The postcolonial state in Africa : fifty years of independence, 1960-2010
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The postcolonial state in Africa : fifty years of independence, 1960-2010
（Africa and the diaspora）
University of Wisconsin Press, c2012
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The post-colonial state in Africa : 50 years of independence, 1960-2010
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Notes: p. 375-433
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independence, drawing on his decades of research and first-hand experience on the African continent.
Young identifies three cycles of hope and disappointment common to many of the African states (including those in North Africa) over the last half-century: initial euphoria at independence in the 1960s followed by disillusionment with a lapse into single-party autocracies and military rule; a period of renewed confidence, radicalisation, and ambitious state expansion in the 1970s preceding state crisis and even failure in the disastrous 1980s; and a phase of reborn optimism during the continental wave of democratisation beginning around 1990. He explores in depth the many African civil wars-especially those since 1990- and three key tracks of identity, Africanism, territorial nationalism, and ethnicity.
Only more recently, Young argues, have the paths of the fifty-three African states begun to diverge more dramatically, with some leading to liberalisation and others to political, social, and economic collapse-outcomes impossible to predict at the outset of independence.
Table of Contents
List of Tables Preface Glossary and Acronyms Part I Setting the Frame 1 A Half-Century of African Independence: Three Cycles of Hope and Disappointment 2 In Search of the African State Part II Itineraries: The Three Cycles of Hope and Disappointment 3 Decolonization, the Independence Settlement, and Colonial Legacy 4 The Road to Autocracy: Breakdown of the Decolonization Settlements 5. Anatomy of State Crisis 6 Democratization and Its Limits Part III Themes and Conclusions 7 Morphology of Violent Civil Conflict 8 Africanism, Nationalism and Ethnicity: Th Ambiguous Triple Helix of Identity 9 The African Post-colonial State: Concluding Observations Notes Index
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