Emergent African States
Author | : Stephen Adebanji Akintoye |
Publisher | : London : Longman |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stephen Adebanji Akintoye |
Publisher | : London : Longman |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. A. Akintoye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9780835761048 |
Author | : Stepan Abebanji Akintoye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nic Cheeseman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2015-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316239489 |
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.
Author | : Olufemi Amao |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2021-10-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0192606778 |
This book is a groundbreaking study of the emergence of a unique African Union legal system, with contributions from a diverse collection of scholars and practitioners. It highlights how law stands at the heart of the successful regional integration effort in Africa and explores, among either issues, the extent to which African Union law is having an impact on domestic laws. This trend has been particularly noticeable in the area of human rights, the rule of law, democratic principles, and aspects of constitutional law. Furthermore, the book examines how the African Union is engendering new norms from its legal order, such as the non-indifference norm, the norm on unconstitutional change of government, free trade, free movement of people, economic regulation, and democratic constitutionalism. The book also analyses how the African Union legal order has led to the emergence of a continental-level judicial system. The quasi-judicial system put in place under the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, and administered by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, is now complemented by the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. This book contends that the continental-level judicial system is playing a crucial role in the moulding of emergent norms.
Author | : William Miller Macmillan |
Publisher | : Harmondsworth, Penguin |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brian Levy |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821360002 |
This publication considers options for strengthening institutional capacity within the public sector in African countries, by drawing on the experiences of public sector reform programmes in over a dozen African states. Issues discussed include: the relationship between governance and economic development, public expenditure and accountability, anti-corruption reforms, the politics of decentralisation, political structures and public service delivery.
Author | : Steven Radelet |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1933286520 |
Emerging Africa describes the too-often-overlooked positive changes that have taken place in much of Africa since the mid-1990s. In 17 countries, five fundamental and sustained breakthroughs are making old assumptions increasingly untenable: • The rise of democracy brought on by the end of the Cold War and apartheid • Stronger economic management • The end of the debt crisis and a more constructive relationship with the international community • The introduction of new technologies, especially mobile phones and the Internet • The emergence of a new generation of leaders. With these significant changes, the countries of emerging Africa seem poised to lead the continent out of the conflict, stagnation, and dictatorships of the past. The countries discussed in the book are Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Ghana, Lesotho, Mali Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, São Tomé and Principe, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
Author | : Kenneth Kalu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351363719 |
This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states. The contributors interrogate the evolution of Africa’s big men; the role of the big men in Africa’s political and economic development; and the relationship between the state, the big men and the citizens. Throughout the chapters the contributors engage with a number of questions from different disciplinary and methodological orientations. How did these states evolve to exhibit various deformities in their composition, functioning and in their relations with the societies that they govern? What roles did Atlantic and other slavery and European colonialism play in creating states that are unable to display the right and good relationships with citizens in civil society? Why did these forms of predatory state-society relations continue to thrive in Africa after the end of Atlantic slave trade and subsequent colonialism? Why did the emerging African leaders at independence fail to effectively dismantle the structures of exploitation and expropriation that were the defining features of slavery and colonialism? Who are Africa’s ‘big men’, and what are their trajectories? This book is essential reading for all students and scholars of African politics, public policy and administration, political economy, and democratisation.
Author | : P. Thandika Mkandawire |
Publisher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 155250204X |
Our Continent, Our Future presents the emerging African perspective on this complex issue. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies, 25 of which were from African economists, to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country's unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent's development agenda.