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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
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ColonialismNationalismComparative LessonsAfrican Public PolicyAfrican Political ThoughtAfrican DiasporaAfrica 11Power RelationGlobal StudiesSocial SciencesGlobal SouthAfrican HistorySouth-south CooperationAfrican American StudiesLanguage StudiesAfrican DevelopmentAfrican Social ChangePublic PolicyAfrican ConflictInternational RelationsComparative PoliticsPolitical PowerAfrican PoliticsAfrican StudiesPart OneIndex 273AfrocentricityPolitical Science
Preface to the New Paperback Edition xi Introduction 3 PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE OF STATE-BUILDING IN AFRICA 9 1 The Challenge of State-Building in Africa 11 PART TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATES IN AFRICA 33 2 Power and Space in Precolonial Africa 35 3 The Europeans and the African Problem 58 4 The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa 97 PART THREE: NATIONAL DESIGN AND DOMESTIC POLITICS 137 5 National Design and the Broadcasting of Power 139 6 Chiefs, States, and the Land 173 PART FOUR: BOUNDARIES AND POWER 199 7 The Coin of the African Realm 201 8 The Politics of Migration and Citizenship 227 PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 249 9 The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa, Revised for the New Paperback Edition 251 Index 273