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The illusion of the post-colonial state: governance and security challenges in Africa African governance and development./ W. Alade Fawole.

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dc.contributor.author Fawole W. Alade,
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-29T22:55:59Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-29T22:55:59Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.citation Fawole. The illusion of the post-colonial state: governance and security challenges in Africa African governance and development. - 1 online resource. - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/1809836.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn 9781498564618
dc.identifier.isbn 1498564615
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/181459
dc.description Includes bibliographical references and index.
dc.description.abstract This broadly interdisciplinary book offers deep insight into Africa's colonial history for an understanding and explication of contemporary governance crises, security challenges, and state failure on the continent. It traverses political science, political economy, sociology, African history, and African studies in general.
dc.description.tableofcontents 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?.
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en
dc.relation.ispartofseries African governance and development
dc.relation.ispartofseries African governance and development.
dc.subject.other Postcolonialism -- Africa.
dc.subject.other HISTORY / Africa / General.
dc.subject.other Africa -- Colonial influence.
dc.subject.other Africa -- Politics and government.
dc.subject.other Electronic books.
dc.title The illusion of the post-colonial state: governance and security challenges in Africa African governance and development./ W. Alade Fawole.
dc.type Book
dc.description.pages 1 online resource.
dc.collection Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id EN05CEBSCO05C310306


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