Contemporary West African states
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Contemporary West African states
(African studies series, 65)
Cambridge University Press, 1989
- : pbk.
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume - appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise - provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of dependency theory and Marxian analysis and the rise of free-market theorising by both governments and scholars. The volume also contains important observations on the political importance of religious fundamentalism in the region, and the growth of sub-national forms of political activity. The writers are well-known scholars in the field, and include contributors to the influential journal Politique Africaine. This will be a useful textbook for everyone interested in African politics, but it is also a provocative contribution to the debate on the nature of the state and political processes in Africa.
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction Donal B. Cruise O'Brien and Richard Rathbone
- 2. Burkino Faso: between feeble and state and total state, the swing continues Rene Otayek
- 3. Cameroon Jean-Francois Bayart
- 4. Chad: the narrow escape of an African state, 1965-1987 Robert Buijtenhuijs
- 5. Cote d'Ivoire: analysing the crisis Yves A. Faure
- 6. Ghana: the political economy of personal rule Richard Jeffries
- 7. Liberia Christopher Clapham
- 8. Nigeria: power for profit: class, corporatism, and factionalism in the military Shehu Othman
- 9. Senegal Christian Coulon and Donal B. Cruise O'Brien
- 10. Sierra Leone: state, consolidation, fragmentation and decay Fred M. Hayward
- 11. Conclusion John Dunn.
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