The illusion of the post-colonial state : governance and security challenges in Africa /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Series: | African governance and development.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: is Africa post-colonial, neo-colonial, or post-colonized?
- Part I: Colonial rule, disengagement and the post-colonial state
- Introduction and conceptual discourse
- Colonial rule and the political architecture of the post-colonial state
- The grant of independence: imperialist conspiracy and the subversion of the post-colonial state
- Britain and the orchestration of pseudo-decolonization
- The role of France in the subversion of the post-colonial state
- Portugal: forced decolonization and its consequences
- The United States and the political and economic destabilization of Africa
- Part II: Regional examples of illusive post-colonial states
- Nigeria: the illusive post-colony
- Mali: from instability to insurgency and near obliteration
- Somalia: from state collapse to rogue state
- Algeria: descent into dictatorship
- Democratic republic of Congo: the colony that never became a state
- Mozambique: from revolutionary possibilities to contrived instability and state failure
- Contemporary nation-building, governance, and security challenges in Africa
- Conclusion: The illusive post-colonial state: what hope for survival?.