From the Book - Fourth edition.
Introduction: state, civil society and external interests
History: Africa's pre-colonial and colonial inheritance ; Case study: Kenya's historical inheritance
Ideology: nationalism, socialism, populism and state capitalism ; Case study: socialism and Ujamaa in Tanzania
Ethnicity and religion: 'tribes', gods and political identity ; Case study: ethnicity, religion and the nation-state in Nigeria
Social class: the search for class politics in Africa ; Case study: social class in Botswana
Legitimacy: neo-patrimonialism, personal rule and the centralisation of the African state ; Case study: personal rule in Côte D'Ivoire
Coercion: military intervention in African politics ; Case study: Uganda's 1971 military coup
Sovereignty I: external influences on African politics ; Case study: Somalia's international relations
Sovereignty II: neo-colonialism, structural adjustment and Africa's political economy ; Case study: Ghana's structural adjustment
Authority: the crises of accumulation, governance and state collapse ; Case study: Zaire, Mobutu¿s vampire state
Democracy: re-legitimising the african state? ; Case study: Zimbabwe's fall from democratic grace
Conclusions: the changing relationship between state, civil society and external interests in the post colonial era.
