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100 1 _aThomson, Alex,
_d1966-
_eauthor.
245 1 3 _aAn Introduction to African Politics /
_cBy Thomson, Alex
250 _aFourth edition.
264 1 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bRoutledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
_c2016.
300 _avi, 298 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tIntroduction: state, civil society and external interests --
_tHistory: Africa's pre-colonial and colonial inheritance ; Case study: Kenya's historical inheritance --
_tIdeology: nationalism, socialism, populism and state capitalism ; Case study: socialism and Ujamaa in Tanzania --
_tEthnicity and religion: 'tribes', gods and political identity ; Case study: ethnicity, religion and the nation-state in Nigeria --
_tSocial class: the search for class politics in Africa ; Case study: social class in Botswana --
_tLegitimacy: neo-patrimonialism, personal rule and the centralisation of the African state ; Case study: personal rule in Côte D'Ivoire --
_tCoercion: military intervention in African politics ; Case study: Uganda's 1971 military coup --
_tSovereignty I: external influences on African politics ; Case study: Somalia's international relations --
_tSovereignty II: neo-colonialism, structural adjustment and Africa's political economy ; Case study: Ghana's structural adjustment --
_tAuthority: the crises of accumulation, governance and state collapse ; Case study: Zaire, Mobutu¿s vampire state --
_tDemocracy: re-legitimising the african state? ; Case study: Zimbabwe's fall from democratic grace --
_tConclusions: the changing relationship between state, civil society and external interests in the post colonial era.
650 _2Political Sciences
_xSchool of Business and Education
651 0 _aAfrica
_xPolitics and government.
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