1st Edition

Africa Dilemmas Of Development And Change

By Peter Lewis Copyright 1998
468 Pages
by Routledge

468 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

In the decades since independence, the countries of sub-Saharan Africa have faced three central dilemmas of development. The first has been the challenge of state building. In the wake of colonial rule, governments have encountered the problems of establishing legitimate authority and constructing capable states. A second dilemma has been that of nation building and state-society relations.... Read more
Introduction: Development and Change in Africa Part One: States and Leadership 1. Personal Rule: Theory and Practice in Africa 2. Class, State, and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria 3. Patrons, Clients, and Factions: New Dimensions of Conflict Analysis in Africa Part Two: State, Society, and Participation 4. Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement 5. Disengagement from the State in Africa: Reflections on the Experience of Ghana and Guinea 6. Political Transition and the Dilemma of Civil Society in Africa Part Three: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender 7. The Nature of Class Domination in Africa 8. The Making of a Rentier Class: Wealth Accumulation and Political Control in Senegal 9. Reconfiguring State-Ethnic Relations in Africa: Liberalization and the Search for New Routines of Interaction 10. Gender, Political Participation, and the Transformation of Associational Life in Uganda and Tanzania Part Four: Democracy and Political Transition 11. Africa: The Second Wind of Change 12. Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa 13. Democratization: Understanding the Relationship Between Regime Change and the Culture of Politics 14. Africa: An Interim Balance Sheet Part Five: Political Economy: Crisis and Reform 15. Trends in Development Economics and Their Relevance to Africa 16. Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Foreign Economic Relations of Sub-Saharan African States 17. Adjustment with Growth: A Fragile Consensus 18. The Structural Adjustment of Politics in Africa

Biography

Lewis, Peter