African Politics

This book is a fundamental departure from orthodox analysis, given primacy to three decades of neoliberalism rather than colonialism. The relationship between global development and local changes is examined through pressing contemporary issues to offer a critical multi-disciplinary appraisal of cha..

This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states...

This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states...

Stylianos Moshonas argues that the pace and nature of reform has been compromised by the contradictions inherent within the process itself and by the ability of Congolese power holders to accommodate and co-opt such reforms in line with their own political strategies...

This book examines Uganda’s 2016 elections, asking whether incumbent President Yoweri Museveni’s overwhelming victory was only an outcome of patronage, coercion and electoral fraud, or whether other factors were also at play. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern A..

This book examines the historical FeesMustFall (FMF) university student protests that took place in South Africa and shows how the enduring historical construction, representation and conceptualisation of South African youth (as typically radical and political) contributed to the (mis)interpretation..

This book utilizes an integrative approach that facilitates the formation of an explanation that more fully accounts for variation in the type of collective violence that occurred in Rwanda and Burundi and makes an important contribution to the literature on ethnic conflict, collective violence and ..

This book focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa. Boubacar N’Diaye brings into light the political evolution of this country which holds lessons for African politics, and could affect the future of the ..

This book features new research on the history of apartheid South Africa’s former bantustans and their legacies in the modern world. With an introduction by renowned historian William Beinart, the individual chapters, written by a new generation of scholars, address a number of themes: public admini..

This book explores how the historical development of social conditions and the current social structures shape understandings and constrain individual and collective actions within the Nigerian political system. It also delineates specific doctrinal models and strategic framework essential to the de..

The book helps recover society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change that centre on a politics operating at a distance from the state, and engages theory as well as cases and texts from South Africa and Zimbabwe. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in ..

South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas is an interdisciplinary collection of essays which engages with the failure of the newest African State to transition itself successfully to a state and nation after its independence in July 2011...