African Politics

Kevin Dunn is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. He is author of several books, including Imagining the Congo (2003), The Politics of Origin in Africa (2013) and Inside African Politics (2013).

• Volume 1Part I: Pre-Colonial and Colonial LegaciesIntroductionThe Pre-colonial Legacy1. The internal African frontier: The making of African political culture, Igor KopytoffThe Colonial Legacy2. The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa, Terrence Ranger3. Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement, Peter Ekeh4. On the Size and Shape of African States, Elliott GreenPart II: Identity and PoliticsIntroductionEthnicity5. Explaining Ethnic Political Participation, Nelson Kasfir6. The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in Malawi, Daniel PosnerSocial Class7. The Nature of Class Domination in Africa, Richard L. Sklar8. Class Formation in the Swollen African State, Larry DiamondGender9. Introduction to African Feminism, Gwendolyn MikellReligion10. Africa and Christianity on the Threshold of the Third Millennium: The Religious Dimension, Kwame Bediako11. Men and Devils, Stephen EllisNationalism and Pan-Africanism12. The Rise of African Nationalism: The Case of East and Central Africa, Robert Rotberg13. I Am an African, Thabo MbekiIndexVolume 2Part III: The Practice of PowerIntroductionThe Post-Colonial State14. Provisional Notes on the Postcolony, Achille Mbembe15. The Recurrent Crises of the Gatekeeper State, Frederick CooperPatronage, Clientalism and Neopatrimonialism16. Clientelism and prebendal politics, Richard Joseph17. It’s Our Time to “Chop”: Do Elections in Africa Feed Neo-Patrimonialism Rather Than Counteract It?, Staffan Lindberg18. Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa, Anne Pitcher, Mary Moran, and Michael JohnstonCivil Society19. Beyond the State: Civil Society and Associational Life in Africa, Michael Bratton20. Civil Society and Public Sphere: The New Stakeholders, Célestin MongaPolitical Regimes: Authoritarianism to Democracy21. Personal Rule: Theory and Practice in Africa, Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg22. Explaining Democratic Transitions, Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle23. Representations of Power, Michael Schatzberg24. The Distinctive Political Logic of Weak States, William Reno25. Museveni’s Uganda in Comparative Context, Aili Mari TrippIndexVolume 3Part IV: The Political Economy of Stagnation and DevelopmentIntroductionHistorical factors26. Underdevelopment and Dependence in Black Africa: Origins and Contemporary Forms, Samir AminStructural factors27. Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa, Nathan Jensen and Leonard WantchekonSocietal factors28. The State and Economic Stagnation in Tropical Africa, Richard SandbrookAid, Adjustment and International Financial Institutions29. The Structural Adjustment of Politics in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst30. Aid and Sovereignty: Quasi-States and the International Financial Institutions, David Williams31. Debt and Aid: Righting the Incentives, David Leonard and Scott StrausRenaissance and Renewal?32. How to Rebuild Africa, Stephen Ellis33. New African Initiative, Henning MelberIndexVolume 4Part V: Conflict and SecurityIntroduction34. Evolving Warfare, William Reno35. War and the State in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst36. African Guerrilla Politics: Raging Against the Machine?, Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn37. How “New” Are “New Wars”? Global Economic Change and the Study of Civil War, Mats Berdal38. Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts, Mats UtasPart VI: African International RelationsIntroduction39. Understanding Africa’s Place in World Politics, Ian Taylor and Paul Williams40. Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Juridical in Statehood, Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg41. Globalizing Africa? Observations from an Inconvenient Continent, James FergusonAppendix of SourcesBibliographyIndex