African Governance
The Rwenzururu Movement in Uganda: Struggling for Recognition
1st Edition
By Martin Doornbos
August 14, 2020
This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the Rwenzururu movement in Western Uganda. The movement began in the 1960s in the Rwenzori region of Toro District, and was a protest by the minority Bakonzo and Baamba ethnic groups against their continued discrimination and ...
Mauritania's Colonels: Political Leadership, Civil-Military Relations and Democratization
1st Edition
By Boubacar N’Diaye
March 04, 2020
This book, the result of more than a decade of research, focuses on the socio-political dynamics and civil-military relations in a little studied country: Mauritania, located in the troubled North-western part of Africa. Boubacar N’Diaye brings into light the political evolution of this country ...
State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia: Building a State without Citizens
1st Edition
By Susanne Mulbah
December 12, 2019
Post-conflict Liberia has been subjected to extensive international state-building, at some point hosting the largest and one of the longest UN peacekeeping missions in the world, and inflow of aid that exceeds in multiples the GDP. In order to understand the international state-building efforts in...
Traditional Institutions in Contemporary African Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Kidane Mengisteab, Gerard Hagg
December 12, 2019
Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent systems. Most African countries are also characterized by parallel institutions of governance – one is the state sanctioned (formal) system and the other ...