State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa

Scott Straus, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, is a founding editor of the University of Wisconsin Press’s Critical Human Rights series. His books include Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa.Aili Mari Tripp, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is a founding editor of the University of Wisconsin Press’s Women and Gender in Africa series. Her books include Women and Power in Postconflict Africa.

“More than a book of celebration. The chapters are original, innovative, and speak to the recurring realities of Africa’s challenges and triumphs. The whole recognizes and extends Young’s towering intellectual contributions and approach to African politics.”—Toyin Falola, author of Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice

• AcknowledgmentsPrologueLinda Thomas-GreenfieldIntroduction: The Legacies of Crawford YoungScott Straus and Aili Mari TrippPart I. The Colonial and Postcolonial State in Africa1 State Development in Contemporary AfricaWilliam Reno2 Third-Wave Democracy and the State in Sub-Saharan AfricaJohn W. Harbeson3 The Colonial Legacy of Policing as State BuildingKaden Paulson-SmithPart II. Rethinking the Politics of Identity4 Rethinking the Politics of IdentityRachel Betty Riedl5 Sectarian Identity Formation and the Future of the African Postcolonial State: Lessons from NigeriaDauda Abubakar 6 The Politics of Identity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Enduring Power of Crawford Young’s Analysis and Its LimitsTimothy Longman7 Ethnicity, Interests, and Class in Tanzania: Constructing ExplanationsJoel Samoff8 State Construction, Ethnicity, and Social Status: The Bifurcated Trajectories of Haalpulaaren in the Mauritania–Senegal BorderlandCÉdric Jourde9 Crawford Young’s Cultural Politics Analytic Paradigm Applied to Ukraine-RussiaJoshua B. ForrestPart II. Women, Gender, and Politics10 Women Do Everything except Politics: Gender Quota in a Postconflict SocietyLadan Affi11 Territorial Nationalism, Cultural Pluralism, and Women’s Peace Mobilization in CameroonMelinda J. Adams12 “Who Will Open the Door?” Women in Parliament and Cabinet in GhanaGretchen Bauer and Akosua K. DarkwahAfterwordEdmond J. KellerContributorsIndex