This book examines the extent to which popular demands for democracy are both subverting and enriching the postcolonial order in Africa. It explores a wide range of topics, including economic democracy, the state and civil society, the impact of the economic crisis on women, and agrarian reform. .
Biography
Robin Cohen is professor of sociology and a former director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, Coventry. He has previously held appointments at the universities of Ibadan, Birmingham, and the West Indies. He is the author of Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1975), Endgame in South Africa (1986), The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour (1987), and Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour Studies (1991). Harry Goulbourne is principal research fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick. He lectured in politics at the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of the West Indies (Mona) for over ten years. He has written extensively on East African and Commonwealth Caribbean politics, and his publications include Politics and State in the Third World (1979), Teachers, Politics and Education in Jamaica, 1892-1972 (1988), and Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain (1991).
