African Governance
Public Sector Innovation in Southern Africa: Insights from Zimbabwe and South Africa
1st Edition
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By Lewis Edwin Chigova, Costa Hofisi
September 11, 2025
This timely and thought-provoking book argues that public sector innovation ameliorates many societal challenges in Southern Africa, demonstrating how innovative practices are already improving service delivery and addressing governance gaps. Bringing together a diverse range of scholars, this book...
Colonial Legacies and Regime Hegemony in Uganda
1st Edition
By Joshua B. Rubongoya
May 13, 2025
This book explains the prevalence of electoral authoritarianism (or multi-party autocracy) in the politics of sub-Saharan Africa and examines why repeated elections have not deepened democracy. Using Uganda as a case study, the book examines the hegemonic regimes that underpin electoral ...
Political Instability in Guinea-Bissau
1st Edition
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By Ricardo Real P. de Sousa, Jens Herpolsheimer, Jara Cuadrado
April 25, 2025
How can we make sense of the persistent political instability in Guinea-Bissau, a small country that has hosted extensive international interventions and made world news headlines over several decades? This book tackles this question, arguing for the need to understand politics in Guinea-Bissau as ...
Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns in Africa
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By Duncan Omanga, Admire Mare, Pamela Mainye
April 14, 2025
This book looks at how digital technologies are revolutionizing electoral campaigns and democratization struggles in Africa. Digital technologies are giving voice and civic agency to a cross section of African voters, providing important spaces for political engagement and debate. Drawing on cases...
Nigeria's Soft Power in Anglophone West Africa: Insights from Ghana and Liberia
1st Edition
By Fidel Abowei
December 18, 2024
This book investigates Nigeria’s soft power capabilities in West Africa, demonstrating the extent to which the power of attraction may serve the country’s foreign policy interests. With the increasing popularity of internationally acclaimed cultural outputs, including afrobeat, Nollywood, and ...
Parliament in Ethiopia: Participation, Representation and Resistance
1st Edition
By Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta
November 29, 2024
African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia’s parliament, a country of key political and strategic importance to the whole region. In 1931, Ethiopia’s...
African Bargaining Power with China: Foreign Investment and Rising Influence
1st Edition
By Christina Seyfried
November 28, 2024
This book provides a detailed account of the political economy around investment deal negotiations between African governments and private Chinese investors. The book draws on evidence from experiments and hundreds of interviews with policy makers and Chinese investors across Nigeria, South ...
The Political Legacy of Colonialism in Zimbabwe: Implications for Justice and Elections in Africa
1st Edition
By Everisto Benyera
November 18, 2024
This book investigates the political legacy of colonialism in contemporary African institutions. Using the case study of electoral and justice institutions in post-colonial Zimbabwe, the book explores how those in post-colonial states relate to and with institutions initially designed to oppress ...
Governance and Inclusive Growth in the Africa Great Lakes Region: Progress, Problems, and Prospects
1st Edition
By Paul Mulindwa
August 26, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the development and governance nexus in Africa’s Great Lakes region. The Great Lakes region continues to experience many challenges, yet much of the literature continues to focus on political governance, leaving behind the socio-economic aspects of ...
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Liberation Struggle: Revolutionaries and Sellouts
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By Munyaradzi Nyakudya, Wesley Mwatwara, Joseph Mujere
August 26, 2024
This book provides a timely reconceptualization of Zimbabwe’s anti- colonial liberation struggle, resisting simple binaries in favour of more nuanced, critical analysis. Most historiographies characterize Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle as being defined by simple bifurcations along racial, ethnic, ...
Civil Society Organisations and State-Owned Enterprises in South Africa: Promoting Accountability and Corporate Governance
1st Edition
By Julieth Gudo
June 03, 2024
This book examines the important role which civil society organisations in South Africa play in challenging poor corporate governance in state-owned enterprises and demanding better government accountability, transparency and citizen participation. The book provides a powerful examination of the ...
Contemporary Governance Challenges in the Horn of Africa
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By Charles Manga Fombad, Assefa Fiseha, Nico Steytler
May 27, 2024
This book argues that a leading cause of the political instability in the Horn of Africa is a crisis of governance, caused by extreme centralization of power, weak institutions, and the failure to institutionalise the responsible use of authority. In recent years, many attempts have been made to ...