A New Paradigm of the African State: Fundi wa Afrika

✍ Scribed by Mueni wa Muiu, Guy Martin

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book takes a multidisciplinary and long-term historical perspective to study the evolution of African political systems and institutions. It ranges from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush, and Axum) to the present, with a particular focus on the destruction of these political systems and institutions through successive exogenous processes, including the Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism, and neo-colonialism or globalization.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Acronyms......Page 12
Credits......Page 14
Introduction: The Rationale for a New Theory of the African State......Page 16
1 Theories of the African State: From Modernization to Reconstructionist......Page 26
2 Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions......Page 38
3 The African Colonial and Postcolonial States......Page 64
4 Genocide: African Natural Resources and the West......Page 78
5 Africa in the World Economy: Hegemony, Globalization, and Recolonization......Page 100
6 The Congo State in Historical Perspective I: Indigenous Congolese Political Systems and Institutions......Page 118
7 The Congo State in Historical Perspective II: From the Congo Free State to the Democratic Republic of the Congo......Page 134
8 South Africa: African Indigenous Political Institutions and the Foreign Encounter......Page 154
9 South Africa: Apartheid, African Indigenous Institutions, and the ANC, 1948–2007......Page 178
10 A New Paradigm of the African State: Fundi wa Afrika......Page 206
Conclusion: Toward a Federation of African States (FAS)......Page 226
Notes......Page 232
Bibliography......Page 274
A......Page 282
D......Page 283
N......Page 284
W......Page 285
Z......Page 286