• Introduction-- 1. Fragments of democracy-- 2. Cultures of resistance-- 3. The second liberation-- 4. Exporting elections-- 5. Subverting democracy-- 6. The democratic dividend-- Conclusion.
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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally, the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and violence.
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During the first 25 years of independence, the African state was largely driven from within by the ambition to establish political order in a world where national sovereignty over issues of development was not in question. The next 25 years have been characterized by a different dynamic: external influences have become increasingly important in shaping the behavior of the state and its direction. The main theme of this volume is that more is at stake today than in the past: not only control of the state, but also the nature of the regime. (Series: Afrikanische Studien/African Studies - Vol. 42).
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• Introduction. Problematizing development in African politics / Luc Sindjoun. I. State, democracy and development: questioning the trinity. 1. Implications of the democracy/development relationship for conflict and governance / Dirk Kotze
• 2. Reflections on principles and values of liberal democracy and international debt issues / Tukumbi Lumumba Kasongo
• 3. Healing old wounds: elections and conflict in Southern Africa / Khabele Matlosa and Allan Mushonga
• 4. The new role of the state in Africa's development: the case of Nigeria / Joseph E. Imhanlahimi
• 5. Rethinking development in Africa: what about the 'overloaded' government? / Adekunle Amuwo. II. Natural resources and governance: towards an adequate linkage. 6. Natural resources distribution, agitation for resource control rights and the practice of federalism in Nigeria / A.A. Adesopo & A.S. Asaju
• 7. Oil and politics of natural resources governance in Nigeria / Dauda S. Garuba. III. Civil society and development: beyond state domination. 8. Vigilantism vs. the state: a case for the rise and fall of Pagad, 1996-2003 / Keith Gottschalk
• 9. The impact of the NGO revolution on transformation in Senegal / Nancy Kwang Johnson
• 10. Rethinking civil society assistance / Bhekinkosi Moyo. IV. States and conflicts: conflict prevention as a tool of good governance. 11. State, ethnic militias and conflict in Nigeria / Augustine Ikelegbe
• 12. Ethnic federalism and conflict management in Ethiopia: the case of Dire Dawa / Asnake Kefale
• 13. The challenges of confidence-building measures for crisis management in Africa: some contending issues / Gani Joses Yoroms
• 14. African peace summits and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1998-2002 / Peter Morepje Nchabeleng. V. The dialectics of state universalism and societal relativism: the variable geometry of state building. 15. Citizenship and diversity in federal systems / Okwudiba Nnoli
• 16. Localism, colonialism and Nigeria's nascent democracy / Christopher Isike
• 17. State-civil society contestations: the case of Abuja indigenes / Kevin Ebele Adinnu
• 18. (Dis)Content and perceived (il)legitimacy of the government among black and white South Africans, 1995-2000 / Marlene Roefs. VI. Reinventing development in Africa: beyond the charm of NEPAD. 19. Charity begins abroad: responses to the New Partnership for Africa's Development / Ukoha Ukiwo
• 20. Towards the establishment of a pan-African university: a strategic concept on paper / Dani W. Nabudere
• 21. NEPAD and African development: the musings of an academic pessimist / Kwame Boafo Arthur
• 22. Domesticating Africa: fragments of old visions / Manar Elshorbagy.

• Africa's big dysfunctional states: an introductory overview / Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills
• Ethiopia / Christopher Clapham
• War over identity: the case of Sudan / Jack Kalpakian
• Inching towards a country without a state: prebendalism, violence and state betrayal in Nigeria / Daniel C. Bach
• The Democratic Republic of Congo / Claude Kabemba
• From confusāo to estamos juntos? Bigness, development and state dysfunction in Angola / Greg Mills
• South Africa: the contrarian big African state / Tim Hughes
• Dysfunctional states, dysfunctional armed movements, and lootable commodities / Marina Ottaway
• International responses to state dysfunctionality / Nicolas van de Walle
• Conflict in Africa: armies, rebels and geography / Jeffrey Herbst
• Africa's big states and organised crime / Gail Wannenburg
• Leading large states / Joseph Ayee
• Africa and its boundaries, a legal overview: from colonialism to the African Union / Garth Abraham
• Conclusion: policy options for the problems of Africa's big states / Christopher Clapham.

