Africa's Big Men (eBook, ePUB)

Predatory State-Society Relations in Africa
Redaktion: Kalu, Kenneth; Falola, Toyin; Yacob-Haliso, Olajumoke

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called 'big men' across Africa's fifty-four states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351363716
• Artikelnr.: 52447996

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Kalu is Assistant Professor at Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. He was most recently a Visiting Research Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Babcock University, Nigeria. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair Professor in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Kenneth E. Kalu, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola
Section A: Citizens, Citizenship, and State-Society Relations
Chapter 1: The Postcolonial African State and its Citizens - Kenneth E.
Kalu
Chapter 2: Africa's "Big Men" and the African State - Kenneth E. Kalu
Chapter 3: Women, Inclusive Citizenship and the African State - Cheryl
O'Brien and Adryan Wallace
Chapter 4: Women's Political Empowerment and the Politics of Citizenship in
Nigeria and Tanzania - Olajide O. Akanji
Chapter 5: Digital Citizenship in Africa's Fractured Social Order -
Ogbonna Emmanuel Chijioke
Section B: Civil Society, Identities, and Big Men
Chapter 6: Civil Society and the African State - Alex Ng'oma
Chapter 7: Youth and Big Men Politics - Ngozi Nwogwugwu
Chapter 8: Culture and Religion in Africa: Social Transformation and Tools
for Exploitation - Susan Kilonzo
Chapter 9: Pastocracy: Performing Pentecostal Politics in Africa -
Abimbola Adunni Adelakun
Chapter 10: Ethnic Identity Politics and the Sustenance of Africa's
Predatory State - Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Adebayo Oyebade
Section C: Democratic Impact of Predatory State-Society Relations
Chapter 11: Accountability Theory and Democracy in Nigeria - Olajumoke
Yacob-Haliso and Adigun Agbaje
Chapter 12: State-Society Relations and Nature of Economic Growth in Africa
- Samuel Zalanga
Chapter 13: The Social Impact of Africa's Predatory State-Society Relations
- Samuel Oloruntoba
Chapter 14: Africa's "Big Men" in the Continent's Democratic Experiments -
Toochi Aniche