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The coming African hour : dialectics of opportunities and constraints
- Title
- The coming African hour : dialectics of opportunities and constraints / edited by Luc Sindjoun.
- Publication
- Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, ©2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Sindjoun, Luc.
- Description
- iv, 444 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction. Problematizing development in African politics / Luc Sindjoun. I. State, democracy and development: questioning the trinity. 1. Implications of the democracy/development relationship for conflict and governance / Dirk Kotze -- 2. Reflections on principles and values of liberal democracy and international debt issues / Tukumbi Lumumba Kasongo -- 3. Healing old wounds: elections and conflict in Southern Africa / Khabele Matlosa and Allan Mushonga -- 4. The new role of the state in Africa's development: the case of Nigeria / Joseph E. Imhanlahimi -- 5. Rethinking development in Africa: what about the 'overloaded' government? / Adekunle Amuwo. II. Natural resources and governance: towards an adequate linkage. 6. Natural resource distribution, agitation for resource control rights and the practice of federalism in Nigeria / A.A. Adesopo & A.S. Asaju -- 7. Oil and politics of natural resources governance in Nigeria / Dauda S. Garuba. III. Civil society and development: beyond state domination. 8. Vigilantism vs. the state: a case of the rise and fall of Pagad, 1996-2003 / Keith Gottschalk -- 9. The impact of the NGO revolution on transformation in Senegal / Nancy Kwang Johnson -- 10. Rethinking civil society assistance / Bhekinkosi Moyo. IV. States and conflicts: conflict prevention as a tool of good governance. 11. State, ethnic militias and conflict in Nigeria / Augustine Ikelegbe -- 12. Ethnic federalism and conflict management in Ethiopia: the case of Dire Dawa / Asnake Kefale -- 13. The challenges of confidence-building measures for crisis management in Africa: some contending issues / Gani Joses Yoroms -- 14. African peace summits and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1998-2002 / Peter Morepje Nchabeleng. V. The dialectics of state universalism and societal relativism: the variable geometry of state building. 15. Citizenship and diversity in federal systems / Okwudiba Nnoli -- 16. Localism, colonialism and Nigeria's nascent democracy / Christopher Isike -- 17. State-civil society contestations: the case of Abuja indigenes / Kevin Ebele Adinnu -- 18. (Dis)Content and perceived (il)legitimacy of the government among black and white South Africans, 1995-2000 / Marlene Roefs. VI. Reinventing development in Africa: beyond the charm of NEPAD. 19. Charity begins abroad: responses to the New Partnership for Africa's Development / Ukoha Ukiwo -- 20. Towards the establishment of a pan-African university: a strategic concept on paper / Dani W. Nabudere -- 21. NEPAD and African development: the musings of an academic pessimist / Kwame Boafo Arthur -- 22. Domesticating Africa: fragments of old visions / Manar Elshorbagy.
- ISBN
- 9780798302302
- 0798302305
- OCLC
- ocn663949207
- 663949207
- SCSB-1608642
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library