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

✍ Scribed by W. Alade Fawole

Publisher: African Governance, Development, and Leadership
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 255
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This broadly interdisciplinary book offers deep insight into Africa's colonial history for an understanding and explication of contemporary governance crises, security challenges, and state failure on the continent. It traverses political science, political economy, sociology, ..

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State
The Illusion of the Post-Colonial State: Governance and Security Challenges in Africa
copyright page
Contents
Preface: Is Africa Post-Colonial, Neo-Colonial, or Post-Colonized?
Notes
Acknowledgments
Colonial Rule, Disengagement, and the Post-Colonial State
The Illusive Post-Colony: A Conceptual Discourse
Impact of the Cold War on Governance, Security, and Stability in Africa
Political Developments in Africa since the End of the Cold War
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 1
Colonial Rule and the Political Architecture of the Post-Colonial State
The Political Architecture of Colonial Rule in Africa
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 2
The Grant of Independence
Imperialist Conspiracies and the Subversion of Post-Colonial Nation-States
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 3
Britain and the Orchestration of Pseudo-Decolonization
The Second World War and the End of Empire
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 4
The Role of France in the Subversion of the Post-Colonial State
De Gaulle, Decolonization, Francafrique, and Relationship of Dependency
Conclusion: New Realities and Changes in France-Africa Relations
Notes
Chapter 5
Portugal
Portugal in Africa: Colonial History as a Guide
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 6
The United States and the Political and Economic Destabilization of Africa
US Interests in Africa
The Cold War and Political and Socio-Economic Destabilization of African States
Apartheid South Africa, Zimbabwe, and America’s Southern Africa Policy
Conclusion
Notes
Regional Examples of Illusive Post-Colonial States
Chapter 7
Nigeria
Historical Origin and the Creation of Nigeria as a Colonial State
Independence and the Illusion of the New Modern Nation-State
Postscript and Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 8
Mali
Mali and its Post-Colonial Instabilities
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 9
Somalia
Somalia under Foreign Rule
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 10
Algeria
Algeria: The Quintessential Settler-Colony
France and Algeria’s War of Independence
FIS and Descent into Dictatorship and Anarchy
Al Qaeda and the Rise of Jihadist Terrorism
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 11
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Belgian Congo
Independence and State Collapse
After Mobutu: DR Congo and “Africa’s World War”
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 12
Mozambique
Portugal, FRELIMO, and the War of Independence
External Interference, Instability, and Civil War
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 13
Contemporary Nation-Building, Governance, and Security Challenges in Africa
Africa and the Curse of Failing States
Nation-Building in the Post-Colony
Globalization and the Fate of the African State
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion
The Illusive Post-Colonial State
An Illusive Post-Colonial State?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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