1st Edition
Africa’s Big Men Predatory State-Society Relations in Africa
Introduction: Kenneth E. Kalu, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola
Section A: Citizens, Citizenship, and State-Society Relations
Chapter 1: The Postcolonial African State and its Citizens
Kenneth E. Kalu
Chapter 2: Africa’s "Big Men" and the African State
Kenneth E. Kalu
Chapter 3: Women, Inclusive Citizenship and the African State
Cheryl O’Brien and Adryan Wallace
Chapter 4: Women’s Political Empowerment and the Politics of Citizenship in Nigeria and Tanzania
Olajide O. Akanji
Chapter 5: Digital Citizenship in Africa’s Fractured Social Order
Ogbonna Emmanuel Chijioke
Section B: Civil Society, Identities, and Big Men
Chapter 6: Civil Society and the African State
Alex Ng’oma
Chapter 7: Youth and Big Men Politics
Ngozi Nwogwugwu
Chapter 8: Culture and Religion in Africa: Social Transformation and Tools for Exploitation
Susan Kilonzo
Chapter 9: Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal Politics in Africa
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
Chapter 10: Ethnic Identity Politics and the Sustenance of Africa’s Predatory State
Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Adebayo Oyebade
Section C: Democratic Impact of Predatory State-Society Relations
Chapter 11: Accountability Theory and Democracy in Nigeria
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Adigun Agbaje
Chapter 12: State-Society Relations and Nature of Economic Growth in Africa
Samuel Zalanga
Chapter 13: The Social Impact of Africa’s Predatory State-Society Relations
Samuel Oloruntoba
Chapter 14: Africa’s "Big Men" in the Continent’s Democratic Experiments
Toochi Aniche
Biography
Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He was most recently a Visiting Research Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Babcock University, Nigeria.
Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
