapping of the state but its reconstitution in ways that will enable it to be people's-oriented.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781403973139
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Hoofdrubriek:Geschiedenis, Mens en maatschappij
Inhoudsopgave
PART I: BACKGROUND Introduction: Democratizing States and Sate Reconstitution in Africa; P.O.Agbese & G. Klay Kieh, Jr. PART II: CASE STUDIES Statecraft in Botswana: Renegotiating Development, Legitimacy, and Authority; O.Selolwane The State in Cote d'Ivoire: Evolution and Constraints; B.N'Diaye Re-Inventing and Rebuilding the Ghanaian State: Towards a New Triumphalism?; E.Kwesi-Aning Reflections on The State In Kenya; A.Naguku-Ayuk Reconfiguring and Re-inventing State-Society Relations in Mauritius; S.Bunwaree The Imperatives of Reconstructing the State in Nigeria: The Politics of Power, Welfare, and Imperialism in the New Millennium; S.Alubo The Post-Apartheid State in South; V.Maloka Part III: PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE State Renewal in Africa: The Lessons; P.O.Agbese & George Klay Kieh, Jr.