Table of Contents

Volume 1

Part I: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Legacies

Introduction

The Pre-colonial Legacy

1. The internal African frontier: The making of African political culture, Igor Kopytoff

The Colonial Legacy

2. The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa, Terrence Ranger
3. Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement, Peter Ekeh
4. On the Size and Shape of African States, Elliott Green

Part II: Identity and Politics

Introduction

Ethnicity

5. Explaining Ethnic Political Participation, Nelson Kasfir
6. The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi, Daniel Posner

Social Class

7. The Nature of Class Domination in Africa, Richard L. Sklar
8. Class Formation in the Swollen African State, Larry Diamond

Gender

9. Introduction to African Feminism, Gwendolyn Mikell

Religion

10. Africa and Christianity on the Threshold of the Third Millennium: The Religious Dimension, Kwame Bediako
11. Men and Devils, Stephen Ellis

Nationalism and Pan-Africanism

12. The Rise of African Nationalism: The Case of East and Central Africa, Robert Rotberg
13. I Am an African, Thabo Mbeki

Index

Volume 2

Part III: The Practice of Power

Introduction

The Post-Colonial State

14. Provisional Notes on the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe
15. The Recurrent Crises of the Gatekeeper State, Frederick Cooper

Patronage, Clientalism and Neopatrimonialism

16. Clientelism and prebendal politics, Richard Joseph
17. It’s Our Time to “Chop”: Do Elections in Africa Feed Neo-Patrimonialism Rather Than Counteract It?, Staffan Lindberg
18. Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa, Anne Pitcher, Mary Moran, and Michael Johnston

Civil Society

19. Beyond the State: Civil Society and Associational Life in Africa, Michael Bratton
20. Civil Society and Public Sphere: The New Stakeholders, Célestin Monga

Political Regimes: Authoritarianism to Democracy

21. Personal Rule: Theory and Practice in Africa, Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg
22. Explaining Democratic Transitions, Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle
23. Representations of Power, Michael Schatzberg
24. The Distinctive Political Logic of Weak States, William Reno
25. Museveni’s Uganda in Comparative Context, Aili Mari Tripp

Index

Volume 3

Part IV: The Political Economy of Stagnation and Development

Introduction

Historical factors

26. Underdevelopment and Dependence in Black Africa: Origins and Contemporary Forms, Samir Amin

Structural factors

27. Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa, Nathan Jensen and Leonard Wantchekon

Societal factors

28. The State and Economic Stagnation in Tropical Africa, Richard Sandbrook

Aid, Adjustment and International Financial Institutions

29. The Structural Adjustment of Politics in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst
30. Aid and Sovereignty: Quasi-States and the International Financial Institutions, David Williams
31. Debt and Aid: Righting the Incentives, David Leonard and Scott Straus

Renaissance and Renewal?

32. How to Rebuild Africa, Stephen Ellis
33. New African Initiative, Henning Melber

Index

Volume 4

Part V: Conflict and Security

Introduction

34. Evolving Warfare, William Reno
35. War and the State in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst
36. African Guerrilla Politics: Raging Against the Machine?, Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn
37. How “New” Are “New Wars”? Global Economic Change and the Study of Civil War, Mats Berdal
38. Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts, Mats Utas

Part VI: African International Relations

Introduction

39. Understanding Africa’s Place in World Politics, Ian Taylor and Paul Williams
40. Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood, Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg
41. Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent, James Ferguson

Appendix of Sources

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

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About the Author

Kevin Dunn is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. He is author of several books, including Imagining the Congo (2003), The Politics of Origin in Africa (2013) and Inside African Politics (2013).