The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State : Governance and Security Challenges in Africa

✍ Scribed by W. Alade Fawole

Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 255
Series: African Governance, Development, and Leadership Series
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book challenges the long-held conventional wisdom that Africa is a post-colonial society of sovereign nation-states despite the outward attributes of statehood: demarcated territories, permanent populations, governments, national currencies, police, and armed forces. While it is true that African nation-states have been gifted flag independence by their respective colonial masters, few have reached fully developed status as a secure nation-state. Most African nation-states have, since independence, been grappling with the crisis of state-building, nation-building, governance, and myriad security challenges which have been chronically exacerbated by the dynamics of the post-Cold War era. To focus merely on the agency of the African political elite and their inability to sustain functional modern nation-states misses the point. The central argument of the book is that an understanding of Africa's contemporary governance and security challenges requires us to historicize the discourse surrounding nation-building and state-building throughout Africa.

✦ Subjects

Postcolonialism-Africa. ; Africa-Colonial influence. ; Africa-Politics and government.

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