1.Introduction: Overview of the Main Issues 2. Politics and Administration in West Africa: The Guinean Model 3. Bureaucrats and the Senegalese Political Process 4. Accountability and Control Measures in Public Bureaucracies – A Comparative Analysis of Anglophone and Francophone Africa 5. Towards Development-Oriented Bureaucracies in Africa 6. The Civil Service and Development in Nigeria 7. Political Transition, Economic Liberalisation and Civil Service Reform in Malawi 8. Reflections on the Politics and Administration Nexus in Africa 9. Africa’s Evolving Career Civil Service System: Three Challenges – State Continuity, Efficient Service Delivery and Accountability 10. Postscript: Reorienting the Leadership of Governmental Administration for Improved Development Performance.
Biography
Ladipo Adamolekun is a Professor of Public Administration and a former Dean of the Faculty of Administration at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria. For about two decades, he held senior appointments in the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He has written and published extensively on politics and public administration in Africa. He has won many honours and distinctions at home and abroad over the years, including the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) award, officially described as the "highest national prize for academic and intellectual attainment".
Original Review of Politics, Bureaucracy and Development in Africa:
‘…the book is valuable for serious scholars interested in knowing alternative viewpoints that are at once meaningful and apposite to the study of developments in Africa.’ Valentine Obienyem, Social Scientia, Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities Volume 2 Number 1 2017
