African Politics and Problems in Development / C.S. Whitaker, Richard L. Sklar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sklar, Richard L., Author.

Whitaker, C.S., Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

These essays are the work of two scholars who have been closely associated with the field of African studies and with one another for more than three decades.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Map of Africa

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

1 A Perspective on Scholarship in African Studies

I CLASS FORMATION AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY IN NIGERIA

Map of Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1966

Map of Main Ethnic Groups

2 The Contribution of Tribalism to Nationalism in Western Nigeria

3 Political Parties and National Integration in Nigeria

4 Contradictions in the Nigerian Political System

5 Three Perspectives on Hierarchy: Political Thought and Leadership in Northern Nigeria

6 Nigerian Politics: The Ordeal of Chief Awolowo

7 Nigerian Politics in Perspective

II CLASS AND CULTURE

8 A Dysrhythmic Process of Political Change

9 Political Science and National Integration: A Radical Approach

10 The Nature of Class Domination in Africa

III DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT

11 Second Beginnings: The New Political Framework in Nigeria

12 Democracy in Africa

13 The Unfinished State of Nigeria

14 Reds and Rights: Zimbabwe's Experiment

15 Developmental Democracy

16 Beyond Capitalism and Socialism in Africa

17 Doctrines of Development and Precepts of the State: The World Bank and the Fifth Iteration of the African Case

CONCLUSION

18 A Coda on Afrocentricity

Index

About the Book and the Authors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023)

ISBN:

1-68585-259-9

OCLC:

1394872045