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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface: Is Africa Post-Colonial, Neo-colonial, or Post-Colonized?
Part I: Colonial Rule, Disengagement and the Post-Colonial State
Introduction and Conceptual Discourse
Chapter 1: Colonial Rule and the Political Architecture of the Post-Colonial State
Chapter 2: The Grant of Independence: Imperialist Conspiracy and the Subversion of the Post-Colonial State
Chapter 3: Britain and the Orchestration of Pseudo-Decolonization
Chapter 4: The Role of France in the Subversion of the Post-Colonial State
Chapter 5: Portugal: Forced Decolonization and its Consequences
Chapter 6: The United States and the Political and Economic Destabilization of Africa
Part II: Regional Examples of Illusive Post-Colonial States
Chapter 7: Nigeria: The Illusive Post-Colony
Chapter 8: Mali: From Instability to Insurgency and Near Obliteration
Chapter 9: Somalia: From State Collapse to Rogue State
Chapter 10: Algeria: Descent into Dictatorship
Chapter 11: Democratic Republic of Congo: The Colony that Never Became a State
Chapter 12: Mozambique: From Revolutionary Possibilities to Contrived Instability and State Failure
Chapter 13: Contemporary Nation-Building, Governance, and Security Challenges in Africa
Conclusion: The Illusive Post-Colonial State: What Hope for Survival?
