MUENI MA MUIU is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Winston-Salem State University, USA. GUY MARTIN is Professor of Political Science at Winston-Salem State University, USA.

• Introduction: The Rationale for a New Theory of the African State Theories of the African State: Modernization, Dependency, and Statist Reconstructionist Theories of the African State Indigenous African Political Systems and Institutions The African Colonial and Post-Colonial State Genocide: African Natural Resources and the West Africa in the World Economy: Globalization and Re-Colonization The Congo State in Historical Perspective I: Indigenous Congolese Political Systems and Institutions The Congo State in Historical Perspective II: From the Congo Free State to the Democratic Republic of the Congo South Africa: Indigenous African Political Institutions and the Foreign Encounter South Africa: Indigenous African Political Institutions South Africa: Apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC), and Public Service Delivery by the ANC Government, 1948-2006 Fundi Wa Afrika: A New Paradigm of the African State Conclusion : Toward a Federation of African States