One of the least challenged assumptions in the political analysis of the viability of states is that "bigger is better". Throughout the academic literature, across the policy debates, and in almost all public debate, large states are assumed to have a better chance for development and small states are assumed to be problematic. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, large states...have performed poorly.Western notions of statehood have tended to influence the analysis of the viability of states in Africa, particularly the view that larger states have the greater potential to sustain economic viability. Yet, against a background of much recent progress on the African continent in terms of economic development and improvements in governance, it is the larger African states which have persistently disappointed - both in terms of their own economic and political development and in terms of their ability to exert a positive influence on the region in which they are located. In this study of six African 'big states' specialists across a range of disciplines analyse both the country-specific factors which have led to all but one of these states being described as dysfunctional, as well as cross-cutting issues which affect all of the big states in Africa and which may have contributed to 'dysfunctionality'.The country-specific studies are combined with analyses of cross-cutting issues of leadership, rebellion, lootable commodities, and engagement with the international political and economic system. Finally, the conclusion considers some of the policy implications that emerge from the study.
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• State formation and nation-building in Africa (1975)
• Africa : the political culture of nationhood and the political economy of the state (1983)
• Francophone nations and English-speaking states : imperial ethnicity and African political formations (1983)
• Ethnicity and national integration in Africa's experience (1969/1989)
• Africa between nationalism and nationhood (1982)
• Superpower ethics : a third world perspective (1987)
• Unequal interdependence : towards a theory of north-south relations (1975)
• Afrostroika and planned governance : economic adjustment and political engineering (1996)
• On poet-presidents and philosopher-kings (1990)
• Educated Africans in politics and society (1978)
• Ghandi, Marx, and the warrior tradition (1977)
• Amin versus Jimmy Carter : a moral cleavage between north and south? (1978)
• Violent contiguity and the politics of re-tribalization in Africa (1969)
• Soldiers as traditionalizers : military rule and the re-Africanization of Africa (1977)
• The United Nations and African state sovereignty (1964)
• The anatomy of violence in Black Africa : towards mechanisms for conflict resolution (1976)
• From Pax Europa to Pax Africana : intervention and demilitarization in Africa (2001)
• Ali Mazrui's political sociology of language / Mohamed Bakari
• Culture, religion, and women's fate : Africa's triple heritage and Ali Mazrui's writings on gender and African women / Roberta Ann Dunbar
• The nexus of the triple heritage and the call for justice in the scholarship of Ali Mazrui / Fouad Kalouche.

• Part 1 Appraising the modern African state: extracts from creating political order, A. Zolberg-- markets and states in tropical Africa, Robert H. Bates-- no shortcuts to progress, Goran Hyden-- personal rule theory and practice in Africa, Robert H. Bates and C.G. Rosberg-- bringing the ruling class back in - class state and hegemony in Africa, R. Fatton-- l'etat, J.-F. Bayart-- citizen and subject, Mahmood Mamdani-- Africa works, Patrick Chabal and J.-P. Daloz. Part 2 Dimensions of conflict: internal dimension of warfare in Chad, Roy May-- confronting Leviathan - Mozambique since independence, M. Hall and Tom Young-- violence in Nigeria, Toyin Falola-- ritual and political forms of violent practice among the Suri of southern Ethiopia-- the spread of political violence in Congo-Brazzaville, R. Bazenguissa-Ganga. Part 3 The local and the traditional: chiefs, sub-chiefs and local control - negotiations over land, struggles over meaning, M. Goheen-- commensality, process and the moral order - an example from southern Ethiopia, John Hamer-- locating the politics of a Sierra Leonean chiefdom, Richard Fanthorpe-- between peace and justice - dispute settlement between Karaboro agriculturalists and Fulbe agro-pastoralists in Burkina Faso. Part 4 The politics of new social forces: urban youth and Senegalese politics, M. Diouf-- the social power of religious organization and civil society, Ronald Kassimir-- changing the rules - the politics of liberalization and the urban informal economy in Tanzania, Aili Mari Tripp-- gender, democratization and associational life in Kenya, Bessie House-Midamba. Part 5 Political change: the local state in post-war Mozambique, Jocelyn Alexander-- post-socialist micro-politics - Kilimanjaro 1993, Sally Falk Moore-- aspects of democracy and democratization in Zambia and Botswana, Wim van Binsbergen-- imagining democracy - political culture and democratization in Buganda, Mikael Karlstrom-- witchcraft, violence and democracy in the new South Africa, Adam Ashforth.
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These readings focus on African politics. The topics covered include: African socialism; the Eritrean war; violence in Nigeria; the social power of religious organization and civil society; and aspects of democracy and democratization in Zambia and Botswana.
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• Contents: The Romantic Period, 1939-1970 The Period of Disillusionment, 1970-1985 The Period of Realism, 1988-? A Period of Renaissance?
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"At the end of the century the mood of the continent has come full cycle, repeating the euphoria at its beginning - a joyful optimism about the dawn of an African renaissance, but this time round there is the sobering experience of four decades of difficulties confronting the complex problems inherent in the creating of new independent states, and of the obstacles in the way of establishing continental unity which remains an unfulfilled but still undimmed dream." - from Chapter Four. For over two generations Colin Legum has been an activist, a scholar, and a respected journalist involved with the politics and development of Africa. No one is in a better position to assess Africa's experience since independence and to make some cautious predictions about the continent's likely future. Legum divides his analysis into four main sections: "The Romantic Period, 1939-1970, ""The Period of Disillusionment, 1970-1985, "and "The Period of Realism" A fourth part speculates about the notion that Africa is currently undergoing a "Period of Renaissance." In it, while always a realist (recognising that the struggle for democracy is ongoing, that economic problems are enormous, and that AIDS has become pandemic on the continent), Legum, nevertheless, permits himself to imagine and describe some hopeful possible futures. A major feature of "Africa Since Independence" is that throughout African countries are seen as going through experiences similar to Europe and the West in general. This is a book that will appeal to scholars and students alike. It is concise, judicious, insightful, and thought-provoking. Colin Legum now lives in Cape Town, his original home, from which he was for many years banned under apartheid. He is the author of numerous books, including "Pan-Africanism: A Brief History and South Africa: Crisis for the West (with Margaret Legum)". He was the founder of the African Contemporary Record and edited twenty- three volumes of this publication. He was also co-editor of "The Middle East Survey".
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