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The African civil service fifty years after independence : with case studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria / edited by Emmanuel M. Mbah, Augustine E. Ayuk.

Title
The African civil service fifty years after independence : with case studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria / edited by Emmanuel M. Mbah, Augustine E. Ayuk.
Publication
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors
  • Mbah, Emmanuel M.
  • Ayuk, Augustine E.
Description
xix, 164 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Carolina Academic Press African world series
Uniform Title
Carolina Academic Press African world series.
Subject
  • Since 1960
  • Civil service > Africa, Sub-Saharan > History
  • Civil service
  • Employees
  • Politics and government
  • Africa, Sub-Saharan > Officials and employees
  • Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government > 1960-
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: The African civil service fifty years after independence / Emmanuel M. Mbah and Augustine E. Ayuk -- Corruption and rent seeking in the African civil service: Origins, manifestations, and possible remedies / Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o -- Political and administrative decentralization in Africa: An assesment of Pseudo decentralization in Cameroon / Augustine Ayuk -- Railway politics, colonial civil service and imperialism in Nigeria, 1877-1930s / Tokunbo A. Ayoola -- Kenya's civil service after fifty years: colonial legacies and prospects for transformation / Mickie Mwanzia Koster -- Ensuring effectiveness in the twenty-first century Cameroon civil service: a cultural competence perspective / Consoler Teboh -- A note on brain drain and its net gains: aspects of the civil/public service in postcolonial Ghanaian economy and society / Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry.
ISBN
  • 9781611639100
  • 1611639107
LCCN
^^2016043644
OCLC
  • 959373244
  • SCSB-10669159
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library