Internationally driven development programmes have not been entirely successful in transforming the economic status of African countries. Since the late 1990s many African countries have started to take initiatives to develop an integrated framework that tackles poverty and promotes socio-economic development in their respective countries.
This book provides a critical evaluation of 'homegrown' development initiatives in Africa, set up as alternatives to externally sponsored development. Focusing specifically on Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya, the book takes a qualitative...
Internationally driven development programmes have not been entirely successful in transforming the economic status of African countries. Since the...
This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and focuses on illegal behaviour on the part of state and non-state actors in decision-making.
Situating corruption and anti-corruption within a political framework, this book analyses the motivations, opportunities and relative autonomy of state elites to manipulate state decision-making for personal and political ends. Based on detailed case...
This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines ...
This book analyses the rapidly increasing role of African states, leaders and other political actors in international politics in the 21st Century.
In contrast to the conventional approach of studying how external actors impacted on Africa s international relations, this book seeks to open up a new approach, focusing on the impact of African political actors on international politics. It does this by analysing African agency the degree to which African political actors have room to manoeuvre within the international system and exert influence internationally, and the uses they make of...
This book analyses the rapidly increasing role of African states, leaders and other political actors in international politics in the 21st Century....
This work seeks to examine the nature and dynamics of authoritarianism in Africa and to suggest ways in which the states covered in the book can be democratically reconstituted.
In 1990, a wave of euphoria greeted the "third wave of democratization" that swept across the African Continent. The repression-wearied subalterns were hopeful that the "third wave" would have set into motion the process of democratically reconstituting the authoritarian state on the continent. More than two decades thereafter, although some progress has been made, by and large, the authoritarian state remains...
This work seeks to examine the nature and dynamics of authoritarianism in Africa and to suggest ways in which the states covered in the book can be...
Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a rising Africa . Current attempts to support growth and democracy are part of a longer history of promoting projects of disciplinary, regulatory and liberal rule and values beyond the West . Yet this is not simply Western domination of a passive continent. Such an interpretation misses out on the complexities and nuances of the politics of state-building and civil society promotion, and the central role of African agency.
Drawing upon critical theory, including postcolonial and governmentality...
Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a rising Africa . Current attempts to support growth an...
