The African civil service fifty years after independence : with case studies from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria / edited by Emmanuel M. Mbah, Augustine E. Ayuk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mbah, Emmanuel M., editor.

Ayuk, Augustine E., editor.

Series:

Carolina Academic Press African world series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil service--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.

Civil service.

History.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Officials and employees.

Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Politics and government--1960-.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Politics and government.

Employees.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 164 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: The African civil service fifty years after independence / Emmanuel M. Mbah and Augustine E. Ayuk

Corruption and rent seeking in the African civil service: origins, manifestations, and possible remedies / Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o

Administrative decentralization in Africa: new opportunities and challenges for the civil service / Augustine Ayuk

Britain and human capacity development in Nigeria before 1960 / Hakeem Tijani

Railway politics, colonial civil service and imperialism in Nigeria, 1877-1930s / Tokunbo A. Ayoola

Kenya's civil service after fifty years: colonial legacies and prospects for transformation / Mickie Mwanzia Koster

Ensuring effectiveness in the twenty-first century Cameroon civil service: a cultural competence perspective / Consoler Teboh

A note on brain drain and its net gains: aspects of the civil/public service in postcolonial Ghanaian economy and society / Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611639100

1611639107

OCLC:

959373244